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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 #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...

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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

52:49

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Episode #152: Why Latam's Stablecoin Game is Just...

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2025/06/06

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple PodcastsOlá pessoal!For this episode I speak to Sebastian Serrano, CEO and co-founder of Ripio. Sebastian is one of the region's crypto pioneers, and Ripio now boasts over 12 years of presence in the market with 20 million users. He last joined the show towards the end of 2023 to discuss the election of Javier Milei and the related fallout; for today’s episode we dive into Ripio’s business and

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RESEND #Episode 151: Brazil's Stablecoin Reckoning

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/05/20

APOLOGIES as the original version of this email had an incomplete audio file for some reason. Resending with the FULL VERSION OF THE AUDIO FROM OUR X SPACEOlá pessoal!In an X Space discussion hosted last Friday, BCR convened a panel of experts from Brazil's crypto ecosystem to analyze the Central Bank's proposed stablecoin regulations.The conversation revealed deep concerns about rules that could significantly impact Brazil's position in the global digital assets landscape.Brazil's Central Bank has

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#Episode 151: Brazil's Stablecoin Reckoning

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/05/20

Olá pessoal!In an X Space discussion hosted last Friday, BCR convened a panel of experts from Brazil's crypto ecosystem to analyze the Central Bank's proposed stablecoin regulations. The conversation revealed deep concerns about rules that could significantly impact Brazil's position in the global digital assets landscape.Brazil's Central Bank has proposed several stringent regulations on stablecoin usage, including restrictions on sending stablecoins to non-Brazilian wallets and a ban on

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#150 Bits and Borders: To Infinita and Beyond with...

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2025/05/08

Olá pessoal!I’m super excited to announce the soft launch of a new podcast series called Bits and Borders that explores frontier tech in frontier markets. Why a new series? Crypto remains my first love, but it’s just a part of a broader story playing out globally. We have new technologies and human coordination systems being developed in real time alongside rapidly shifting power dynamics in the global geopolitical order. Crypto is a piece of the puzzle, but the complete puzzle is much bigger. We’ll

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Episode #149: Last Call for Brazil's Crypto Market...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/04/30

Olá pessoal!Greetings from Rio de Janeiro where we are at the final day of Web Summit Rio. I’ll be hanging around the Transfero stand most of the day, so please feel free to stop by and say hi if you’re around.For today’s episode I spoke with Tatiana Guazzelli of Pinheiro Neto Advogados and Marcos Rocha of Veirano Advogados about several important developments regarding Brazil’s forthcoming crypto regulation framework.TLDR is that the Brazilian Central Bank’s consultative process for defining

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Episode #148: Blockchain for 2050 with Cardano...

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2025/04/23

Olá pessoal!This week’s interview is with Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation, who discusses the organization's mission and Cardano’s growing presence in Latin America.Frederik shares how the Cardano Foundation approaches blockchain development differently - focusing on decades-long impact rather than short-term gains."I care about three things, and only three things," Frederik explained. "Operational resilience, education and regulation, and adoption." This philosophy has guided

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Live from Merge Buenos Aires: Innovate or Adapt - How...

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2025/04/18

Olá pessoal! I’m excited to share a panel that I hosted at Merge Buenos Aires last month as a special edition of Brazil Crypto Report. This conversation explored how banks and TradFi institutions are looking at digital assets in 2025, and gave a behind the scenes look into the U-turn that we’re seeing happening in real time. The discussion highlighted a paradigm shift in crypto markets — transitioning from retail-driven enthusiasm to institutional leadership. This evolution comes as regulatory

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Episode #147: From Hedge Funds to Tokenized Investing...

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2025/04/16

Olá pessoal!Today’s interview is with Lucas Danicek, founder and CEO of Nexa Finance. Lucas shares how he is using tokenization to create hyper-customized investment products for customers across the risk curve.Lucas has over 15 years of experience managing portfolios for some of Brazil’s wealthiest individuals and families. During that journey, he identified a critical pain point in traditional investment models: the lack of personalization and accessibility for alternative investments. Nexa

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Episode #146: Live from Merge Buenos Aires with Bruno...

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2025/04/09

Olá pessoal!Today’s episode is a special interview recorded on site at Merge Buenos Aires last month.I had the pleasure of chatting with Bruno Grossi, who is Head of Emerging Technologies and Digital Assets at Banco Inter, which is Brazil's first digital bank. Our conversation dives into how this pioneering financial institution is leading blockchain integration, participating in Brazil's Drex CBDC project, and preparing for a quantum future.Grossi, with over 25 years in technology and involvement

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Episode #145: Sphere's "Stablecoin Sandwich" Comes to...

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2025/04/02

Olá pessoal!For week’s podcast I caught up with Arnold Lee, co-founder CEO of Sphere Labs, on a recent trip to Sao Paulo. We discuss how Sphere has found product market fit using stablecoins for cross-border payments, and why Latin America is positioned as a critical region for stablecoin adoption in 2025.Arnold explains Sphere's core offerings: SpherePay, a cross-border payments API utilizing the "stablecoin sandwich" method, and SphereNet, an account ledger built on the Solana virtual machine

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Episode #144 Crypto in Brazil: A Gringo's Perspective

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/03/27

Olá pessoal!Greetings from Buenos Aires where the Merge BA conference has just concluded. It was great to connect with readers and listeners from around the region throughout the week. Today’s episode is a Portuguese language crossover that I recorded with João Pedro Malar, host of Exame’s Future of Money podcast — one of the most influential crypto podcasts in Brazil. We discuss my experiences and views on crypto in Brazil having covered it for three years via this newsletter and podcast, and we

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Episode #143: Making Sense of Crypto Market...

Brazil Crypto Report ·

2025/03/19

💡 If you haven't already be sure to check out Merge Buenos Aires, which takes place March 24-26 in the Argentine capital. The conference is an exciting opportunity to connect Europe and Latin America through Web3 and will provide a great pulse check on crypto adoption in the region. I'll be attending and I hope to see some of you there as wellOlá pessoal! For today’s episode I’m joined by Andre Portilho, Head of Digital Assets at BTG Pactual, to discuss the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency landscape

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Episode #142: Uniting Europe and Latam with Merge CEO...

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2025/03/13

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple PodcastsOlá pessoal! For today’s episode I talk to Paula Pascual, who is founder and CEO of Merge, which is an exciting Web3 events brand that aims to create connections between Latin America, Europe, and the global blockchain ecosystem.After five years of working in the blockchain division at Santander in Madrid, Paula identified a significant gap: Latin America, despite its high crypto

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