Brazil Crypto Report
By Aaron Stanley
Brazil Crypto ReportAug 04, 2023
#99: Brazil's Crypto Media Scene with Gino Matos
Gino Matos is one of Brazil's OG crypto journalists - currently working at Crypto Briefing with previous stints at CoinTelegraph Brasil and CriptoFacil. He's also the host of the Papo de Pelicano podcast. We discuss the evolution of Brazil's crypto media landscape, balancing the need for deeper reporting vs click-bait price stories
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#98: Blockchain Adoption across Latin America with Luiz Hadad
Luiz Hadad is a blockchain researcher at Sherlock Communications, where he publishes a comprehensive annual report on blockchain adoption in Latin America. In this conversation, we discuss the key findings of the 2024 edition of the report.
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#97: Will the Modular Thesis Prevail? with João Kury
João Kury is the co-founder of Modular Crypto, which provides Portuguese language educational content about Web3 technology. In this conversation, we discuss João's learnings from ETH Denver, the current state of the modular vs monolithic blockchain rivalry, and his work to bring more local language content and meetups to Brazil.
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#96: Can Argentina Be Fixed? with Michael J. Casey
Michael J. Casey is a renowned journalist, author and speaker in the blockchain and cryptocurrency world. He has served as Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk, an advisor to the MIT Media Lab and Digital Currency and as a capital markets reporter at Wall Street Journal.
also He spent six years in Argentina covering financial markets during the 2000s, an experience that led him down the bitcoin rabbit hole.
He is also the co-author of Our Biggest Fight, a new book about seizing back control of the internet from corporate power
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#95: Mercado Bitcoin wants to tokenize R$1 billion in assets in 2024
Fabricio Tota is the head of new business at Mercado Bitcoin. In this episode we discuss MB's push to tokenize R$1 billion worth of assets in 2024, how the exchange weathered the bear market, and the recent surge in memecoin volume
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#94: New Tax on Offshores Cryptos Kicks in: Separating Fact from Fiction with Thiago Barbosa
Thiago Barbosa is an attorney with Salles Nogueira Advogados and an expert on crypto taxation issues in Brazil. In this episode, we discuss a new law mandating that income derived from crypto assets held with overseas exchanges or custodians be taxed at a 15% clip. We dive into the nuances, misconceptions and problems resulting from this rule change.
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#93: The Latin Life Arbitrage
Vance is the founder of My Latin Life, a platform that has been helping gringos navigate life in Latin America for more than a decade. We talk about how crypto and remote work has opened the door for North Americans and Europeans to pursue life in Latin America in the post-Covid era.
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#92: Luca Cosivi previews ETHSamba and Rio Onchain Week
Luca Cosivi is one of the organizers of Rio Onchain Week, which is a Web3 builder-focused series of events happening March 19-24. The week is being modeled after Devconnect, the popular developer-focused conference hosted by the Ethereum Foundation.
Luca explains how the week will feature numerous builder-focused community events, with the second annual ETHSamba hackathon as the capstone.
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#91 Onsite at ETH Denver with João Zecchin, Thiago Rudiger and Bruno Maia
Today we have a Brazil-focused ETHDenver roundtable featuring Fuse Capital João Zecchin, Tansi Head of Growth Thiago Rudiger and Cartesi Head of Business Development Bruno Maia
We discuss the vibe at this year's event and how it compares to prior years, major event themes like DePIN, RWAs, airdrop farming and modular vs monolithic blockchains
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#90: East Meets West as OKX Bets Big on Brazil, with Jason Lau and Guilherme Sacamone
Jason Lau is Chief Innovation Officer and Guilherme Sacamone is Director General for Brazil at OKX, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges specializing in spot and derivatives trading. We discuss OKX's 2024 push into emerging markets across the Latam region, as well as its new product suite which includes a Web3 wallet, an Ordinals marketplace and a forthcoming Layer 2 blockchain
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#89: Sleeping Giant Awakens? Coinbase's 2024 Brazil Strategy with Fábio Plein
Fábio Plein is regional managing director for the Americas at Coinbase, where he overseas the exchange's operations in Canada, Brazil and the rest of the region outside of the US.
