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Ripio
Argentina-founded Latin American cryptocurrency platform established in 2013 as BitPagos, renamed Ripio in January 2017, and expanded through the January 2021 acquisition of Brazilian exchange BitcoinTrade.
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Launch date
2013-01-01
Death date
—
Years
2013–—
Origin
Argentina
Confidence
high
Last verified
2026-06-25
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Summary
Argentina-founded Latin American cryptocurrency platform established in 2013 as BitPagos, renamed Ripio in January 2017, and expanded through the January 2021 acquisition of Brazilian exchange BitcoinTrade.
Timeline
BitPagos began the corporate lineage later known as Ripio
2013-01-01launchedmedium
The platform lineage that became Ripio began in Argentina in 2013 under the BitPagos name.
BitPagos rebranded its consumer platform as Ripio
2017-01-03rebrandedhigh
BitPagos announced that its consumer-facing bitcoin wallet and brokerage business would operate under the Ripio brand.
Ripio acquired Brazilian exchange BitcoinTrade
2021-01-05acquiredhigh
Ripio acquired BitcoinTrade as part of its expansion in Brazil and the wider Latin American market.
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Ripio's official institutional site describes the group as operating in Latin America since 2013. Independent contemporary reporting documents the BitPagos-to-Ripio rebrand on January 3, 2017, and Ripio's own announcement records the BitcoinTrade acquisition on January 5, 2021.
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