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Brazil Crypto Report

Aaron Stanley

News, analysis and interviews exploring the Brazilian crypto market

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00:49:17

#60: Mayra Siqueira on Algorand in Latam and...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2023/08/30

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

00:24:26

Weekly Recap: Central Bank Suspends Lift Lab, Delays...

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2023/08/26

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

00:53:52

#59: Why a US Bitcoin ETF is Further Off than You...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2023/08/23

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. Connect with Bruno on Twitter and Linkedin Follow Brazil Crypto Report across the

00:48:22

#58 Nicole Dyskant on Drex, Incoming Regulation and...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2023/08/17

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. You can

00:53:56

#57 How iGaming is Driving Crypto Payments Adoption...

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2023/08/09

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

00:44:10

#56 Bringing Web3 Education to Brazil with Rai Auad

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2023/08/04

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. You can follow Rai across all of her channels Connect with

00:33:35

#55 Gean Chu on Honey Island Capital's new Web3 fund

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2023/07/28

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 You can connect with Gean on Linkedin and Twitter Connect with Brazil Crypto Report across the web: Twitter | Linkedin | YouTube | Instagram | Spotify | Apple Podcasts / Substack

00:30:48

#54: Tackling Crypto's Custody Crisis with Arculus

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2023/07/21

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

00:41:25

#53: Onsite at Digital Finance Brasil: Crypto and...

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2023/07/14

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

00:32:29

#52 Onsite at Digital Finance Brasil with Renan...

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2023/07/05

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

00:59:15

#51 Onsite at Consensus 2023 with Rodrix Digital

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2023/06/28

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:

00:38:31

#50: Measuring Crypto Sentiment in Brazil with...

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2023/06/20

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

01:13:10

#49 Inside the SEC's War on Crypto with Lewis Cohen...

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2023/06/15

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

00:41:39

#48 Onsite at Consensus 2023 with Guilherme Santana...

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2023/06/13

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

00:32:08

Onsite no Criptorama Brasilia: Porque Custôdia...

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2023/06/12

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

00:38:05

#47: Chainalysis's Jonathan Levin on Bringing Trust...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2023/06/09

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

01:01:50

#46: Tokenizing Real World Assets with Alex Nascimento

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2023/06/06

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

00:58:31

#45 Inside TC Cripto with Jorge Souto and Paulo...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2023/06/01

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

00:55:33

BTG Pactual's Stablecoin Play with Andre Portilho

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2023/05/25

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

00:35:32

Fortune's Leo Schwartz on Brazil's Unlikely Bid to...

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2023/05/20

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

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