Key Facts
Bitcoin settled at US$79,116 down 1.54% on Monday after a stronger-than-expected US payrolls report pushed markets to reprice Federal Reserve rate risk.
Ethereum held firmer at US$2,491 a drop of 0.94%, with ETF inflows and whales pulling coins off exchanges cushioning the decline.
Brazil’s crypto economy is now overwhelmingly stablecoin-driven with 98% of Q1 2026 purchases made in dollar-linked tokens on US$6.9 billion in volume.
In Argentina, more than 70% of Bitso purchases were USDT and USDC, and about 75% of workers paid in crypto chose stablecoin salaries.
