Bits and Borders

By Aaron Stanley

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Episodes: 193

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From digital assets to tokenization to artificial intelligence, Bits and Borders explores the growth of frontier technology in frontier markets

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#186: Unbundling the SuperApp with Robson Silva of Pods
Jun 19, 2026
#185: Unlocking Stablecoin Liquidity with Checker CEO Jack Chong
Jun 10, 2026
#184: David Z. Morris on SBF and the Collapse of Effective Altruism
Jun 05, 2026
#183: Tokenized Credit for Brazil's Creative Economy with DUX
May 26, 2026
#182: Live from Merge Sao Paulo: Staking Goes Global with Figment's Sthefano Batista
Apr 01, 2026
#181: Live from Merge Sao Paulo: Agentic Commerce with Rodrigo Coelho of Edge & Node
Mar 26, 2026
#180: Why Brazil is a Blockchain Talent Hub with Owen Healy
Mar 12, 2026
#179: BRL Stablecoin Deep Dive with Rodrigo Trindade of Iporanga Ventures
Dec 31, 2025
#178: Can Crown Become the Circle of Brazil? with John Delaney
Dec 18, 2025
#177: No Place to Hide: Brazil's New Crypto Tax Regime with Thiago Barbosa
Dec 14, 2025
#176: What's ACTUALLY Driving Stablecoin Adoption in Latam? With Justin Norman
Dec 01, 2025
#175: Inside BRL1 - Brazil's Liquidity Layer with Thomaz Teixeira and Ben Reid
Nov 19, 2025
#174: Winners and Losers of Brazil’s New VASP Rules with Carlos Russo and Cesar Carvalho
Nov 15, 2025
#173: Tokenized Credit: Brazil's Next Export with Paulo David of AmFi
Nov 11, 2025
#172: Brazil's Oranje Pill with Gui Gomes
Oct 29, 2025
#171: Can Stablebonds Bring Brazil On-Chain? with David Taylor of Etherfuse
Oct 22, 2025
#170: Tokenizing Brazil: Onigiri Capital's $50 Million Bet
Oct 17, 2025
#169: Live from Stellar Meridian 2025: Stablecoins for Local Solutions and Global Impact
Oct 02, 2025
#168: How KAST Became Latam's Stablecoin Neobank with Raagulan Pathy
Sep 30, 2025
#167: The Latam Road to Devconnect with Nathan Sexer and Romina Sejas
Sep 25, 2025
#166: Thamilla Talarico on Drex and Polygon's Growth in Brazil
Sep 16, 2025
#165: Stablecoins Reshaping Global Commerce - Onsite from the Bitso Stablecoin Conference
Sep 12, 2025
#164: Avenia's Matheus Moura on Why Every Company Will Be a Financial Services Company
Sep 05, 2025
#163: Base in Brazil with Guilherme Bettanin
Aug 27, 2025
#162: Drex Without Blockchain? Exploring the Road Ahead with Gustavo Cunha and Marcos Sarres
Aug 20, 2025
#161: DATCOs and Bitcoin Liquidity with FalconX's David Lawant and Josh Barkhordar
Aug 14, 2025
#160: Bitcoin Smart Contracts on Botanix with Alisia Painter
Aug 09, 2025
#159 The Asia <-> Latam Stablecoin Corridor with Reap co-founder Daren Guo
Aug 02, 2025
#158 Tony Volpon on Bitcoin, Macro and Real Estate Tokenization in Brazil
Jul 18, 2025
#157: The Stablecoin 10x Opportunity with ParaFi Capital's Josh Solesbury
Jul 10, 2025
#156: Inside Tanssi's Appchain Thesis with Thiago Rüdiger
Jul 02, 2025
#155 Tokenized Money & Real World Payments with Caio Barbosa
Jun 26, 2025
#154: Brazil’s Crypto Taxman Cometh with Daniel de Paiva Gomes
Jun 18, 2025
#153: Alameda, FTX & The On-Chain Fraud Trail with Lucas Nuzzi
Jun 13, 2025
#152: Why Latam's Stablecoin Game is Just Beginning with Sebastian Serrano
Jun 06, 2025
#151: Brazil's Stablecoin Reckoning
May 20, 2025
#150 Bits & Borders: To Infinita and Beyond with Niklas Anzinger
May 08, 2025
Live from Web Summit Rio: Crypto's Dark Side: Can We Stop Money Laundering?