In this conversation, we discuss Coinbase's go-to-market and expansion plans for Brazil, its approach to navigating Brazil's regulatory environment and Fabio's previous experience operationalizing Uber in Brazil
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#88: Bitget Builds in Brazil with Vugar Usi
Vugar Usi is the Chief Operating Officer of Bitget, which is one of the world's largest crypto exchanges - most recognized for its partnership with football superstar Lionel Messi. In this conversation, we discuss Bitget's push to expand its presence in Brazil and Latin America in 2024
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#87: Inside Drex - Brazil's Revolutionary CBDC with Fábio Araujo
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 this interview, Araujo provides a comprehensive overview of the project and its ambitions, while giving an update on the 2024 roadmap ahead.
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#86: Itaú's Digital Asset Playbook with Guto Antunes
Guto Antunes is head of digital assets at Itaú, which is Brazil's largest bank. In this episode, we discuss talk about the bank's four-pronged strategy to digital assets in 2024. This touches tokenization, custody, the recently launched ion crypto brokerage and the Drex CBDC project.
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#85: On Technophilosophy with Rafael Castaneda
Rafael Castaneda is a computer scientist, professor, community builder and self-described "techno-philosopher" sitting at the intersection of technology, ethics and futurism. He is the founder and host of the popular "Casta Crypto" channel and the Casta Guild, which provides Web3 training and education for its members. In this expansive conversation we discuss how crypto enables new forms of human socio-political coordination, market trends for 2024, Brazil's Drex CBDC project. This episode is not to be missed!
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#84: Going Bankless in 2024 with Rocelo Lopes
Rocelo Lopes is a veteran bitcoin miner, payments executive and one of Brazil Crypto Report's 2023 Most Influential selections. In this episode, we discuss his experience operating Latam's first commercial bitcoin mining operation in Paraguay, and his current project Smartpay - which allows users to send and receive payments in USDT using Brazil's popular Pix instant payment network.
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#83 Web3 Gaming in Brazil with Helo Passos
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 for 2023 for her contributions to building and advancing Brazil’s blockchain gaming space.
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#82: 🏆 2023 Most Influential Reveal
In this episode, we reveal the results of our 2023 Most Influential Series. With your input, we identified the 10 individuals who had the most impact on the Brazil crypto and digital asset world in 2023.
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#81: Bacen's Crypto Asset Consultation is Live - What Comes Next? with Alessandra Rossi Martins
Alessandro Rossi Martins is a partner at Machado Meyer Advogados, where she looks after the firm's crypto and fintech practice. In this episode, we discuss the Brazilian Central Bank's public consultation for crypto asset regulation, which was released Thursday, December 14. We dive into the content, objectives and next steps of the BC's rulemaking process for regulating crypto markets and VASPs in Brazil.
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#80: Xapo Bank: A Look Inside Bitcoin's "Swiss Bank" with Seamus Rocca
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. In this episode, we talk about how the iconic company has transformed itself into a full-service bitcoin native banking operation for global clients
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#79: Unlocking Crypto for Brazil's US$1.5 trillion Investment Fund Industry
Alexandre Vasarhelyi is the chief investment officer at BLP Crypto, which is Brazil's oldest crypto-native investment fund. In this episode we discuss CVM Resolution 175, which streamlines the process for Brazilian investment funds keen allocate into bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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#78: Argentina's Next Steps with Daniel Rybnik and Júlian Colombo
The co-founder of ONG Bitcoin Argentina and the CEO of Bitso Argentina discuss what the Javier Milei presidential administration could mean for the country's crypto economy
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#77: Unpacking Javier Milei's Worldview with Sebastian Serrano
Sebastian Serrano is the CEO of Ripio, one of Latin America's largest and longest-running crypto exchanges. In this episode, we discuss Javier Milei's surprise victory in Argentina's presidential election. Serrano argues that Milei is not necessarily a "bitcoiner" or even "pro-bitcoin", but rather his libertarian views and Austrian school economics background overlap significantly with the traditional bitcoiner worldview.
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#76: Credix Wants to Bring Blockchain-Based Financing to 100,000 SMEs in 2024
Thomas Bohner is the CEO of Credix, which is a decentralized credit marketplace that connects institutional investors with fintechs and non-bank lenders in Brazil and Latin America.
The company now enables more than 10,000 small borrowers, primarily in Brazil but also in Colombia and Mexico, to access US$40 million in loans that would have otherwise been unattainable or unaffordable.
