Brazil Crypto Report

Fala pessoal! João Zecchin is a co-founder of Fuse Capital, an early-stage investment firm based in Rio de Janeiro. We discuss how the Brazilian venture community is approaching crypto, how Fuse is looking to quickly deploy capital in the "Web 2.5" space with its forthcoming crypto fund, and how institutional investors in Brazil and North America are approaching crypto differently. This conversati...

You can also listen to the Brazil Crypto Report podcast on Spotify ! Fala pessoal! Crypto yield products are in the middle of a maelstrom amid the ongoing woes of Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi and other “CeFi” platforms that promised attractive returns to draw in customer deposits, but have now found themselves (and customer funds) in dire straits. As CeFi bankruptcy and insolvency rumors continue to...

Note: after this podcast was recorded, Binance announced Friday June 24 that BRL deposits and withdrawals would “soon resume” via a new partnership with payment firm Latam Gateway You can also listen to this podcast on Spotify Hello everyone, Binance’s suspension of real deposits and withdrawals last week and the abrupt termination of Capitual, its local payment processor and fiat on/offramp, crea...

Fala pessoal, Happy Friday! I had the opportunity to sit down with Bitso CEO Daniel Vogel at Consensus 2022 last week for an onsite Brazil Crypto Report podcast recording, where we discussed Bitso’s first full year of operation in the Brazilian market. (You can also listen to this on Spotify ) I’ve been fan of Daniel for some time now, so it was a pleasure to finally chat 1:1. In particular, I app...

This podcast is also available on Spotify! Mauricio Magaldi is Global Strategy Director for crypto at 11:FS, a digital banking and financial services consultancy out of London. He's also the host of the BlockDrops and BlockTalks podcasts, plays drums for a heavy metal band, has two cats and advises several startups in the crypto space.  We talk about his path from leading enterprise blockchain eff...

Hello everyone, Greetings from the World Economic Forum at Davos, where I’ve been running around like crazy the last few days. If you’re around please feel free to ping me on Telegram @AaronStanley and we’ll have a chat. I’m a bit delayed in putting out my weekly news recap, but in the meantime I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast with Conor Brady of Ethereum Brasil. You can also listen to this ep...

Zé Paulo is president of the Crypto Jr junior enterprise in Brazil. There are currently more than 1000 junior enterprises in Brazil that connect university students with employers on short-term consulting and job placements. Crypto Jr is the largest such initiative in Brazil focusing on cryptocurrency and Web3 technologies.   As hiring demand in crypto and Web3 reaches a fever pitch, a pipeline fo...

Kristin Majcher is Senior Correspondent for Latin America at The Block , which is a leading crypto news, research and data platform. We discuss Kristin’s first encounter with a crypto ad on a Buenos Aires subway in 2019 and how that metastasized into her becoming a full-time crypto reporter covering the region. Kristin talks about how she’s seeing unprecedented interest in the Brazil crypto market...

🔥🔥🔥 Andrés Engler is Latin America Editor at CoinDesk, where he oversees all coverage of Brazil and the Latam region. We talk about Coinbase's decision to scrap its plans to acquire Mercado Bitcoin and the ramifications this will have on crypto mergers and acquisition activity in Brazil this year. We also chat about pending Brazil crypto legislation and developments in Andrés' home market of Ar...

bd Brazil crypto crew, Last week, I wrote about a new Cryptocurrency Gains by Country report by Chainalysis, a leading blockchain analytics and data company, that explored how crypto investors across different geographies gained in 2021. I was fortunate to host Kim Grauer, Director of Research at Chainalysis, on the Brazil Crypto Report podcast to discuss the methodologies involved in putting toge...

Bom dia everyone - For this week’s episode I had the privilege of sitting down with Fabrício Tota, head of new business at Mercado Bitcoin. As readers will surely know, MB is Brazil's first unicorn crypto exchange, one of the giants of the Latam market and the subject of a myriad of acquisition rumors. We discuss Mercado Bitcoin's explosive growth figures in 2020 and 2021, pending legislation that...

Hello frens - On this latest edition of the Brazil Crypto Report podcast, Renan Moraes Ramos of Deribit joins the show to discuss the growing use of crypto futures and options in Brazil and the rest of Latam. Deribit is by far the largest crypto options trading platform in the world by volume, so I enjoyed hearing from Renan how this segment of the market is evolving in Latam. We talk about Brazil...

I'm joined by Paulo Alves, crypto editor at InfoMoney, to discuss the blitzkrieg of crypto news coming out of Brazil over the last month.  We discuss Rio de Janeiro's ambitions to transform itself into a crypto capital in the region and why that's proving to be more difficult than expected. We also go into CZ's recent charm offensive in Brazil and Binance's plans to formally enter the market, Coin...

👋 bd frens, I’m excited to announce the first ever edition of the Brazil Crypto Report podcast 🎉 In this inaugural edition I sit down with Antonio Neto, the head of Brazil and Latam at FTX. While FTX is seemingly taking over the entire world right now, it has played a quiet yet important role in Brazil over the last couple of years and will undoubtedly be a critical player for years to come. As...