Brazil Crypto Report : Recent Episodes
Aaron
This episode is a live panel from Stellar's Meridian 2025 conference at Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. The panel, hosted by BCR founder Aaron Stanley, explores stablecoin adoption for local solutions in emerging markets.
Joining him are:
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Sebastian Siseles, CEO of Vesseo
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Ibrahim Abdul Hussein, CEO, Digibank
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Camila Rioja, Executive Director of Plexus Institute
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Justin Norman, founder of The Flip
The conversation reveals that successful crypto adoption hinges on deep localization rather than technological sophistication.
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Ibrahim shares how Digibank created a 2,000+ location cash-out network across war-torn MENA regions where traditional remittance services don't exist, serving users who may not even own smartphones.
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Camila discusses bringing Brazil's 180+ existing community currencies on-chain to enhance transparency in public goods distribution without disrupting established systems.
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Sebastian explains how Vesseo abstracts blockchain complexity entirely, soon launching crypto-to-fiat cards that convert USDC at point-of-sale.
The panel's consensus: the most impactful projects hide the technology, solve hyper-local problems, and meet users within their existing financial behaviors rather than demanding adoption of entirely new paradigms
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Raagulan Pathy is CEO of KAST. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his stablecoin neobank that has achieved remarkable traction across emerging markets in a short period.
KAST serves as a bank-like platform for crypto-native users and global remote workers, allowing them to deposit stablecoins and crypto, earn yield, and spend through cards worldwide. Pathy revealed that KAST has reached 500,000 app downloads with exceptional user engagement metrics - 64% weekly active users and 30% daily active users - while growing 20% monthly and processing over $20 million in volume within 14 months.
The platform targets four key customer segments: crypto natives, stablecoin-first users from the Global South, remote workers, and mobile affluent individuals who operate across multiple countries. Latin America represents roughly 30% of KAST's global business, with Brazil being a particularly strong market due to locals seeking global banking alternatives and strong brand affinity for premium crypto products.
You can connect with Raags on Linkedin
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Nathan Sexer is the head of Devcon and Devconnect at Ethereum Foundation, and Romina Sejas runs ETH Kipu - host of the annual ETH Latam event
In this conversation we discuss how Latin America will be the center of the crypto universe this November when Devconnect, the premier Ethereum developer gathering, comes to Buenos Aires and ETH Latam comes to Sao Paulo.
These events will be a coming of age moment for the region as the crypto world grasps the importance and potential of these technologies in places like Brazil and Argentina
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Thamilla Talarico is Head of On-Chain Finance Growth for Brasil at Polygon Labs.
She joins host Aaron Stanley live at the Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City, hosted by Bitso Business. Thamilla discusses Polygon's strategic pivot to focus on RWAs and payments, and shares her firsthand perspective working on the Brazilian Central Bank's Drex project on behalf of Ernst & Young. We dive into what the Bank's decision to abandon blockchain for this project means for the Brazilian market moving ahead.
You can connect with Thamilla on Linkedin
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If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin
America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT. Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement.
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Brazil Crypto Report is presented by P2P.MeP2P.me is the fastest way to buy and sell crypto in Brazil using Pix: direct, secure, and fully onchain.
Backed by Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures, P2P.me offers a compliant on and off ramp with, ZK-KYC, and no hidden fees. You can easily use P2P.me to pay PIX QR codes in Brazil using your USDc balance.
Topup, scan and pay. Visit br.p2p.me to get started and earn $50 per operation limit.
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This episode was recorded onsite at the Stablecoin Conference 2025 in Mexico City hosted by Bitso Business.
The panel discussion explores how stablecoins have evolved from crypto trading tools to essential infrastructure for global commerce.
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Monica Ramirez (Anchorage Digital)
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Nick Philpott (Zodiac Markets)
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Peter Wexler (Visa)
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Aaron Stanley (Brazil Crypto Report)
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If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin
America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT. Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement.
Learn more at avenia.io.
Brazil Crypto Report is presented by P2P.MeP2P.me is the fastest way to buy and sell crypto in Brazil using Pix: direct, secure, and fully onchain.
Backed by Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures, P2P.me offers a compliant on and off ramp with, ZK-KYC, and no hidden fees. You can easily use P2P.me to pay PIX QR codes in Brazil using your USDc balance.
Topup, scan and pay. Visit br.p2p.me to get started and earn $50 per operation limit.
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Matheus Moura is CEO and co-founder of Avenia, a stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure platform that aims to reshape money movement across the Americas.
We discuss the thesis that every company will eventually become a financial services company - and how Avenia is building the infrastructure to enable this with their "one API" approach.
You can connect with Matheus on Linkedin
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If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin
America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT. Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement.
Learn more at avenia.io.
Brazil Crypto Report is presented by P2P.MeP2P.me is the fastest way to buy and sell crypto in Brazil using Pix: direct, secure, and fully onchain.
Backed by Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures, P2P.me offers a compliant on and off ramp with, ZK-KYC, and no hidden fees. You can easily use P2P.me to pay PIX QR codes in Brazil using your USDc balance.
Topup, scan and pay. Visit br.p2p.me to get started and earn $50 per operation limit.
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Guilherme Bettanin is the Brazil country manager for Base, the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum Layer 2 network that has become the largest such protocol by transaction volume and total volume locked.
He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss adoption on Base, use cases such as AI, DeFi and creator economy, and Base's expansion and community building efforts in Brazil and Latin America.
You can connect with Guilherme on X/Twitter
Join the Base Brasil Discord channel and give a follow on X/Twitter to follow this exciting ecosystem
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If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin
America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT. Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement.
Learn more at avenia.io.
Brazil Crypto Report is presented by P2P.MeP2P.me is the fastest way to buy and sell crypto in Brazil using Pix: direct, secure, and fully onchain.
Backed by Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures, P2P.me offers a compliant on and off ramp with, ZK-KYC, and no hidden fees. You can easily use P2P.me to pay PIX QR codes in Brazil using your USDc balance.
Topup, scan and pay. Visit br.p2p.me to get started and earn $50 per operation limit.
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Brazil's Central Bank shocked the market by removing blockchain from its signature Drex CBDC project and pivoting to a simpler vision. After driving Brazil's blockchain adoption for years, is this a rug pull or an opportunity for private sector leadership?
Host Aaron Stanley is joined by Gustavo Cunha (Fintrender CEO, former banking executive) and Marcos Sarres (GoLedger CEO, Hyperledger specialist) to unpack this pivotal moment.
We explore why Ethereum's privacy challenges, extended development timelines, and multi-bank coordination proved too complex, plus the broader factors including US stablecoin trends and Central Bank leadership changes.
Despite the apparent setback, DREX transformed Brazil's financial landscape - major banks now have 20-30 person blockchain teams and multiple tokenization projects are launching. The key question: who will fill the leadership vacuum and drive Brazil's tokenized future forward?
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Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT.
Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement. Learn more at avenia.io.
Brazil Crypto Report is presented by P2P.MeP2P.me is the fastest way to buy and sell crypto in Brazil using Pix: direct, secure, and fully onchain.
Backed by Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures, P2P.me offers a compliant on and off ramp with, ZK-KYC, and no hidden fees. You can easily use P2P.me to pay PIX QR codes in Brazil using your USDc balance.
Topup, scan and pay. Visit br.p2p.me to get started and earn $50 per operation limit.
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David Lawant and Josh Barkhordar are Head of Research and Head of Sales, respectively, at FalconX - one of crypto's largest institutional prime brokerages. We discuss the company's recent entrance into Brazil, principally via new partnerships with BTG Pactual and Mercado Bitcoin.
We also talk about crypto market dynamics including the rise of digital asset treasury companies, pro-crypto regulatory changes under the Trump Administration and the significance of a new US rule permitting 401k retirement fund access to crypto
Brazil Crypto Report is a media partner for Bitso Business's Stablecoin Conference to be held August 27-28 in Mexico City.
Brazil Crypto Report is presented by Avenia
If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT.
Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement. Learn more at avenia.io.
P2P.me is the fastest way to buy and sell crypto in Brazil using Pix: direct, secure, and fully onchain.
Backed by Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures, P2P.me offers a compliant on and off ramp with, ZK-KYC, and no hidden fees.
You can easily use P2P.me to pay PIX QR codes in Brazil using your USDc balance. Topup, scan and pay.
Visit br.p2p.me to get started and earn $50 per operation limit.
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Alisia Painter is co-founder and COO at Botanix Labs, builder of the Botanix blockchain that serves as a Layer 2 on bitcoin. Botanix brings EVM compatibility and smart contract programmability to bitcoin, opening the door for new types of financial products and services on bitcoin. We discuss how Alisia's experiences working in Brazil introduced her to bitcoin and, more importantly, convinced her that bitcoin needs to function as more than just digital gold if it's going to fulfill its potential.
You can connect with Alisia on Linkedin
Brazil Crypto Report is presented by Avenia
If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT.
Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement. Learn more at avenia.io.
P2P.me is the fastest way to buy and sell crypto in Brazil using Pix: direct, secure, and fully onchain.
Backed by Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures, P2P.me offers a compliant on and off ramp with, ZK-KYC, and no hidden fees.
You can easily use P2P.me to pay PIX QR codes in Brazil using your USDc balance. Topup, scan and pay.
Visit br.p2p.me to get started and earn $50 per operation limit.
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Daren Guo is the co-founder of Reap, a Hong Kong-based stablecoin and payments infrastructure provider focused on emerging markets.
We discuss how Daren's experience as an early Stripe employee helped him identify the pain points in the cross-border payments landscape, and how Latin America is now Reap's fastest-growing market.
Brazil Crypto Report is presented by Avenia
If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT.
Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement. Learn more at avenia.io.
P2P.me is the fastest way to buy and sell crypto in Brazil using Pix: direct, secure, and fully onchain.
Backed by Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures, P2P.me offers a compliant on and off ramp with, ZK-KYC, and no hidden fees.
You can easily use P2P.me to pay PIX QR codes in Brazil using your USDc balance. Topup, scan and pay.
Visit br.p2p.me to get started and earn $50 per operation limit.
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Tony Volpon is a former banking executive and deputy governor of the Central Bank of Brazil deputy governor turned crypto entrepreneur.
He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his red pill moment and how he went down the bitcoin rabbit hole, the role of bitcoin in Brazil from a macro perspective and also his efforts to tokenize Brazil's real estate market through his company CF Inovação - which is building the Index platform
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If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT.
Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement. Learn more at avenia.io.
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Josh Solesbury is an investor at ParaFi Capital who has extensively researched the pain points of the SWIFT correspondent banking system and the potential of stablecoin technology to revolutionize global payments.
He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss why cross-border payments cost 4-6% and take days to settle, how Latin America's unique market conditions make it the perfect testing ground, and why the convergence of regulation, technology, and liquidity is finally enabling enterprise-scale adoption.
____________________________________________________________Brazil Crypto Report is presented by Avenia
If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API.
No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT. Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement.
Learn more at avenia.io.
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Thiago Rudiger, CEO of Tanssi Foundation, joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss the Tanssi network's unique approach to appchain infrastructure and and deployment
Key Takeaways:
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Infrastructure innovation: Tanssi addresses critical blockchain deployment barriers by reducing chain launch time from months to minutes while eliminating prohibitive upfront costs through a pay-as-you-go model
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Proven market traction: The platform has achieved significant validation with $400M+ TVL and top-tier ranking on Symbiotic protocol, demonstrating strong institutional confidence pre-token launch
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Strategic market positioning: Tanssi's localized approach in Brazil leverages regional relationships and regulatory expertise to capture opportunities in Latin America's emerging Web3 infrastructure market
You can connect with Thiago on Linkedin
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Brazil Crypto Report is presented by Avenia
If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT. Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement.
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Caio Barbosa is CEO and co-founder of Lumx, which is building B2B stablecoin payments infrastructure for Latin America. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss the company's journey from NFT infrastructure to RWA tokenization to stablecoins, and how the B2B stablecoin space is generating real value for businesses in 2025.
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Brazil Crypto Report is presented by Avenia
If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT.
Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement.
Learn more at avenia.io.
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For today's episode Aaron talks to crypto tax lawyer Daniel de Paiva Gomes about the sweeping changes proposed by Brazil’s Ministry of Finance earlier this month.
We explored the changes to the IOF financial transactions tax and the relevant implications, as well as the provisional measure released by the Ministry of Finance seeks to overhaul tax treatment of crypto assets in the country.
You can connect with Daniel on Linkedin
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Lucas Nuzzi is a Brazilian-born blockchain analytics expert and data scientist. In November 2022, his on-chain analytical sleuthing gave the world, for the first time, a complete picture of the fraud that had been occurring between FTX and Alameda Research - entities that were both controlled by Sam Bankman-Fried.
Lucas and host Aaron Stanley go behind the scenes of his groundbreaking research that revealed $4 billion in commingled funds between FTX and Alameda, providing the first public evidence of systematic fraud.
From receiving hundreds of desperate messages from FTX users to working with prosecutors, Lucas shares the personal toll of being on the front lines during crypto's darkest hour. We explore how traditional due diligence failed, why proof of reserves could prevent future collapses, and the lessons learned from SBF's spectacular fall
You can follow Lucas on X/Twitter
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Brazil Crypto Report is presented by Avenia
If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT. Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement.
Learn more at avenia.io
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Sebastian Serrano is the CEO of Ripio, which is one of Latin America's largest crypto platforms with 20 million plus users. We discuss the region's crypto evolution over his 12 years in the market.
