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! 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...

Olá pessoal! I’m super excited to announce the soft launch of a new podcast series called Bits and Borders that explores frontier tech in frontier markets. Why a new series? Crypto remains my first love, but it’s just a part of a broader story playing out globally. We have new technologies and human coordination systems being developed in real time alongside rapidly shifting power dynamics in the...

Olá pessoal! Greetings from Rio de Janeiro where we are at the final day of Web Summit Rio. I’ll be hanging around the Transfero stand most of the day, so please feel free to stop by and say hi if you’re around. For today’s episode I spoke with Tatiana Guazzelli of Pinheiro Neto Advogados and Marcos Rocha of Veirano Advogados about several important developments regarding Brazil’s forthcoming cryp...

Olá pessoal! This week’s interview is with Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation, who discusses the organization's mission and Cardano’s growing presence in Latin America. Frederik shares how the Cardano Foundation approaches blockchain development differently - focusing on decades-long impact rather than short-term gains. "I care about three things, and only three things," Frederik exp...

Olá pessoal! I’m excited to share a panel that I hosted at Merge Buenos Aires last month as a special edition of Brazil Crypto Report. This conversation explored how banks and TradFi institutions are looking at digital assets in 2025, and gave a behind the scenes look into the U-turn that we’re seeing happening in real time. The discussion highlighted a paradigm shift in crypto markets — transitio...

Olá pessoal! Today’s interview is with Lucas Danicek , founder and CEO of Nexa Finance. Lucas shares how he is using tokenization to create hyper-customized investment products for customers across the risk curve. Lucas has over 15 years of experience managing portfolios for some of Brazil’s wealthiest individuals and families. During that journey, he identified a critical pain point in traditiona...

Olá pessoal! Today’s episode is a special interview recorded on site at Merge Buenos Aires last month. I had the pleasure of chatting with Bruno Grossi, who is Head of Emerging Technologies and Digital Assets at Banco Inter , which is Brazil's first digital bank. Our conversation dives into how this pioneering financial institution is leading blockchain integration, participating in Brazil's Drex...

Olá pessoal! For week’s podcast I caught up with Arnold Lee, co-founder CEO of Sphere Labs, on a recent trip to Sao Paulo. We discuss how Sphere has found product market fit using stablecoins for cross-border payments , and why Latin America is positioned as a critical region for stablecoin adoption in 2025. Arnold explains Sphere's core offerings: SpherePay, a cross-border payments API utilizing...

Olá pessoal! Greetings from Buenos Aires where the Merge BA conference has just concluded. It was great to connect with readers and listeners from around the region throughout the week. Today’s episode is a Portuguese language crossover that I recorded with João Pedro Malar, host of Exame’s Future of Money podcast — one of the most influential crypto podcasts in Brazil. We discuss my experiences a...

💡 If you haven't already be sure to check out Merge Buenos Aires , which takes place March 24-26 in the Argentine capital. The conference is an exciting opportunity to connect Europe and Latin America through Web3 and will provide a great pulse check on crypto adoption in the region. I'll be attending and I hope to see some of you there as well Olá pessoal! For today’s episode I’m joined by Andre...

🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Olá pessoal! For today’s episode I talk to Paula Pascual, who is founder and CEO of Merge, which is an exciting Web3 events brand that aims to create connections between Latin America, Europe, and the global blockchain ecosystem. After five years of working in the blockchain divisio...

💡 If you haven't already be sure to check out Merge Buenos Aires , which takes place March 24-26 in the Argentine capital. The conference is an exciting opportunity to connect Europe and Latin America through Web3 and will provide a great pulse check on crypto adoption in the region. I'll be attending and I hope to see some of you there as well 🙌 If you enjoy this content, please consider droppi...

🙌 If you enjoy this content, please consider dropping a like or giving a 5-star rating to BCR wherever you listen to podcasts! YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Olá pessoal! Today I’m joined by Rachel Conlan, Chief Marketing Officer at Binance, to discuss the exchange's remarkable growth and its strategic focus on Latin America. With over 20 years of marketing experience in advertising and enter...