Brazil Crypto Report

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! For today’s episode I am joined by Daniel Lynch, who is head of partnerships for Metamask Institutional at Consensys. He also oversees business development and sales for Latin America for MI and other Consensys products. Daniel spent most of his career in banking before coming over to crypto and joining...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube Olá pessoal! For today’s podcast episode I’m joined by Parfin CEO Marcos Viriato. Marcos is a Brazil financial industry veteran - he was previously a partner at BTG Pactual before becoming an angel investor and ultimately CEO of Parfin, a leading Web3 and blockchain infrastructure provider in Brazil and Latin Americ...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts Olá pessoal! Maria Gabriela Damiani is a Technical Advisor to the President at the Commissão dos Valores Imobiliários (CVM), also known as the Brazilian version of the SEC. Before arriving at CVM, she worked stints at XP, B3 and UBS. In this episode we discuss the CVM's approach to digital asset regulation and how it differs...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts Olá pessoal! In this week’s episode I’m joined by Mayra Siqueira, Brazil community manager at the Algorand Foundation. Mayra is responsible for evangelizing Algorand, a highly-performant Layer 1 blockchain developed by renowned computer scientist and Turing Award winner Silvio Micali, in Brazil and Latam. Prior to joining Alg...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts Olá pessoal! If you’ve been paying attention to crypto markets the last three months, you’ve heard the narrative that a spot bitcoin ETF approval in the United States is imminent. Seeking a glimmer of hope amid a brutal winter, crypto markets seized on Blackrock’s blockbuster bitcoin ETF application in June to surmise that, a...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon Olá pessoal! In this week’s podcast I’m joined by Nicky Dyskant, who is one of the top fintech and capital markets lawyers in Brazil. In this conversation, we discuss her role as an advisor to several key crypto companies operating in the country - including Fireblocks, 2TM, Vórtx QR Tokenizadora and Hashdex. We dive into her purview on Drex (...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon Olá pessoal! For this episode I’m joined by Leandro Pereira who is head of growth for Latam at Paysafe and a 10 year veteran of the Brazil crypto scene. PaySafe provides payment infrastructure and wallets, with solutions for alternative payment methods, prepaid cards, debit cards and crypto payments. The company’s main clients in the region ar...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon Olá pessoal! For this week’s podcast I am joined by Rai Auad, who is one of Brazil’s leading Web3 educators and content creators. Rai shares her journey from working in traditional finance to becoming a full-time web3 influencer and entrepreneur, starting with an interest in Axie Infinity and other crypto games in 2021. Soon after, she quit he...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon Olá pessoal! I hope everyone had a great week. I’m excited to share my latest podcast with Gean Chu. Gean is a partner at Honey Island Capital, a Curitiba-based venture firm founded by several veterans of fintech unicorn Ebanx. In this conversation we discuss Honey Island's investment theses and portfolio of companies that provide credit and f...

🎧 Listen : Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon Olá pessoal! It's been a rough few months for the crypto custody world. In May, Ledger sparked a massive backlash when it released a controversial key recovery mechanism. Regulated custodian Prime Trust is accused of misusing customer funds and has been put into receivership by the state of Nevada. Earlier this week, Nasdaq publicly backed awa...

Olá pessoal! Greetings from Pará where I’m on holiday exploring the jungles and beaches of the Amazon (and sweating like crazy!) This week’s podcast is a recording of a panel I hosted with Thales de Freitas of Bitso, AB InBev’s Daniel Tartaro and fintech expert Bruno Diniz at Digital Finance Brasil last month at the University of São Paulo. The panel explored how the respective worlds of crypto an...

Olá pessoal! Renan Kruger is a digital asset specialist at Santander Brasil, one of Brazil's largest banks and one that is actively involved in the country's budding digital asset space. This episode was recorded live during a fireside chat I did with Renan at the Digital Finance Brazil event on June 22 at the University of São Paulo. In this conversation we discuss: * how Santander Brasil is stud...

Olá pessoal! I had the chance to catch up with Rodrix Digital at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas. Rodrix is one of Brazil’s original crypto influencers and content creators having first started his YouTube brand back in 2017. He now provides education and content on various platforms, including YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok, and has expanded his services to include consulting, marketing, and PR fo...