We dive into the growth of stablecoin usage across Latin America, with 80% of Ripio's volume coming from these assets.
We also discuss new developments in Argentina, such as a tokenization sandbox and growing crypto trading volumes
You can connect with Sebastian on X/Twitter
Chapter Breakdown:
00:00 - Introduction & Ripio Overview
03:15 - The Stablecoin Revolution in Latin America
08:30 - Mercado Libre Partnership & MeliDollar Launch
12:45 - Non-USD Stablecoins & Market Access Use Cases
18:20 - Real World Assets & Tokenization Opportunities
23:10 - Argentina's Crypto Ecosystem & Regulatory Landscape
28:45 - VASP Registration vs. Full Licensing Requirements
32:20 - Regional Market Expansion (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia)
36:15 - Milei Administration Impact & Economic Reforms
41:30 - Libra Meme Coin Controversy & Political Implications
45:00 - DevConnect Buenos Aires & Ethereum Development Hub
48:45 - Market Outlook & Q4 Predictions
52:30 - Ripio's Growth to 20M Users & Future Vision
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Brazil Crypto Report is presented by Avenia
If you're building a wallet, a crypto consumer app, or a global payment platform, Avenia is your bridge to Latin America. Instantly connect to PIX, SPEI, and CBU using stablecoins — with one API. No banks. No FX desks. No SWIFT. Move money globally, with full compliance and real-time settlement.
Learn more at avenia.io
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This podcast, originally recorded as an X Space, dives into the Brazilian Central Bank's controversial proposed restrictions on stablecoin usage and custody.
During this space we hear from executives from Binance, OKX, Bluegreen, ABToken, Solana Foundation, Nonco, Bitso and more to discuss how these proposed rules would impact crypto users in Brazil and the country's nascent digital asset industry more broadly
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Niklas Anzinger, CEO of Infinita City, discusses how new governance models can unlock technological innovation through regulatory flexibility.
Operating within Prospera's special economic zone in Honduras, Infinita is building a biotech-focused district that demonstrates how competitive governance can foster development.
Key takeaways:
- Regulatory flexibility allows businesses to select from proven international frameworks rather than being subject to monopolistic regulation, unlocking "stranded technologies"
- The project uses market mechanisms like mandatory liability insurance to create proper regulatory incentives without overregulation
- Notable tech investors including Brian Armstrong (Coinbase), Balaji Srinivasan, and Tim Draper have recently backed the project, validating its approach to governance innovation
You can connect with Niklas on Linkedin, and you can learn more about Prospera here
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Is tighter oversight cutting off illicit crypto flows? Or are the bad guys just getting smarter? In 2023, addresses linked to criminal activity sent $22.2B in cryptocurrency—down from $31.5B in 2022, a steeper 29.5% drop compared to the 14.9% fall in overall transactions.
This session explores the impact of regulation and compliance in making crypto markets safer and thwarting money laundering at scale.
Featuring:Aaron Stanley, Founder of Brazil Crypto Report
Tatiana Guazzelli, Parter at Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Armand Kurath, Founder of Gecko Compliance
Guilherme Murtino, CMO of Transfero
Thanks to the Transfero team for hosting this session onsite at Web Summit Rio
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In this episode, host Aaron Stanley is joined by Tatiana Guazzelli of Pinheiro Neto Advogados and Marcos Rocha of Veirano Advogados to discuss updates to crypto regulation in Brazil.
Key Takeaways:
- Brazil's Central Bank is finalizing crypto regulations with potential restrictions on self-hosted wallets and stablecoins, aiming to publish final rules by end of 2025
- Companies must establish active operations in Brazil NOW to be grandfathered in once the licensing window opens
- Regulators seek balance between market growth and oversight, with industry groups like AB Token advocating for practical solutions to avoid stifling innovation
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Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation, joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss the organization's expanding influence in Latin America.
Gregaard discusses Cardano's partnerships with Brazilian powerhouses Petrobras and SERPRO, alongside significant developments in Argentina with UTN Buenos Aires.
We also explore Cardano's unique approach to blockchain development - which features decades-long vision, optimizing for sustainability and real-world impact. Gregaard explains the Foundation's unique goal of eventually making itself obsolete, measuring success by enabling true decentralization.
You can connect with Frederik on Linkedin
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
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In this panel from Merge Buenos Aires hosted by BCR's Aaron Stanley, industry leaders from Banco Santander, GK8 by Galaxy, Manteca, and BlockDaemon discuss the accelerating institutional adoption of digital assets and blockchain technology.
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Coty de Monteverde, Global Blockchain CTO at Banco Santander
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Kaushal Sheth, Head of US Sales at BlockDaemon
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Federico Goldberg, CEO at Manteca
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May Michelson, Director of Global Sales at GK8 by Galaxy
Key Takeaways:
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The crypto market is experiencing a paradigm shift from retail to institutional leadership, driven by regulatory clarity in the US and Europe.
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Banks are primarily focused on bitcoin, stablecoins, and tokenization as their entry points into digital assetsF
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Financial institutions require significantly higher security standards for crypto custody, with an emphasis on risk management and regulatory compliance
Chapter Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction and Panel Overview
2:35 - The Shift from Retail to Institutional Crypto
7:12 - Regulatory Changes Driving Bank Adoption
12:45 - European Market: MiCA Implementation Effects
17:30 - Latin American Adoption: Customer-Driven Approach
22:18 - Security Standards for Financial Institutions
28:54 - Custody Solutions: Hot vs. Cold Wallets
34:10 - Santander's Blockchain Journey
38:25 - Key Focus Areas: Bitcoin, Stablecoins, Tokenization
43:15 - Implementation Best Practices for Banks
48:40 - Future Outlook and Closing Remarks
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Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
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Lucas Danicek is the founder of Nexa Finance and has over 15 years of experience managing portfolios for some of Brazil’s wealthiest individuals and families. Throughout that journey, he identified a critical pain point in traditional investment models: the lack of personalization and accessibility for alternative investments.
Nexa Finance's solution uses blockchain and AI to create personalized investment products that can be directly tailored to the specific preferences and risk profile of an individual investor.
You can connect with Lucas on Linkedin
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With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable.
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In this special episode from Merge Buenos Aires, Bruno Grossi, Head of Emerging Technologies and Digital Assets at Banco Inter, discusses how Brazil's first digital bank is leveraging blockchain technology and participating in the groundbreaking Drex CBDC project.
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
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Arnold Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Sphere Labs, which is one of the most exciting stablecoin infrastructure plays at the moment. We talk about how Sphere has found product market fit for cross-border stablecoin payments in emerging markets, with billions of dollars being transacted annually on its rails.
You can connect with Arnold on Linkedin
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
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Today's episode is a crossover with João Pedro Malar, host of Exame's Future of Money podcast - which is one of the leading crypto podcasts in Brazil
In this Portuguese language discussion, João and I discuss my perspectives on the Brazil and Latam crypto market having covered it for three years via my Brazil Crypto Report newsletter and podcast.
You can find the Future of Money version of this episode here
You can connect with Joao on Linkedin
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
🚀 Sign up for the 🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report newsletter for analysis, interviews and market intelligences
Andre Portilho is Head of Digital Assets at BTG Pactual, Latin America's largest investment bank. He joins host Aaron Stanley to dissect crypto's wild 2025 ride, from bitcoin's both Trump-slowdown to Ethereum's identity crisis to Solana's memecoin stress test.
While crypto markets recalibrate after Trump-era euphoria, Portilho reveals why Brazil is a global leader when it comes to integrating crypto and the Tradfi banking sector.
You can connect with Andre on Linkedin
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
🚀 Sign up for the 🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report newsletter for analysis, interviews and market intelligence
Paula Pascual is CEO and founder of Merge Madrid and Merge Buenos Aires and a former banker at Santander. She joins host Aaron Stanley to share her vision for uniting Europe and Latin America through Web3 events and media.
The Merge Buenos Aires conference will take place March 25-26 in the Argentine capital at a time when crypto adoption is escalating in the region. By bringing regulators, traditional finance, and local crypto communities together, Merge BA will facilitate these important cross-continental dialogues on the industry's most pressing questions.
Brazil Crypto Report is excited to support Merge as a media partner! You can learn more on their site You can connect with Paula on Linkedin
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
🚀 Sign up for the 🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report newsletter for analysis, interviews and market intelligence
Phase 1 of Brazil's ambitious Drex CBDC pilot is in the books. The project has proven successful thus far, but privacy and scalability challenges remain - prompting the Central Bank to conclude that a "major adaptation" is required for Drex to become a core piece of Brazil's financial infrastructure.
In this episode, Marcos Viriato of Parfin, Leandro Pereira of Nuclea, Ricardo Paixão of CRIA (and the Brazilian Congress), join host Aaron Stanley to explore the findings of an extensive new report published by the bank to conclude Phase 1.
They provide an insider perspective on the road ahead for Drex as Brazil continues its push towards a tokenized financial system.
00:03 - Introduction and market expectations
03:06 - DREX project explanation and objectives
05:36 - Analysis of the Central Bank's technical report
09:26 - The privacy challenge explained
13:56 - The Drex Trilemma
17:25 - Scalability considerations
22:24 - Discussion of Hyperledger Besu infrastructure
27:47 - Sponsor break
29:20 - Second phase pilot and resource constraints
36:14 - Current use cases and integration challenges
48:00 - Market outlook and tokenization beyond DREX
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
🚀 Sign up for the 🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report newsletter for analysis, interviews and market intelligence
Rachel Conlan is Global Chief Marketing Officer at Binance. She joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss the crypto's exchange's ambitions to reach one billion users worldwide.
Rachel reveals how Latin America has become Binance's fastest-growing region, with 63% user growth last year, well outpacing their global average. She also explains how Brazil and Latam have become a testing ground for new crypto products like Copy Trading, Launchpool and Earn.
You can connect with Rachel on X/Twitter and Linkedin
00:00 - Introduction
01:24 - Rachel's journey to Binance and crypto industry experience
03:23 - Comparing crypto marketing to traditional advertising and entertainment
06:33 - Binance's evolution and growth to 250 million users
09:46 - Maintaining community focus during company transition
13:23 - Binance's trust relationship with users and leadership change
16:47 - Value-driven culture enabling seamless transitions
20:46 - The Binance Angels ambassador program
24:16 - Regional marketing strategies
27:10 - Adapting global partnerships to local markets
29:36 - Channel strategies across different markets
32:22 - Latin America's crypto adoption and unique characteristics
35:38 - Latin America as a beta test for global crypto use cases
36:58 - The changing perception of crypto
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
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Jean Hansen and and Victor Cioffi are core team members of Ipê City, which is a month-long Pop-Up city experiment coming to Florianopolis from April 22 - May 22.
We discuss their vision for bringing together 150-200 techno-optimists, builders, and innovators in Brazil's Silicon Valley to prototype solutions to real world problems facing Brazil and Latin America.
Ipê City is modeled after the "network state" concepts pioneered by Balaji Srinivasan and others and will explore solutions in the realms of finance, governance, healthcare, education.
00:03 - Introduction and overview of pop-up cities in crypto01:36 - Background prior involvement with Network States05:36 - The vision and cultural goals of Ipe City08:36 - Understanding network states vs pop-up cities11:46 - The evolution from Zuzalu to current pop-up cities14:59 - Unique aspects of pop-up cities vs conferences18:37 - Ipe City's specific objectives and structure22:43 - Weekly cycles and program structure25:22 - Target participants and sandbox approach31:09 - Partnerships and future vision34:21 - Closing thoughts and how to get involved
You can connect with Jean and Victor on X/Twitter and Linkedin. To learn more go to Ipê City or https://docs.ipe.city/. You can also join the Telegram group
To learn more about Jean's previous work in the Prospera community, have a look at the first edition in his Network States documentary series
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
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Danielle Teixeira is a program manager at Fenasbac, which is linked to the Central Bank of Brazil and runs several startup acceleration programs critical to promoting financial innovation in Brazil.
She joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss Fenasbac'scurrent NEXT Accelerator program, which features prominent sponsors including Banco do Brasil, Ripple, and Mercado Bitcoin, focusing on challenges ranging from blockchain implementation to tokenization of real-world assets.
For fintech companies and entrepreneurs interested in entering the Brazilian market, FENASBAC's programs offer a structured pathway to engage with regulators and established financial institutions.
00:00 Introduction
01:59 History and evolution of FENASBAC04:32 FENASBAC's role as intermediary between Central Bank and industry06:50 Overview of innovation programs and ecosystem building08:16 Details on the NEXT Accelerator program10:20 How corporate sponsors and startups are matched13:23 Program structure and networking opportunities15:00 Current sponsors including Banco do Brazil, Ripple, and Mercado Bitcoin16:32 Ripple and Mercado Bitcoin's specific challenges21:23 Success stories from previous cohorts24:41 International expansion plans26:47 What makes FENASBAC's accelerator unique30:08 Overview of LIFT ecosystem programs34:00 Impact of LIFT Challenge on Brazil's CBDC development36:01 How these programs have influenced Brazil's financial system39:33 Preview of upcoming CVM (securities regulator) project41:26 How to get involved in FENASBAC's programs
You can connect with Danielle onLinkedin
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
Powered by hydroelectric energy from the ITAIPU Dam, Morphware provides high-performance compute to run, train, and build your AI apps and agents.
