Mercado Bitcoin is a Brazilian digital-asset exchange and on-chain financial-services platform co-founded by Gustavo Chamati and Maurício Chamati, widely regarded as Brazil's first cryptocurrency exchange. Mercado Bitcoin's Twitter Score is 23 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #47,571 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Mercado Bitcoin has grown to serve more than 4.5 million clients across over 600 digital assets since its establishment. The platform operates as part of the 2TM Group holding company and has attracted backing from Mercado Libre, Tether, and the SoftBank Latin America Fund, whose investment valued Mercado Bitcoin at US$2.1 billion. In 2022, Mercado Bitcoin acquired a controlling stake in Portuguese exchange CriptoLoja, rebranding it as Mercado Bitcoin Portugal to extend its footprint into Europe.
Mercado Bitcoin has pursued regulated asset tokenization, with a 2025 announcement from Ripple detailing plans to tokenize US$200 million in real-world assets on the XRP Ledger. The platform also maintains an affiliation with Stellar. On the regulatory front, Brazil's securities regulator, the CVM, lifted a stop order against Mercado Bitcoin in 2025, though it noted the matter warranted further technical review regarding potential securities offerings.
Mercado Bitcoin has published 34,589 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 169 accounts a total of 350 times, reflecting consistent engagement within the crypto community.
Who follows Mercado Bitcoin on X?
The accounts that follow Mercado Bitcoin include 63 founders, 11 angel investors, 42 influencers and 6 VCs, among them H.E. Justin Sun, Polygon, Cointelegraph, CoinMarketCap, Cuy Sheffield and Leonidas DOG.