<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[W Fintechs Newsletter]]></title><description><![CDATA[An in-depth analysis of the financial innovation market. Every Monday. 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As the name suggests, unlike deep dives, these editions will explore a variety of topics that might later evolve into full deep-dive editions.</p><p><em>Short Takes is designed for entrepreneurs, investors, and operators looking for quick, actionable insights.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png" width="1456" height="303" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:303,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2074834,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/i/200970585?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>Digital assets: the financial flywheel starts spinning</h4><p>Stablecoins have a market capitalization of roughly $300 billion today. Tokenized real-world assets, on the other hand, were still at around $0.02 trillion in 2025, a figure that barely registers on most people&#8217;s radar. That gap is what made me stop and take a closer look at BCG&#8217;s <em>The Future of Digital Assets</em> report.</p><p>The report&#8217;s core idea is not particularly complicated, but it is easy to overlook. Tokenized money and tokenized assets grow together because each reinforces the other. Programmable money speeds up the settlement of assets that are themselves programmable, which in turn creates greater demand for a form of money that can move at the same speed. BCG calls this dynamic the tokenization flywheel, and what caught my attention is that it is already turning in very tangible parts of the market. HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Citi, and Deutsche Bank have already tested tokenized deposits. On the asset side, roughly $10 billion in U.S. Treasuries are now tokenized, while tokenized commodities nearly quadrupled in a year, rising from $1 billion to $4 billion between January 2025 and January 2026.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8tup!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ec56977-c97b-456b-a5b5-6afe6d0f9e63_1406x976.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8tup!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ec56977-c97b-456b-a5b5-6afe6d0f9e63_1406x976.png 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17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>By 2035, even under BCG&#8217;s most conservative scenario, digital RWAs could reach $88.2 trillion. That is close to 16% of all RWAs worldwide. Securitized debt, corporate bonds, and money market instruments account for a large share of that figure. Going from almost zero to that kind of scale in a decade is not a minor spreadsheet detail. It is the kind of shift that forces banks to rethink how they issue assets, provide custody, and use collateral.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!asK3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2845025e-10ea-43b8-91ae-3c14889929e3_1414x978.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!asK3!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2845025e-10ea-43b8-91ae-3c14889929e3_1414x978.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!asK3!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, 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17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Not everything in this space is moving at the same pace, by the way, and I think that is one of the most common sources of confusion when people talk about digital assets as if they were a single category. Crypto already generates meaningful revenue from trading and custody. That is established. Stablecoins are competing for space in payments, treasury, and settlement right now, in real time. Tokenized RWAs are the slowest piece of the puzzle, the one that takes longer to gain traction, but they are also the only piece that truly rewrites the architecture of issuance, custody, servicing, and collateral across capital markets. This slower-moving layer is where I believe much of the real long-term value sits.</p><p>The numbers behind it help explain why large banks are paying attention. In investment-grade bonds, the estimated efficiency gains from DLT range from $40 million to $60 million for every $100 billion issued. The upside is even greater in collateral and liquidity management, where a bank handling $100 billion in repo transaction volume could capture between $150 million and $300 million per year. J.P. Morgan and Broadridge already have live platforms running tokenized repo transactions. These are not pilot projects anymore. They are in production.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nY3w!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e43c875-34a7-48f8-8dfa-5ea1da2ea89f_1418x886.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nY3w!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e43c875-34a7-48f8-8dfa-5ea1da2ea89f_1418x886.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nY3w!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, 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/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e43c875-34a7-48f8-8dfa-5ea1da2ea89f_1418x886.