Thomas’ ambitious goal for 2024 is to grow Credix’s loan book to US$100 million and provide financing to 100,000 SMEs by the end of the year
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To learn more about how Credix functions, I highly recommend having a listen to my interview with CTO Maxim Piessen from August 2022
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#75: How Chainalysis Sees Brazil's Crypto Economy with Kim Grauer
Kim Grauer is the director of research at Chainalysis, where she authors the blockchain analytics firm's annual Geography of Cryptocurrency report. This report is the most comprehensive analysis of crypto usage and adoption around the world, and provides incredible insights into the growing crypto economy in Brazil and Latin America. We discuss the methodology behind the report and Kim's key findings
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#74: Paxos Makes its Brazil Push, w/ Michael Coscetta
Michael Coscetta is chief revenue officer at Paxos, a blockchain and digital asset infrastructure platform valued at US$2.4 billion as of its last fundraise in 2021. In this episode, we discuss Paxos's enterprise infrastructure solutions that cater to large, regulated financial companies by offering services like white label stablecoins, tokenization, custody and trading. We also discuss why Brazil and Latin America are now among the firm's key growth markets in the coming years
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#73: Daniel de Paiva Gomes on Why Brazil's Crypto Tax Regime is Among the Best in the World
Daniel de Paiva Gomes is an attorney and one of the leading experts on crypto taxation issues in the Brazilian market. In this episode, we discuss why Brazil's taxation regime for cryptocurrencies is one of the most developed in the world, and why concerns over a new piece of tax legislation moving through Congress are likely overstated
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#72 BRLA: A Look at Brazil's Newest Stablecoin
Lucas Giorgio and Matheus Moura are on the founding team at BRLA Digital, which is building solutions for onboarding new crypto users in the Brazilian market, including BRLA, a new BRL-pegged stablecoin. We discuss why the team pivoted away from building a CVM-regulated crypto fund in favor of creating a stablecoin, the challenges foreign companies face when looking to onboard Brazilian users and why there is room in the market for competing BRL-pegged stablecoins
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#71: Inside the Drex Stack with Microsoft's João Aragão Pereira
João Aragão Pereira is a senior technology specialist at Microsoft, focusing on financial services in Latin America. João has been heavily involved in the architecture of Brazilian Central Bank's Drex CBDC project, as well as other CBDC projects being developed by other countries around the world.
In this episode, we discuss Microsoft's involvement in Drex, particularly how its Regulated Liability Network structure could facilitate interoperable and secure transactions with tokenized assets on the platform
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#70: Brazilian Congress Calls for Binance Indictments: What Happens Next?
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 against the the financial system, among others.
To help us better understand the committee’s recommendations and next steps, I am joined by Portal do Bitcoin reporter Fernando Martines and Mercado Bitcoin executive Daniel Cunha.
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#69 Onsite at Blockchain Rio with Alexandre Adoglio of Sonica
Alexandre is CEO of Sonica, a no-code platform for building and deploying Web3 products. We discuss the growing popularity of no-code platforms, the need for such tooling in the world of Web3, the product market fit of NFTs and loyalty tokens when used correctly, and why he isn't concerned about the current downturn in the NFT market
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#68: Onsite no Blockchain Rio com Dan Yamamura do Fuse Capital
Dan Yamamura is a partner at Fuse Capital, a Web3 venture firm based out of Rio de Janeiro. In this special Portuguese language crossover episode with Felipe Cabral of the Let's Crypto Podcast, we talk to Dan about his Web3 investment outlook during this bear market, how Fuse its sticking to its core principles instead of chasing easy money, and he why he's decided to focus on Brazil specifically for investment opportunities right now instead of other parts of Web3.
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#67: Onsite at Blockchain Rio with Jean-Michel Guillot of Dinamo Networks
Jean-Michel Guillot is head of product for blockchain and digital assets at Dinamo Networks, a digital security firm that provides the cryptographic solutions used in PIX and other payments technology. In this episode, recorded onsite at Blockchain Rio in September, we discuss Dinamo's role in the Drex pilot, in securing 150 million Pix transactions per day and in its broader play across crypto and Web3.
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#66: Onsite no Blockchain Rio com Rodrigoh Henriques do Fenasbac
Nesse especial episodio "crossover" do Brazil Crypto Report e Let's Crypto, Felipe e eu falamos con Rodrigoh Henriques - director da innovação do Fenasbac. Rodrigoh e o equipe dele tem sido muito envolvido nas todas areas da innovação financeira promulgado pelo Banco Central do Brasil - comecando com Open Finance, Pix e agora Drex. Rodrigoh discuta o papel do Fenasbac e o LIFT Challenge - que realmente funciona como um CBDC sandbox pra testar novos produtos e serviços no ecosistema do Drex.
