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Paulo David is CEO of AmFi. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss how his platform is revolutionizing access to Brazilian private credit markets through asset tokenization.

As a third-time entrepreneur who previously built and sold two major fintechs including Grafeno, Paulo brings deep expertise in Brazil's capital markets infrastructure. The conversation explores how Brazil's position as having the world's second-highest interest rates creates a unique opportunity to export this yield to global investors through blockchain technology.

Paulo explains how AmFi is addressing critical market inefficiencies including lack of transparency, limited accessibility, and absence of secondary markets that have historically prevented foreign capital from entering Brazilian private credit.

He also discusses the platform's expansion strategy targeting Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and how democratizing access to these high-yield instruments can ultimately reduce borrowing costs and improve credit access for Brazilian businesses.

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Figment is the leading independent provider of staking infrastructure with $18B assets under stake and provides the complete solution for over 1000 institutional clients in Latin America and globally. Through its enterprise-grade infrastructure, Figment enables clients such as banks and exchanges, to earn rewards on Proof-of-Stake assets such as Ethereum and Solana, while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance, and performance.

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Gui Gomes, CEO of OranjeBTC, joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his company's mission to become Latin America's leading Bitcoin adoption catalyst following their recent listing on Brazil's B3 exchange.

Gomes brings a unique perspective shaped by his time at Bridgewater Associates, where working alongside Ray Dalio on global economic power shifts crystallized his conviction that Bitcoin represents the future of reserve currencies.

He outlines OranjeBTC's dual mandate: building the region's largest Bitcoin treasury while delivering comprehensive education to investors at all levels. The company is actively accumulating Bitcoin through weekly purchases and exploring various capital instruments to grow their holdings, similar to strategies pioneered by MicroStrategy.

Gomes shares his vision for Brazil's potential as an early Bitcoin adopter among major economies, arguing that the country's 215 million people could set a transformative example for emerging markets navigating the transition toward digital, decentralized monetary systems.

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David Taylor is the co-founder of Etherfuse. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his mission to bring tokenized sovereign debt on-chain for emerging markets.

Etherfuse is building infrastructure to issue interest-bearing stablecoins backed by short-term government treasuries, providing what Taylor calls the missing primitive in crypto: a true risk-free rate that traditional finance relies on as a baseline for all other investments.

Drawing on his background in cryptography at Boeing and Apple, Taylor explains how his experience building payment infrastructure revealed the fundamental limitations of traditional finance systems.

The conversation explores Etherfuse's focus on non-US markets where regulatory clarity is stronger, their approach to mitigating sovereign and smart contract risks through continuous third-party audits, and why they view tokenized debt as the AWS-level infrastructure needed to properly bridge national currencies to blockchain and unlock the next generation of DeFi products.

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Qin en Looi is managing partner at Onigiri Capital and partner at Saison Capital. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss Onigiri's plans to deploy up to US$50 million of investment capital into Brazil and Latin America.

Why is this Singapore-based VC taking such an interest in Brazil? Qin en explains his thesis that the market is ripe with potential for tokenization, stablecoin, payments and DeFi use cases

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This episode is a live panel from Stellar's Meridian 2025 conference at Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. The panel, hosted by BCR founder Aaron Stanley, explores stablecoin adoption for local solutions in emerging markets.

Joining him are:

- Sebastian Siseles, CEO of Vesseo

- Ibrahim Abdul Hussein, CEO, Digibank

- Camila Rioja, Executive Director of Plexus Institute

- Justin Norman, founder of The Flip

The conversation reveals that successful crypto adoption hinges on deep localization rather than technological sophistication.

- Ibrahim shares how Digibank created a 2,000+ location cash-out network across war-torn MENA regions where traditional remittance services don't exist, serving users who may not even own smartphones.

- Camila discusses bringing Brazil's 180+ existing community currencies on-chain to enhance transparency in public goods distribution without disrupting established systems.

- Sebastian explains how Vesseo abstracts blockchain complexity entirely, soon launching crypto-to-fiat cards that convert USDC at point-of-sale.

The panel's consensus: the most impactful projects hide the technology, solve hyper-local problems, and meet users within their existing financial behaviors rather than demanding adoption of entirely new paradigms

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Raagulan Pathy is CEO of KAST. He joins host Aaron Stanley to discuss his stablecoin neobank that has achieved remarkable traction across emerging markets in a short period.

KAST serves as a bank-like platform for crypto-native users and global remote workers, allowing them to deposit stablecoins and crypto, earn yield, and spend through cards worldwide. Pathy revealed that KAST has reached 500,000 app downloads with exceptional user engagement metrics - 64% weekly active users and 30% daily active users - while growing 20% monthly and processing over $20 million in volume within 14 months.

The platform targets four key customer segments: crypto natives, stablecoin-first users from the Global South, remote workers, and mobile affluent individuals who operate across multiple countries. Latin America represents roughly 30% of KAST's global business, with Brazil being a particularly strong market due to locals seeking global banking alternatives and strong brand affinity for premium crypto products.

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Nathan Sexer is the head of Devcon and Devconnect at Ethereum Foundation, and Romina Sejas runs ETH Kipu - host of the annual ETH Latam event

In this conversation we discuss how Latin America will be the center of the crypto universe this November when Devconnect, the premier Ethereum developer gathering, comes to Buenos Aires and ETH Latam comes to Sao Paulo.

These events will be a coming of age moment for the region as the crypto world grasps the importance and potential of these technologies in places like Brazil and Argentina

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Thamilla Talarico is Head of On-Chain Finance Growth for Brasil at Polygon Labs.

She joins host Aaron Stanley live at the Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City, hosted by Bitso Business. Thamilla discusses Polygon's strategic pivot to focus on RWAs and payments, and shares her firsthand perspective working on the Brazilian Central Bank's Drex project on behalf of Ernst & Young. We dive into what the Bank's decision to abandon blockchain for this project means for the Brazilian market moving ahead.

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This episode was recorded onsite at the Stablecoin Conference 2025 in Mexico City hosted by Bitso Business.

The panel discussion explores how stablecoins have evolved from crypto trading tools to essential infrastructure for global commerce.

- Monica Ramirez (Anchorage Digital)

- Nick Philpott (Zodiac Markets)

- Peter Wexler (Visa)

- Aaron Stanley (Brazil Crypto Report)

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Matheus Moura is CEO and co-founder of Avenia, a stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure platform that aims to reshape money movement across the Americas.

We discuss the thesis that every company will eventually become a financial services company - and how Avenia is building the infrastructure to enable this with their "one API" approach.

You can connect with Matheus on Linkedin

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