News, analysis and interviews exploring the Brazilian crypto market
Lucas Danicek is the founder of Nexa Finance and has over 15 years of experience managing portfolios for some of Brazil’s wealthiest individuals and families. Throughout that journey, he identified a…
In this special episode from Merge Buenos Aires, Bruno Grossi, Head of Emerging Technologies and Digital Assets at Banco Inter, discusses how Brazil's first digital bank is leveraging blockchain tech…
Arnold Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Sphere Labs, which is one of the most exciting stablecoin infrastructure plays at the moment. We talk about how Sphere has found product market fit for cross-b…
Today's episode is a crossover with João Pedro Malar, host of Exame's Future of Money podcast - which is one of the leading crypto podcasts in Brazil
In this Portuguese language discussion, João and I…
Andre Portilho is Head of Digital Assets at BTG Pactual, Latin America's largest investment bank. He joins host Aaron Stanley to dissect crypto's wild 2025 ride, from bitcoin's both Trump-slowdown to…
Paula Pascual is CEO and founder of Merge Madrid and Merge Buenos Aires and a former banker at Santander. She joins host Aaron Stanley to share her vision for uniting Europe and Latin America through…
Phase 1 of Brazil's ambitious Drex CBDC pilot is in the books. The project has proven successful thus far, but privacy and scalability challenges remain - prompting the Central Bank to conclude that …
Rachel Conlan is Global Chief Marketing Officer at Binance. She joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss the crypto's exchange's ambitions to reach one billion users worldwide.
Rachel reveals how Latin Am…
Jean Hansen and and Victor Cioffi are core team members of Ipê City, which is a month-long Pop-Up city experiment coming to Florianopolis from April 22 - May 22.
We discuss their vision for bringing …
Danielle Teixeira is a program manager at Fenasbac, which is linked to the Central Bank of Brazil and runs several startup acceleration programs critical to promoting financial innovation in Brazil.
S…
This episode is the soft-launch of a special mini-series calledBits & Borders that will take us ona country-by-country tour exploring crypto adoption across Latin America. Each episode will spotlight…
This episode is a panel discussion hosted at Brazil House during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The panel was hosted by BCR founder Aaron Stanley and featured Andre Portilho, head of…
Antonio Neto is the founder of Vega Crypto and the CEO of Ethereum Brasil. Previously, he was the Head of Brazil and Latin America at cryptocurrency exchange FTX. In Part Two of this two part convers…
Antonio Neto is the founder of Vega Crypto and the CEO of Ethereum Brasil. Previously, he was the Head of Brazil and Latin America at cryptocurrency exchange FTX. In part one of this two part convers…
Marcelo Brogliato and Yan Martins are co-founders of Hathor, a network that deploys a unique hybrid DAG-blockchain framework. They join host Aaron Stanley to discuss exciting new features and communi…
David Lawant is Head of Research at FalconX, a leading institutional crypto prime brokerage in the US. He joins host Aaron Stanley to talk about crypto market structure heading into 2025, notably the…
Guilherme Nazar is Regional VP for Latam at Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his previous experience building out Uber's operations in Braz…
Wei Zhou is the CEO of Coins and the former CFO of Binance. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his recent acquisition of Coins.ph - the Philippines' oldest and most successful crypto exchange and…
Rodrigo Borges is a partner at Carvalho Borges Araujo Advogados in Sao Paulo. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss a newly proposed rule by the Brazilian Central Bank to prohibit crypto exchanges f…
Noelle Acheson is an expert analyst focusing on the intersection of crypto and macroeconomy. She was previously head of research at CoinDesk and led institutional research efforts at Genesis Trading,…