Arrived 3:35 and getting inside soon @ViewFromTheQ

Amazing work by @aveniaio

Massive growth in BRLA transfer volume, highlighted by a16z When users combine BRLA onboarding with Gnosis Pay spending, they get a simple path from crypto to real-world payments, anywhere Visa is accepted. That’s what our partners are offering and Brazilians are loving it.

A @a16zcrypto acabou de citar o BRLA — stablecoin de real emitido pela @aveniaio, que saiu do zero pra US$ 400M/mês em 3 anos. Curiosidade que talvez tu não saiba: o Picnic foi o primeiro protocolo a integrar BRLA. E está com a gente até hoje. É a infra por trás do nosso Dólar sem spread no Pix. Pra cima 🇧🇷 🚀 Quer ganhar 1 mês de Claude Pro ou ChatGPT Plus? Comente "BRLA" 👇

Honored to see $BRLA featured in @a16zcrypto's latest report on what stablecoins are becoming. From near zero in early 2023 to ~$400M/month in transfer volume by early 2026. built on top of PIX, Brazil's instant payments network. The a16z thesis nails it: stablecoins are global by design, but increasingly local in practice. I'd add one more layer to the thesis: stablecoins are becoming the single, homogeneous substrate to build financial products on, anywhere in the world. One stack, every market. That's what we're building at @avenia_io. Congratulations @rhackett & @jeremyzhang for the work 🙏

Monthly transfer volume in BRLA — a Brazilian real-backed stablecoin — has grown from near zero in early 2023 to roughly 400M/month by early 2026. Integration with Brazil’s instant payments network PIX has helped drive adoption.

. @0xPolygon adjusted volumes for payments apps grew steadily — from ~$500M per month in early 2025 to over $2B in January 2026. The key drivers of this growth were @aveniaio, @rio_latam, @Revolut, and @blindpay. Particularly notable is the emergence of @tazapay in December–January with a share of over $600M, signaling the active involvement of new major players. Check out our joint report with @AlliumLabs 👇

PARE O QUE VOCÊ ESTÁ FAZENDO E ASSISTA: Uma aula sobre o futuro do dinheiro. GENIUS Act Stablecoin Cambio Crossborder piped.video/watch?v=JtRm83Pv…

Excited to bring @aveniaio to Arc :)

Você é um monstro João Fonseca! Incrível.

It’s funny how often people who’ve never built anything say a company should “optimize for A” or “go all in on B” to boost valuation. The best founders I know don’t optimize for valuation, they are just building great companies.

🇧🇷 PIX is live on ether.fi/cash 💸 Instantly move BRL ↔️ USD — no 3.5% IOF, low fees, fast transfers. • Deposit BRL → auto-converts to USDC • Spend USD & earn 3% back • Pay or send directly via PIX Simple. Secure. Rewarding.

Finance wasn’t built to be interoperable. It grew in silos — local rails, national currencies, fragmented capital markets. Stablecoins are starting to change that. They’ve become the middleware layer of global finance — bridging payment systems, treasury flows, and even sovereign debt markets. Today, issuers like Tether hold over $100B in U.S. Treasuries. More than many governments. And with the GENIUS Act advancing, this role is likely to become formalized. It’s no longer just about faster payments. It’s about programmable, global liquidity, available 24/7. For regions like Latin America, this shift could finally close the gap between local economies and global capital flows. The financial core is being rewritten. On-chain.

When Stripe bets billions on stablecoin infra… it stops being niche. @stripe launched a stablecoin pilot for companies outside the US and Europe, powered by Bridge (a $1B acquisition). But this isn’t about “crypto.” It’s about building a new global liquidity layer — one that moves outside banks and SWIFT, and flows through software. The message is clear: the next race isn’t for banking licenses. It’s for infrastructure. Here in Latin America, that race is already underway. At @aveniaio, we’ve been building this layer from the ground up — with direct connections to LatAm local rails — designed for the realities of this market. And while others are still piloting, we’re already moving volume with real clients under a compliance-first approach. Local context is the real moat. And that’s where we’re focused. Thinking about… what happens when stablecoins become the default?

Stablecoins aren’t the future. They’re the present. At Avenia, we move millions across LatAm without banks, FX desks or SWIFT. Next stop: Stablecon NYC. If you believe programmable money is eating finance, let’s connect.

Today marks a turning point for us. BRLA Digital is now @aveniaio. When we launched BRLA, our goal was clear: simplify cross-border payments using stablecoins. The BRLA token was essential: it helped us validate the product, gain regulatory traction, and process over $500 million in volume across more than 2 million transactions. But we've grown. And with that growth comes a bigger ambition. That’s why the brand is changing. Avenia comes from avenida - a word that evokes flow, movement, and passage. It works in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. It’s familiar, yet global. And it captures what we’re building: an open, neutral, and programmable network for money to move freely between systems, currencies, and geographies. Our ambition is simple: become the foundational layer for cross-border payments in Latin America. This new brand is just the beginning of that next chapter.

You’re building a fintech. Your product is global. Real-time. API-first. But your infrastructure? Legacy banks. So here’s what happens next: -> Onboarding takes 3 weeks — and a signed letter from your CEO (no joke) -> KYC is manual. You send documents. Twice. Then again because “they didn’t upload properly” -> FX reference rate? You find out the day after the transfer -> Settlement? They say Friday. They don’t say which one -> Support? Open a ticket. Pray for a reply before your next sprint review Now scale that to 5 countries. Try launching features on top. Try reconciling payments and delighting users. - Your roadmap stalls. - Your CAC balloons. - Your margin becomes a rounding error. Fintechs aren’t slow by design. They’re slowed by default - when they rely on banking rails from the last century. It’s not just inefficient. It’s incompatible. That’s why infra matters. The next generation of financial products won’t be built on top of legacy rails. It’ll be built without them… and we’re already there. Thursday, 22th, we'll have some news. Stay tuned.

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Early in my career, I thought pretending to know everything would make me look smarter. It didn’t. It cost me time, learning, and trust. I spent days stuck on a cash flow report I didn’t know how to solve — dodging, making excuses. When I finally said “I’m struggling”, the partner just replied: “Let’s do it together then.” We solved it in under an hour. What stuck with me wasn’t the task. It was how much I lost by avoiding the truth. High performers don’t fake it. They just ask better questions.

🚨 X Space: Brazil's Stablecoin Reckoning Brazil’s Central Bank has proposed several stringent regulations for stablecoin transfers as part of a forthcoming crypto regulatory regime These include: - Restrictions on sending stablecoins to wallets controlled by non-Brazilian citizens - A ban on transferring stablecoins from regulated exchanges to self-hostied wallets Our roundtable of experts will discuss these proposed rules and their implications When: Friday, May 16, 2025 Time: 10:00am EDT Speakers: - @mmourabrla, CEO of @BRLAdigital - @AntonioNetoVEGA, Latam Growth Lead at @SolanaFndn - @michae2xl of @zcashbrazil - Guilherme Rebane, Partner at @nonco_otc - Julia Rosin, Head of Public Policy at @Bitso Brasil - Cesar Carvalho, Partner at Baptista Luz Advogados - Carlos Russo, CEO at Bluegreen - @AaronWStanley, founder of 🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report