# Bitso > Invest, trade and make borderless payments using crypto. Bitso helps users buy, sell, and transfer digital assets through a cryptocurrency exchange platform serving Latin America. Bitso is a digital asset and payments company serving Latin America. It operates a consumer platform for buying, selling, and holding cryptocurrencies and global stocks, alongside yield-earning and cross-border transfer features. The company serves individual investors and traders across multiple countries in the region, alongside businesses seeking payment and treasury infrastructure. Beyond its consumer app, Bitso Business provides enterprise tools for cross-border and local payment processing, treasury management, and professional trading, including real-time order books and settlement services for high-volume clients. Its onchain.cc platform is a self-custody trading terminal offering access to perpetual markets. Bitso operates through regionally licensed entities and publishes information on its custody and security practices. The platform supports a wide range of cryptocurrencies alongside stocks and exchange-traded funds, letting users manage diversified portfolios in one place. It is used by retail investors, remittance senders, and businesses handling international payments, treasury operations, and trading across Latin American markets. - Type: Company - Sector: Finance - Status: Active - Founded: 2014-01-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/bitso ## Products - [Bitso](https://thegrid.id/profiles/bitso): Bitso is a centralized exchange that lets individuals buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrencies, stocks, and stablecoins through a single account. It offers professional trading tools including advanced order types, live charts, and tiered commissions through its Alpha interface, alongside fractional stock investing, weekly crypto yield, and cross-border USD and crypto transfers. Users fund accounts with local currency or crypto and manage buying, trading, earning, and moving money from one app. The platform serves retail users seeking simple access as well as more active traders needing pro-level execution tools. (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product) - [Bitso Business](https://thegrid.id/profiles/bitso): Bitso Business is a payments infrastructure platform enabling companies to move money across Latin America through local and cross-border rails. It provides multi-currency accounts, pay-ins, mass payouts, stablecoin issuance and redemption, and API access for automated treasury operations. The platform also offers an OTC desk for large block trades and a real-time trading book with post-trade settlement for eligible institutional clients. Businesses use it to settle cross-border payments, manage liquidity, and access deep markets without relying on traditional banking rails alone. (Payments Infrastructure & Orchestration, Live) - [Onchain.cc](https://thegrid.id/profiles/bitso): Onchain.cc is a self-custodial trading terminal for spot and perpetual futures trading across multiple blockchains. It aggregates liquidity through decentralized exchange routing to find best execution prices while offering low-latency order execution and private transaction routing to reduce front-running. Users trade directly from their own wallets, access memecoins and prediction markets, and monitor portfolios and trade history within one dashboard. The platform targets active decentralized traders seeking a single interface across many chains and asset types. (Decentralized Derivative Exchange, Live) ## Assets - [MXNB (MXNB)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/bitso): MXNB is a Mexican peso-pegged stablecoin issued by Juno, a Bitso company. It is used for minting via SPEI deposits, redeeming back to pesos, and moving value across borders through on-chain transfers. Multi-network issuance across several blockchains lets holders settle payments and treasury operations without relying on traditional banking rails. (Stablecoin) - [BRL1 (BRL1)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/bitso): BRL1 is a Brazilian real-pegged stablecoin issued by Bitso, backed 1 to 1 by reais held in regulated accounts. It is used for minting via PIX deposits, redeeming back to fiat, and settling cross-border payments and trades with lower costs than traditional banking rails. It is built on Polygon, with plans to expand issuance to additional blockchains. (Stablecoin) ## Links - [Main](https://bitso.com) - [Documentation](https://docs.bitso.com) - [Blog](https://blog.bitso.com) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/Bitso) - [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/bitso) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/bitsoex) - [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/bitso) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/bitso) - [Telegram](https://t.me/Bitso_LATAM) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/Onchaincc) - [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/Gx54rfKvC6) ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. The open data core is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) — a copyleft/share-alike license allowing free use, modification, and sharing for any purpose. Attribution is required: include "Powered by The Grid" linking to https://thegrid.id wherever the data is used. Derivative databases must be shared under ODbL terms. Trademarks, logos, and brand names (marked "Special TPIP") are not covered by the ODbL. 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