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Brazil Crypto Report
by Aaron Stanley
News, analysis and interviews exploring the Brazilian crypto market bitsborders.substack.com
Episodes
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Episode #200: Kristin Smith on Why Boring Is Better for U.S. Crypto Policy
Hey everyone, Kristin Smith is President of the Solana Policy Institute in Washington, former CEO of the Blockchain Association and has been a key player in U.S. crypto politics for a decade. I caught up with her to discuss why market structure legislation known as the CLARITY Act stalled in the…
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Episode #199: Digital Identity For the Post-Quantum Age with Blerify’s Marcos Allende
Hey everyone, Like many of you, I’ve become more interested in the quantum computing topic over the last few months. To help me better understand, I invited Blerify CEO and co-founder Marcos Allende is CEO and co-founder of Blerify, which is building post-quantum digital identity solutions.…
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Episode #198: Loonie On-Chain: Canada’s Digital Dollar with Didier Lavallée
Hey everyone, Didier Lavallée is the CEO of Tetra Digital Group, the Canadian regulated trust company that issues CAD Digital (CADD), a Canadian dollar stablecoin that launched in May. I caught up with him remotely to discuss why Canada took so long to get a usable domestic stablecoin and what...
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From Crypto Wallet to Dollar Account with Bitget’s Alvin Kan
Hey everyone, Alvin Kan is the COO of Bitget Wallet. I caught up with him at Blockchain Rio to discuss how a self-custody wallet turned into an everyday finance app, and what that shift looks like across emerging markets. Bitget Wallet reported in August that daily payment transactions overtook...
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Episode #196: Quantum Computing vs Bitcoin with Gean Chu
Hey everyone, Gean Chu is a partner at Honey Island Capital, a Curitiba-based venture firm founded by veterans of EBANX. I caught up with him for a deep dive on quantum computing, which has become one of the main factors weighing on crypto markets in 2026. Quantum went from a distant theoretical...
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Episode #195: "Scale to $100 Billion or Die:” KAST CEO Raagulan Pathy on the Stablecoin Neobank Race
Hey everyone, Raagulan Pathy is the CEO of KAST, one of the fastest growing stablecoin neobanks in the world. I caught up with him at Blockchain Rio 2026 to discuss what a year of scaling has done to his thesis on consumer stablecoin banking. Raags first joined the show roughly a year ago, back...
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#194: The Fraudsters Have Agents Now with Sumsub's Ilya Brovin
Hey everyone, Ilya Brovin is Chief Growth Officer of Sumsub. I caught up with him at Bitso Business’ Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City to discuss how AI is changing the economics of identity fraud. By the company’s own numbers, Sumsub onboards 12 to 15 million people a month across roughly…
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Episode #192: The Modular Stablecoin Revolution with M0's Luca Prosperi
Hey everyone, Luca Prosperi is CEO and co-founder of M0. I caught up with him to discuss the state of stablecoin infrastructure in 2026, from bank pushback on yield to the shift toward wallet-centric finance. I first spoke with Luca about two years ago, before there was much regulatory clarity...
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Episode #191: Crossing the Stablecoin Adoption Chasm: Live from Bitso Stablecoin Conference 2026
Hey everyone, This podcast is a live panel I hosted at the Bitso Business Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City in June. This session focused specifically on identifying and solving the practical roadblocks to stablecoin adoption, both on the payments and issuance side. Joining me for this session...
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Episode #190: The Coming Neobank Shakeout? with Olivia Vande Woude of Ava Labs
Hey everyone, Olivia Vande Woude is Tokenization Lead at Ava Labs. I caught up with her at the Bitso Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City in June to discuss the distribution challenge facing tokenized real world assets. Issuance has become commoditized, and the real fight now is over…
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Episode #189: El Dorado CEO Guillermo Goncalves Live from Bitso's Stablecoin Conference
Hey everyone, Guillermo Goncalvez is CEO of El Dorado. I caught up with him at Bitso’s Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City last month to discuss El Dorado’s new $9 million Series A round and its expansion into B2B payments. El Dorado’s move into business accounts signals a broader shift as...
