Brazil

Crypto Exchange Binance Hires Former Brazilian Central Bank President as Adviser

Henrique Meirelles also served as economy minister between 2016 and 2018.

2TM was valued at $2.1 billion in July 2021 after its holding Mercado Bitcoin received a $200 million investment from Softbank's Latin America Fund.

The company earlier this year received approval to operate in Switzerland and listed an ETP there in May.

Nasdaq’s Marketplace Services Platform will support Digitra’s new "trade-to-earn" feature that awards tokens for every executed trade.

The Banco Central do Brasil chose seven other projects as part of the Financial and Technological Innovation and Technology Laboratory.

Payments can be made in any of 28 different cryptocurrencies, and the debit card also offers 5% cashback rewards in bitcoin.

By Andrés EnglerAug 23, 2022

The company is teaming up with the digital bank Travelex to introduce the product, which will initially allow transactions between Brazil and Mexico.

Mercado Coin will allow the company’s 80 million users to make purchases and receive cashback.

Called Mynt, the product allows customers to trade BTC, ETH, SOL, DOT and ADA.

By Paulo AlvesAug 16, 2022

The company, which has 3.6 million customers, hopes to reach 200,000 active crypto users by the end of 2022.

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