For the fourth consecutive year, BeInCrypto returned to Rio Innovation Week (RIW) with a dedicated stage focused on finance transformation. According to reports from BeInCrypto, the program brought together regulators, executives from major financial institutions, blockchain pioneers, and companies leading financial infrastructure innovation. The stage turned Wednesday morning into a showcase of the agenda now drawing banks, exchanges, and card issuers closer together, as reported by BeInCrypto.
Confirmed participants included representatives from Binance, Visa, Nubank, BNY, Crypto.com, Mercado Bitcoin, Bitso, and other major financial institutions. As reported by BeInCrypto, the program expanded beyond cryptocurrencies to showcase how digital assets and onchain solutions are being incorporated into the traditional financial system. During the event, Thiago Sarandy, general manager of Binance in Brazil, announced Binance Rende+, the platform's first yield product built exclusively for the Brazilian market, yielding 120% of the CDI backed by Treasury bonds with deposits up to ₹100,000. The company also revealed plans to launch a tool in August allowing users to buy more than 7,000 U.S. company shares directly from the platform's app.
The panel 'Money Never Sleeps Again: Stablecoins and the New Global Financial Infrastructure' featured Nelson Leite from Binance, Eduardo Abreu from Visa Brazil, and Sabrina Zaparroli from Nubank, moderated by BeInCrypto's Latin America lead. According to BeInCrypto, Sabrina Zaparroli from Nubank emphasized that "ease of access cannot be confused with the absence of risk" and stressed the need for "combination of innovation with transparency, controls proportional to risk and communication that allows the client to make an informed decision." Eduardo Abreu from Visa highlighted the collaborative nature of the debate, noting the "great experience to see innovation, content and networking with high-level people" from different sectors including exchanges, banks, and issuers.
BeInCrypto launched "The Exodus Economy" report, the first edition of research by BeInCrypto Intelligence mapping how Latin American money finds a new financial home. As reported by BeInCrypto, the study followed 12 years of dollar flows on-chain, wallet by wallet, and audited 60 billionaire addresses against their Forbes profiles. The report reveals that Brazilians hold US$ 654 billion abroad by their own central bank's count, and 26.9 million Latin Americans already live outside their home countries. The study also shows roughly US$ 63.2 billion was sent home to Mexico over the last 12 months, with a crypto rail beside it already running at about half that size. The report was reviewed alongside a Latin American Finance Council including Caio Fasanella from Nomad, Antônia Souza from Visa, Michael Rihani from Nubank, and Bruno Grossi from Banco Inter.
Carlos Xirau, Head of Latin America at BNY, emphasized that "mass adoption of digital assets will depend less on technology and more on the ability to create a robust and reliable infrastructure" capable of meeting demands of investors, companies and financial institutions. The program included 'The next R$10 trillion market. Tokenised equities, electronic trade receivables and the new generation of digital assets' panel with representatives from the Solana Foundation, B3, and Brazilian financial system authorities. According to BeInCrypto, the message from Píer Mauá confirmed that the border between traditional finance and digital assets is growing ever thinner, with the conversation no longer about whether convergence will happen but about how to build it with transparency, user protection, and rules proportional to risk.
