Brazil Crypto Report

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! As we enter (hopefully) a bull market in 2024, Brazil is shaping up to be a battleground for global crypto exchanges looking to expand to new markets. Bitget, one of the largest exchanges in the world, is among these players. Best known for its partnership with Argentinean football superstar Lionel Mess...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Fábio Araujo is an economist and engineer at the Central Bank of Brazil, where he serves as the coordinator of the Drex project. Drex is an ambitious hybrid wholesale/retail CBDC and tokenization platform that, if it proves successful, will be the infrastructure for a tokenized economy in Brazil. In thi...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! One of the areas I frequently point to when discussing crypto adoption in Brazil and Latin America is that the country’s largest banks are among the most advanced in the world with regards to their digital asset strategies and deployment. To explore this further, Guto Antunes, head of digital assets at...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Greetings from Krakow, Poland where I spent the weekend exploring my family’s ancestral connections and meeting some very distant cousins for the very first time. Brazil Crypto Report will resume its normal publishing schedule this coming week, but in the meantime please have a listen to this incredible...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! If you’ve been around the Brazil crypto world for some time, you’ve surely come across Rocelo Lopes. He’s been a staple of the industry in this part of the world for a decade now - launching the region’s first commercial bitcoin mining operation in Paraguay in 2014. Now he has a mind-blowingly creative...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Helo Passos is the CEO and founder of Trexx, a startup dedicated to fostering blockchain game development and communities in Brazil. Previously, she built Latin America’s largest Axie Infinity community - which comprised 30,000 members at its peak. Helo was named to BCR’s 🏆 Top 10 Most Influential list...

Olá pessoal! Appreciate everyone who took the time to participate in the BCR 2023 Most Influential series, and we’re excited to release the final list to you here today. Super grateful to everyone who has supported BCR in some way during 2023, and wish you all a great Christmas and holiday season heading into 2024. -AWS How did we determine this list? BCR solicited input and suggestions from acros...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Brazil’s Central Bank released its much-awaited public consultation on crypto asset regulation late Thursday. Via this consultation, the BC seeks feedback from the public and the industry on 38 questions specific covering eight areas pertaining to regulation of cryptocurrencies and virtual asset service...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Seamus Rocca is CEO of Xapo Bank, which has been a pioneer in the realm of "bitcoin banking" for 10 years since being founded by the iconic Argentine entrepreneur and bitcoin promoter Wences Casares. Xapo kicked off its journey as a bitcoin custodian in 2013 with as much as 900,000 bitcoins in safekeepi...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! CVM Resolution 175 came into effect in October of this year, bringing several sweeping changes that will impact Brazil’s fund management industry. Among these changes is a provision that reduces the barrier to entry for Brazilian investment funds to allocate into cryptocurrencies and digital assets. To...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Because of the enormous significance of Javier Milei’s surprise presidential election victory in Argentina, I reckoned it would be worthwhile to bring in a few additional local experts to help explore the potential bitcoin and crypto implications of this seismic event. * Daniel Rybnik is the co-founder...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! We’re taking a break from our normally Brazil-focused content to focus on the Argentina presidential elections that shook both the world and the crypto community last week. To help us understand libertarian candidate Javier Milei’s surprise victory in last weekend’s election and the implications for bit...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! We have an exciting episode for you today with Thomas Bohner, CEO of Credix - which is one of the most exciting startups operating in the asset tokenization space right now. Credix is a decentralized credit marketplace built on Solana that unites institutional capital in developed markets with fintechs...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Kim Grauer is the director of research at Chainalysis, which is a leading blockchain data and analytics firm. She is also the author of Chainalysis’s annual Geography of Cryptocurrency Report , which is the gold standard report for cryptocurrency adoption trends around the world. Brazil slipped in this...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! For today’s episode I’m joined by Paxos chief revenue officer Michael Coscetta to discuss the firm’s ambitions in Brazil, Latin America and beyond. Paxos is a blockchain and digital asset infrastructure firm last valued at US$2.4 billion following its Series D fundraise in 2021. Its focus on providing e...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Daniel de Paiva Gomes is a partner at VDV Advogados and is one of Brazil’s leading experts on issues of cryptocurrency taxation, having authored the book “Bitcoin: the Taxation of Cryptocurrencies” In this interview, we talk about Brazil’s existing tax structure for crypto assets — which Daniel argues is among the m...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Lucas Giorgio and Matheus Moura are on the founding team of BRLA Digital, which is building onramp solutions for crypto companies looking to onboard Brazilian customers and create products targeted at local users. Among these solutions is their BRLA stablecoin and a set of APIs that allow companies to e...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! For this episode I’m joined by João Aragão Pereira, a financial technology specialist at Microsoft. João has been one of the key figures representing Microsoft in the Drex project, as well as other CBDC projects around the world. We explore how Microsoft’s Regulated Liability Network architecture could...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Hi everyone, A special congressional committee investigating cryptocurrency pyramids known as the CPI officially concluded this week with a scathing report urging the indictment of four Binance executives. The alleged crimes include fraudulent management, operating an unauthorized financial institution and crimes ag...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Today’s episode is one I recorded onsite at Blockchain Rio with Alexandre Adogio, CEO of Sonica. Sonica is a no-code platform for building and deploying Web3 projects. In this interview, we discuss: * the emergence of no-code software tools over the last couple years * how Sonica started out as a Web2 n...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Fuse Capital partner Dan Yamamura joined myself and Felipe Cabral at Blockchain Rio for another special crossover episode with the Let’s Crypto Podcast. This particular interview is in Portuguese, but I’ll try to get an English-language redux with Dan soon. In this episode, we discuss how Dan and Fuse C...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Today I’m joined by Jean-Michel Guillot, head of product for blockchain and digital assets at Dinamo Networks. Dinamo is a digital security company that provides solutions to banks, financial institutions, governments and large companies. Its primary solution is a hardware security module (HSM) that kee...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Ola pessoal! Eu tive a oportunidade pra juntar com Felipe Cabral, host do Let’s Crypto podcast, pra gravar algumas “crossover episodes” onsite no Blockchain Rio, que aconteceu mais cedo em Setembro. Nesse primeiro episódio, a gente conversa com Rodrigoh Henriques - diretor da inovação no Fenasbac. Fenasbac é a assoc...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! Taynaah Reis is a Brazilian technologist, entrepreneur and activist. In this episode, recorded onsite at Blockchain Rio earlier this month, we discuss how she learned to code at 12 years old, how she started her first company at 16, and her current entrepreneurial and social impact initiatives that make...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! After starting as “Turbotax for Crypto” product 10 years ago that helped retail crypto holders figure out their tax obligations, Lukka has built itself into a unicorn enterprise crypto data services company offering institutional-grade accounting, audit and data products. CEO Robert Materazzi and his te...