One of the greatest expenses when it comes to building AI applications is the compute. Morphware provides a gateway to accessible compute for AI development.
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This episode is the soft-launch of a special mini-series calledBits & Borders that will take us ona country-by-country tour exploring crypto adoption across Latin America. Each episode will spotlight a different country and map out the various adoption trends, entrepreneurial energy and regulatory environment in that specific nation.
🔥The first stop on our tour is: Guyana!
As Guyana emerges as one of the world's fastest-growing economies thanks to major oil discoveries, the conversation around digital asset adoption becomes increasingly relevant.Tony Edward, host of the popularThinking Crypto Podcast, shares his unique perspective as a Guyanese native on the intersection of traditional finance, crypto, and economic development.
You can connect with Tony on Linkedin and X/Twitter
https://x.com/ThinkingCrypto1
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seosocialmarketing/
00:31 - Introduction to Latin America crypto series01:06 - Tony's background and initial discussion02:51 - Early life in Guyana and economic challenges06:38 - Discussion of Guyana's oil development09:57 - Impact of oil wealth on Guyanese society12:41 - Tony's journey into crypto20:11 - Sponsored segment22:32 - Discussion of crypto accessibility in Guyana26:31 - Looking ahead to 202534:04 - Macro perspective on crypto adoption
Binance is the largest platform for trading of digital assets. With over 250 million users around the world, the exchange offers over 350 trading pairs, best-in-class products and services for investors, and advanced tools for institutions players.
Binance currently holds over US$ 160 billion in user assets under custody and reached a cumulative historical trading volume of $100 trillion in 2024, showcasing the trust placed in it by users worldwide.
With user-focus at the core of its DNA, Binance continuously invests to increase usability, bring new features and deepen security.
Liquidity matters. Security is non-negotiable. Join Binance Now
Powered by hydroelectric energy from the ITAIPU Dam, Morphware provides high-performance compute to run, train, and build your AI apps and agents.
One of the greatest expenses when it comes to building AI applications is the compute. Morphware provides a gateway to accessible compute for AI development.
Using abundant clean energy from Paraguay, NVIDIA’s highest performing GPU servers and bitcoin mining infrastructure, Morphware offers some of the most competitive prices for compute in the industry.
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This episode is a panel discussion hosted at Brazil House during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The panel was hosted by BCR founder Aaron Stanley and featured Andre Portilho, head of digital assets at BTG Pactual; Caroline Malcolm of Oxford University; Dante Disparte, chief strategy officer at Circle and Alan Cohn, partner at Steptoe, LLC in Washington, DC
We discuss institutional adoption of digital assets in the country, stablecoin adoption and regulations, Drex, and then these trends into what we're seeing happening in Europe, the United States and elsewhere
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Antonio Neto is the founder of Vega Crypto and the CEO of Ethereum Brasil. Previously, he was the Head of Brazil and Latin America at cryptocurrency exchange FTX. In Part Two of this two part conversation, he sits down with host Aaron Stanley to share for the first time his front-row seat view of the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
0:46 - Personal impact of FTX collapse3:07 - Handling NFTs and remaining assets4:08 - Taking time off to process5:15 - Impact on sweat equity and relationships7:34 - Brazilian clients affected10:05 - Discussion of SBF trial and key players14:00 - FTX office culture and environment17:31 - The Bahamas compound layout20:42 - Work culture and expectations25:45 - SBF's sentence discussion28:07 - Regulatory implications32:38 - Near-miss with SEC special treatment34:08 - Analysis of crypto industry impact35:47 - Current projects and future plans41:35 - Ethereum Brazil 2024 events43:55 - Vision for Brazil's crypto future45:35 - Closing thoughts
Powered by hydroelectric energy from the ITAIPU Dam, Morphware provides high-performance compute to run, train, and build your AI apps and agents.
One of the greatest expenses when it comes to building AI applications is the compute. Morphware provides a gateway to accessible compute for AI development.
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Antonio Neto is the founder of Vega Crypto and the CEO of Ethereum Brasil. Previously, he was the Head of Brazil and Latin America at cryptocurrency exchange FTX. In part one of this two part conversation, he sits down with host Aaron Stanley to share for the first time his front-row seat view of the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
02:38 - Antonio's Role at FTX08:13 - FTX's Meteoric Rise and Market Context21:31 - The Beginning of the Collapse27:26 - The Critical Days of the Crisis34:02 - Bankruptcy Claims and Employee Impact38:18 - Analysis of Industry Practices and FTX's Downfall
Powered by hydroelectric energy from the ITAIPU Dam, Morphware provides high-performance compute to run, train, and build your AI apps and agents.
One of the greatest expenses when it comes to building AI applications is the compute. Morphware provides a gateway to accessible compute for AI development.
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Marcelo Brogliato and Yan Martins are co-founders of Hathor, a network that deploys a unique hybrid DAG-blockchain framework. They join host Aaron Stanley to discuss exciting new features and community initiatives for 2025 as the project celebrates its fifth anniversary. These include "nanocontracts" written in Python, anti-MEV mechanisms and new developments on the real-world asset tokenization front
00:00 - Introduction and Hathor overview02:01 - Origin story and 5-year anniversary04:31 - Technical deep-dive: Hybrid DAG-blockchain architecture13:37 - RWA tokenization successes and challenges22:18 - Introducing nanocontracts and blueprints32:43 - 2025 roadmap and upcoming features37:07 - Community growth and developer incentives45:26 - Future outlook for RWA and closing thoughts
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Powered by hydroelectric energy from the ITAIPU Dam, Morphware provides high-performance compute to run, train, and build your AI apps and agents.
One of the greatest expenses when it comes to building AI applications is the compute. Morphware provides a gateway to accessible compute for AI development.
Using abundant clean energy from Paraguay, NVIDIA’s highest performing GPU servers and bitcoin mining infrastructure, Morphware offers some of the most competitive prices for compute in the industry.
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David Lawant is Head of Research at FalconX, a leading institutional crypto prime brokerage in the US. He joins host Aaron Stanley to talk about crypto market structure heading into 2025, notably the incredible liquidity surge seen after the US elections in November.
Lawant argues that these liquidity trends, combined with an improving regulatory environment and clearer investment thesis, could make this bull cycle different from previous ones.
We also discuss his previous experience in crypto and equity research roles at Bitwise, Hashdex and Itau
You can connect with David on Linkedin
LIT Collective is the ultimate creative and design studio for Web3 companies.
Based in Brazil and serving the globe, they’ve helped more than 100 brands with user-centric branding, UX/UI design, motion, Webflow development and other creative needs.
Check out their website, follow them on X/Twitter and Instagram, and book a free consultation to learn about how LIT Collective can help you with your creative needs.
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Powered by hydroelectric energy from the ITAIPU Dam, Morphware provides high-performance compute to run, train, and build your AI apps and agents.
One of the greatest expenses when it comes to building AI applications is the compute. Morphware provides a gateway to accessible compute for AI development.
Using abundant clean energy from Paraguay, NVIDIA’s highest performing GPU servers and bitcoin mining infrastructure, Morphware offers some of the most competitive prices for compute in the industry.
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🚀 Sign up for the 🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report newsletter for analysis, interviews and market intelligence
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Guilherme Nazar is Regional VP for Latam at Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his previous experience building out Uber's operations in Brazil, Binance's growth in Brazil and the Latam region, the company's regulatory positioning under new CEO Richard Teng and the exchange's roadmap for Latam in 2025
00:30 Introduction01:46 Guilherme's background and journey to Binance09:05 Current state of Brazil's crypto market15:57 Institutional adoption in Brazil19:49 Regulatory landscape and Binance's approach28:40 Binance's leadership transition and growth37:34 LATAM regional strategy and market differences42:14 Binance's market position and competitive advantage47:15 Closing thoughts and 2025 outlook
You can connect with Guilherme on Linkedin
LIT Collective is the ultimate creative and design studio for Web3 companies.
Based in Brazil and serving the globe, they’ve helped more than 100 brands with user-centric branding, UX/UI design, motion, Webflow development and other creative needs.
Check out their website, follow them on X/Twitter and Instagram, and book a free consultation to learn about how LIT Collective can help you with your creative needs.
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Powered by hydroelectric energy from the ITAIPU Dam, Morphware provides high-performance compute to run, train, and build your AI apps and agents.
One of the greatest expenses when it comes to building AI applications is the compute. Morphware provides a gateway to accessible compute for AI development.
Using abundant clean energy from Paraguay, NVIDIA’s highest performing GPU servers and bitcoin mining infrastructure, Morphware offers some of the most competitive prices for compute in the industry.
Follow on X @Morphwareai and join the Telegram to be a part of the community
🚀 Sign up for the 🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report newsletter for analysis, interviews and market intelligence
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Wei Zhou is the CEO of Coins and the former CFO of Binance. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his recent acquisition of Coins.ph - the Philippines' oldest and most successful crypto exchange and how he is expanding its operations to the rest of the developing world
You can connect with Wei on X/Twitter and Linkedin
LIT Collective is the ultimate creative and design studio for Web3 companies.
Based in Brazil and serving the globe, they’ve helped more than 100 brands with user-centric branding, UX/UI design, motion, Webflow development and other creative needs.
Check out their website, follow them on X/Twitter and Instagram, and book a free consultation to learn about how LIT Collective can help you with your creative needs.
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Powered by hydroelectric energy from the ITAIPU Dam, Morphware provides high-performance compute to run, train, and build your AI apps and agents.
One of the greatest expenses when it comes to building AI applications is the compute. Morphware provides a gateway to accessible compute for AI development.
Using abundant clean energy from Paraguay, NVIDIA’s highest performing GPU servers and bitcoin mining infrastructure, Morphware offers some of the most competitive prices for compute in the industry.
Follow on X @Morphwareai and join the Telegram to be a part of the community
🚀 Sign up for the 🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report newsletter for analysis, interviews and market intelligence
https://newsletter.brazilcrypto.io/
Connect with Brazil Crypto Report across the web: Twitter | Linkedin | YouTube | Instagram | Spotify | Apple Podcasts
Rodrigo Borges is a partner at Carvalho Borges Araujo Advogados in Sao Paulo. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss a newly proposed rule by the Brazilian Central Bank to prohibit crypto exchanges from transferring stablecoins to self-custodied wallets
This is an extremely important development with lots of implications for crypto markets, operators and users in the Brazil market. The comment period on the proposed rule is open until February 28
You can connect with Rodrigo on Linkedin
LIT Collective is the ultimate creative and design studio for Web3 companies.
Based in Brazil and serving the globe, they’ve helped more than 100 brands with user-centric branding, UX/UI design, motion, Webflow development and other creative needs.
Their experienced team will walk you through the complexities and nuances of Web3-native design and branding — helping you to grow faster, gain credibility and build brand awareness.
Check out their website, follow them on X/Twitter and Instagram, and book a free consultation to learn about how LIT Collective can help you with your creative needs.
🚀 Sign up for the 🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report newsletter for analysis, interviews and market intelligence
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Noelle Acheson is an expert analyst focusing on the intersection of crypto and macroeconomy. She was previously head of research at CoinDesk and led institutional research efforts at Genesis Trading, and now she's the author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter
She joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss recent developments in the crypto markets, including the US presidential election, a potential strategic bitcoin reserve in the US, MicroStrategy's continued bitcoin accumulation and global monetary expansion
You can connect with Noelle on Linkedin
LIT Collective is the ultimate creative and design studio for Web3 companies.
Based in Brazil and serving the globe, they’ve helped more than 100 brands with user-centric branding, UX/UI design, motion, Webflow development and other creative needs.
Their experienced team will walk you through the complexities and nuances of Web3-native design and branding — helping you to grow faster, gain credibility and build brand awareness.
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Today Aaron talks to Emin Gün Sirer — CEO of Ava Labs, a former computer science professor at Cornell University and the mastermind behind the Avalanche blockchain.
We discuss how Avalanche's deployment of subnets offers an alternative to the ongoing modular versus monolithic debate, recent successes on the gaming and tokenization fronts, and the Avalanche community’s strategic focus on emerging markets — evidenced by its recent summit in Buenos Aires.
We also talk about Gün’s front-row seat involvement in crypto dating back to the early days of bitcoin, the 2016 DAO hack and now deploying his own alternative Layer 1 chain.
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Tatiana Guazzelli is a partner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados, which is one of Brazil’s largest and most prominent law firms and represents some of the top crypto companies operating in the country.
Tatiana provides important perspective on the many simultaneous movements happening with regard to crypto regulation in Brazil
These developments include:
- The Central Bank's proposed licensing structure, which includes a three-tiered licensing system for crypto service providers: intermediaries, custodians, and brokers
- Asset segregation legislation advancing through Congress that would enable the Central Bank to require exchanges to separate customer assets as part of its licensing regime.
- The Receita Federal is overhauling its tax reporting requirements for crypto assets
- The CVM is expected to issue a public consultation regarding rules for tokenized securities offerings
- The Central Bank will a separate public consultation in 2025 focused on stablecoin regulation
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Aaron is joined by attorney Nicky Dyskant for an overview discussion of new regulatory developments coming out of Brazil. These include proposed crypto licensing rules and a public comment window put forth by the Central Bank , stablecoin and asset segregation legislation moving through Congress, and public consultations from Brazil's tax and securities authorities.
