Mitrade Insights is dedicated to providing investors with rich, timely and most valuable financial information to help investors grasp the market situation and find timely trading opportunities.

2021

Best News & Analysis Provider

FxDailyInfo

2022

Best Forex Educational Resources Global

International Business Magazine

Insights

News

Cryptocurrencies

Is El Salvador Giving Up on Bitcoin After 5 Years?

Source Beincrypto

El Salvador is backing a government app that lets citizens send and hold digital dollars. The app runs on stablecoins, not Bitcoin (BTC).

Five years ago, President Nayib Bukele made El Salvador the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. It seems the country is now looking to shift towards a more stable form of crypto.

I’ve just sent the #BitcoinLaw to Congress 🇸🇻 pic.twitter.com/DljnxsXlyt
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) June 9, 2021

What the El Salvador Stablecoins App Does

The app, called Sivar, is built by Modveon, a Palo Alto startup that came out of stealth on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported. Its payments run on Base, a blockchain network built by US exchange Coinbase.

Salvadorans sent $9B home last year. Percentage fees took millions of it.@Modveon's Sivar now uses Coinbase infrastructure and Base to let US users send any amount to El Salvador for a flat $2.Transfer to off-ramp, all included. pic.twitter.com/a5b2na5lJ0
— Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) September 29, 2026

Users first verify with a government ID. The app then places them in local groups based on their home address.

From there, they can send money, post content, and join live polls. Salvadorans living abroad can also vote in local elections.

Modveon CEO Nana Murugesan says El Salvador is the firm’s first national deployment. The five-year contract carries a multimillion-dollar fee the company did not disclose.

The post has since been deleted.

Modveon CEO Nana Murugesan on X

Why Bitcoin Payments Failed to Catch On

Bitcoin never became everyday money in El Salvador. Around 92% of Salvadorans said they had not used it in 2024, a University of Central America survey found.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) found only about 1.75% of remittances moved through crypto wallets. Remittances are money sent home by relatives working abroad.

In 2025, reforms tied to a $1.4 billion IMF loan ended Bitcoin’s mandatory status. They also scaled back Chivo, the state’s Bitcoin wallet.

#Cripto en El Salvador | El 92 % de los salvadoreños no utiliza el bitcóin para transacciones, según encuesta. https://t.co/WvJCsDUznx
— El Economista (@Eleconomistanet) October 11, 2024

Is Bukele Giving Up on Bitcoin?

Not for the national treasury, Murugesan told Bloomberg.

“El Salvador keeps embracing Bitcoin when it comes to treasury and as a store of value. But from a money movement point of view, President Bukele is very committed to the fastest, cheapest and most trusted way of moving money, and you can’t beat stablecoins,” Bloomberg reported, citing Nana Murugesan, the CEO of Modveon.

Earlier this month, the IMF said donations, not public funds drove the country’s recent Bitcoin reserve growth.

The money at stake for the new app is large. El Salvador received nearly $10 billion in remittances in 2025, central bank data shows. About 92% came from the US.

Sivar charges US users a flat $2 per transfer home. However, cheaper crypto rails are not guaranteed. A Bank of Italy study found stablecoin remittances no cheaper than banks, with costs reaching 9%.

Bitcoin’s place in the country may also face voters soon. Bukele’s rivals are already challenging his Bitcoin strategy ahead of the 2027 election.

Disclaimer: For information purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Recommended Articles

Gold Price Forecast: Gold Plunges to Seven-Week Low, Can $4,100 Hold? Spot gold (XAUUSD) plunged 4% on Monday to close at $4,114.93 per ounce, hitting an intraday low of $4,110.80, its lowest level since August 5. Heading into Tuesday's Asian trading sessio

Author TradingKey

8 hours ago

Spot gold (XAUUSD) plunged 4% on Monday to close at $4,114.93 per ounce, hitting an intraday low of $4,110.80, its lowest level since August 5. Heading into Tuesday's Asian trading sessio

The 30-year Treasury just hit a 22-year high — and the bond market is not pricing the Fed, it is pricing the deficit The 30-year Treasury yield closed at 5.56% on 28 September, the highest since June 2004, while the 10-year reached 5.24% and the 20-year 5.60%. The curve has steepened roughly 30bp in eight sessions even as October hike odds sit at 70.3%. That gap is the story: the long end is repricing fiscal and inflation risk, not policy. With PCE on Wednesday and payrolls on Friday, here is what the long end is really saying.

Author Irene Q.

10 hours ago

The 30-year Treasury yield closed at 5.56% on 28 September, the highest since June 2004, while the 10-year reached 5.24% and the 20-year 5.60%. The curve has steepened roughly 30bp in eight sessions even as October hike odds sit at 70.3%. That gap is the story: the long end is repricing fiscal and inflation risk, not policy. With PCE on Wednesday and payrolls on Friday, here is what the long end is really saying.

Nvidia's $150 billion buyback landed — and the AI sector fell anyway. That's the signal worth trading Nvidia closed up 1.68% at $228.86 on 28 September after announcing a $150 billion share repurchase authorisation, the largest single corporate buyback on record, while the rest of the AI complex sold off: AMD -3.6%, Micron -2.6%, Meta -4.8% and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index -1.61%. The divergence is not noise. Capital is rotating toward cash-flow certainty, not abandoning the AI theme. With Micron reporting after the close on 30 September, here is what the split means.

Author Irene Q.

10 hours ago

Nvidia closed up 1.68% at $228.86 on 28 September after announcing a $150 billion share repurchase authorisation, the largest single corporate buyback on record, while the rest of the AI complex sold off: AMD -3.6%, Micron -2.6%, Meta -4.8% and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index -1.61%. The divergence is not noise. Capital is rotating toward cash-flow certainty, not abandoning the AI theme. With Micron reporting after the close on 30 September, here is what the split means.

RBA set to hike interest rate to 4.60% in September as inflation remains elevated The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is widely expected to raise the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by 25 basis points (bps) to 4.60% from 4.35% on Tuesday, after keeping rates unchanged at its previous two meetings

Author FXStreet

15 hours ago

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is widely expected to raise the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by 25 basis points (bps) to 4.60% from 4.35% on Tuesday, after keeping rates unchanged at its previous two meetings

Silver Price Forecast: XAG/USD falls like house of cards on Fed’s hawkish narrative Silver price (XAG/USD) is down 4.3% to near $61.50 during the European trading session on Monday. The white metal nosedives as elevated United States (US) Treasury Yields have diminished its appeal.

Author FXStreet

Yesterday 09: 04

Silver price (XAG/USD) is down 4.3% to near $61.50 during the European trading session on Monday. The white metal nosedives as elevated United States (US) Treasury Yields have diminished its appeal.

Popular Symbols