# Mercado Bitcoin

> The largest digital asset investment platform in Latin America

Mercado Bitcoin is a Brazilian centralized cryptocurrency exchange and digital investment platform. It lets individuals and institutions trade digital assets in reais and access earning, credit, and asset management services.

Mercado Bitcoin is a Brazilian centralized exchange and digital asset investment platform. It lets users buy, sell, and hold cryptoassets in Brazilian reais through a web platform, mobile apps, and a digital account. The platform serves retail investors, traders, and institutions.

Users trade a wide range of cryptoassets and stablecoins, earn passive income on their holdings, and borrow reais against crypto collateral through CriptoCrédito. They can also buy tokenized fixed-income products and public offerings, and customers who want dedicated advisory can use MB One. Traders connect through an API for automated strategies and market data.

For institutions, MB Prime Services provides trading, over-the-counter execution, sub-accounts, and custody for investment funds, while MB Asset manages digital asset funds. The company also offers business services such as MB Cloud, MB Startups, and MB Antecipa. Individuals, funds, and businesses use it to invest in and operate with digital assets.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2013-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/mercado_bitcoin

## Products

- [Mercado Bitcoin Exchange](https://thegrid.id/profiles/mercado_bitcoin): Mercado Bitcoin Exchange is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange where users buy, sell, and hold digital assets in Brazilian reais through a web platform and mobile apps. It offers spot trading with a basic and an advanced trading experience, plus a digital account for deposits and withdrawals. Users can also earn passive income on holdings, borrow reais against crypto collateral, and buy tokenized fixed-income products and public offerings. Customers who want dedicated advisory can use MB One. The exchange serves beginners, active traders, and investors who want guidance. (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product)
- [MB Prime Services](https://thegrid.id/profiles/mercado_bitcoin): MB Prime Services is an institutional trading and custody service for investment funds. Funds trade around the clock against reais, execute large orders over the counter, and settle in customizable windows. Master accounts and sub-accounts distribute assets across funds and strategies with permission controls and management reports, and assets can stay in custody at the exchange or move to an outside custodian. (Custodian, Live)
- [MB Asset](https://thegrid.id/profiles/mercado_bitcoin): MB Asset is the digital asset management arm of Mercado Bitcoin. It runs investment funds, including credit-rights and crypto funds, for professional, qualified, and institutional investors. Its strategies allocate across crypto, digital credit, and tokenized assets under risk and liquidity controls. (Managed Fund, Live)
- [MB API](https://thegrid.id/profiles/mercado_bitcoin): MB API is an API that lets Mercado Bitcoin customers trade and read market data programmatically. A trading API creates and cancels orders, reads balances and positions, and runs fiat and crypto withdrawals, while public data endpoints and a websocket stream order books, candles, and recent trades. It is free to use for customers with two-factor authentication enabled. (Developer Tooling, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.mercadobitcoin.com.br)
- [Blog](https://www.mercadobitcoin.com.br/blog)
- [Privacy policy](https://www.mercadobitcoin.com.br/privacidade)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.mercadobitcoin.com.br/politicas-termo-de-uso)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/MercadoBitcoin)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/mercado-bitcoin)
- [Instagram](https://instagram.com/mercadobitcoin)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/MercadoBitcoin)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiciruB9iiUmKT8C6qk8T4w)
- [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@mercadobitcoinoficial)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiciruB9iiUmKT8C6qk8T4w)
- [Threads](https://www.threads.com/@mercadobitcoin)

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