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Bits and Borders
by Aaron Stanley
From digital assets to tokenization to artificial intelligence, Bits and Borders explores the growth of frontier technology in frontier markets
Episodes
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#200: Kristin Smith on Why Boring Is Better For U.S. Crypto Policy
Kristin Smith is President of the Solana Policy Institute. She joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss why the Clarity Act stalled in the US Senate. Kristin explains how the politics around President Trump, opposition from the banking lobby and a shifting Democratic electorate derailed the bill, and...
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#199: Digital ID for the Post-Quantum Age with Blerify's Marcos Allende
Marcos Allende is CEO and co-founder of Blerify. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss why AI is making passwords, selfie checks and passport scans obsolete as a way to prove identity online. Marcos explains how Blerify's identity wallets and blockchain-based trust registry allow digital IDs to…
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#198: Loonie On-Chain: Canada's Digital Dollar with Didier Lavallee
Didier Lavallée is the CEO of Tetra Digital Group, the Canadian trust company behind CAD Digital (CADD), a Canadian dollar stablecoin that launched in May. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss why Canada went so long without a usable domestic stablecoin, and how Tetra grew out of the QuadrigaCX...
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#197: From Crypto Wallet to Dollar Account with Bitget's Alvin Kan
Alvin Kan is the COO of Bitget Wallet. He joins host Aaron Stanley at Blockchain Rio to discuss the shift from crypto wallet to everyday finance app, where users save, spend and invest dollars in one place. In August, daily payment transactions on the wallet overtook daily trading transactions…
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#196: Quantum vs Bitcoin with Gean Chu of Honey Island Capital
Gean Chu is a partner at Honey Island Capital. He joins host Aaron Stanley for a deep dive on quantum computing, which has become one of the main factors weighing on crypto markets in 2026. Gean breaks down the March paper from Google Quantum AI that cut the estimated hardware requirement for...
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#195: "Scale to $100 Billion or Die:” KAST CEO Raagulan Pathy on the Stablecoin Neobank Race
Raagulan Pathy is the CEO of Kast. He joins host Aaron Stanley at Blockchain Rio 2026, a year after his first appearance and roughly $80 million in Series A funding later. Rags explains why he thinks the stablecoin neobank market is winner take most, why Kast scrapped its planned token airdrop in...
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#194: The Fraudsters Have Agents Now with Sumsub's Ilya Brovin
Ilya Brovin is Chief Growth Officer of Sumsub. He joins host Aaron Stanley at Bitso Business' Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City to discuss how AI is changing identity fraud. Sumsub onboards 12 to 15 million people a month, and Brovin describes a clear shift over the past year: criminals have...
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#193: Live from Ai4: AI as Predictive Intelligence with Knowidea
Yatharth Sejpal and Brian Li are co-founder/CEO and co-founder/CTO of Knowidea. They join host Aaron Stanley at the Ai4 Conference in Las Vegas to discuss why they're betting on formally verified, deterministic AI instead of the 95 percent confidence models most companies accept. The two explain...
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#192: The Modular Stablecoin Revolution with M0's Luca Prosperi
Luca Prosperi is CEO and co-founder of M0. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss the state of stablecoin infrastructure in 2026, two years after his first appearance on the show. They cover the wallet-centric shift in finance, the fight over stablecoin yield, and why Prosperi thinks…
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#191: Crossing the Stablecoin Adoption Chasm - Live from Bitso Stablecoin Conference
Joao Reginatto of M0, Monica Ramirez of Anchorage Digital, Olivia Vande Woude of Ava Labs, and Sheraz Shere of Solana Foundation join host Aaron Stanley at the Bitso Business Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City to discuss stablecoin readiness and the gap between corporate intent and...
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#190: The Coming Neobank Shakeout? with Olivia Vande Woude of Ava Labs
Olivia Vande Woude is Tokenization Lead at Ava Labs. She joins host Aaron Stanley at Bitso's Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City to discuss why distribution, not issuance, is the hardest problem left to solve in tokenized real world assets. We talk through Open Trade's B2B2C stablecoin yield…
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#189: El Dorado CEO Guillermo Goncalves Live from Bitso Stablecoin Conference
Guillermo Goncalvez is CEO of El Dorado. He joins host Aaron Stanley at Bitso's Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City to discuss El Dorado's new $9 million Series A round, led by Paradigm with Coinbase Ventures participating. Goncalvez explains how El Dorado is taking the liquidity network it…
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#188: Inside Trace Finance's $32M Series A Raise
Rafael Luz and Bernardo Brites are co-founders of Trace Finance, a Brazilian cross-border payments infrastructure company. They join host Aaron Stanley at the Bitso Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City to discuss the company's $32 million Series A and the launch of a BRL-backed stablecoin. The...
