Brazil Crypto Report

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...

🙌 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 r eleased much-anticipated VASP regulations earlier this week. These rules have been in the works for three years now, and they bring significant clarity to the market and se...

🙌 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 tokenization platforms. Paulo is a serial entrepreneur who previously built and sold two major Brazilian finte...

🙌 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 bitcoin treasury company and the 26th largest in the world when it publicly listed on Brazil’s B3 exchange e...

🙌 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 overlooked infrastructure gap in crypto: tokenized sovereign debt. Taylor’s thesis is compelling: while c...

🙌 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 his Singapore-based venture fund is making a major bet on Brazil’s tokenization and stablecoin ecosyste...

🙌 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 exploring how stablecoins are solving real problems in emerging markets. Joining me were: * Sebastian Sise...

🙌 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 launching 14 months ago, particularly in emerging markets like Brazil and Latin America. Raags is known across...

🙌 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 , Ethereum’s premier developer-focused event takes place this year in Buenos Aires from November 17-22. Th...

🙌 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 recall that she previously represented Ernst & Young in the Central Bank’s Drex pilot. We talk about Poly...

🙌 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 City, featuring Monica Ramirez (Anchorage Digital), Nick Philpott (Zodiac Markets), and Peter Wexler (Visa)...

🙌 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 how the company is building out cross-border payments and financial infrastructure across Latin Americ...

🙌 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 Layer 2 blockchain that has become the largest network of its kind based on transaction volume, users...