Bits and Borders

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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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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This episode recaps the top stories in the Brazil crypto market from Sept 11-15, 2023

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

You can connect with Daniel on Linkedin and you can learn more about Metamask Institutional here

Check out Metamask Learn for great Web3 educational content

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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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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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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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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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On this edition of the BCR Weekly Recap, AWS and co-host Antonio Neto look at the week's big stories, including:

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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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