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I think one mistake many incumbent banks still make is assuming they need to choose between defending transaction banking revenue today and chasing this new wave tomorrow. They do not. What they need is to build strategic optionality now, quantify the potential savings across each business line, and strengthen their wallet and custody capabilities, because value is moving away from pure intermediation and toward whoever controls the interface and the orchestration of this new financial rail.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" width="1456" height="303" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:303,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2081439,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/i/200970585?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>The stablecoin dilemma facing credit unions</h4><p>Credit unions depend on member deposits. That is their funding, their liquidity, and the foundation of the entire model. This is why the rise of private digital money is not an IT problem that can simply be handed off to a technical committee. It is a direct threat to the financial engine of the credit union itself. The World Council of Credit Unions recently published a white paper on this, <em>How Digital Money Is Impacting Credit Unions</em>, and it offers a useful framework for understanding four forms of digital money: traditional deposits, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and CBDCs, each with its own issuer, legal status, and degree of programmability.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q_Tk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5665939-71c6-4b2e-b620-2d3b0c59eb41_1298x922.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q_Tk!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The distinction that matters most for a credit union, in my view, is legal status. Traditional deposits and tokenized deposits remain liabilities of a bank. A stablecoin such as USDC or USDT does not. It is a private liability issued by a technology company and sits entirely outside the balance sheet of any member-funded institution.</p><p>There is one risk in the report that I thought was particularly well named: <em>silent attrition</em>. The member does not close the account. The relationship still appears to be there. But a growing share of their financial activity moves to a third-party wallet or platform. In practical terms, the credit union loses exactly the payment behavior data that supports underwriting and credit origination, without any obvious churn number ever showing up in a report.</p><p>Regulation does not make things much easier on either side of the Atlantic. In the United States, the GENIUS Act creates a potential path through CUSOs for credit unions to participate in issuance. In Europe, MiCA places broadly similar regulatory requirements on issuers regardless of size, which in practice raises the barrier to entry for the very cooperative model that may need the most room to compete.</p><p>The real advantage credit unions still have is trust and local proximity, something that is difficult to replicate in a market increasingly dominated by platforms. The report argues that this could become the safest entry point into digital finance for members who still do not trust digital wallets, and that makes sense to me.</p><p>But that advantage only turns into revenue if credit union boards stop treating the topic as an educational presentation at the end of the quarter and start incorporating digital asset readiness scenarios into real capital and liquidity stress testing. They need to make a clear choice about whether they want to act as a parent, issuing their own stablecoin; as a partner to an established issuer; or as a pipe, simply facilitating access to existing rails. Each of those three paths requires a different level of capital, technology, and risk appetite. And it is the indecision between them, rather than the stablecoin itself, that today represents the greatest risk to the cooperative model.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Until the next!</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>If you know anyone who would like to receive this e-mail or who is fascinated by the possibilities of financial innovation, I&#8217;d really appreciate you forwarding this email their way!</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, Walter Pereira, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors, partners, or clients of <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#176: Short Takes: O flywheel dos ativos digitais começa a girar; o dilema das cooperativas de crédito diante das stablecoins]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #176]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/176-ptbr</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/176-ptbr</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Pereira]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:48:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59pP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaa6214-8475-46c7-a4ee-586ed7e39f56_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>English Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/176-en">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073;A <em>W Fintechs</em> &#233; uma newsletter focada em inova&#231;&#227;o financeira. 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operadores que querem insights r&#225;pidos.