Brazil Crypto Report

Hey everyone! I caught up with Caliza CEO Ezra Kebrab at the Bitso Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City earlier this month. We sat down to discuss how Caliza is helping companies move cross-border supplier and treasury payments, with most volume originating in Brazil and Mexico and flowing to China, Hong Kong, and the US.Kebrab’s path ran through a peer-to-peer wallet startup sold to Square in...

Hi everyone!Robson Silva is Co-Founder of Pods.He joins the show to discuss how DeFi’s lack of traction with retail pushed Pods toward building modular yield infrastructure for Latin America’s neobanks.The conversation was recorded live at the TokenNation event in São Paulo.It lands at a moment when neobanks and traditional banks alike are racing to bolt yield products onto their stacks without...

Hey everyone! Jack Chong is co-founder and CEO of Checker, a stablecoin liquidity network connecting FX banks, payments companies, and neobanks across emerging markets.He joins the show to discuss why the global financial system still runs on duct tape and stitched together solutions, and how Checker is building the connective tissue to fix it.Chong grew up in Hong Kong, studied at Oxford,...

Ola pessoal! For this week’s episode of Bits and Borders, I’m joined by veteran financial journalist and former CoinDesk colleague David Z. Morris.David is the author of Stealing the Future, a post-trial account of the FTX collapse and the effective altruism ideology behind it. He covered the Sam Bankman-Fried criminal trial for Protos and had a front-row seat to the collapse. His reporting at...

This episode marks the first under our new name. Brazil Crypto Report is now Bits and Borders.The rebrand reflects where the conversation has gone. Crypto in Brazil has matured. The regulatory framework is in place, the big banks are in, the infrastructure works. That’s a good thing, but it also means the story has gotten less interesting to tell on repeat.We’ve been thinking about this move for...

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOla pessoal! I had the chance to catch up with Sthefano Batista at Merge Sao Paulo. Sthefano is Head of Latam at Figment, which is the world’s largest provider of institutional staking services with more than $18 billion in assets...

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOla pessoal!At Merge São Paulo, I caught up with Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node, which is the original team behind The Graph protocol.We talked about one of the most exciting intersections in tech right now: agentic...

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOla pessoal!If you want to understand where the blockchain talent market is heading, talk to a recruiter. They’re always six months ahead of the news cycle.Owen Healy of Owen Healy Blockchain Talent proves the rule.The...

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOla pessoal!Rodrigo Trindade is an investor with Iporanga Ventures. He joins the show to discuss his groundbreaking research on local stablecoin adoption across Brazil and Latin America. As both a venture investor and consultant...

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversationOla pessoal!Today’s episode is with John Delaney, co-founder and CEO of Crown - which has quickly become a major player in a Brazilian stablecoin market that is entering a new phase of maturity. John shares how Crown is solving...