Mercado Bitcoin

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Key details

Parent: brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati
Launch: 2013

Overview

Mercado Bitcoin is Brazil's largest cryptocurrency exchange and Latin America's first crypto unicorn, integrated with Brazil's Pix instant-payment rails for fiat funding [1, 2, br-cro]. It is the flagship asset of the 2TM Group and a pioneer of tokenization in the region.

History

2013 — Mercado Bitcoin founded in São Paulo by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati, becoming one of Brazil's first crypto exchanges. 2018 — 2TM Group formed as the holding company over Mercado Bitcoin and related ventures (MB Tokens, MB Digital Assets, Meubank). 2021 — raises a $200M Series B led by SoftBank, reaching a ~$2.1B valuation and becoming Latin America's first crypto unicorn. 2022 — Banco Central do Brasil's parent SmartPay and 2TM expand, and Mercado Bitcoin integrates Pix for instant BRL deposits/withdrawals. 2023–2025 — operates under Brazil's crypto-asset law (Lei 14.478/2022) with Banco Central do Brasil as supervisory authority, expanding tokenized assets and fixed-income products.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: Mercado Bitcoin, under 2TM Group / 2TM Participações. Major shareholders: founders the Chamati brothers, plus investors including SoftBank Latin America Fund, Parallax Ventures, G Squared and others. Regulators: Banco Central do Brasil and CVM under Brazil's crypto-asset framework.

Technical integration

Mobile and web apps with a REST API. Supports BTC, ETH and a broad range of tokens via crypto deposit addresses, plus tokenized fixed-income and asset products. Fiat funding/withdrawal is primarily via Pix and TED bank transfers in Brazilian reais.

Implementations & partners

Major competitors: [[bitso]] (LatAm exchange) + [[binance]] (global exchange) + [[coinbase]] (global exchange) + [[nubank]] (neobank with crypto).

Status

Active, Latin America's largest crypto exchange and a leader in regional tokenization [1, 2].

Sources

1 Mercado Bitcoin — official
2 Mercado Bitcoin — Wikipedia
br-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/BR-brazil.md

Source

Biography extracted from mercado-bitcoin.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.