🔥 Quick shout out to our partners at the BlockchainSP Festival and Digital Finance Brasil. These events will take place June 20-23 at the University of São Paulo and bring together crypto and TradFi professionals, students, hackers and investors from all walks. I hope to see you all there! Olá pessoal! For this episode I am joined by Cryptum CEO André Salem to discuss illuminating new research ex...

🔥 Quick shout out to our partners at the BlockchainSP Festival and Digital Finance Brasil. These events will take place June 20-23 at the University of São Paulo and bring together crypto and TradFi professionals, students, hackers and investors from all walks The team announced this past week that former Brazilian Central Bank President and current Binance advisor Henrique Meirelles will join as...

🔥 Quick shout out to our partners at the BlockchainSP Festival and Digital Finance Brasil. These events will take place June 20-23 at the University of São Paulo and bring together crypto and TradFi professionals, students, hackers and investors from all walks The team announced this past week that former Brazilian Central Bank President and current Binance advisor Henrique Meirelles will join as...

🔥 Quick shout out to our partners at the BlockchainSP Festival. The festival, comprised of 14 concurrent events , will take place at the University of São Paulo and bring together crypto and TradFi professionals, students, hackers and investors from all walks. Please head over to blockchainfestival.io/sao-paulo to learn more Olá pessoal! Jonathan Levin is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at...

🔥 Quick shout out to our partners at the BlockchainSP Festival. The festival is comprised of 14 concurrent events and will take place at the University of São Paulo and bring together crypto and TradFi professionals, students, hackers and investors from all walks. Please head over to blockchainfestival.io/sao-paulo to learn more Olá pessoal! I hope everyone is having a great week! For this latest...

🔥This episode is possible thanks to our partners at the BlockchainSP Festival. This event will take place at the University of São Paulo and will be one of the premier events of the year for the Brazil crypto ecosystem. This festival of events will bring together crypto and TradFi professionals, students, hackers and investors from all walks. Please head over to blockchainfestival.io/sao-paulo to...

Olá pessoal! Today I’m joined by Andre Portilho, who runs BTG Pactual’s digital assets division. BTG Pactual is one of the largest banks in Brazil and the largest investment bank in Latin America. He previously ran the options desk at BTG when bitcoin came onto his radar in 2017. Since then, BTG has been a leader among financial institutions globally in embracing and utilizing blockchain technolog...

Olá pessoal! For this latest episode, I had the chance to sit down with Leo Schwartz, who is a crypto reporter at Fortune covering focusing on policy and regulation. He attended Web Summit Rio earlier this month and authored a great post-event column entitled " Brazil's unlikely bid to become a global crypto hub " which generated a lot of interest locally and was, frankly, the best content I’ve se...

Olá pessoal! Greetings from Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas! Hashdex has established itself as a global pioneer in crypto asset management since being founded in 2018. It is also one of the crown jewels of Brazil’s crypto ecosystem, with more than US$400 million in AUM. But the firm’s vision expands far beyond just Brazil and Latam. For this latest podcast I spoke with Bruno Ramos de Sousa , Partn...

Olá Pessoal and Happy Tiradentes Day! News broke last week that the CVM, the Brazilian SEC, referred Binance to federal prosecutors late last year for investigation into the exchange’s derivatives offerings in what appears to be defiance of a stop order. Further reporting this week has revealed that the CVM’s inquiry began in June 2022 after a Binance customer service representative told a Portal...

Olá pessoal! I met up with Jorge Borges , who heads up Fireblocks’ sales and business development operations for Brazil and Latin America, at Ethereum Rio last month to talk about how the company is furthering its presence in the region. Fireblocks is one of the unicorn crypto-native companies to emerge out of the last cycle, with more than 1,300 clients worldwide. It was valued at US$8 billion af...

Olá pessoal! We’ve got a special podcast episode today ahead of the Shanghai and Capella hard forks, which are the latest updates to the Ethereum network following the Merge last September. Critically, these updates mean that staked ETH and staking rewards can finally be withdrawn - 2.5 years after staking was first enabled with the launch of the Beacon Chain in December 2020. Rony Szuster covers...