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#187: He Left Visa to Build Caliza with Ezra Kebrab; Live from Bitso Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City
Ezra Kebrab is co-founder of Caliza. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss cross-border stablecoin payments in Latin America. Recorded live at the Bitso Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City. Caliza handles cross-border supplier and treasury payments, with most volume flowing between Brazil,...
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#186: Unbundling the SuperApp with Robson Silva of Pods
Robson Silva Junior is Co-Founder of Pods. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss how DeFi's mixed retail adoption led Pods to build modular yield infrastructure for Latin America's neobanks. Recorded live at the Token Nation event in São Paulo, the conversation traces Silva's path from naval...
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#185: Unlocking Stablecoin Liquidity with Checker CEO Jack Chong
Jack Chong is co-founder and CEO of Checker, a stablecoin liquidity network connecting FX banks, payments companies, and neobanks across emerging markets. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss why cross-border stablecoin payments are still broken, and how Checker is building the infrastructure...
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#184: David Z. Morris on SBF and the Collapse of Effective Altruism
David Z. Morris is a financial journalist and author of Stealing the Future, a post-trial account of the FTX collapse and the effective altruism ideology behind it. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss what the criminal trial revealed that earlier books missed, why Michael Lewis's account...
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#183: Tokenized Credit for Brazil's Creative Economy with DUX
Luiz Octavio Gonçalves Neto is the founder and CEO of DUX, a company building financial infrastructure for the creative economy in Brazil. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss how DUX uses invoice factoring and blockchain-based liquidity to serve a $2.5 trillion global sector that traditional...
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#182: Live from Merge Sao Paulo: Staking Goes Global with Figment's Sthefano Batista
Sthefano Batista is Head of Latam at Figment, the world's largest institutional provider of staking services with $18 billion in assets staked. Recorded live at Merge Sao Paulo, Sthefano joins host Aaron Stanley to break down how Figment is building the staking market across Latin America, why...
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#181: Live from Merge Sao Paulo: Agentic Commerce with Rodrigo Coelho of Edge & Node
Rodrigo Coelho is CEO of Edge & Node. In this episode, recorded live at Merge Sao Paulo, joins host Aaron Stanley to explore the cutting edge of agentic commerce and blockchain data infrastructure. Rodrigo shares how Edge & Node, the original team behind The Graph protocol - built the indexing...
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#180: Why Brazil is a Blockchain Talent Hub with Owen Healy
Owen Healy has spent five years matching blockchain talent with crypto projects around the world - and he's built a 50,000-follower LinkedIn following doing it. In this episode, Aaron sits down with the Ireland-based recruiter to explore how the blockchain talent market actually works: how...
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#179: BRL Stablecoin Deep Dive with Rodrigo Trindade of Iporanga Ventures
Rodrigo Trindade is an investor at Iporanga Ventures. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his comprehensive research on local stablecoin adoption across Brazil and Latin America. Rodrigo built his own tracking dashboard monitoring on-chain metrics including supply, holders, transaction…
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#178: Can Crown Become the Circle of Brazil? with John Delaney
John Delaney is CEO and co-founder of Crown. Crown recently raised a $13.5 million Series A round led by Paradigm and is the issuer of BRLV - Brazil's newest and stablecoin with over 360 million BRL subscribed. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss Crown's unique approach to capturing...
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#177: No Place to Hide: Brazil's New Crypto Tax Regime with Thiago Barbosa
Thiago Barbosa, partner at Salles Nogueira Advogados, joins host Aaron Stanley to break down the complex and rapidly evolving landscape of crypto asset taxation and regulation in Brazil. The discussion centers on the latest major developments from the Central Bank, which is introducing stricter...
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#176: What's ACTUALLY Driving Stablecoin Adoption in Latam? With Justin Norman
In this episode, host Aaron Stanley speaks with Justin Norman, founder of The Flip, a content creator and filmmaker who documents technology adoption in emerging markets. Justin shares insights from his recent Latin American research trip exploring stablecoin adoption, which resulted in a YouTube...
