This episode is a panel discussion hosted at Brazil House during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The panel was hosted by BCR founder Aaron Stanley and featured Andre Portilho, head of digital assets at BTG Pactual; Caroline Malcolm of Oxford University; Dante Disparte, chief strategy officer at Circle and Alan Cohn, partner at Steptoe, LLC in Washington, DC

We discuss institutional adoption of digital assets in the country, stablecoin adoption and regulations, Drex, and then these trends into what we're seeing happening in Europe, the United States and elsewhere

00:00 Introduction and Panel Overview

03:06 BTG Pactual's Perspective on Institutional Adoption

04:12 Global Regulatory Framework Discussion

09:05 Stablecoins and Financial Innovation

13:15 USDC Adoption in Brazil

17:50 US-Brazil Regulatory Relations

21:23 US Political Landscape Impact on Crypto

29:39 Brazilian Real and Dollar-Denominated Assets

32:40 Stablecoin Trust and Banking Integration

38:02 Central Bank Digital Currencies and Drex

42:09 Self-Custody Wallet Regulations

47:46 Brazil's FX Regulation Evolution

51:04 Drex Deep Dive

54:18 Brazil's Digital Payment Innovation

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