{"id":49838,"date":"2025-09-27T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=49838"},"modified":"2025-09-27T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:46:45","slug":"corporate-clients-hold-up-to-15-of-assets-on-mercado-bitcoin-exchange-exec-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=49838","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Clients Hold Up to 15% of Assets on Mercado Bitcoin, Exchange Exec Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Corporate clients, mainly small and medium enterprises, account for between 10% and 15% of all assets under custody on Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil\u2019s largest crypto exchange, according to Daniel Cunha, the firm\u2019s head of corporate development.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese companies barely move more than 10% of their holdings at any given time,\u201d Cunha told CoinDesk in an interview at the exchange\u2019s DAC 2025 conference<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019re here to hold, not trade.\u201d <\/p>\n

The firms are primarily using bitcoin to protect their cash reserves from global volatility, he said, citing growing concern over inflation, currency devaluation and geopolitical instability.<\/p>\n

The trend grew when companies like Strategy (MSTR) started adopting bitcoin as a corporate treasury asset. Strategy now holds 639,835 BTC, making it the world\u2019s largest corporate holder of the cryptocurrency. Publicly-traded companies, as a whole, hold over 1 million BTC, but how much small and medium enterprises hold isn\u2019t known.<\/p>\n

Cunha did not reveal the exact figures these companies were holding on Mercado Bitcoin. Brazil has a history of cryptocurrency adoption, ranking fifth in Chainalysis\u2019 Global Crypto Adoption Index<\/a>, yet it only has one publicly-traded company holding BTC, M\u00e9liuz. OranjeBTC is set to soon list on Brazil\u2019s B3 exchange to become the country\u2019s largest publicly traded corporate holder of the cryptocurrency with $400 million in its treasury.<\/p>\n

Cunha said these companies aren\u2019t chasing yield or experimenting with altcoins, but rather are focusing on BTC and stablecoins like USDT and USDC to manage their treasuries. These holdings serve conservative, cash-management purposes rather than speculative plays.<\/p>\n

The rise in institutional activity is also having a side effect: it\u2019s reducing the overall volatility of crypto markets, Cunha said. That\u2019s making bitcoin a more appealing option for treasurers, even asthe enterprise segment in Brazil is still just starting to adopt crypto.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big guys in Faria Lima? They\u2019re on the sidelines,\u201d he said, referring to the financial district in Brazil\u2019s largest city S\u00e3o Paulo often compared to Wall Street. \u201cThey haven\u2019t moved yet. It\u2019s all waiting to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Corporate clients, mainly small and medium enterprises, account for between 10% and 15% of all assets under custody on Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil\u2019s largest crypto exchange, according to Daniel Cunha, the firm\u2019s head of corporate development. \u201cThese companies barely move more than 10% of their holdings at any given time,\u201d Cunha told CoinDesk in an interview […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-49838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}