May 08, 2025
#149: Last Call for Brazil's Crypto Market with Tatiana Guazzelli and Marcos Rocha
Apr 30, 2025
#148: Blockchain for 2050 with Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard
Apr 23, 2025
Live from Merge Buenos Aires: Innovate or Adapt? How Traditional Finance is Embracing Crypto and Blockchain
Apr 18, 2025
#147: From Hedge Funds to Tokenized Investing with Lucas Danicek
Apr 15, 2025
#146: Brazil’s First Digital Bank Embraces Crypto, with Bruno Grossi
Apr 09, 2025
#145 Sphere's "Stablecoin Sandwich" Comes to Latam, with Arnold Lee
Apr 02, 2025
#144 Crypto in Brazil: A Gringo's Perspective
Mar 27, 2025
#143: Making Sense of Crypto Market Turbulence with Andre Portilho
Mar 19, 2025
#142 Uniting Europe and Latam with Web3, feat. Merge CEO Paula Pascual
Mar 13, 2025
#141: Drex Test Drive: Takeaways from Brazil's CBDC Pilot
Mar 05, 2025
#140: Binance's Path to One Billion Users with CMO Rachel Conlan
Feb 26, 2025
#139: A Pop-Up City Comes to Florianopolis with Jean Hansen and Victor Cioffi
Feb 18, 2025
#138: Unlocking Financial Innovation in Brazil with Fenasbac
Feb 12, 2025
#137: Bits & Borders: Crypto's Potential in Guyana with Tony Edward
Feb 06, 2025
#136: Live from Brazil House at World Economic Forum
Jan 31, 2025
#135: FTX 2 Years On with Antonio Neto (Part 2)
Jan 24, 2025
#134: FTX 2 Years On with Antonio Neto (Part 1)
Jan 17, 2025
#133: Why 2025 Could be Hathor's Breakout Year with Marcelo Brogliato and Yan Martins
Jan 11, 2025
#132: Crypto's Liquidity Surge with David Lawant of FalconX
Dec 21, 2024
#131: Guilherme Nazar on Binance's Latam Roadmap
Dec 19, 2024
#130: Crypto and Financial Empowerment with Wei Zhou
Dec 12, 2024
#129: Is Brazil Slamming the Door on Stablecoins? with Rodrigo Borges
Dec 04, 2024
#128: Bitcoin is Macro Now with Noelle Acheson
Nov 29, 2024
#127: Avalanche's Third Way with Emin Gün Sirer
Nov 20, 2024
#126: Brazil's Licensing Regime Takes Shape with Tatiana Guazzelli
Nov 15, 2024
#125: Brazil Inches Towards Crypto Regulatory Clarity with Nicky Dyskant
Nov 13, 2024
#124: Bitcoin is Inevitable with Samson Mow
Nov 13, 2024
#123: What US elections mean for crypto markets with Hashdex's Samir Kerbage
Oct 29, 2024
#122 : From the Peruvian Jungle to Crypto PR with Saul Hudson
Oct 24, 2024
#121: Transfero Goes Global with Juliana Felippe
Oct 17, 2024
#120: Brazil's Blockchain Network with Gladstone Arantes of BNDES
Oct 11, 2024
#119: Inside Argentina's Aleph City and Crecimiento Movement with Matthias Broner of ZKsync and Mili Santamaria
Sep 30, 2024
#118: Crypto Media in Latam with Pedro Solimano of The Defiant
Sep 27, 2024
#117: Inside El Dorado - Latin America's Stablecoin SuperApp
Sep 19, 2024
#116: How QR Asset Launched the World's First Solana ETF
Sep 12, 2024
#115: Outlier Ventures' New Latam Accelerator with Aron van Ammers
Aug 27, 2024
#114: Bitcoin Mining from Brazil to the US with Rudá Pellini
Aug 22, 2024
#113: Rethinking the Monetary Stack with Luca Prosperi and João Reginatto of M^0
Aug 02, 2024
#112: Web3 in Financial Services with Rita Martins
Jul 17, 2024
#111: Argentina's Crecimiento with Diego Fernandez
Jul 11, 2024
#110: Hyperledger in Brazil with Daniela Barbosa
Jul 05, 2024
#109: How Brazil Became the World's Hottest Online Gambling Market
Jun 27, 2024
#108: Will Gaming Be Brazil's Killer Web3 App? with Skale's Jack O'Holleran and Andrew Saunders
Jun 24, 2024
#107: Drex Delays 😱 What Happens Next?
