Mercado Bitcoin announced it has deployed over $20 million of tokenized private debt on Rootstock, marking a significant expansion of its real-world asset (RWA) strategy in Latin America. The move provides Bitcoin-anchored exposure to private debt and positions the firm to scale to $100 million in issuances by April 2026.
Mercado Bitcoin launched a tokenized private credit facility anchored to Bitcoin’s security model. The offering is estimated at $20 million, and the company announced that its project should raise a total of $100 million by April of this year.
The company presented the integration as a way to provide investors with a Bitcoin-secured path to private debt, differentiating its product from RWAs issued predominantly on EVM-compatible chains.
This technical choice is part of a deliberate multichain plan, as the firm also intends to issue RWAs on Stellar (XLM) and the XRP Ledger to expand distribution and liquidity.
According to RWA.xyz data cited by the company, Mercado Bitcoin’s cumulative private credit loans exceed $370 million, a figure that places it among the top 10 global issuers of tokenized private credit.
Why did Mercado Bitcoin choose Rootstock?
Pinsdorf said Mercado Bitcoin structured its private credit tokens within Brazil’s regulatory framework, relying on licenses overseen by the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) and the Central Bank of Brazil. This focus on compliance is a core part of the firm’s market proposition and aims to reduce legal and operational friction for larger, regulated investors.
The issuer emphasized a focus on private credit rather than the broad tokenization of assets. The offerings include a mix of receivables and corporate debt for Brazilian and international borrowers; the company noted at least one US borrower among the issuances.
This specialization allows Mercado Bitcoin to concentrate its underwriting and servicing capabilities on a defined segment of the credit market.
Mercado Bitcoin’s target issuance of April 2026 will be a short-term test of both investor appetite and the operational capacity of its multichain deployment.