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#65: Onsite at Blockchain Rio with Taynaah Reis
Taynaah Reis is a Brazilian coder, entrepreneur and activist. In this episode, we discuss how she learned to code at 12 years old, started her first company at 16, and her various entrepreneurial initiatives making use of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. These include Moeda Seeds - a crypto-powered microcredit platform that was one of the first crypto projects in Brazil, financial education platform Inkluziva and O2 Foundation - which is building a carbon credit marketplace.
Taynaah was a named a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer in 2023
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#64 Bringing Trust to Crypto Data with Lukka CEO Robert Materazzi
Robert Materazzi is CEO of Lukka, which is a unicorn crypto data services company valued at US$1.3 billion. 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. In this conversation, we discuss Lukka's product suite, growth trajectory and interest in the Brazil market
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Binance's Nazar in the Hot Seat: Weekly Recap Sept 11-15
This episode recaps the top stories in the Brazil crypto market from Sept 11-15, 2023 Articles discussed here include: - "Binance says it is a “victim” of pyramids; CPI wants a list of the brokerage’s 700 biggest clients" via Portal do Bitcoin - "Coinbase to push for ‘global consensus’ on crypto rules through G20 in Brazil" via The Block - "Brazil has fallen in the global ranking of cryptocurrency adoption, says Chainalysis" via Portal do Bitcoin - "Transfero obtains payment institution license from the Central Bank" via Valor - "Crypto Startup Ramp Adds Brazilian Central Bank's Pix as Payment Method" via CoinDesk - "Hashdex files for SEC registration of spot ether ETF alongside Nasdaq" via Valor - "DREX completes 500 operations in 50 days and should reach the population in 2025, says BC" via Portal do Bitcoin - "Digital real has first public securities transactions between banks" via Valor
#63: Metamask Institutional in Brazil with Consensys' Daniel Lynch
Daniel Lynch is head of Metamask Institutional partnerships at Consensys and also looks after sales and business development for Brazil and Latam. In this episode, we discuss the results of a recent survey conducted by Consensys exploring Brazilians' attitudes towards Web3, and adoption for both Metamask and Metamask Institutional in Brazil
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Be sure to take a look at Consensys' State of Web3 Perception Around the World report published earlier this year
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Check out Metamask Learn for great Web3 educational content
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#62: Building Institutional Rails with Marcos Viriato, CEO of Parfin
Marcos Viriato is CEO of Parfin, a leading Web3 and blockchain infrastructure firm in Latin America. A former partner at BTG Pactual, Marcos believes that mass institutional adoption of crypto and blockchain-based assets will need to occur on permissioned networks and solutions. With its Parfin Terminal, tokenization, and MPC and crypto-as-a-service offerings, Parfin is providing this infrastructure for institutions in the region and around the world.
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Brazil Crypto News Roundup: Aug 28 - Sept 1
AWS and Antonio dissect the week's biggest stories from the Brazil crypto universe. Stories in this week's episode include:
- Central Bank announces that the rollout of crypto regulations will be delayed until the first half of 2024
- First Drex testnet transaction executed; onboarding woes continue
- Hashdex enters the US bitcoin ETF race with clever backdoor maneuver
- CVM (Brazil's SEC) rejected an offer from Binance to settle allegations that it illegally offered crypto derivatives products to Brazilian customers
- Banco do Brasil and AgroToken are partnering to integrate tokenized commodities (RWAs) on the bank's Broto agribusiness marketplace
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#61 Does Brazil's SEC Believe in Crypto? with Maria Gabriela Damiani
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. In this episode we discuss the CVM's approach to digital asset regulation and how it differs from the approaches take by other countries. We also dive into some thorny discussion topics such as the line between investor protection and consumer protection, the legality of fixed-income tokens and Brazil's interpretation of the Howey Test
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#60: Mayra Siqueira on Algorand in Latam and Binance's Early Days in Brazil
Mayra Siqueira is the Brazil community manager for the Algorand Foundation. In this episode we discuss Mayra's trajectory from journalism, to being Binance's first employee in Brazil and then ultimately to working on Algorand - a Layer 1 blockchain developed by renowned computer scientist and Turing Award winner Silvio Micali
We discuss the variety of use cases and applications being built on Algorand in Latin America, including tokenized commodities and NFT airplane tickets, and the types of programs and support Algorand Foundation offers for builders and developers in the region.