Jun 18, 2024
#106: Drex for Gringos with Leandro Pereira Sciammarella and Rafael Castaneda
Jun 13, 2024
#105: Crypto Beyond Trading with Edward Woodford
Jun 11, 2024
#104: Onsite at Web Summit Rio: Crypto Adoption in Latam with Marlyson Silva and Daniel Marquez
Jun 07, 2024
#103: Crypto Crime in 2024 with Chainalysis' Gurvais Grigg
Jun 02, 2024
#102: How Crypto ETFs are Moving the Industry Forward with Marcelo Sampaio and Bernardo Srur (PORTUGUESE)
May 28, 2024
#101: Yat Siu on How Airdrops, Memecoins and NFTs Transform the Brand-Consumer Relationship
May 21, 2024
#100: Onsite at Web Summit Rio with Yan Martins
May 17, 2024
#99: Brazil's Crypto Media Scene with Gino Matos
May 08, 2024
#98: Blockchain Adoption across Latin America with Luiz Hadad
Apr 19, 2024
#97: Will the Modular Thesis Prevail? with João Kury
Apr 11, 2024
#96: Can Argentina Be Fixed? with Michael J. Casey
Apr 04, 2024
#95: Mercado Bitcoin wants to tokenize R$1 billion in assets in 2024
Mar 29, 2024
#94: New Tax on Offshores Cryptos Kicks in: Separating Fact from Fiction with Thiago Barbosa
Mar 20, 2024
#93: The Latin Life Arbitrage
Mar 13, 2024
#92: Luca Cosivi previews ETHSamba and Rio Onchain Week
Mar 06, 2024
#91 Onsite at ETH Denver with João Zecchin, Thiago Rudiger and Bruno Maia
Mar 01, 2024
#90: East Meets West as OKX Bets Big on Brazil, with Jason Lau and Guilherme Sacamone
Feb 28, 2024
#89: Sleeping Giant Awakens? Coinbase's 2024 Brazil Strategy with Fábio Plein
Feb 20, 2024
#88: Bitget Builds in Brazil with Vugar Usi
Feb 16, 2024
#87: Inside Drex - Brazil's Revolutionary CBDC with Fábio Araujo
Feb 09, 2024
#86: Itaú's Digital Asset Playbook with Guto Antunes
Feb 06, 2024
#85: On Technophilosophy with Rafael Castaneda
Jan 22, 2024
#84: Going Bankless in 2024 with Rocelo Lopes
Jan 12, 2024
#83 Web3 Gaming in Brazil with Helo Passos
Jan 06, 2024
#82: 🏆 2023 Most Influential Reveal
Dec 21, 2023
#81: Bacen's Crypto Asset Consultation is Live - What Comes Next? with Alessandra Rossi Martins
Dec 15, 2023
#80: Xapo Bank: A Look Inside Bitcoin's "Swiss Bank" with Seamus Rocca
Dec 13, 2023
#79: Unlocking Crypto for Brazil's US$1.5 trillion Investment Fund Industry
Dec 01, 2023
#78: Argentina's Next Steps with Daniel Rybnik and Júlian Colombo
Nov 25, 2023
#77: Unpacking Javier Milei's Worldview with Sebastian Serrano
Nov 24, 2023
#76: Credix Wants to Bring Blockchain-Based Financing to 100,000 SMEs in 2024
Nov 14, 2023
#75: How Chainalysis Sees Brazil's Crypto Economy with Kim Grauer
Nov 10, 2023
#74: Paxos Makes its Brazil Push, w/ Michael Coscetta
Nov 07, 2023
#73: Daniel de Paiva Gomes on Why Brazil's Crypto Tax Regime is Among the Best in the World
Nov 04, 2023
#72 BRLA: A Look at Brazil's Newest Stablecoin
Oct 25, 2023
#71: Inside the Drex Stack with Microsoft's João Aragão Pereira
Oct 19, 2023
#70: Brazilian Congress Calls for Binance Indictments: What Happens Next?