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Aaron sits down with Samson Mow, CEO of Jan3, as we explore the future of Bitcoin adoption at the nation-state level and its implications for the global financial system.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn how countries are exploring Bitcoin adoption through three main strategies: legal tender implementation, mining operations, and treasury allocation
- Discover why the race for national Bitcoin reserves could create a significant first-mover advantage for early-adopting nations
- Understand how Bitcoin mining can transform developing nations by monetizing previously stranded energy resources
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Hashdex CIO Samir Kerbage joins Brazil Crypto Report to discuss how the upcoming U.S. presidential election could impact crypto markets globally. We explore prediction markets, institutional adoption trends, and what various election outcomes could mean for crypto regulation in both the U.S. and Brazil.
Key Topics:
- Why Congressional outcomes may matter more than the presidential race for crypto's future
- How prediction markets like Polymarket are emerging as crypto's newest killer app
- What U.S. regulatory developments could mean for Brazil's crypto ecosystem
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Former Reuters executive Saul Hudson shares insights from his journey from international journalism to crypto communications, discussing the evolution of crypto media and Latin America's growing importance in the Web3 space.
Key Takeaways:
- From backpacking journalist to Reuters Americas executive, Hudson's unique path shows how understanding traditional finance crises led to crypto advocacy
- Crypto media has evolved from niche coverage to a sophisticated ecosystem with specialized outlets and community platforms
- Latin America is gaining increased attention from global crypto stakeholders due to real use cases, regulatory collaboration, and growing institutional adoption
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Juliana Felippe is Chief Revenue Officer at Transfero. In this conversation we discuss Transfero's 10 years in the crypto market, the company's role in the Brazil ecosystem today and its vision for global expansion
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Gladstone Arantes is a blockchain specialist at BNDES, Brazil's national development bank, and is coordinating development of the Brazilian Blockchain Network (known by the Portuguese acronym RBB). We talk about how the RBB is using blockchain tech to pioneer new governmental and public interest use cases in Brazil.
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Crecimiento is a movement to turn Argentina into a hub for crypto startups and talent. It kicked off in full force in August with the month-long Aleph Pop-Up City in Buenos Aires, which featured nearly 70 startups, hackathons and 2,500 participants.
To tell us more about this movement, Aaron talks to Matthias Broner, head of growth for Latam at Matter Labs, - builder of the ZKsync protocol, and Mili Santamaria, who is a crypto lawyer who heads regulatory initiatives for the Crecimiento core team.
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Pedro Solimano is a bitcoin reporter at The Defiant and the host of the Beyond the Beat podcast that explores trends in crypto media and content. In this crossover episode, we discuss the latest trends in crypto media in the region and explore why crypto in Latam doesn't get as much attention as it should
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Today Aaron speaks with Guillherme Goncalves and Alessandro Cecere of El Dorado, which is a peer-to-peer marketplace for stablecoins that has more than 250,000 users in Latin America and more than 70 integrations with traditional payment channels in the region
We talk about the history of crypto adoption in Venezuela, the role of peer-to-peer marketplaces, and why stablecoins are critical for remittances and cross-border payments in the region
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Theodoro Fleury is chief investment officer at QR Asset, which launched the world's first Solana spot ETF in Brazil on August 29, 2024. We discuss the new fund and why QR Asset is bullish on single-asset crypto ETFs moving forward
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Aron van Ammers is CTO at Outlier Ventures, one of the longest running Web3 venture firms. We discuss Outlier's new Latin America Base Camp accelerator program, which will help crypto founders from the region take the next steps building their product, finding product market fit and fundraising. Applications for the program are open until early September 2024.
You can connect with Aron on Linkedin, and you can learn more about Outlier Ventures' Base Camp Latam here.
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Rudá Pellini is co-founder of Arthur, Inc, which is a Brazilian bitcoin miner and energy tech firm. We discuss Arthur's recent expansion in the US with facilities in Ohio, Wyoming and Oklahoma. We also talk about how the bitcoin mining business model has evolved over the years, and the mining landscape in Brazil and Latin America
For more information about Arthur, take a look at this interview I recorded with CEO Ray Nasser in 2022
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In this episode Aaron talks to Luca Prosperi and João Reginatto of M^0, which is an exciting new stablecoin project that rethinks the core assumptions of how money should be issued and circulate in the crypto economy. They discuss how Luca's prior experience as a core contributor to the Maker ecosystem and João's role building out USDC at Circle led them to create one of 2024's most exciting projects.
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Rita Martins is the author of a new book exploring the role of Web3 in financial services from the lens of a practitioner. We discuss her career working for Accenture and HSBC, where she was heavily involved in financial technology and digital transformation initiatives. She now is an author, consultant and content creator exploring this intersection in more depth.
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Diego Fernandez is the Secretary of Innovation and Digital Transformation for the city of Buenos Aires. In this episode we talk about Operación Crecimiento, which is a movement to turn Argentina into a global crypto, startup and innovation hub.
This movement will formally kickstart in August with the Aleph startup city that will convene hundreds of builders in Buenos Aires for the month.
You can connect with Diego on Linkedin. You can learn more about Operacion Crecimiento by visiting its website and X/Twitter profile, and by joining the Telegram group
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Daniela Barbosa is Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation and General Manager for Blockchain and Identity at The Linux Foundation.
In this conversation, we discuss current state of the Hyperledger ecosystem and how it's being used in several key projects in Brazil - including the Brazilian Central Bank's Drex CBDC/tokenization platform
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If you've spent any time in Brazil recently, you've probably seen the online sports betting ads plastered absolutely everywhere - bus stations, websites, football team jerseys. Today's conversation dives into how Brazil has become the most exciting online gambling market in the world, a new licensing regime set to take effect in 2025 and the overlap with cryptocurrency.
Today's guests are James Kilsby, Chief Analyst and VP of Americas at Vixio Regulatory Intelligence, and Udo Seckelmann, Head of Gambling and Crypto at Bichara e Motta Advogados
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Jack O'Holleran and Andrew Saunders of Skale Labs join to discuss why they believe gaming applications will be a killer blockchain application for markets like Brazil, and how the Skale platform can facilitate this by removing gas fees from the end user journey
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Ricardo Bomfim is a reporter covering cryptocurrency at Valor Economico, which is Brazil's leading business media outlet. Claudia Mancini is a financial journalist and entrepreneur who runs BlockNews, which covers Brazil's emerging crypto economy.
In this conversation we discuss the delays impacting two projects coming out of the Brazilian Central Bank - the hybrid Drex CBDC/smart contract platform and a regulatory framework for crypto brokerages and VASPs operating in the country
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Leandro Pereira Sciammarella is the tech lead for digital assets at Nuclea, while Rafael Castaneda is a popular YouTuber and content creator. In this conversation, recorded onsite at Web Summit Rio, we discuss the state of Drex - the ambitious CBDC/tokenization platform being developed by the Central Bank of Brazil.
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Edward Woodford is the CEO of Zero Hash, a leading crypto infrastructure provider that works with clients such as Stripe, Interactive Brokers and Securitize. We discuss Zero Hash's operations in Brazil, and why cross-border payments, remittances and global payroll remain underrated opportunities
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Marlyson Silva is the CEO of Transfero, and Daniel Marquez is a partner at Koyamaki Ventures. In this episode, recorded onsite at Web Summit Rio, we discuss the major cryptocurrency and stablecoin adoption trends across Latin America, ranging from Brazil to Colombia to Argentina.
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Gurvais Grigg is the chief technology officer at Chainalysis, where he focuses on engaging public sector and law enforcement entities around the world. Before that, he spent 20 years combatting financial crimes as an assistant director at the FBI. In this conversation we dive into the state of crypto crime around the world and in Latin America, how illicit use cases have expanded beyond ransomware and money laundering, and how law enforcement entities globally are adapting to these new technologies.
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Bernardo Srur is the CEO of ABCripto, which is Brazil's leading trade association and lobby group advocating on behalf of the digital asset industry. Marcelo Sampaio is the CEO of Hashdex, which is the largest digital asset manager in Brazil and recently launched a bitcoin ETF product in the US.
In this conversation, recorded at Web Summit Rio, we discuss how crypto ETF products are propelling the industry forward in both Brazil and the United States.
This conversation is in Portuguese. Big thanks to Transfero for letting us record this session at their stand.
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Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands - a Hong Kong based game software and venture capital company that has been a pioneer in the realm of Web3 branding. In this conversation, recorded onsite at Web Summit Rio, Yat gives a masterclass on Web3 how concepts like NFTs, aidrops and memecoins will revolutionize how brands interact with their customers
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Yan Martins is a co-founder of Hathor Network, which combines the scalability of a Direct Acyclic Graph with the security of a traditional blockchain. We talk about how players such as Brazil's B3 exchange and Vortx QR Tokenizadora are deploying tokenization projects using the Hathor Network.
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Gino Matos is one of Brazil's OG crypto journalists - currently working at Crypto Briefing with previous stints at CoinTelegraph Brasil and CriptoFacil. He's also the host of the Papo de Pelicano podcast. We discuss the evolution of Brazil's crypto media landscape, balancing the need for deeper reporting vs click-bait price stories
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Luiz Hadad is a blockchain researcher at Sherlock Communications, where he publishes a comprehensive annual report on blockchain adoption in Latin America. In this conversation, we discuss the key findings of the 2024 edition of the report.
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João Kury is the co-founder of Modular Crypto, which provides Portuguese language educational content about Web3 technology. In this conversation, we discuss João's learnings from ETH Denver, the current state of the modular vs monolithic blockchain rivalry, and his work to bring more local language content and meetups to Brazil.
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Michael J. Casey is a renowned journalist, author and speaker in the blockchain and cryptocurrency world. He has served as Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk, an advisor to the MIT Media Lab and Digital Currency and as a capital markets reporter at Wall Street Journal.
also He spent six years in Argentina covering financial markets during the 2000s, an experience that led him down the bitcoin rabbit hole.
He is also the co-author of Our Biggest Fight, a new book about seizing back control of the internet from corporate power
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Fabricio Tota is the head of new business at Mercado Bitcoin. In this episode we discuss MB's push to tokenize R$1 billion worth of assets in 2024, how the exchange weathered the bear market, and the recent surge in memecoin volume
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Thiago Barbosa is an attorney with Salles Nogueira Advogados and an expert on crypto taxation issues in Brazil. In this episode, we discuss a new law mandating that income derived from crypto assets held with overseas exchanges or custodians be taxed at a 15% clip. We dive into the nuances, misconceptions and problems resulting from this rule change.
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Vance is the founder of My Latin Life, a platform that has been helping gringos navigate life in Latin America for more than a decade. We talk about how crypto and remote work has opened the door for North Americans and Europeans to pursue life in Latin America in the post-Covid era.
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Luca Cosivi is one of the organizers of Rio Onchain Week, which is a Web3 builder-focused series of events happening March 19-24. The week is being modeled after Devconnect, the popular developer-focused conference hosted by the Ethereum Foundation.
Luca explains how the week will feature numerous builder-focused community events, with the second annual ETHSamba hackathon as the capstone.
You can learn more about Rio Onchain Week here
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Today we have a Brazil-focused ETHDenver roundtable featuring Fuse Capital João Zecchin, Tansi Head of Growth Thiago Rudiger and Cartesi Head of Business Development Bruno Maia
We discuss the vibe at this year's event and how it compares to prior years, major event themes like DePIN, RWAs, airdrop farming and modular vs monolithic blockchains
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Jason Lau is Chief Innovation Officer and Guilherme Sacamone is Director General for Brazil at OKX, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges specializing in spot and derivatives trading. We discuss OKX's 2024 push into emerging markets across the Latam region, as well as its new product suite which includes a Web3 wallet, an Ordinals marketplace and a forthcoming Layer 2 blockchain
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Fábio Plein is regional managing director for the Americas at Coinbase, where he overseas the exchange's operations in Canada, Brazil and the rest of the region outside of the US.
In this conversation, we discuss Coinbase's go-to-market and expansion plans for Brazil, its approach to navigating Brazil's regulatory environment and Fabio's previous experience operationalizing Uber in Brazil
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Vugar Usi is the Chief Operating Officer of Bitget, which is one of the world's largest crypto exchanges - most recognized for its partnership with football superstar Lionel Messi. In this conversation, we discuss Bitget's push to expand its presence in Brazil and Latin America in 2024
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Fábio Araujo is an economist and engineer at the Central Bank of Brazil, where he serves as the coordinator of the Drex project.
Drex is an ambitious hybrid wholesale/retail CBDC and tokenization platform that, if it proves successful, will be the infrastructure for a tokenized economy in Brazil.
In this interview, Araujo provides a comprehensive overview of the project and its ambitions, while giving an update on the 2024 roadmap ahead.
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Guto Antunes is head of digital assets at Itaú, which is Brazil's largest bank. In this episode, we discuss talk about the bank's four-pronged strategy to digital assets in 2024. This touches tokenization, custody, the recently launched ion crypto brokerage and the Drex CBDC project.
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Rafael Castaneda is a computer scientist, professor, community builder and self-described "techno-philosopher" sitting at the intersection of technology, ethics and futurism. He is the founder and host of the popular "Casta Crypto" channel and the Casta Guild, which provides Web3 training and education for its members. In this expansive conversation we discuss how crypto enables new forms of human socio-political coordination, market trends for 2024, Brazil's Drex CBDC project. This episode is not to be missed!
