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Brazil Crypto Report

Aaron Stanley

News, analysis and interviews exploring the Brazilian crypto market newsletter.brazilcrypto.io

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Episode #172: Brazil's Oranje Pill with Gui Gomes

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/10/30

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!For today’s episode I talk to Gui Gomes, CEO and founder of OranjeBTC, which became Latin America’s largest bitcoin treasury company and the 26th largest in the world when it publicly listed on Brazil’s B3 exchange earlier this month.We discuss how Oranje aims to be more than just a vehicle for acquiring bitcoin. Rather,

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Episode #171: Can Stablebonds Bring Brazil On-Chain?...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/10/22

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Today’s episode is with David Taylor, CEO and co-founder of Etherfuse, where we explore what might be the most overlooked infrastructure gap in crypto: tokenized sovereign debt.Taylor’s thesis is compelling: while crypto has created an explosion of speculative assets, it lacks the foundational building block that

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Episode #170: Tokenizing Brazil: Onigiri Capital's...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/10/17

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Today we’re talking to Qin En Looi, Managing Partner at Onigiri Capital and Partner at Saison Capital, about why his Singapore-based venture fund is making a major bet on Brazil’s tokenization and stablecoin ecosystem.Backed by Credit Saison, a 75-year-old Japanese financial institution with US$30 billion in assets,

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Episode #169: Live from Stellar Meridian 2025:...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/10/02

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Last month at Stellar Meridian in Rio de Janeiro, I had the privilege of moderating a super interesting panel exploring how stablecoins are solving real problems in emerging markets. Joining me were: * Sebastian Siseles, CEO of Vesseo* Ibrahim Abdulhussein, CEO of Digibank* Camila Rioja, Executive Director of Plexus

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#168: How KAST Became Latam's Stablecoin Neobank with...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/09/30

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Raagulan Pathy is CEO and founder of KAST, the stablecoin neobank has been spreading like wildfire since launching 14 months ago, particularly in emerging markets like Brazil and Latin America. Raags is known across the industry as “The Stablecoin Guy” dating back to his previous role leading Circle’s Asia operations, and

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Episode #167: The Latam Road to Devconnect with...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/09/25

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Mark your calendars because Latin America will be the center of the crypto universe this November.Devconnect, Ethereum’s premier developer-focused event takes place this year in Buenos Aires from November 17-22. This gathering attracts talent from across the Ethereum world as well as competing ecosystems.Prior to that,

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Episode #166: Thamilla Talarico on Drex and Polygon's...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/09/16

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Today’s episode is with Thamilla Talarico, head of on-chain finance growth for Brazil at Polygon Labs. You may recall that she previously represented Ernst & Young in the Central Bank’s Drex pilot. We talk about Polygon’s deliberate investment in Brazilian market expansion, recognizing the country's unique position in the

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Episode #165: Stablecoins Reshaping Global Commerce -...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/09/11

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Today’s podcast episode is a panel discussion I moderated at Bitso Business’ Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City, featuring Monica Ramirez (Anchorage Digital), Nick Philpott (Zodiac Markets), and Peter Wexler (Visa). Our conversation explored how stablecoins have evolved from crypto trading tools to essential

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Episode #164: Reshaping Money Movement in Latam with...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/09/05

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!This week’s episode is with Matheus Moura, co-founder and CEO of Avenia (formerly BRLA Digital), where we discuss how the company is building out cross-border payments and financial infrastructure across Latin America. We touch on the need for this infrastructure under the thesis that every company will eventually become

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Episode #163: Base in Brazil with Guilherme Bettanin

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/08/27

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!This week’s episode is with Guilherme Bettanin, Brazil country manager for Base - the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain that has become the largest network of its kind based on transaction volume, users and total value locked. We discuss Gui’s ambitious expansion strategy designed to establish Brazil as a

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Episode #162: Drex Without Blockchain? Exploring the...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/08/20

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Brazil’s Central Bank shook the market earlier this month by announcing that it remove the blockchain component of the Drex project (at least in the short term). The project will now pivot to focus on unlocking collateral via lien reconciliation using a non-blockchain solution.The Drex project has been the driver of much

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Episode #161: DATCOs and Bitcoin Liquidity with David...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/08/14

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Today’s episode is with David Lawant and Josh Barkhordar, Head of Research and Head of Sales, respectively, at FalconX - one of crypto’s premier institutional prime brokerage firms. FalconX's recently launched services in Brazil via partnerships with BTG Pactual and Mercado Bitcoin, and it plans on being a relevant player

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Episode #160: Smart Contracts on Bitcoin with Alisia...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/08/09

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!For today’s episode I’m joined by Alisia Painter, who is co-founder and COO of Botanix Labs — which has built a new bitcoin-based blockchain focused on powering the bitcoin economy. The Botanix mainnet launched on July 1 with the goal of bringing financial products to bitcoin via EVM-compatibility and smart contract

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Episode #159: The Latam - Asia Stablecoin Corridor...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/08/03

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Our guest for this week is Daren Guo, co-founder of Reap, a Hong Kong-based fintech. We discuss Reap’s role as a payments infrastructure provider focused on connecting Asia and other emerging markets like Brazil and Latin America. Drawing from his experience as an early Stripe employee who helped

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Episode #158: Tony Volpon on Bitcoin, Macro and Real...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/07/18

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOlá pessoal!Tony Volpon is a former banking executive and deputy governor of the Central Bank of Brazil turned crypto entrepreneur.He joins the show today to chat about 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

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Episode #157: The Stablecoin 10x Opportunity with...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/07/10

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple PodcastsOlá pessoal!Stablecoins are obviously one of the key trends in crypto in 2025, and it’s a topic we’ve covered a decent amount here on BCR. However, we’ve yet to take a deep look into why this innovation is so important, especially for emerging markets in regions like Latin America. To help us break this down the full stablecoin value proposition, particularly as it pertains to

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Episode #156: Tanssi's Appchain Thesis with Thiago...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/07/02

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple PodcastsOlá pessoal! For this week’s episode I’m joined by Thiago Rudiger, CEO of the Tanssi Foundation. We explore the new frontier of application-specific blockchains (so-called “appchains”) and how the Tanssi Network is positioning itself as a leading infrastructure provider in this vertical.After stints at Brazilian management consultancy Visagio and investment fund Squadra Investimentos,

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Episode #155: Tokenized Money and Real World Payments...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/06/26

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple PodcastsOla pessoal!This week’s episode is with Lumx co-founder and CEO Caio Barbosa.We discuss Lumx’s transformation from an NFT and Web3 branding studio, to a tokenization shop to providing cross-border stablecoin payments infrastructure for enterprises. Backed by BTG Pactual, Lumx is now one of the most exciting startups operating in B2B crypto adoption in the region.Barbosa's journey began

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Episode #154: Brazil's Crypto Taxman Cometh with...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/06/18

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple PodcastsOlá pessoal!For this week’s episode I talk 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

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Episode #153: Alameda, FTX & The On-Chain Fraud Trail...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/06/13

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple PodcastsOlá pessoal! Brazilian-born data scientist and blockchain analytics guru Lucas Nuzzi joins the show to discuss his work exposing the Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trail in November 2022.Specifically, we discuss his on-chain detective work that provided the first public evidence of fraud at FTX and Alameda Research.The $4 Billion Transaction That Changed EverythingIn November 2022, while most

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