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#175: Inside BRL1 - Brazil's Liquidity Layer with Thomaz Teixeira and Ben Reid
Thomaz Teixeira, CEO of BRL1, and Ben Reid, Head of Stablecoins at Bitso, join host Aaron Stanley to discuss the BRL1 stablecoin project. BRL1 is a one-to-one Brazilian real-pegged token developed by a unique consortium of major crypto exchanges including Mercado Bitcoin, Bitso, Foxbit, and...
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#174: Winners and Losers of Brazil’s New VASP Rules with Carlos Russo and Cesar Carvalho
After three years of waiting, Brazil's central bank has finally released comprehensive VASP regulations. In this episode, Carlos Eduardo Russo (Bluegreen) and Cesar Carvalho (Baptista Luz Advogados) join host Aaron Stanley to break down the regulatory framework that will reshape Brazil's digital...
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#173: Tokenized Credit: Brazil's Next Export with Paulo David of AmFi
Paulo David is CEO of AmFi. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss how his platform is revolutionizing access to Brazilian private credit markets through asset tokenization. As a third-time entrepreneur who previously built and sold two major fintechs including Grafeno, Paulo brings deep…
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#172: Brazil's Oranje Pill with Gui Gomes
Gui Gomes, CEO of OranjeBTC, joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his company's mission to become Latin America's leading Bitcoin adoption catalyst following their recent listing on Brazil's B3 exchange. Gomes brings a unique perspective shaped by his time at Bridgewater Associates, where working...
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#171: Can Stablebonds Bring Brazil On-Chain? with David Taylor of Etherfuse
David Taylor is the co-founder of Etherfuse. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his mission to bring tokenized sovereign debt on-chain for emerging markets. Etherfuse is building infrastructure to issue interest-bearing stablecoins backed by short-term government treasuries, providing what...
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#170: Tokenizing Brazil: Onigiri Capital's $50 Million Bet
Qin en Looi is managing partner at Onigiri Capital and partner at Saison Capital. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss Onigiri's plans to deploy up to US$50 million of investment capital into Brazil and Latin America. Why is this Singapore-based VC taking such an interest in Brazil? Qin en...
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#169: Live from Stellar Meridian 2025: Stablecoins for Local Solutions and Global Impact
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: - Sebastian Siseles, CEO of Vesseo - Ibrahim Abdul...
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#168: How KAST Became Latam's Stablecoin Neobank with Raagulan Pathy
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...
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#167: The Latam Road to Devconnect with Nathan Sexer and Romina Sejas
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...
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#166: Thamilla Talarico on Drex and Polygon's Growth in Brazil
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…
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#165: Stablecoins Reshaping Global Commerce - Onsite from the Bitso Stablecoin Conference
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. - Monica Ramirez (Anchorage Digital) - Nick Philpott...
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#164: Avenia's Matheus Moura on Why Every Company Will Be a Financial Services Company
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…
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#163: Base in Brazil with Guilherme Bettanin
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...
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#162: Drex Without Blockchain? Exploring the Road Ahead with Gustavo Cunha and Marcos Sarres
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...
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#161: DATCOs and Bitcoin Liquidity with FalconX's David Lawant and Josh Barkhordar
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…
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#160: Bitcoin Smart Contracts on Botanix with Alisia Painter
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...
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#159 The Asia <-> Latam Stablecoin Corridor with Reap co-founder Daren Guo
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…
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#158 Tony Volpon on Bitcoin, Macro and Real Estate Tokenization in Brazil
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…
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#157: The Stablecoin 10x Opportunity with ParaFi Capital's Josh Solesbury
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...
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#156: Inside Tanssi's Appchain Thesis with Thiago Rüdiger
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: - Infrastructure innovation: Tanssi addresses critical blockchain deployment barriers by reducing chain launch time from...
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#155 Tokenized Money & Real World Payments with Caio Barbosa
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…
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#154: Brazil’s Crypto Taxman Cometh with Daniel de Paiva Gomes
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…
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#153: Alameda, FTX & The On-Chain Fraud Trail with Lucas Nuzzi
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...
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#152: Why Latam's Stablecoin Game is Just Beginning with Sebastian Serrano
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...
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#151: Brazil's Stablecoin Reckoning
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
From digital assets to tokenization to artificial intelligence, Bits and Borders explores the growth of frontier technology in frontier markets
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Aaron Stanley
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