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Rocelo Lopes is a veteran bitcoin miner, payments executive and one of Brazil Crypto Report's 2023 Most Influential selections. In this episode, we discuss his experience operating Latam's first commercial bitcoin mining operation in Paraguay, and his current project Smartpay - which allows users to send and receive payments in USDT using Brazil's popular Pix instant payment network.
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Helo Passos is the CEO and founder of Trexx, a startup dedicated to fostering blockchain game development and communities in Brazil. Previously, she built Latin America’s largest Axie Infinity community - which comprised 30,000 members at its peak.
Helo was named to BCR’s 🏆 Top 10 Most Influential list for 2023 for her contributions to building and advancing Brazil’s blockchain gaming space.
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In this episode, we reveal the results of our 2023 Most Influential Series. With your input, we identified the 10 individuals who had the most impact on the Brazil crypto and digital asset world in 2023.
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Alessandro Rossi Martins is a partner at Machado Meyer Advogados, where she looks after the firm's crypto and fintech practice. In this episode, we discuss the Brazilian Central Bank's public consultation for crypto asset regulation, which was released Thursday, December 14. We dive into the content, objectives and next steps of the BC's rulemaking process for regulating crypto markets and VASPs in Brazil.
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Seamus Rocca is CEO of Xapo Bank, which has been a pioneer in the realm of "bitcoin banking" for 10 years since being founded by the iconic Argentine entrepreneur and bitcoin promoter Wences Casares. In this episode, we talk about how the iconic company has transformed itself into a full-service bitcoin native banking operation for global clients
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Alexandre Vasarhelyi is the chief investment officer at BLP Crypto, which is Brazil's oldest crypto-native investment fund. In this episode we discuss CVM Resolution 175, which streamlines the process for Brazilian investment funds keen allocate into bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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The co-founder of ONG Bitcoin Argentina and the CEO of Bitso Argentina discuss what the Javier Milei presidential administration could mean for the country's crypto economy
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Sebastian Serrano is the CEO of Ripio, one of Latin America's largest and longest-running crypto exchanges. In this episode, we discuss Javier Milei's surprise victory in Argentina's presidential election. Serrano argues that Milei is not necessarily a "bitcoiner" or even "pro-bitcoin", but rather his libertarian views and Austrian school economics background overlap significantly with the traditional bitcoiner worldview.
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Thomas Bohner is the CEO of Credix, which is a decentralized credit marketplace that connects institutional investors with fintechs and non-bank lenders in Brazil and Latin America.
The company now enables more than 10,000 small borrowers, primarily in Brazil but also in Colombia and Mexico, to access US$40 million in loans that would have otherwise been unattainable or unaffordable.
Thomas’ ambitious goal for 2024 is to grow Credix’s loan book to US$100 million and provide financing to 100,000 SMEs by the end of the year
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To learn more about how Credix functions, I highly recommend having a listen to my interview with CTO Maxim Piessen from August 2022
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Kim Grauer is the director of research at Chainalysis, where she authors the blockchain analytics firm's annual Geography of Cryptocurrency report. This report is the most comprehensive analysis of crypto usage and adoption around the world, and provides incredible insights into the growing crypto economy in Brazil and Latin America. We discuss the methodology behind the report and Kim's key findings
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Michael Coscetta is chief revenue officer at Paxos, a blockchain and digital asset infrastructure platform valued at US$2.4 billion as of its last fundraise in 2021. In this episode, we discuss Paxos's enterprise infrastructure solutions that cater to large, regulated financial companies by offering services like white label stablecoins, tokenization, custody and trading. We also discuss why Brazil and Latin America are now among the firm's key growth markets in the coming years
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Daniel de Paiva Gomes is an attorney and one of the leading experts on crypto taxation issues in the Brazilian market. In this episode, we discuss why Brazil's taxation regime for cryptocurrencies is one of the most developed in the world, and why concerns over a new piece of tax legislation moving through Congress are likely overstated
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Lucas Giorgio and Matheus Moura are on the founding team at BRLA Digital, which is building solutions for onboarding new crypto users in the Brazilian market, including BRLA, a new BRL-pegged stablecoin. We discuss why the team pivoted away from building a CVM-regulated crypto fund in favor of creating a stablecoin, the challenges foreign companies face when looking to onboard Brazilian users and why there is room in the market for competing BRL-pegged stablecoins
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João Aragão Pereira is a senior technology specialist at Microsoft, focusing on financial services in Latin America. João has been heavily involved in the architecture of Brazilian Central Bank's Drex CBDC project, as well as other CBDC projects being developed by other countries around the world.
In this episode, we discuss Microsoft's involvement in Drex, particularly how its Regulated Liability Network structure could facilitate interoperable and secure transactions with tokenized assets on the platform
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A special congressional committee investigating cryptocurrency pyramids (known as the CPI) officially concluded this week with a scathing report urging the indictment of four Binance executives. The alleged crimes include fraudulent management, operating an unauthorized financial institution and crimes against the the financial system, among others.
To help us better understand the committee’s recommendations and next steps, I am joined by Portal do Bitcoin reporter Fernando Martines and Mercado Bitcoin executive Daniel Cunha.
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Alexandre is CEO of Sonica, a no-code platform for building and deploying Web3 products. We discuss the growing popularity of no-code platforms, the need for such tooling in the world of Web3, the product market fit of NFTs and loyalty tokens when used correctly, and why he isn't concerned about the current downturn in the NFT market
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Dan Yamamura is a partner at Fuse Capital, a Web3 venture firm based out of Rio de Janeiro. In this special Portuguese language crossover episode with Felipe Cabral of the Let's Crypto Podcast, we talk to Dan about his Web3 investment outlook during this bear market, how Fuse its sticking to its core principles instead of chasing easy money, and he why he's decided to focus on Brazil specifically for investment opportunities right now instead of other parts of Web3.
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Jean-Michel Guillot is head of product for blockchain and digital assets at Dinamo Networks, a digital security firm that provides the cryptographic solutions used in PIX and other payments technology. In this episode, recorded onsite at Blockchain Rio in September, we discuss Dinamo's role in the Drex pilot, in securing 150 million Pix transactions per day and in its broader play across crypto and Web3.
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Nesse especial episodio "crossover" do Brazil Crypto Report e Let's Crypto, Felipe e eu falamos con Rodrigoh Henriques - director da innovação do Fenasbac. Rodrigoh e o equipe dele tem sido muito envolvido nas todas areas da innovação financeira promulgado pelo Banco Central do Brasil - comecando com Open Finance, Pix e agora Drex. Rodrigoh discuta o papel do Fenasbac e o LIFT Challenge - que realmente funciona como um CBDC sandbox pra testar novos produtos e serviços no ecosistema do Drex.
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Taynaah Reis is a Brazilian coder, entrepreneur and activist. In this episode, we discuss how she learned to code at 12 years old, started her first company at 16, and her various entrepreneurial initiatives making use of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. These include Moeda Seeds - a crypto-powered microcredit platform that was one of the first crypto projects in Brazil, financial education platform Inkluziva and O2 Foundation - which is building a carbon credit marketplace.
Taynaah was a named a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer in 2023
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Robert Materazzi is CEO of Lukka, which is a unicorn crypto data services company valued at US$1.3 billion. After starting as “Turbotax for Crypto” product 10 years ago that helped retail crypto holders figure out their tax obligations, Lukka has built itself into a unicorn enterprise crypto data services company offering institutional-grade accounting, audit and data products. In this conversation, we discuss Lukka's product suite, growth trajectory and interest in the Brazil market
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This episode recaps the top stories in the Brazil crypto market from Sept 11-15, 2023Articles discussed here include:- "Binance says it is a “victim” of pyramids; CPI wants a list of the brokerage’s 700 biggest clients" via Portal do Bitcoin - "Coinbase to push for ‘global consensus’ on crypto rules through G20 in Brazil" via The Block- "Brazil has fallen in the global ranking of cryptocurrency adoption, says Chainalysis" via Portal do Bitcoin - "Transfero obtains payment institution license from the Central Bank" via Valor - "Crypto Startup Ramp Adds Brazilian Central Bank's Pix as Payment Method" via CoinDesk - "Hashdex files for SEC registration of spot ether ETF alongside Nasdaq" via Valor - "DREX completes 500 operations in 50 days and should reach the population in 2025, says BC" via Portal do Bitcoin - "Digital real has first public securities transactions between banks" via Valor
Daniel Lynch is head of Metamask Institutional partnerships at Consensys and also looks after sales and business development for Brazil and Latam. In this episode, we discuss the results of a recent survey conducted by Consensys exploring Brazilians' attitudes towards Web3, and adoption for both Metamask and Metamask Institutional in Brazil
Be sure to take a look at Consensys' State of Web3 Perception Around the World report published earlier this year
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Marcos Viriato is CEO of Parfin, a leading Web3 and blockchain infrastructure firm in Latin America. A former partner at BTG Pactual, Marcos believes that mass institutional adoption of crypto and blockchain-based assets will need to occur on permissioned networks and solutions. With its Parfin Terminal, tokenization, and MPC and crypto-as-a-service offerings, Parfin is providing this infrastructure for institutions in the region and around the world.
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AWS and Antonio dissect the week's biggest stories from the Brazil crypto universe. Stories in this week's episode include:
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Central Bank announces that the rollout of crypto regulations will be delayed until the first half of 2024
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First Drex testnet transaction executed; onboarding woes continue
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Hashdex enters the US bitcoin ETF race with clever backdoor maneuver
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CVM (Brazil's SEC) rejected an offer from Binance to settle allegations that it illegally offered crypto derivatives products to Brazilian customers
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Banco do Brasil and AgroToken are partnering to integrate tokenized commodities (RWAs) on the bank's Broto agribusiness marketplace
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Maria Gabriela Damiani is a Technical Advisor to the President at the Commissão dos Valores Imobiliários (CVM), also known as the Brazilian version of the SEC. In this episode we discuss the CVM's approach to digital asset regulation and how it differs from the approaches take by other countries. We also dive into some thorny discussion topics such as the line between investor protection and consumer protection, the legality of fixed-income tokens and Brazil's interpretation of the Howey Test
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Mayra Siqueira is the Brazil community manager for the Algorand Foundation. In this episode we discuss Mayra's trajectory from journalism, to being Binance's first employee in Brazil and then ultimately to working on Algorand - a Layer 1 blockchain developed by renowned computer scientist and Turing Award winner Silvio Micali
We discuss the variety of use cases and applications being built on Algorand in Latin America, including tokenized commodities and NFT airplane tickets, and the types of programs and support Algorand Foundation offers for builders and developers in the region.
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On this edition of the BCR Weekly Recap, AWS and co-host Antonio Neto look at the week's big stories, including:
- the Brazilian Central Bank's surprise announcements that it will suspend its Lift Lab accelerator program and delay the first phase of its Digital Real (Drex) pilot by three months
- Binance's launch of Binance Pay in Brazil and cancelation of its debit card partnership with Mastercard
- The CPI committee on financial pyramids' relentless pursuit of celebrities and influencers that promoted cryptocurrency pyramid schemes
- BTG Pactual is launching a new prime custody service targeted at institutions
- Lula renews his push for a de-dollarized world by pushing a single BRICS currency
- A data breach at FTX, adding insult to injury to former clients
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Bruno Ramos de Sousa is head of US and Europe at Hashdex, one of the largest crypto asset managers in the world that offers ETFs and other exchange traded products in several markets. Contrary to the prevailing market narrative that a bitcoin ETF approval in the US is imminent, Bruno argues that landscape in the US has not fundamentally changed despite recent filings by Blackrock and other large TradFi players.
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Nicky Dyskant is one of the top fintech and capital markets lawyers in Brazil. In this conversation we discuss her role as an advisor to several key crypto companies operating in the country - including Fireblocks, 2TM, Vórtx QR Tokenizadora and Hashdex. We dive into her purview on Drex (formerly Digital Real), the crypto regulatory framework currently being developed by the Brazilian Central Bank and the current environment for security tokens and fixed income tokens in the country.
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Leandro Pereira is head of growth for Latam at Paysafe and a 10 year veteran of the Brazil crypto scene.
We discuss Leandro’s trajectory in the ecosystem and Paysafe's payments infrastructure in the region, which includes a digital wallet, debit and credit card products and APIs for connecting alternative payment methods. Paysafe's crypto payments stack also provides fiat on and off-ramp services, which has seen uptake among igaming and internet casino operators in the region.
We also talk about Borderless Money, a DeFi for charity project that Leandro co-founded that donates yield generated in DeFi protocols to social causes.
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Rai Auad is one of the top independent Web3 educators and content creators in Brazil. In this episode we talk about how Rai got her start in crypto via Axie Infinity and other crypto games in 2021 before quitting her job at Itaú to become a full-time content creator in the space. We discuss how she engages her audience across different platforms and channels, as well as the ups and downs of being a YouTube and social media personality.
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Gean Chu is a partner at Honey Island Capital, a Curitiba-based venture firm founded by veterans of Ebanx. In this conversation we discuss Honey Island's fintech investment theses and Gean's new Web3 fund focused on liquid tokens and on-chain strategies like staking, farming and liquidity provision
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It's been a rough few months for the crypto custody world. Ledger sparked a backlash with a controversial key recovery proposal, regulated custodian Prime Trust was put into receivership by the state of Nevada following allegations it misused customer funds, and Nasdaq backed away from plans to launch its own crypto custody service.