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>Ativos digitais: o flywheel financeiro come&#231;a a girar</h4><p>Stablecoins somam cerca de US$ 300 bilh&#245;es em capitaliza&#231;&#227;o de mercado hoje. Ativos do mundo real tokenizados, por outro lado, ainda est&#227;o em algo como US$ 0,02 trilh&#227;o em 2025, um n&#250;mero que praticamente n&#227;o aparece no radar de ningu&#233;m. Foi esse descompasso que me fez parar para ler com calma o relat&#243;rio The Future of Digital Assets, da BCG.</p><p>A ideia central do relat&#243;rio n&#227;o &#233; complicada, mas costuma passar despercebida. Dinheiro tokenizado e ativos tokenizados crescem juntos porque um alimenta o outro. Dinheiro program&#225;vel acelera a liquida&#231;&#227;o de ativos que tamb&#233;m s&#227;o program&#225;veis, e isso cria mais demanda por um tipo de dinheiro capaz de acompanhar essa velocidade. A BCG deu nome a esse movimento, flywheel da tokeniza&#231;&#227;o, e o que me chamou aten&#231;&#227;o foi ver que ele j&#225; est&#225; girando em peda&#231;os concretos do mercado. HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Citi e Deutsche Bank j&#225; testaram dep&#243;sitos tokenizados. Do lado dos ativos, cerca de US$ 10 bilh&#245;es em treasuries americanas est&#227;o tokenizadas, e commodities tokenizadas praticamente quadruplicaram em um ano, saindo de US$ 1 bilh&#227;o para US$ 4 bilh&#245;es entre janeiro de 2025 e janeiro de 2026.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8tup!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ec56977-c97b-456b-a5b5-6afe6d0f9e63_1406x976.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8tup!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Isso &#233; perto de 16% de todos os RWAs existentes no mundo. D&#237;vida securitizada, t&#237;tulos corporativos e instrumentos de mercado monet&#225;rio puxam boa parte dessa conta. Sair de quase zero para uma escala dessas em uma d&#233;cada n&#227;o &#233; um detalhe de planilha, &#233; o tipo de mudan&#231;a que obriga banco a repensar como emite, custodia e usa colateral.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!asK3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2845025e-10ea-43b8-91ae-3c14889929e3_1414x978.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!asK3!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2845025e-10ea-43b8-91ae-3c14889929e3_1414x978.png 424w, 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Crypto j&#225; &#233; receita relevante em trading e cust&#243;dia, isso j&#225; &#233; fato consumado. Stablecoins est&#227;o brigando por espa&#231;o em payments, treasury e settlement agora, em tempo real. RWAs tokenizados s&#227;o a pe&#231;a mais lenta de todas, a que demora mais para engatar, mas tamb&#233;m a &#250;nica que de fato reescreve a arquitetura de emiss&#227;o, cust&#243;dia, servicing e colateral em capital markets. &#201; aqui, nessa pe&#231;a mais lenta, que est&#225; o valor de verdade no longo prazo.</p><p>Os n&#250;meros por tr&#225;s disso ajudam a justificar por que bancos grandes est&#227;o prestando aten&#231;&#227;o. Em investment grade bonds, a efici&#234;ncia estimada por DLT fica entre US$ 40 milh&#245;es e US$ 60 milh&#245;es a cada US$ 100 bilh&#245;es emitidos. O ganho &#233; ainda maior em collateral e liquidity management, onde um banco com US$ 100 bilh&#245;es em volume de opera&#231;&#245;es compromissadas pode capturar entre US$ 150 milh&#245;es e US$ 300 milh&#245;es por ano. J.P. Morgan e Broadridge j&#225; t&#234;m plataformas ao vivo rodando opera&#231;&#245;es compromissadas tokenizadas, n&#227;o &#233; projeto piloto, &#233; produ&#231;&#227;o.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nY3w!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e43c875-34a7-48f8-8dfa-5ea1da2ea89f_1418x886.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nY3w!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e43c875-34a7-48f8-8dfa-5ea1da2ea89f_1418x886.png 424w, 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N&#227;o precisa escolher. 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>O dilema das cooperativas de cr&#233;dito diante das stablecoins</h4><p>Cooperativa de cr&#233;dito vive de dep&#243;sito de membro. &#201; esse o funding, &#233; essa a liquidez, &#233; a base inteira do modelo. Por isso a ascens&#227;o do dinheiro digital privado n&#227;o &#233; um problema de TI que d&#225; para empurrar para um comit&#234; t&#233;cnico resolver, &#233; uma amea&#231;a direta ao motor financeiro da cooperativa. O World Council of Credit Unions lan&#231;ou um white paper sobre isso, &#8220;How Digital Money Is Impacting Credit Unions&#8221;, e o documento faz um mapeamento &#250;til de quatro formas de dinheiro digital, dep&#243;sito tradicional, stablecoin, dep&#243;sito tokenizado e CBDC, cada uma com emissor, status legal e grau de programabilidade pr&#243;prios.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q_Tk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5665939-71c6-4b2e-b620-2d3b0c59eb41_1298x922.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q_Tk!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>A diferen&#231;a que mais pesa para uma cooperativa, na minha leitura, &#233; a de status legal. Dep&#243;sito tradicional e dep&#243;sito tokenizado continuam sendo passivo do banco. Uma stablecoin como USDC ou USDT n&#227;o, ela &#233; passivo privado de uma empresa de tecnologia, totalmente fora do balan&#231;o de qualquer institui&#231;&#227;o financiada por membros.