Me fui de Venezuela. Llegué a Argentina. He vivido la inflación en dos países y de dos formas distintas.
Esa experiencia es la razón por la que hoy construyo infraestructura financiera para fintechs y neobanks en LATAM y África.
Escribí sobre eso en mi más reciente articulo.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
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MetaMask Card has just expanded across Latin America.
13 new countries can now spend crypto directly from their wallet. Anywhere @Mastercard is accepted.
👇
Ahora en el aclamado rodizio brasileño Mocellin Steakhouse, degustando una degustación (valga la redundancia) y pensando en que en Venezuela comía la carne carbonizada.
En Argentina aprendí a comer la carne a punto y ahora en Brasil, a medio término. Un viaje de ida total.
En la foto: vacío, picaña, costilla, bife. Aunque honestamente me dieron tantas cortes que en mi ignorancia son todos increíbles y saben todos igual xd
Escuchen esto, para explicar todo su patrimonio Adorni va a salir a decir que SE ENCONTRÓ UNAS CRIPTOMONEDAS que “había extraviado”
JAJAJAJJAJAJAJ es la peor excusa que escuché en toda mi vida, tiene que ir PRESO ya mismo
Day 2 at @WebSummit, hard not say that @BancodoBrasil has the BEST booth and keynotes:
Open finance, AI, digital assets and more.
Brazilian 🇧🇷 Payments ecosystem keeps getting better and better.
Just landed in Rio de jainero 🇧🇷 Happy to connect with neobanks, fintechs, funds, treasuries, banks and basically anyone building with stablecoins right know. at @blend_money we want to help you to grow your business, compliantly. Sent me a dm, happy to take a coffee!
Rio 🇧🇷 is delivering this week.
We just landed for @WebSummit! If your neobank or fintech holds user balances, idle treasury, or float that isn't working, that's exactly what we built @blend_money for.
Find @criptolawyer at Riocentro or grab a time here.
calendly.com/ana-blend/30min
Entonces tú me estás diciendo que con un mínimo esfuerzo militar se podía empezar a poner orden en las minas? Vaya vaya. Entonces quiere decir que el humanista gobierno chavista siempre quiso mantener ese malandraje allí?
Ya lo advertía la difunta malandra piedad Córdoba.
So happy to spent last 6 hours talking to a bunch of fintechs, digital assets companies and banks in @WebSummit. Definitely learning a lot from each different use cases for traditional business. Highly recommend you guys to go outside Twitter, talk to real people with real problems, people that doesn’t care about the tech behind but instead they problems you solve.
I’ll be at @WebSummit Río tomorrow and if you’re building financial products for Latin America, Brazil is where the infrastructure story gets interesting
🇧🇷 Pix launched in 2020
by 2024 it was processing 68.7 billion transactions a year, 80% more than Visa and Mastercard combined in Brazil
it now accounts for 76.4% of all payment transactions in the country
free for consumers, instant, 24/7, and it costs merchants 0.33% vs 2.34% on card networks
but Pix was built for domestic payments
cross-border was never the plan
except the demand for cross-border Pix was so loud that the Central Bank is now actively building Pix Internacional, linking Brazilian rails to instant payment systems across Latin America and beyond
Argentines 🇦🇷can already use Pix in Brazil through their local banking apps, 37 banks connected
the opportunity for fintechs and neobanks is real
remittance corridors into Brazil still cost 2 to 7% all-in, 3 to 5 business day settlement through correspondent banking
stablecoins have been filling that gap fast
Brazil processed $78 billion in stablecoin transactions in 2024, ranked 5th globally in crypto adoption, with 90% of that volume in stablecoins
Nubank embedded USDC as a core product, one in four new crypto investors chose it as their first holding
BTG Pactual launched a bank-issued dollar-backed stablecoin specifically to eliminate cross-border FX friction for Brazilian clients
and then the Central Bank moved
BCB Resolution 561 bans eFX providers from using stablecoins to settle cross-border remittances, effective October 2026
stablecoin transfers are now classified as FX transactions, subject to the same framework as traditional remittances
unauthorized firms have until May 2027 to get licensed
this is not a ban on stablecoins
it’s Brazil saying: if you want to move money across our borders, you need to be regulated to do it
for compliant operators this is the best possible outcome
clear rules, large market, infrastructure that already works at scale
i think the fintechs that get licensed early in Brazil will have a structural advantage over everyone who waits
the rails are there
the regulation is coming into shape.
“You’re getting uncorrelated premiums from OnRe’s underwriting business and are able to utilize ETH infra to scale exposure.”
@Ayyanrahman on how the OnRe Core Vault on @AccountableData is the best of both worlds 👇