Composecure CPO Adam Lowe joins the show to discuss the crypto custody challenges and potential solutions. Composecure is a leading manufacturer of high-end metal payment cards and authentication technologies. It is also the manufacturer of the Arculus hardware wallet, which features three-factor authentication and military-grade cryptography and focuses on delivering on safety, simplicity and security and and how this solution addresses the crypto industry's ongoing custody woes.
Adam discusses Arculus's dual key solution for retail customers, as well as its B2B white label solution - which has partnerships already established in Asia and Latam.
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This week’s podcast is a recording of a panel I hosted with Thales Freitas of Bitso, AB InBev’s Daniel Tartaro and fintech expert Bruno Diniz at Digital Finance Brasil last month at the University of São Paulo.
The panel explored how the respective worlds of crypto and fintech in Brazil are quickly converging, be it through Bitso’s efforts to bridge traditional finance with DeFi and CeFi, AB InBev’s loyalty program that uses tokenization and blockchain tech, and the importance of trust in established brands embracing these technologies even in a down market.
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Renan Kruger is a digital asset specialist at Santander Brasil, one of Brazil's largest banks and one that is actively involved in the country's budding digital asset space. This episode was recorded live at Digital Finance Brasil on June 22 at the University of São Paulo. We discuss:
- how Santander Brasil is studying the digital asset market and regulatory ecosystem in the country
- the bank's participation in the Brazilian Central Bank's Digital Real pilot program, particularly how it will test a blockchain-enabled delivery-versus-payment method for tokenized government bonds
- how the Digital Real ecosystem will change the relationship between banks and investors while making investments more transparent and accessible.
- a future in which every consumer will have two kinds of accounts in their bank app: a digital account for tokenized assets and a traditional account for transferring money.
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Rodrix Digital is one of Brazil’s original crypto influencers and content creators having first started his YouTube brand back in 2017. He now provides education and content on various platforms, including YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok, and has expanded his services to include consulting, marketing, and PR for businesses entering the Brazilian market.
Today, his Bitcoin Block YouTube channel has published nearly 1500 videos and has more than 30,000 subscribers.
In this episode we discuss:
- Rodrix’s numerous experiences in El Salvador and his new initiative helping people learn about the country’s new bitcoin law and how to move to the country
- Challenges of implementing Bitcoin in a cash economy and the positive aspects of the country’s bitcoin law. Rodrix also explains how the proposed volcano bond system how it will in theory enable from around the world to buy Treasuries from El Salvador using bitcoin
- The evolution of the cryptocurrency industry and the attention economy, as well as the potential for Web3 to revolutionize the content business model.
- The political situation in Brazil and its potential impact on the mainstreaming of crypto in the country. Rodrix argues that Brazil's political turmoil is expected to stagnate the economy in the next 6-12 months, potentially causing investors to pull out billions of dollars and throttling Brazil’s nascent digital assets economy
For this episode I am joined by Cryptum CEO André Salem to discuss illuminating new research exploring crypto adoption and sentiment in Brazil that him and his team have produced.
Cryptum is a Brazil-based blockchain-as-a-service stack that provides tools for developers and companies looking to build blockchain and Web3 applications.
André and his team recently commissioned an extensive survey of more than 1000 consumers and financial market professionals assessing their views toward cryptocurrency and the Web3 ecosystem in Brazil.
We discuss the main findings from the survey, including:
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Most Brazilians have a positive view of what is happening on the Digital Real front given the Central Bank’s track record of delivering on previous financial innovation projects.
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There is still lacking a sound understanding of crypto, Web3 and how these concepts intertwine with Digital Real, though people see reduced bureaucracy and more efficient financial transactions as a potential benefit
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The risk of hacking remains a significant concern among concerns
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Most financial services companies don’t have a good understanding of what the Digital Real means for their business models, nor are they ready to adopt these technologies.
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Tokenization is seen as a bridge use case between Web3 and TradFi, as companies can become fintechs once they are able to tokenize their own assets. However, there is still a gap with regard to talent and skills in these areas.
Like it or not, the US is still the most important crypto market in the world, and if you’re a professional operating in this industry you need to be paying serious attention to what’s happening there.
So to help you do that, Antonio and I invited two experts from the US to help us synthesize what’s going on with these SEC lawsuits and understand how observers in markets like Brazil should be interpreting these events.
- Lewis Cohen is an honorary Brazilian through marriage and is the co-founder of DLx Law. He’s long been one of the leading voices at the intersection of crypto and securities law in the US, and he recently co-authored the 180 page treatise The Ineluctable Modality of Securities Law: Why Fungible Crypto Assets Are not Securities. Follow him on Twitter at @NYcryptolawyer
- Nikhilesh De is a former colleague of mine at CoinDesk, where he overseas all of the outlet’s policy and regulatory coverage. He’s been covering US regulatory issues for almost five years now and has more institutional knowledge on these issues than probably any other journalist on the planet. Follow him on Twitter at @nikhileshde
We run through the madness of the last couple of weeks in the US, including:
- June 2 - the McHenry-Thompson draft legislation was introduced. The bill would provide market structure reform specific to crypto assets - including defining clearer roles for the SEC and CFTC with respect to the asset class
- June 5 - SEC filed 13 charges against Binance (and CZ) accusing it of operating as an unregulated securities exchange, commingling customer funds, misrepresenting trading controls on Binance.US and a bunch of other bad stuff
- June 6 - SEC sues Coinbase accusing it of operating as an unregistered securities exchange in the US. The agency specifically named a plethora of crypto assets as securities in the lawsuit
- June 7 - Binance fights back claiming that SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to Binance and CZ in 2019
- June 12 - Rep. Warren Davidson introduces the “SEC Stablization Act” that seeks to fire SEC Chairman Gary Gensler
- June 13 - the infamous Bill Hinman emails related to his 2018 speech about how Ethereum was “sufficiently decentralized” are released as part of the SEC vs Ripple lawsuit
- June 13 - a federal judge rejects the SEC’s petition to freeze Binance.US’s assets
We break down these events and assess just how bad the situation is, the road ahead for crypto in the US and the outlook for much-needed crypto legislation, and implications for other markets like Brazil.
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I had the chance to catch up with Guilherme Santana at Consensus 2023 in Austin. Guilherme is an engineer, biotech entrepreneur, crypto OG and the founder of Preservaland, which is a project that uses NFTs to incentivize landowners to protect their holdings from deforestation.
We talk about how the Preservaland team identifies land in Brazil that is considered “preservable” and then pay the landowner to convert the land to a special legal status preventing it from being deforested or developed.
The parcel of land is then represented by an NFT, as well as relevant metadata, which can be purchased by publicly-traded companies looking to keep carbon credits or biodiversity credits on their balance sheet.
In addition, we discuss:
- pain points inherent in carbon credit issuance and accounting, and how blockchain can help address these problems
- why high quality and verifiable carbon assets are difficult to come by
- how a publicly-traded bank in Brazil now holds a Preservaland NFT on its balance sheet
- why US companies will need to look to solutions such as Preservaland when the SEC rules requiring carbon impact reporting go live in 2024
- how Preservaland created a compliance platform to verify the land and quantify environmental impact pursuant to Brazilian law
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Nesse podcast gravado live no Criptorama Brasilia dia 7 de Junho, eu converso com Juliana Walenkamp do BitGo sobre a importância do custôdia na questão do regulaçåo do criptomoedas
Juliana Walenkamp é chefe de vendas institucionais da Latam na BitGo no Brasil e passou um tempo representando outros nomes familiares da Web3 como Ripple, Gemini e Transfero na região.
Nesta conversa, mergulhamos na evolução da BitGo como empresa desde a primeira oferta de produtos básicos multi-sig em 2013 para se tornar um custodiante qualificado de pleno direito que oferece uma infinidade de outros produtos, como liquidez, staking e acesso a portais financeiros descentralizados por meio de Metamask.
Também falamos sobre: - os desafios que empresas internacionais como a BitGo enfrentam ao entrar no Brasil - por que a BitGo solicitará uma licença de provedor de serviços de ativos virtuais no Brasil - a importância de custodiar criptoativos com um custodiante regulamentado ou “qualificado” com responsabilidade fiduciária - como o interesse institucional em produtos criptográficos está crescendo no Brasil - a importância das práticas de segregação de ativos pós-FTX - O papel da BitGo no mercado latino-americano em relação a concorrentes como Fireblocks, Coinbase, Gemini, etc.
Você pode se conectar com Juliana no Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliana-walenkamp/
Jonathan Levin is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Chainalysis, a leading blockchain data and analytics company valued at US$8.6 billion in its most recent funding round.
I had the chance to sit down with Jonathan this week at the Criptorama conference in Brasilia, hosted by ABCripto and Fenasbac. We met up in the lobby of the famous Royal Tulip Hotel to chat about how blockchain data services like Chainalysis can bring trust to Brazil’s emerging digital asset ecosystem.
In this interview we discuss:
- Takeaways from Jonathan’s recent visit to Brazil, in which he met with key industry and public sector stakeholders in São Paulo and Brasília
- Chainalysis’s global presence and expansion into Latin American markets
- The role that blockchain analytics firms play in creating a healthy regulatory and supervisory framework for Brazil’s cryptoeconomy, particularly once the Digital Real platform is live
- How crypto adoption in Brazil differs from other regions of the world, namely the high demand for USD-pegged stablecoins
- Best practices, common mistakes and lessons learned that Jonathan has gleaned from watching other governments wrestle with crypto regulation and supervision
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For this episode I'm joined by Alex Nascimento, who is a professor at UCLA in the US and a partner at 7 Visions Digital, a São Paulo-based venture fund focused on tokenizing Real World Assets such as debt, precatories and environmental assets. He’s also the author of The STO Financial Revolution: How Security Tokens Change Businesses Forever.I was also joined by Antonio Neto as a guest co-host. You may recall was my first-ever interviewee for this show last year when he was the head of Brazil and Latam at FTX. In this episode, Alex discusses his experiences teaching crypto and blockchain at the university level and how demand for these courses have ebbed and flowed with the crypto markets. We also discuss:- the challenges inherent in sourcing qualified talent in the blockchain industry- the value proposition of security tokens and how these assets fit into crypto cycles dating back to 2017- how Brazil’s financial regulators have been forward thinking on questions of tokens - the problem of fragmentation in securities regulation regimes worldwide- the investment proposition of regulated real world asset tokens vis-a-vis more volatile crypto-native assets - the challenges inherent to fully registering the full lifecycle of an RWA token on chain- the lack of quality yield-generating products currently available to the Brazilian populationhow asset tokenization can offer high-yield investment opportunities to retail investors that would be otherwise unavailable- the role and effectiveness of regulatory sandboxes such as the one operated by Brazil’s CVM- how institutional finance in Brazil can participate in decentralized finance using zero knowledge proofs and other tools- how 7 Visions Digital is exploring novel tokenization products like carbon credits, precatories and receivables I really enjoyed this conversation with Alex and Antonio and I hope you do as well.Please follow and subscribe to Brazil Crypto Report on Substack for more news, analysis and interviews examining the Brazil crypto ecosystem. https://brazilcrypto.substack.com/Follow Alex on Linkedin
For this most recent podcast I had the chance to sit down with Jorge Souto and Paulo Boghosian who run the TC Cripto program at Traders Club. Traders Club is a premium community that provides education, tools and research for primarily sophisticated traders across equities, derivatives and commodities.
Paulo and Jorge are both career TradFi professionals who pivoted into crypto in the mid-2010s. In early 2021 they spun up TC Cripto, which is a division of Traders Club focused specifically on digital assets.
In this episode we discuss:
- The “arranged marriage” that brought Jorge and Paulo together to form TC Cripto
- The makeup of retail versus professional traders in Brazil across different asset classes
- Why the institutional investor community in Brazil has been slow to embrace crypto and digital assets
- How membership in TC Cripto has continued to expand despite the bear market
- The importance of macro conditions and indicators on crypto markets, particularly movements in the US, Europe, Japan and China
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Andre Portilho is head of digital assets at BTG Pactual, which is one of the largest banks in Brazil and the largest investment bank in Latin America. He previously ran the options desk at BTG when bitcoin came onto his radar in 2017. Since then, BTG has been a leader among financial institutions globally in embracing and utilizing blockchain technology as well as offering crypto products to its clients.
Last year, BTG launched its Mynt crypto platform, which offers more than 20 cryptocurrencies to customers through its application. In April 2023, BTG launched its own dollar-backed BTG Dol stablecoin, becoming what appears to be the first financial institution in the world to issue a stablecoin intended for use by retail investors.
In this episode we discuss:
- How the BTG Dol idea originated earlier this year
- The current demand for US dollar exposure among Brazilian investors and BTG customers
- BTG’s experience issuing a real estate-backed security token in 2018
- How recent banking and stablecoin crises impacted the BTG Dol’s design
- The value proposition of a stablecoin issued by heavily regulated TradFi institution such as BTG Pactual
- The uptake of the Mynt platform among retail investors since late 2022
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Leo Schwartz is a crypto reporter at Fortune covering focusing on policy and regulation. Leo has prior experience covering technology in Spanish-speaking Latin America, but he recently made his first trip to Brazil to host several crypto panels at Web Summit Rio and meet several of the key players from the local industry. In this episode, we talk about how the conference opened his eyes to Brazil's bustling crypto ecosystem, how Brazil's emerging crypto regulatory framework stacks vis-a-vis others around the world and how Brazilian crown jewel companies like Hashdex and Parfin can compete in the global marketplace.