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Episode #188: Inside Trace Finance's $32M Series A Raise
Hey everyone, Bernardo Brites and Rafael Luz are co-founders of Trace Finance, a Brazilian cross-border payments infrastructure company. I caught up with them at Bitso Business’ Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City last month to discuss the company’s $32 million Series A and the launch of a...
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#187: He Left Visa to Build Caliza with Ezra Kebrab
Hey everyone! I caught up with Caliza CEO Ezra Kebrab at the Bitso Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City earlier this month. We sat down to discuss how Caliza is helping companies move cross-border supplier and treasury payments, with most volume originating in Brazil and Mexico and flowing to...
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Episode #186: Unbundling the SuperApp with Pods CTO Robson Silva
Hi everyone! Robson Silva is Co-Founder of Pods. He joins the show to discuss how DeFi’s lack of traction with retail pushed Pods toward building modular yield infrastructure for Latin America’s neobanks. The conversation was recorded live at the TokenNation event in São Paulo. It lands at a…
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Episode #185: Unlocking Stablecoin Liquidity with Checker CEO Jack Chong
Hey everyone! 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 the show to discuss why the global financial system still runs on duct tape and stitched together solutions, and how...
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Episode #184: David Z. Morris on Effective Altruism and the Inner Workings of Sam Bankman-Fried
Ola pessoal! For this week’s episode of Bits and Borders, I’m joined by veteran financial journalist and former CoinDesk colleague David Z. Morris. David is the author of Stealing the Future, a post-trial account of the FTX collapse and the effective altruism ideology behind it. He covered the…
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Episode #183: Tokenized Credit for Brazil's Creative Economy with DUX
This episode marks the first under our new name. Brazil Crypto Report is now Bits and Borders. The rebrand reflects where the conversation has gone. Crypto in Brazil has matured. The regulatory framework is in place, the big banks are in, the infrastructure works. That’s a good thing, but it also...
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Episode #182: Live from Merge Sao Paulo: Staking Goes Global with Figment's Sthefano Batista
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Ola pessoal! I had the chance to catch up with Sthefano Batista at Merge Sao Paulo. Sthefano is Head of Latam at Figment…
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Episode #181: Live from Merge Sao Paulo with Edge & Node CEO Rodrigo Coelho
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Ola pessoal! At Merge São Paulo, I caught up with Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node, which is the original team behind The...
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Episode #180: Why Brazil is a World Class Blockchain Talent Hub with Owen Healy
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Ola pessoal! If you want to understand where the blockchain talent market is heading, talk to a recruiter. They’re always six...
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Episode 179: BRL Stablecoin Deep Dive with Rodrigo Trindade
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Ola pessoal! Rodrigo Trindade is an investor with Iporanga Ventures. He joins the show to discuss his groundbreaking research…
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Episode 178: Can Crown Become the Circle of Brazil?
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Ola pessoal! Today’s episode is with John Delaney, co-founder and CEO of Crown - which has quickly become a major player in a...
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Episode #177: No Place To Hide: Brazil's New Crypto Tax Regime with Thiago Barbosa
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Ola pessoal! The era of taxation loopholes and gray areas appears to be rapidly coming to an end in Brazil. Thiago Barbosa,...
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Episode #176: What's ACTUALLY Driving Stablecoin Adoption in Latam with Justin Norman
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Ola pessoal! Today’s episode is with Justin Norman, founder of The Flip, to discuss his recent on-the-ground research into...
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Episode #175: Inside BRL1 - Brazil's Liquidity Layer with Thomaz Teixeira and Ben Reid
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! For today’s episode I’m joined by Thomaz Teixeira, CEO of BRL1, and Ben Reid, Head of Stablecoins at Bitso, to...
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Episode #174: Winners and Losers of Brazil’s New VASP Rules with Carlos Russo and Cesar Carvalho
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! You surely saw that Brazil’s Central Bank released much-anticipated VASP regulations earlier this week. These…
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Episode #173: Brazil's Next Export: Tokenized Credit with Paulo David
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Today’s episode is with Paulo David, CEO and co-founder of AmFi, one of Brazil’s leading real-world asset...