Oct 11, 2023
#69 Onsite at Blockchain Rio with Alexandre Adoglio of Sonica
Oct 11, 2023
#68: Onsite no Blockchain Rio com Dan Yamamura do Fuse Capital
Oct 07, 2023
#67: Onsite at Blockchain Rio with Jean-Michel Guillot of Dinamo Networks
Oct 05, 2023
#66: Onsite no Blockchain Rio com Rodrigoh Henriques do Fenasbac
Oct 01, 2023
#65: Onsite at Blockchain Rio with Taynaah Reis
Sep 27, 2023
#64 Bringing Trust to Crypto Data with Lukka CEO Robert Materazzi
Sep 21, 2023
Binance's Nazar in the Hot Seat: Weekly Recap Sept 11-15
Sep 17, 2023
#63: Metamask Institutional in Brazil with Consensys' Daniel Lynch
Sep 17, 2023
#62: Building Institutional Rails with Marcos Viriato, CEO of Parfin
Sep 12, 2023
Brazil Crypto News Roundup: Aug 28 - Sept 1
Sep 03, 2023
#61 Does Brazil's SEC Believe in Crypto? with Maria Gabriela Damiani
Sep 02, 2023
#60: Mayra Siqueira on Algorand in Latam and Binance's Early Days in Brazil
Aug 30, 2023
Weekly Recap: Central Bank Suspends Lift Lab, Delays Digital Real (Drex) Pilot
Aug 26, 2023
#59: Why a US Bitcoin ETF is Further Off than You Think with Bruno Ramos de Sousa
Aug 23, 2023
#58 Nicole Dyskant on Drex, Incoming Regulation and Security Tokens
Aug 17, 2023
#57 How iGaming is Driving Crypto Payments Adoption in Latam with Paysafe's Leandro Pereira
Aug 09, 2023
#56 Bringing Web3 Education to Brazil with Rai Auad
Aug 04, 2023
#55 Gean Chu on Honey Island Capital's new Web3 fund
Jul 28, 2023
#54: Tackling Crypto's Custody Crisis with Arculus
Jul 21, 2023
#53: Onsite at Digital Finance Brasil: Crypto and Fintech Worlds Collide
Jul 14, 2023
#52 Onsite at Digital Finance Brasil with Renan Kruger of Santander Brasil
Jul 05, 2023
#51 Onsite at Consensus 2023 with Rodrix Digital
Jun 28, 2023
#50: Measuring Crypto Sentiment in Brazil with Cryptum's Andre Salem
Jun 20, 2023
#49 Inside the SEC's War on Crypto with Lewis Cohen and Nikhilesh De
Jun 15, 2023
#48 Onsite at Consensus 2023 with Guilherme Santana of Preservaland
Jun 13, 2023
Onsite no Criptorama Brasilia: Porque Custôdia Importa com Juliana Walenkamp do BitGo
Jun 12, 2023
#47: Chainalysis's Jonathan Levin on Bringing Trust to Brazil's Crypto Economy
Jun 09, 2023
#46: Tokenizing Real World Assets with Alex Nascimento
Jun 06, 2023
#45 Inside TC Cripto with Jorge Souto and Paulo Boghosian of Traders Club
Jun 01, 2023
BTG Pactual's Stablecoin Play with Andre Portilho
May 25, 2023
Fortune's Leo Schwartz on Brazil's Unlikely Bid to Become a Global Crypto Hub
May 20, 2023
Hashdex's Master Plan with Bruno Ramos de Sousa
Apr 28, 2023
Binance Under Fire in Brazil with Cláudio Rabin
Apr 21, 2023
Onsite at Ethereum Rio with Jorge Borges of Fireblocks
Apr 18, 2023
Mercado Bitcoin's Rony Szuster on the Ethereum Shapella upgrades
Apr 11, 2023
Bitso's Brazil Gambit with Daniel Vogel and Thales de Freitas
Mar 31, 2023
Bitgo's Brazil Custody Play with Juliana Walenkamp
Mar 28, 2023
Can a Digital Real Transform Brazil's Economy? w/ Paulo Alves and João Zecchin
Mar 22, 2023