Leo also authored a great column post-event called "Brazil's unlikely bid to become a global crypto hub" which generated a lot of interest.
You can follow Leo on Linkedin, Twitter and through his Fortune author page
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Hashdex has established itself as a global pioneer in crypto asset management since being founded in 2018. It is also one of the crown jewels of Brazil’s crypto ecosystem, with more than US$400 million in AUM.
But the firm’s vision expands far beyond just Brazil and Latam. For this latest podcast I spoke with Bruno Ramos de Sousa, Partner and Head of US and Europe, about Hashdex’s rise to prominence in Brazil and its growth efforts worldwide.
We discuss how Hashdex blazed a trail for bringing exchange-traded crypto products to market in Brazil and abroad, its strategy for penetrating the US and European markets, the value proposition of exchange-traded crypto products and the outlook for growth as institutional adoption increases.
Bruno has been with Hashdex since its beginning and has played an instrumental role in the company’s formation and expansion, so it was great getting his inside perspective.
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News broke last week that the CVM, the Brazilian SEC, referred Binance to federal prosecutors for allegedly offering crypto derivatives products to Brazilian customers in defiance of a cease and desist order.
Further reporting this week has revealed that the CVM’s inquiry began in June 2022 after a Binance customer service representative told a Portal do Bitcoin reporter, posing as a trader, that he could access the derivatives products by simply changing the language on the Binance interface from Brazilian Portuguese to Portuguese from Portugal.
In December 2022, the CVM referred the matter to federal prosecutors in São Paulo for further investigation asserting that there appears to be evidence of criminal activity.
I asked Cláudio Rubin, editor-in chief of Portal do Bitcoin, to come on and discuss what his team has learned about these investigations over the last week.
Cláudio also discusses his team's extensive reporting into Binance's opaque operating structure in Brazil, which is centered around a shell entity called B Fintech.
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In today’s episode I talk with Jorge Borges who heads up Fireblocks’ sales operations for Brazil and Latin America. We talk about Jorge’s background in finance and tech before jumping into crypto and digital assets. Fireblocks provides blockchain infrastructure services to digital native and traditional finance customers - ranging from small Web3 gaming startups to the world’s largest custodians and banks like Bank of New York Mellon.
In this episode we discuss:
- Fireblocks’ ethos as a cybersecurity provider that offers a tech stack that enable clients to build their own solutions
- How Fireblocks differs from other institutional infrastructure firms operating in the space
- Jorge’s experience one year into the job
- How Brazil’s TradFi banking sector is approach the Digital Real and asset tokenization, and the role Fireblocks plays as an infrastructure provider for these use cases
- Fireblocks’ pilot project with Aave in the Brazilian Central Bank’s Digital Real Lift lab cohort
Rony Szuster covers Ethereum and smart contract platforms for Mercado Bitcoin’s research team. He was kind enough to join the podcast to help us understand these critical updates, the impacts they may have on the market and how they fit into the broader Ethereum roadmap.
In this episode we cover:
- the difference between Ethereum’s Consensus Layer and Execution Layer, and how the two chains communicate with one another
- potential impacts to the market and network security should a large amount of staked ETH be withdrawn and sold
- the role of liquid staking platforms like Lido and Rocketpool once withdrawals have been enabled
- the viability of ETH staking as an investment opportunity in the Brazilian investment climate
You can find Rony’s latest report on the Shapella fork here. You can connect with him and the rest of the MB research team in the Mercado Bitcoin Discord server.
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Nearly two years after first entering the Brazil market, Bitso Brasil received its payment institution license last week from the Brazilian Central Bank. The license will enable the exchange to offer a new array of financial products and services in the market.
I took the occasion to catch up with Bitso CEO Daniel Vogel and Thales de Freitas, CEO of Bitso Brasil, to discuss the new license as well as the ups and downs of Bitso’s first two years of operating in Brazil.
These include reaching one million customers, adoption of novel cross-border payment mechanisms that use crypto rails and becoming a leader in the crypto regulatory conversation in Brasilia.
Other themes we discussed include:
- The successes and struggles of launching in Brazil during a complicated market cycle
- The importance of building new bridges between crypto and the Tradfi worlds
- Bitso’s value proposition to customers in an increasingly competitive market
- A glimpse into Bitso’s 2023 Brazil roadmap
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Juliana Walenkamp is the head of institutional sales for Latam at BitGo in Brazil and has spent time representing other Web3 household names like Ripple, Gemini and Transfero in the region.
In this conversation we dive into the evolution of BitGo as a company since first offering basic multi-sig products in 2013 to becoming a full-fledged qualified custodian that offers a plethora of other products such as liquidity, staking and access to decentralized finance portals through Metamask.
We also touch on:
- the challenges international companies like BitGo face when entering Brazil
- why BitGo will be applying for a virtual asset service provider license in Brazil
- the importance of custodying crypto assets with a regulated or “qualified” custodian with a fiduciary responsibility
- how institutional interest in crypto products is growing in Brazil
- the importance of asset segregation practices post-FTX
- BitGo’s role in the Latam market vis-a-vis competitors like Fireblocks, Coinbase, Gemini, etc.
You can connect with Juliana on Linkedin.
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For today’s episode I brought in one of the Brazil’s top crypto journalists and one of the its leading Web3 investors to discuss the potential impacts of this technology on Brazil’s economy. Both are friends and previous guests of the show
- João Zecchin is a co-founder of Fuse Capital, which is one of Brazil’s first Web3 native venture capital firms. You can listen to my previous episode with him here.
- Paulo Alves is the crypto editor at InfoMoney, which is one of Brazil’s leading financial media publications. (Previous episode here)
Some of the themes we discuss:
- why the money transfer use case in Brazil has largely been solved by Pix
- how the Digital Real will unlock “real world” asset tokenization use cases that produce real yield for holders, and how these developments could unlock new capital flows into the country
- what Digital Real innovation will mean for existing commercial banks and how it can stimulate greater competition in the Brazilian financial system
- potential new new products and services that could be unlocked via Digital Real infrastructure
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Mauricio Magaldi of Blockchain Insider joins to discuss his predictions for the Brazil crypto ecosystem in 2023. We touch on the Brazil regulatory angle, technology adoption and the growth of asset tokenization projects in the country.
You can follow Mauricio and Blockchain Insider on Spotify
Also be sure to check out his Portuguese language podcast BlockDrops
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Gustavo Cunha is a Brazilian financial services veteran turned crypto enthusiast, podcaster and writer. In this episode we discuss the Brazilian Central Bank's efforts to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) called the Digital Real. We discuss:
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the Digital Real pilot announced on March 6
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the Bank's decision to use Hyperledger Besu for the Digital Real's underlying infrastructure
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the goal of the Digital Real serving as infrastructure for a tokenized financial system in Brazil
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how the Digital Real stacks up against other CBDC projects around the world
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the difference between Pix and the Digital Real, and how the two will interact with one another once fully operative
You can follow Gustavo's work on his social channels below:
Newsletter: @Fintrender
LinkedIn: @Fintrender
Instagram: @Fintrender
Twitter: @Fintrender
Facebook: @Fintrender
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Portal do Bitcoin reporter Fernando Martines joins the podcast to discuss the emergence and collapse of Braiscompany - a R$1.5 billion (US$289 million) cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that operated out of the northeastern state of Paraíba. In what some have dubbed as Brazil's last major bitcoin Ponzi scheme, the operation involved everyone from local politicians and business leaders to an estimated 10,000 retail investors from around the country.
Braiscompany provided handsome monthly payouts to investors while enriching its extravagant and charismatic founders Antonio Neto Ais and Fabrícia Campos. The music stopped in late 2022 when it ceased making payments amid the crypto market collapse, prompting a backlash from angry customers and inquiries from authorities.
The company's headquarters were raided on February 16 by Federal Police. However, Neto Ais and Campos were nowhere to be seen when authorities arrived and remain at-large, with some suspecting that they fled to Argentina. Authorities in Paraíba have appealed to Interpol for assistance in tracking them down.
Meanwhile, the company remains leaderless and directionless. Employees have been advised to retain their own person legal counsel. Unfortunately, the prospects of Braiscompany investors recouping their money looks bleak.
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João Marco Braga da Cunha is a Brazilian economist and portfolio manager with Hashdex, Brazil's largest crypto asset manager. In this episode we discuss a proposal being propagated recently by Brazilian and Argentine leaders about creating a shared currency between the two countries as a way to stimulate trade and reduce dependence on the US dollar. The idea generated a lot of coverage within the crypto community, as even Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong weighed in on Twitter suggesting that the countries should simply adopt bitcoin.
João Marco explains the origin of this shared currency idea, why it might have actually worked in the 1990s when both countries had similar monetary policies, the likely political motivations behind the proposal and what role crypto or digital currency could play here.
Also take a look at this op-ed on the subject that João Marco wrote for CoinTelegraph
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Karen Duque is head of public policy at Bitso Brasil and previously worked on Brazil policy at Google and Didi, a rideshare company. Julien Dutra is head of government relations at 2TM/Mercado Bitcoin. Before joining in January 2022, he led Brazil government affairs for Experian.
Both are seasoned tech policy professionals in Brasília and were critical in the successful effort to pass crypto legislation in late 2022. Once fully implemented, this new law should establish Brazil as a world leader in crypto regulation.
In this joint interview, Karen and Julien give us a behind the scenes look at the law itself, the drama and theatrics surrounding its passage and the next steps in implementing the law and establishing a licensing framework for cryptocurrency businesses in the country.
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Axel Blikstad is a founding partner at BLP Crypto and a two-decade veteran of traditional finance with stints at BTG Pactual, Santander, Banco Garantia and ABN Amro. BLP Crypto is Brazil's oldest crypto fund manager, having launched its first fund in December 2017. In this episode we discuss the ramifications of the FTX collapse on the Brazil crypto ecosystem and how he was able to liquidate his FTT position before the collapse.
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Andre Franco is the head of research at Mercado Bitcoin and the host of the Francamente Crypto podcast. In this episode we examine how the collapse of FTX impacts Brazil's emerging crypto scene. We look explore the ramifications for retail and institutional investors, prospects for regulation and what it will take to rebuild trust among users. We also explore what this means for the broader crypto market, including decentralized finance as a potential solution to centralized exchange model.
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Isac is a technologist, lawyer, professor and a frequently-cited commenter on questions of crypto regulation in Brazil. He is also a former CVM staffer and advisor so has a great understanding of how things work inside the agency.
In this episode we discuss:
- the core tenets of the guidance - what it does and does not clarify
- why the CVM chose to release this opinion now
- the differences between the CVM and the US SEC with regards to how enforcement cases are raised
- how guidance leaves the door open for “utility” or “network” tokens that don’t promise any specific rights to equity or cash flow but rather participatory rights in a decentralized network
- what the opinion means for the “fixed-income” tokens being issued by the likes of Mercado Bitcoin and others
- the outlook for crypto legislation being approved by the Brazilian Congress this year
If you find this conversation useful, I highly recommend listening to my original podcast with Isac from July where we dive deep into the crypto legislation that is working its way through the Brazilian Congress.
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Marcello Mari is the CEO of SingularityDAO, which is a noncustodial onchain asset management platform that incorporates artificial intelligence tools for decentralized finance.
We discuss how SingularityDAO built off of the success of early-generation projects like SingularityNet and how Brazil has become to SingularityDAO’s most vibrant community. The project’s native token has surged to become the tenth most popular coin in Brazil, per CoinGecko. We also geek out a bit chatting about artificial intelligence and synthetic media, and we speculate about when we will reach the Singularity (the moment when machines become smarter than humans).
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Garrett Kinsman is the co-founder of Nodle, a decentralized network powered by millions of smartphones built to power the Internet of Things. Nodle's "connect-to-earn" platform allows users to earn NODL tokens simply by downloading and running the Nodle app on a smartphone. I caught up with Garrett at the Blockchain Rio Festival last month to discuss more about this exciting platform and why his team is making a big push to onboard new users in Brazil.
Learn more about Nodle at www.nodle.com, follow @NodleNetwork and @NodleBR on Twitter, and download the Nodle Cash app in Google Play or the App Store
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This week I’m trying out a new podcast format in which I bring on a guest to discuss and analyze the biggest crypto news developments in the region. This will be an ongoing experiment as I attempt to cover more crypto news across the Latam beyond Brazil.
This week, my guest is Andres Engler, who is the Latin America Editor at CoinDesk and is based in Argentina. In this week’s episode we talk through the following news events and articles from the last 1-2 weeks.
- Crypto Loans Are Booming in Latin America Amid Runaway Bank Rates and Inflation (CoinDesk)
- The 500 Most Influential People in Latin America (Bloomberg Linea)
- Brazil’s Securities Regulator Probes Crypto Exchange Mercado Bitcoin on Token Issuance (CoinDesk)
- Crypto Exchange Bybit Halts Derivatives Trading in Brazil After Exchange Commission Ban (CoinDesk)
- Strike CEO: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experience ‘Doesn’t Hurt My Company at All’ (CoinDesk)
- Crypto Exchange Huobi Global Enables Cryptocurrency Purchases With Fiat in Latin America (CoinDesk)
- Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Starts Production in Argentina, Increases Hashrate to 4.1 EH/s (CoinDesk)
- Paraguay’s President Vetoes Bill That Would Regulate Crypto Mining and Trading (CoinDesk)
- Digital Wallet Provider MetaMask Allows Crypto Purchases With Brazilian Reals (CoinDesk)
- El Salvador Buys Back $565M Worth of Bonds, Plans to Launch New Offering in 8 Weeks (CoinDesk)
Bobby Ong is the COO and co-founder of CoinGecko. Based out of Malaysia, CoinGecko rivals CoinMarketCap for supremacy atop the world of crypto price and data platforms. In this episode we talk about how CoinGecko grew from a side hustle project run from Bobby's bedroom into one of the most popular coin data websites in the world. We also dive into how meme coins and play-to-earn gaming tokens are becoming massive adoption onramps for emerging market economies like Brazil and Malaysia.
