Payments from Europe are gaining strength, although the United States continues to lead.
According to Bitwage, the Argentine who exports services thinks in dollars and outside the traditional system.
Cryptocurrency payments are being consolidated among Argentine professionals who work remotely abroad. This is shown by data from Bitwage, a platform for receiving fees in crypto assets, communicated to CriptoNoticias.
The average amount per person in the last 12 months on the platform was 1,475 dollars (USD). But, if you look only at the last three months, that average jumps to $2,586.
This indicates that the user profile has been purged, according to the company. Today, established professionals predominate—such as developers, programmers, technologists, consultants, and designers—while freelancers who did minor tasks migrated to other payment platforms.
Bitwage attributes this to the fact that the Argentine professional who exports services has already incorporated a logic that transcends the local situation: thinking in dollars and charging outside the traditional financial system. This is even despite the fact that the macro economy began to show signs of moderation and the exchange rate looks more predictable than in previous years.
The search for stability, predictability and economic freedom became part of the labor DNA in Argentinathey point out from the team. For this reason, they see that being paid in cryptocurrencies became a practical decision, especially among those who work abroad and need to avoid the vagaries of the local system.
Stablecoins gain ground on the dollar to collect from abroad
Currently, only 2% on the cryptocurrency platform decide to charge in Argentine pesos and 10% in dollars. The rest prefer stablecoins, which function as a safeguard against local uncertainty. Precisely, 30% receive their income in USD coin (USDC) and 22% in tether (USDT).
“There has always been a need to save and operate in dollars, but what stablecoins did was make that access everyday: not only for large operations, but also for freelancers, employees and companies with international transactions,” says Jonathan Chester (JC), CEO of Bitwage.
In short, he maintains that stablecoins accelerated digital dollarization of the global financial ecosystem. This while, he contrasts, “the business payments infrastructure remains anchored in slow systems and banks that do not talk to each other.”
From the cryptocurrency exchange CryptoMarket, the director of Argentina, Guillermo Escudero, highlights this context as part of a deep-rooted culture. According to estimates from the United States Treasury, Argentines have between 200,000 and 250,000 million dollars outside the local banking system, he emphasizes.
“With the arrival of the digital dollar, it was natural that a part of that volume migrated towards stablecoins, and that partly explains the growth of international payments,” says Escudero.
This panorama It is also diversifying geographically. Until last year, 94% of charges on Bitwage came from the United States and just 5% from Europe. But in 2025 that proportion changed: 88% of payments come from the American power and 12% from the old continent.
For the platform, the trend reflects a geographical diversification of Argentine talent, increasingly in demand by European companies looking for qualified professionals and flexible billing.
This context takes place while the regulations that drive the adoption of cryptocurrencies in Argentina advance. Although banks cannot yet offer these assets, as reported by CriptoNoticias. The latter is something that, in any case, is expected to eventually change under the deregulation ideology of Javier Milei’s government.