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Weekly Recap: Central Bank Suspends Lift Lab, Delays Digital Real (Drex) Pilot
On this edition of the BCR Weekly Recap, AWS and co-host Antonio Neto look at the week's big stories, including:
- the Brazilian Central Bank's surprise announcements that it will suspend its Lift Lab accelerator program and delay the first phase of its Digital Real (Drex) pilot by three months
- Binance's launch of Binance Pay in Brazil and cancelation of its debit card partnership with Mastercard
- The CPI committee on financial pyramids' relentless pursuit of celebrities and influencers that promoted cryptocurrency pyramid schemes
- BTG Pactual is launching a new prime custody service targeted at institutions
- Lula renews his push for a de-dollarized world by pushing a single BRICS currency
- A data breach at FTX, adding insult to injury to former clients
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#59: Why a US Bitcoin ETF is Further Off than You Think with Bruno Ramos de Sousa
Bruno Ramos de Sousa is head of US and Europe at Hashdex, one of the largest crypto asset managers in the world that offers ETFs and other exchange traded products in several markets. Contrary to the prevailing market narrative that a bitcoin ETF approval in the US is imminent, Bruno argues that landscape in the US has not fundamentally changed despite recent filings by Blackrock and other large TradFi players.
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#58 Nicole Dyskant on Drex, Incoming Regulation and Security Tokens
Nicky Dyskant 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 (formerly Digital Real), the crypto regulatory framework currently being developed by the Brazilian Central Bank and the current environment for security tokens and fixed income tokens in the country.
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#57 How iGaming is Driving Crypto Payments Adoption in Latam with Paysafe's Leandro Pereira
Leandro Pereira is head of growth for Latam at Paysafe and a 10 year veteran of the Brazil crypto scene.
We discuss Leandro’s trajectory in the ecosystem and Paysafe's payments infrastructure in the region, which includes a digital wallet, debit and credit card products and APIs for connecting alternative payment methods. Paysafe's crypto payments stack also provides fiat on and off-ramp services, which has seen uptake among igaming and internet casino operators in the region.
We also talk about Borderless Money, a DeFi for charity project that Leandro co-founded that donates yield generated in DeFi protocols to social causes.
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#56 Bringing Web3 Education to Brazil with Rai Auad
Rai Auad is one of the top independent Web3 educators and content creators in Brazil. In this episode we talk about how Rai got her start in crypto via Axie Infinity and other crypto games in 2021 before quitting her job at Itaú to become a full-time content creator in the space. We discuss how she engages her audience across different platforms and channels, as well as the ups and downs of being a YouTube and social media personality.
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#55 Gean Chu on Honey Island Capital's new Web3 fund
Gean Chu is a partner at Honey Island Capital, a Curitiba-based venture firm founded by veterans of Ebanx. In this conversation we discuss Honey Island's fintech investment theses and Gean's new Web3 fund focused on liquid tokens and on-chain strategies like staking, farming and liquidity provision
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#54: Tackling Crypto's Custody Crisis with Arculus
It's been a rough few months for the crypto custody world. Ledger sparked a backlash with a controversial key recovery proposal, regulated custodian Prime Trust was put into receivership by the state of Nevada following allegations it misused customer funds, and Nasdaq backed away from plans to launch its own crypto custody service.
Composecure CPO Adam Lowe joins the show to discuss the crypto custody challenges and potential solutions. Composecure is a leading manufacturer of high-end metal payment cards and authentication technologies. It is also the manufacturer of the Arculus hardware wallet, which features three-factor authentication and military-grade cryptography and focuses on delivering on safety, simplicity and security and and how this solution addresses the crypto industry's ongoing custody woes.
Adam discusses Arculus's dual key solution for retail customers, as well as its B2B white label solution - which has partnerships already established in Asia and Latam.
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#53: Onsite at Digital Finance Brasil: Crypto and Fintech Worlds Collide
This week’s podcast is a recording of a panel I hosted with Thales 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 and fintech in Brazil are quickly converging, be it through Bitso’s efforts to bridge traditional finance with DeFi and CeFi, AB InBev’s loyalty program that uses tokenization and blockchain tech, and the importance of trust in established brands embracing these technologies even in a down market.
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