BCR Podcast #40: Onsite at Ethereum Rio with Jorge Borges of Fireblocks

Olá pessoal! I met up with Jorge Borges, who heads up Fireblocks’ sales and business development operations for Brazil and Latin America, at Ethereum Rio last month to talk about how the company is furthering its presence in the region.Fireblocks is one of the unicorn crypto-native companies to emerge out of the last cycle, with more than 1,300 clients worldwide. It was valued at US$8 billion after it closed a $550 million Series E round in January 2022. The company 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:* Jorge’s background in finance and tech before he jumped into crypto and digital assets. * Fireblocks’ ethos as a cybersecurity provider that offers a tech stack that enable clients to build their own solutions for tokenization, custody and other use cases* How Fireblocks differs from other institutional infrastructure firms operating in the space right now* 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 cohortYou can also listen on SpotifyI really enjoyed this conversation with Jorge and I hope you do as well! -AWSThanks for reading Brazil Crypto Report! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Get full access to Brazil Crypto Report at brazilcrypto.substack.com/subscribe