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Episode #172: Brazil's Oranje Pill with Gui Gomes
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! For today’s episode I talk to Gui Gomes, CEO and founder of OranjeBTC, which became Latin America’s largest…
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Episode #171: Can Stablebonds Bring Brazil On-Chain? with David Taylor of Etherfuse
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Today’s episode is with David Taylor, CEO and co-founder of Etherfuse, where we explore what might be the most...
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Episode #170: Tokenizing Brazil: Onigiri Capital's $50 Million Bet
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Today we’re talking to Qin En Looi, Managing Partner at Onigiri Capital and Partner at Saison Capital, about why...
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Episode #169: Live from Stellar Meridian 2025: Stablecoins for Local Solutions and Global Impact
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Last month at Stellar Meridian in Rio de Janeiro, I had the privilege of moderating a super interesting panel...
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#168: How KAST Became Latam's Stablecoin Neobank with Raagulan Pathy
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Raagulan Pathy is CEO and founder of KAST, the stablecoin neobank has been spreading like wildfire since…
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Episode #167: The Latam Road to Devconnect with Nathan Sexer and Romina Sejas
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Mark your calendars because Latin America will be the center of the crypto universe this November. Devconnect,...
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Episode #166: Thamilla Talarico on Drex and Polygon's Growth in Brazil
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Today’s episode is with Thamilla Talarico, head of on-chain finance growth for Brazil at Polygon Labs. You may...
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Episode #165: Stablecoins Reshaping Global Commerce - Onsite from the Bitso Stablecoin Conference
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Today’s podcast episode is a panel discussion I moderated at Bitso Business’ Stablecoin Conference in Mexico…
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Episode #164: Reshaping Money Movement in Latam with Matheus Moura
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! This week’s episode is with Matheus Moura, co-founder and CEO of Avenia (formerly BRLA Digital), where we discuss...
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Episode #163: Base in Brazil with Guilherme Bettanin
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! This week’s episode is with Guilherme Bettanin, Brazil country manager for Base - the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum...
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Episode #162: Drex Without Blockchain? Exploring the Road Ahead with Gustavo Cunha and Marcos Sarres
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Brazil’s Central Bank shook the market earlier this month by announcing that it remove the blockchain component…
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Episode #161: DATCOs and Bitcoin Liquidity with David Lawant and Josh Barkhordar
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Today’s episode is with David Lawant and Josh Barkhordar, Head of Research and Head of Sales, respectively, at...
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Episode #160: Smart Contracts on Bitcoin with Alisia Painter of Botanix
🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! For today’s episode I’m joined by Alisia Painter, who is co-founder and COO of Botanix Labs — which has built a…
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Episode #159: The Latam <-> Asia Stablecoin Corridor with Reap co-founder Daren Guo
🙌 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 conversation Olá pessoal! Our guest for this week is Daren Guo, co-founder of Reap, a Hong Kong-based fintech. We...
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Episode #158: Tony Volpon on Bitcoin, Macro and Real Estate Tokenization in Brazil
🙌 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 conversation Olá pessoal! Tony Volpon is a former banking executive and deputy governor of the Central Bank of…
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Episode #157: The Stablecoin 10x Opportunity with ParaFi Capital's Josh Solesbury
🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Olá 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...
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Episode #156: Tanssi's Appchain Thesis with Thiago Rudiger
🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Olá 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...
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Episode #155: Tokenized Money and Real World Payments with Caio Barbosa
🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Ola 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...
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Episode #154: Brazil's Crypto Taxman Cometh with Daniel de Paiva Gomes
🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Olá 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...
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Episode #153: Alameda, FTX & The On-Chain Fraud Trail with Lucas Nuzzi
🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Olá 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....
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Episode #152: Why Latam's Stablecoin Game is Just Beginning with Sebastian Serrano
🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Olá 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...
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RESEND #Episode 151: Brazil's Stablecoin Reckoning
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 SPACE Olá pessoal! In an X Space discussion hosted last Friday, BCR convened a panel of experts from Brazil's crypto ecosystem to analyze the…
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#Episode 151: Brazil's Stablecoin Reckoning
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…
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