Brazil Crypto Report

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 US Senate , and what comes next for crypto policy in the U.S. The bill’s failure has prompted mixed rea...

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. Marcos is a quantum physicist by training and has worked at CERN, MIT and the Inter-American Development Ban...

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 changes now that it has one. We have spent a lot of time on this show covering non-USD stablecoins in Lat...

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 daily trading transactions for the first time in its eight-year history. That crossover is a useful mark...

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 worry to the story driving digital asset headlines this year , largely on the back of a March paper fro...

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 when KAST was arguing that builders had neglected the consumer layer on top of stablecoin rails. Since t...

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 4,000 clients, which makes for a useful vantage point on what fraud actually looks like right now. What Br...

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 around stablecoins or serious talk of things like agentic payments. Since then M0 has raised $100 millio...

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 are: * Joao Reginatto , Chief Strategy Officer at M0 * Monica Ramirez, Managing Director at Anchorage...

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 distribution. Olivia argues that most tokenized assets have targeted crypto native users, a limited addressable mar...

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 consumer-first stablecoin apps in Latin America start building infrastructure for the small and medium-sized...

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 BRL-backed stablecoin. Trace Finance has been building stablecoin rails for Brazil since 2019, long before t...

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 China, Hong Kong, and the US. Kebrab’s path ran through a peer-to-peer wallet startup sold to Square in 2...

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 moment when neobanks and traditional banks alike are racing to bolt yield products onto their stacks withou...

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 Checker is building the connective tissue to fix it. Chong grew up in Hong Kong, studied at Oxford, lear...

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 Sam Bankman-Fried criminal trial for Protos and had a front-row seat to the collapse. His reporting at C...

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 means the story has gotten less interesting to tell on repeat. We’ve been thinking about this move for...

🙌 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, which is the world’s largest provider of institutional staking services with more than $18 billion in asset...

🙌 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 Graph protocol. We talked about one of the most exciting intersections in tech right now: agentic commerc...

🙌 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 months ahead of the news cycle. Owen Healy of Owen Healy Blockchain Talent proves the rule. The Ireland...

🙌 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 on local stablecoin adoption across Brazil and Latin America. As both a venture investor and consultant...

🙌 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 Brazilian stablecoin market that is entering a new phase of maturity. John shares how Crown is solving...

🙌 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 , partner at Salles Nogueira Advogados and a crypto tax law expert, joins the show to discuss sweeping reg...

🙌 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 stablecoin adoption across Latin America. Justin has spent years documenting technology adoption in emerg...

🙌 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 discuss the BRL1 stablecoin project. BRL1 represents a departure from the typical competitive dynamics we...