All through 2021, the Brazilian cryptocurrency market managed to distance itself from the police pages and eventually win acceptance with most people, whether or not within the monetary market and even within the biggest nationwide ardour: soccer.
Final yr, Bitcoin (BTC) acted as a powerful different to the Brazilian actual that ended 2021 by breaking adverse data and reaching a devaluation of 6.5% by December, making it the thirty eighth worst foreign money on the planet.
In a yr of ups and downs for Bitcoin, the most important cryptocurrency hit a backside of 167,000 actual in January and soared together with international markets to 355,000 actual in Could. Confronted with Bitcoin’s dip, the BRL/BTC pair was caught under 200,000 reals till August, when it started to rise to a brand new historic excessive of 367,000 actual on Nov. 8.
Confronted with the necessity for financial safety, Brazilians turned to crypto. 10 million Brazilians now participate within the crypto market, in accordance with CoinMarketCap.
In conventional monetary markets, the Brazilian Inventory Change debuted exchange-traded funds (ETFs) linked to Bitcoin and Ether (ETH). There are already 5 ETFs listed on B3, a few of them positioned among the many most worthwhile in the complete Brazilian inventory market in 2021.
The Central Financial institution of Brazil additionally introduced new developments within the digital actual, a central financial institution digital foreign money (CBDC), which may very well be launched as early as 2023. The Brazilian Central Financial institution additionally introduced that it’s going to proceed working to include blockchain expertise into its companies by finishing up a sequence of checks by means of a devoted group on the financial authority.
Within the Federal Congress, discussions on the regulation of cryptocurrencies in Brazil dragged on all year long, till in December, federal deputies accredited Invoice 2303/15, which establishes standards for the regulation of cryptocurrencies within the nation. The invoice can be additional mentioned in 2022 within the Home’s plenary session and later within the Federal Senate.
There was rigidity amongst main gamers within the cryptocurrency market in Brazil in 2021, but additionally some excellent news.
Brazilian exchanges went head-to-head with main crypto alternate Binance. Exchanges across the nation labored with the Brazilian Cryptoeconomy Affiliation to conform Binance to observe guidelines established by the Brazilian Securities and Change Fee, Federal Income Service and the central financial institution. The worldwide alternate continues to be negotiating with Brazilian market regulators and the nation’s monetary authorities.
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Alternatively, Brazil’s largest alternate, Mercado Bitcoin (MB) — immediately one among Latin America’s crypto unicorns — expanded its operations within the nation, getting into the sporting world as soon as and for all. MB additionally labored alongside Chiliz to make fan tokens extra accessible to Brazilian followers, a novelty that was adopted by nationwide soccer giants akin to Corinthians, São Paulo, Internacional, Atlético-MG and Flamengo.
The nonfungible token (NFT) market additionally reached Brazil with vast adoption and presence of Brazilian gamers in play-to-earn video games, collectible platforms and even within the arts, being adopted by visible artists and famend names in Brazilian music akin to André Abujamra and Zeca Baleiro.
For the following yr, we are able to count on much more main Brazilian and Latin American corporations to enter the cryptocurrency market. The Brazilian Inventory Change hopes to increase its providing of cryptocurrency-linked investments, with specialists concentrating on decentralized finance (DeFi), NFTs and the Metaverse.
It’s additionally price remembering that 2022 is an election yr in a rustic that has been polarized since 2016, with the Bolsonaro authorities affected by low recognition and being outlined by social rigidity. The elections may have an effect on not solely the path of the digital actual but additionally the way forward for the Brazilian financial system, together with cryptocurrency markets.