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Maxim Piessen is the chief technology at Credix, a decentralized credit marketplace that is one of the most intriguing crypto startups to emerge out of Brazil recently and one of just a handful of companies out there that are connecting decentralized finance with real-world assets.
Credix is a Solana-based marketplace that connects institutional investors with fintechs and non-bank loan originators in Latam markets, who are themselves providing loans to small businesses and local borrowers.
Since launching in January, the platform now has 25 investors and 10 fintechs participating, 20 employees and more than US$25 million in total credit issued - with a goal of $100 million by the end of 2022.
Since forming last November, the team recently raised R$50 million (US$11.25 million) in a Series A round announced earlier this month. The round was led by Motive Partners and ParaFi Capital, with Valor Capital, Fuse Capital, Circle Ventures and several others contributing. Please note: we recorded this episode before the round was formally announced.
I highly encourage you to learn more about this project at credix.finance.
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Renata Rodrigues is global community and education lead at Paxful, which is one of the world's largest peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplaces. The platform recently hit 10 million users globally and is now making a push to bring financial education to users across Brazil and Latin America. We discuss how Paxful's platform operates, how it's providing financial opportunities to under-banked populations and its new partnership with the Guetto Institute, a Rio de Janeiro-based non-profit that aims to foster entrepreneurship in the Black community, to provide bitcoin education to underserved communities.
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Mila Rioja is Latam Lead at Celo Foundation. In this episode we dive into Celo’s mission of using “sacred economics” to create financial prosperity via a mobile-first blockchain and technology stack. We also talk about the state of Celo’s ecosystem in Brazil and Latam - most notably the cREAL stablecoin that was launched earlier this year and has gained significant adoption and liquidity in just six months. We also spend some time focusing on the different types of Celo grants programs available for founders and builders in the region, so make sure to check these out.
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Conor Brady heads up Ethereum Brasil, which is supporting the Web3 community in Brazil. In this episode we discuss the upcoming ETH SP event and how he’s using it to support the builder community in Brazil and keep driving momentum after a super successful Ethereum Rio conference last March. The market conditions may be different now and prices may be down, but there’s still a ton of energy in the Brazil market that Conor is trying to convene. Head over to ethereumbrasil.com to learn more.
To learn more about Conor and Ethereum Brasil you can listen to my previous interview with him here.
Guilherme Rebane is the head of Latam and Brazil at OSL, which is one of the world’s largest digital asset platforms and liquidity providers for institutions. He spent 20 years working in traditional finance as an equities, derivatives and FX trader, and now he leads business development and operations for OSL across the Latin America region.
In this episode, we discuss the rapid maturation of the Brazilian crypto market, why crypto was the predominant theme at the Expert XP conference in Sao Paulo earlier this month (one of the largest finance and investment events in the world) and how interest from institutions and professional investors in the region is growing.
We also discuss Brazil Crypto Report’s new BCR Institutional vertical that will focus on creating crypto content and community relevant to the professional investor ecosystem in Brazil. Special thanks to OSL for being the launch partner of this new product 🙏
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🔥 I hope to see some of you at the Blockchain Rio festival that’s happening September 1-4 in Rio de Janeiro; you can use the code BRAZILCRYPTOREPORT to get 10% off on your ticket.
🎉 Also be sure to check out the Ethereum São Paulo event which is how happening Sept 9-11. You can go to ethereumbrasil.com to learn more
Isac Costa is a computer scientist, a former regulator with the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission and a professor at Ibmec and Insper - two of Brazil's top business schools. He's also been keenly observing the development of legislation that would create a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies and digital assets in Brazil. This legislation was expected to pass earlier this summer but stalled amid disagreements over key provisions like reporting timeframes and asset segregation rules. TLDR is that with upcoming elections, the outlook for this bill passing this year is murky.
Isac and I go deep into the nuances of this proposed legislation. We discuss:
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history and background of crypto regulation in Brazil and previous attempts to legislate this matter
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core objectives of this legislation and the various stakeholders involved in influencing its direction
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tensions between local exchanges, overseas exchanges and tradfi institutions moving into crypto
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the rulemaking process that will commence once legislation is signed - ie the fight will shift from the legislative to the regulatory front at the Central Bank and CVM
If you're closely tracking Brazil crypto legislative developments, I highly recommend following Isac on Linkedin
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🔥 I hope to see some of you at the Blockchain Rio festival that’s happening September 1-4 in Rio de Janeiro; you can use the code BRAZILCRYPTOREPORT to get 10% off on your ticket.
🎉 Also be sure to check out the Ethereum São Paulo event which is how happening Sept 9-11. You can go to ethereumbrasil.com to learn more
Tatiana Sampaio is chief marketing officer for the Blockchain Rio festival, which will take place in the Cidade Maravilhosa September 1-4. She gives us a sneak preview into what is being billed as Latin America's largest blockchain event. We discuss the content themes and structure, the side events and the involvement of the Rio government, local economic development agencies and the Brazilian Central Bank
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Brazilian UFC fighters Matheus Nicolau and Luana Pinheiro have taken the bold step of accepting a portion of their salary in bitcoin via a partnership with Bitwage.
Matheus holds an 18-3-1 record and is currently ranked 7th worldwide in the UFC flyweight division. Luana is 10-1 in UFC competition and is ranked 18th in the women’s strawweight division.
In this episode, we dive into:
- how the couple first became interested in bitcoin and crypto
- what motivated them to begin taking a portion of their salary in bitcoin
- why they aren’t concerned about the current market conditions and volatility (TLDR: long time preference)
- what type of message they are communicating to their fans and followers by embracing bitcoin
- the importance of high-earning athletes to invest and diversify while they still have income earning potential
This is also my first-ever Portuguese language podcast interview so I hope you enjoy my gringo accent 😂
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Sabrina Tachdjian is the director of payments and fintech at HBAR Foundation. We discuss how the HBAR Foundation’s grant programs operate, what types of projects and teams she is keen to support, what a successful applicant looks like and a touch on a few success stories of grantees who are doing exciting work in the region and around the world.
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Ray Nasser is CEO of Arthur Mining and has nearly a decade of experience in the bitcoin mining world and two decades' worth of experience in financial markets. In this episode we discuss why Brazil has historically not been an attractive destination for bitcoin miners and how that could soon change based on potential legislative changes and other dynamics. Among these includes growing interest in bitcoin mining from energy companies in Brazil looking for profitable ways to offload their energy surplus.
You can follow Ray on Twitter at @RayNasser123
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João Zecchin is a co-founder of Fuse Capital, an early-stage investment firm based in Rio de Janeiro. We discuss how the Brazilian venture community is approaching crypto, how Fuse is looking to quickly deploy capital in the "Web 2.5" space with its forthcoming crypto fund, and how institutional investors in Brazil and North America are approaching crypto differently.
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Kirill Gertman is the CEO of Conduit Financial, which provides DeFi on and off-ramps for crypto exchanges, fintechs and neobanks. We talk about the opportunities and risks afforded by crypto yield products in Brazil and Latam given the current market conditions. We also dive into how brokers can offer these products to their customers without exposing themselves to excessive risk.
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Portal do Bitcoin reporter Saori Honorato join the podcast to discuss Binance’s move to suspend real deposits and withdrawals last week while abruptly terminating Capitual, its local payment processor and fiat on/offramp.
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Daniel Vogel is the CEO of Bitso, one of the largest exchanges and the first crypto unicorn company in Latin America. We discuss Bitso's first year of operation in the Brazilian market, how Brazil compares to other Latam countries like Mexico and Argentina where the company has had success, how impending regulation can help crypto’s image problems in Brazil, and his Consensus 2022 experience.
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Mauricio Magaldi is Global Strategy Director for crypto at 11:FS, a digital banking and financial services consultancy out of London. He's also the host of the BlockDrops and BlockTalks podcasts, plays drums for a heavy metal band, has two cats and advises several startups in the crypto space.
We talk about his path from leading enterprise blockchain efforts for IBM in Latin America in 2017 to becoming a full-on crypto degen, podcast host and influencer in the Brazil crypto space. Mauricio discusses his involvement in the upcoming Blockchain Rio conference, and shares his views on why the crypto legislation working through the Brazilian Congress may be harmful to innovation in the country if the needs of startups aren't taken into account.
Note: this is a crossover episode! Mauricio and I record an episode in Portuguese so be sure to check that out on his channel!
Link to BlockDrops podcast here
Twitter: @blockdropspod
Linkedin: @magaldi
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Conor Brady is the founder of Ethereum Brasil, which is devoted to supporting and growing the Web3 community in the country. We talk about how Conor came to live in Brazil and how he became a centerpiece of its crypto community, the wildly successful Ethereum Rio event and what's in the pipeline for Ethereum Brasil - including the upcoming ETH São Paulo event, which will be held August 18-19.
Conor is doing incredible work to help bootstrap the Brazilian crypto and Web3 ecosystem, so I would encourage everyone to follow and support what he's doing with Ethereum Brasil.
I enjoyed this conversation with Conor (especially as a fellow gringo with an interest in the Brazil ecosystem) and I hope you do as well.
Website: https://www.ethereumbrasil.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ethereum_Brasil
Discord: https://discord.gg/vcu8snrpG8
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Zé Paulo is president of the Crypto Jr junior enterprise in Brazil. There are currently more than 1000 junior enterprises in Brazil that connect university students with employers on short-term consulting and job placements. Crypto Jr is the largest such initiative in Brazil focusing on cryptocurrency and Web3 technologies.
As hiring demand in crypto and Web3 reaches a fever pitch, a pipeline for companies new and old to source new talent in the Latam region is critical infrastructure. On the other side of the coin, students and digitally-native young people in the region are hungry to get into this fast-growing industry.
Zé and I discuss how the Crypto Jr enterprise is bringing new talent into crypto and Web3 in Brazil, as well as how companies and protocols looking to expand their presence in Latam can go about sourcing and developing talent.
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Kristin Majcher is Senior Correspondent for Latin America at The Block, which is a leading crypto news, research and data platform.
We discuss Kristin’s first encounter with a crypto ad on a Buenos Aires subway in 2019 and how that metastasized into her becoming a full-time crypto reporter covering the region.
Kristin talks about how she’s seeing unprecedented interest in the Brazil crypto market and how pending legislation figures to bring additional stability to the ecosystem.
We touch on the unique challenges of covering Brazil vis-a-vis other Spanish-speaking Latin American countries like El Salvador, Argentina, Colombia and others
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Follow Kristin on Twitter at https://twitter.com/k_majch
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Andrés Engler is Latin America Editor at CoinDesk, where he oversees all coverage of Brazil and the Latam region. We talk about Coinbase's decision to scrap its plans to acquire Mercado Bitcoin and the ramifications this will have on crypto mergers and acquisition activity in Brazil this year. We also chat about developments in Andrés' home market Argentina, Panama and elsewhere in Latam.
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Andres' CoinDesk author page can be found here. You can follow Andrés on Twitter at @andresengler
Kim Grauer is the Director of Research at Chainalysis, a leading blockchain analytics and data company that recently published an on-chain analysis of cryptocurrency gains by country analysis for the year 2021 and an annual report looking at the Geography of Cryptocurrency. Kim discusses the methodologies and shares key findings from her reports pertaining to Brazil and the Latam market.
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Fabrício Tota is head of new business at Mercado Bitcoin, which is Brazil's first unicorn crypto exchange. We discuss Mercado Bitcoin's explosive growth figures in 2020 and 2021, pending legislation that would regulate crypto exchanges in Brazil and the exchange's roadmap for the coming months and years
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Deribit's country manager joins to discuss the adoption of crypto options and futures markets in Brazil. We talk about Brazilian traders and financial institutions like hedge funds, prop trading entities, crypto exchanges and quantitative/HFT trading firms are increasingly using these products to generate alpha and hedge against risk.
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I'm joined by Paulo Alves, crypto editor at InfoMoney, to discuss the blitzkrieg of crypto news coming out of Brazil over the last month.
We discuss Rio de Janeiro's ambitions to transform itself into a crypto capital in the region and why that's proving to be more difficult than expected. We also go into CZ's recent charm offensive in Brazil and Binance's plans to formally enter the market, Coinbase's reported plans to acquire 2TM and Mercado Bitcoin and the state of crypto legislation in the Brazilian Congress.
In this inaugural edition I sit down with Antonio Neto, the head of Brazil and Latam at FTX.
While FTX is seemingly taking over the entire world right now, it has played a quiet yet important role in Brazil over the last couple of years and will undoubtedly be a critical player for years to come.
As FTX’s first employee in the Latam region, Antonio has had a front row seat to the exchange’s explosive growth. He joins us to share his thoughts on the current state of the Brazil crypto market and beyond.
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. As always, thank you for reading, listening to and supporting Brazil Crypto Report!
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