El Salvador May Issue Its Stablecoin Before New Year

The Government of Nayib Bukele plans to create a national cryptocurrency currently referenced as the Colon dollar. According to El Faro newspaper, which cites videos of private meetings between cryptocurrency investors, officials, and two of the president's brothers, the currency would be tied to the value of a fiat currency like the dollar. The development, which is targeted soon, would restore an essential element of monetary policy that the country lost when it adopted the U.S. Dollar in 2001: issuing…