Brazil Crypto Report

🙌 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...

🙌 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 of the Drex project (at least in the short term). The project will now pivot to focus on unlocking colla...

🙌 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 FalconX - one of crypto’s premier institutional prime brokerage firms. FalconX's recently launched servic...

🙌 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 new bitcoin-based blockchain focused on powering the bitcoin economy. The Botanix mainnet launched on Ju...

🙌 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 discuss Reap’s role as a payments infrastructure provider focused on connecting Asia and other emerging m...

🙌 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 Brazil turned crypto entrepreneur. He joins the show today to chat about his red pill moment and how he went...

🙌 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 into why this innovation is so important, especially for emerging markets in regions like Latin America....

🙌 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 “appchains”) and how the Tanssi Network is positioning itself as a leading infrastructure provider in this vert...

🙌 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 providing cross-border stablecoin payments infrastructure for enterprises. Backed by BTG Pactual, Lumx is n...

🙌 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 explored the changes to the IOF financial transactions tax and the relevant implications, as well as the...

🙌 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. Specifically, we discuss his on-chain detective work that provided the first public evidence of fraud...

🙌 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 presence in the market with 20 million users. He last joined the show towards the end of 2023 to discuss t...

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 Central Bank's proposed stablecoin regulations. The conversation revealed deep concerns about rules that cou...

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 global digital assets landscape. Brazil's Central Bank has proposed several stringent regulations on stable...