Why Brazil is Leading the Way on Asset Tokenization with Maurício Magaldi
Mar 17, 2023
Digital Real Deep Dive with Gustavo Cunha
Mar 09, 2023
Brazil's Last Bitcoin Pyramid? The Rise and Fall of Braiscompany
Mar 01, 2023
Why a Shared Brazil-Argentina Currency is NGMI with Hashdex's João Marco Braga da Cunha
Feb 15, 2023
Brazil's New Crypto Law: Behind the Scenes with Bitso's Karen Duque and Mercado Bitcoin's Julien Dutra
Feb 12, 2023
Axel Blikstad on How BLP Crypto Escaped the FTX Collapse Unscathed
Dec 06, 2022
Andre Franco on What the FTX Collapse Means for Crypto in Brazil
Nov 17, 2022
Isac Costa Breaks Down the Brazil SEC's New Crypto Asset Guidance
Oct 18, 2022
How SingularityDAO Became One of Brazil's Most Popular Crypto Projects
Oct 15, 2022
Garrett Kinsman on Why Nodle Wants to Onboard 1 Million Brazilian Users this Year
Oct 11, 2022
🎙Latam Crypto Roundup with Andres Engler: Crypto Loans, El Salvador, Mining, CVM Enforcement
Oct 03, 2022
CoinGecko's Bobby Ong on Why Brazilians Love GameFi Tokens and Meme Coins
Sep 27, 2022
Maxim Piessen on How Credix is Building a Decentralized Credit Marketplace
Sep 23, 2022
Renata Rodrigues on How Paxful is Bringing Bitcoin to Underserved Communities in Brazil
Sep 20, 2022
Mila Rioja on How Celo is Bringing Financial Opportunity to Brazil
Sep 14, 2022
Conor Brady Previews Ethereum São Paulo
Aug 21, 2022
Guilherme Rebane on Why Brazil Has the Most Developed Digital Asset Markets in the World
Aug 17, 2022
Isac Costa on Why Brazil Crypto Legislation May Not Pass This Year
Aug 12, 2022
Tatiana Sampaio Previews the Blockchain Rio Festival
Jul 30, 2022
UFC Fighters Matheus Nicolau and Luana Pinheiro on Getting Paid in Bitcoin (em Português)
Jul 19, 2022
Sabrina Tachdjian on How Hedera is Supporting Financial Inclusion in Latam and Elsewhere
Jul 15, 2022
Ray Nasser on Why Brazil Could Soon Be an Attractive Place for Bitcoin Miners
Jul 06, 2022
João Zecchin on Brazil's First Crypto-Specific Venture Fund
Jul 02, 2022
Yield Products, Exchanges and Consumer Protection in Latam with Kirill Gertman
Jun 29, 2022
Understanding Binance's Brazil Payment Troubles with Saori Honorato
Jun 24, 2022
Onsite at Consensus 2022 with Bitso CEO Daniel Vogel
Jun 17, 2022
Mauricio Magaldi of 11:FS on Why Brazil's Crypto Bill May Be Harmful to Startups
Jun 06, 2022
Building a Web3 Community in Brazil with Conor Brady
May 24, 2022
Building a Crypto Talent Pipeline in Brazil with Zé Paulo of Crypto Jr.
May 17, 2022
The Block's Kristin Majcher on Covering Crypto in Latam
May 13, 2022
Andrés Engler on Crypto M&A in Brazil
May 05, 2022
Kim Grauer of Chainalysis on Brazilian On-Chain Trends
Apr 30, 2022
Mercado Bitcoin's Moment with Fabrício Tota
Apr 23, 2022
Crypto Derivatives in Brazil with Renan Moraes Ramos of Deribit
Apr 18, 2022
Paulo Alves of InfoMoney on Rio de Janeiro's Crypto Gambit and the Brewing Binance vs Coinbase Showdown in Brazil
Apr 10, 2022
Why Brazil's Crypto Scene is Poised for Growth with Antonio Neto of FTX
Feb 25, 2022