Brazil is #1 in @chainalysis's 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index, ahead of the US.
#2 in cross-border flows. A $252.5B crypto economy. LatAm growth driven by stablecoins.
@tracefinance is spearheading it: $15B+ moved on our rails. Much more to come.
chainalysis.com/blog/2026-gl…
Crypto's breadth beats the S&P 500's. But this rally is running on ETFs, not stablecoins, and that matters.
If stablecoin supply grows again, the base is solid. If ETFs remain the only engine, it is vulnerable.
My take in @CoinDesk, via @godbole17: coindesk.com/daybook-us/2026…
Trace Finance is a @money2020 Money Awards finalist in two categories: Payments & Commerce and Infrastructure.
Regulated rails for stablecoins, built for emerging markets. Winners announced live in Las Vegas on October 18.
Proud of this team.
money2020.com/awards/finalis…
Trace Finance is a @money2020 Money Awards finalist in two categories: Payments & Commerce and Infrastructure.
Regulated rails for stablecoins, built for emerging markets. Winners announced live in Las Vegas on October 18.
Proud of this team.
money2020.com/awards/finalis…
Great to see @tracefinance recognized as one of the leading stablecoin companies in the US, on the US Stablecoin Ecosystem Map 2026 by Chiara Munaretto (@stablecoininfo) and @notabene_id.
40+ companies, 8 categories. We are in on and off ramps.
Much more to come.
The CLARITY Act failed in the Senate. A huge setback for our industry, not a fatal one.
Without a clear SEC/CFTC line, founders keep operating on hope instead of rules, and institutional volume stays sidelined.
Talking to @murtuza_merc for Yellow.com:
The CLARITY Act stalling in the Senate is not a hit to crypto natives, it is a penalty on TradFi.
Prediction markets called it early, tanking odds from 90% to 18%. Degens and offshore desks trade through regulatory gray zones regardless. The actual casualties are traditional banks that need a legal permission slip before committing balance sheet capital.
Without a clear CFTC line, institutional volume stays sidelined and RWA secondary liquidity stays broken. US politics does not freeze global crypto, it just hands market share to Singapore and the UAE.
yellow.com/news/clarity-act-…
Wrote in @DecryptMedia that stablecoins won't scale without banks. Judging by my inbox since it ran, the market agrees: banks, payment companies and global enterprises are all figuring out stablecoin flows.
Need banking infrastructure behind yours? Happy to chat. DMs open.
Cross-border payments: $208T a year.
Stablecoins settle ~$390B of it.
The bottleneck is not the chain. It's the banking layer on both ends.
I wrote about why stablecoins won't scale without banks for @decryptmedia.
decrypt.co/377280/stablecoin…
🎙️ New episode! @bebrites (Trace Finance) joins @SteveCleanBrook to break down how $10B+ in cross-border payments proved stablecoins + real bank rails beat stablecoins alone.
Catch the convo!
Catch @flex4blox at @TheTieIO's Out East Summit next week, where he'll join a panel covering one of the industry's current tensions: Should blockchain builders be optimizing for mass adoption or for the institutional capital that could bring in the next trillion dollars?
THE STARTING BLOCK:
"Money and assets will become productive because of the blockchain."
@coinfund managing partner @pakman says the future of global economics will be to deliver yield to idle money holders in a fundamental change to payments and markets.
LATEST: ⚡️ Stablecoin infrastructure firm Trace Finance raised $32M in a Series A led by CoinFund, with Coinbase Ventures, Paxos, and Chainlink Labs among participants.
Trace Finance raised $32M USD Series A, led by @CoinFund.
We're scaling regulated banking + stablecoin settlement across the US, Brazil, and APAC.
$10B+ already moved. Here's the story 🧵