</p><p>Tem um risco no relat&#243;rio que achei particularmente bem nomeado, silent attrition. O membro n&#227;o fecha a conta, continua l&#225;, mas passa a fazer boa parte da movimenta&#231;&#227;o financeira em uma wallet ou plataforma de terceiros. O resultado pr&#225;tico &#233; que a cooperativa perde justamente o dado de comportamento de pagamento que sustenta underwriting e origina&#231;&#227;o de cr&#233;dito, sem que nenhum n&#250;mero de churn apare&#231;a em relat&#243;rio nenhum.</p><p>A regula&#231;&#227;o, ali&#225;s, n&#227;o ajuda muito quem est&#225; dos dois lados do Atl&#226;ntico. Nos Estados Unidos, o GENIUS Act abre um caminho via CUSO para que credit unions participem da emiss&#227;o. Na Europa, a MiCA trata qualquer emissor com o mesmo peso regulat&#243;rio de banco grande, sem distin&#231;&#227;o, o que na pr&#225;tica levanta a barreira de entrada exatamente na frente do modelo que mais precisaria de espa&#231;o para competir.</p><p>O que sobra de vantagem real para as cooperativas &#233; confian&#231;a e proximidade local, coisa dif&#237;cil de replicar num mercado tomado por plataforma. O relat&#243;rio aposta que isso pode virar a porta de entrada mais segura para quem ainda desconfia de wallet digital, e faz sentido. Mas isso s&#243; vira receita se board de cooperativa parar de tratar o assunto como palestra educativa de fim de trimestre e come&#231;ar a colocar cen&#225;rio de digital asset readiness dentro do stress test de capital e liquidez de verdade, escolhendo com clareza se vai atuar como parent, emitindo a pr&#243;pria stablecoin, como partner de um emissor j&#225; estabelecido, ou como pipe, s&#243; facilitando acesso a rails que j&#225; existem. Cada um desses tr&#234;s caminhos pede capital, tecnologia e apetite de risco diferentes. 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4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Welcome to the <em>Short Takes</em> edition! As the name suggests, unlike deep dives, these editions will explore a variety of topics that might later evolve into full deep-dive editions.</p><p><em>Short Takes is designed for entrepreneurs, investors, and operators looking for quick, actionable insights.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>Revolut&#8217;s growth algorithm is still not slowing down</h4><p>Revolut closed 2025 with &#163;4.5 billion in revenue, representing 46% year-over-year growth, or 57% in U.S. dollar terms, and maintaining a 76% CAGR since crossing the US$1 billion revenue mark in 2022.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Even then, the comparison favors Revolut, which operates in a mature European banking market, unlike Nu, which is expanding across emerging markets that previously had lower levels of banking penetration. Profit before tax increased 57% to &#163;1.7 billion, with a 38% margin, while ROE reached 35%, even though the company was operating with less capital than the minimum required by regulators.</p><p>This growth is no longer supported by a single product. Revolut currently reports six revenue streams: interest income, card payments, wealth, foreign exchange, subscriptions, and other revenue. None accounts for more than 22% of total revenue, and eleven different products already generate more than &#163;100 million in standalone revenue. Fees and commissions represent 76% of revenue, compared with 22% from interest income. This is the reverse of a traditional bank, which typically generates 70% or more of its revenue from interest on lending. This revenue mix allows Revolut to maintain a high ROE even during a cycle of falling interest rates, something that would normally hurt a conventional bank. On the customer side, its user base reached 68 million, more than SoFi, Robinhood, Dave, and Chime combined. 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Revolut&#8217;s loan-to-deposit ratio ended 2025 at approximately 6%, compared with 70% to 90% for established banks, while its loan portfolio still doubled during the year. The number of users treating Revolut as their primary account increased by 45%, almost twice the overall rate of user growth. This matters because primary-account users spend and save approximately twice as much as secondary users transact through the platform.</p><p>As a reference point for its potential ceiling, Barclays&#8217; consumer and business banking operation in the United Kingdom generates an ARPU of approximately &#163;435 per customer, compared with the &#163;72 currently reported by Revolut. The application for a banking charter in the United States is another interesting part of this maturation process. It shows that the company is repeating the same playbook that already worked in Europe: entering through foreign exchange services, expanding into a full-service bank, becoming the customer&#8217;s primary account, and monetizing the relationship through credit.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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The announcement came six months after Mastercard cut 4% of its own workforce for the same stated reason: improving efficiency.</p><p>The move adds Visa to a list that already includes PayPal, with 4,800 job cuts representing 20% of its workforce, Block, with 4,000 cuts representing 40%, Intuit, with 3,000 representing 17%, Coinbase, with 700 representing 14%, Paytm, with 400 representing 1%, and Bolt, with 250 representing 33%, since January of this year. These figures are based on data compiled from Layoffs.fyi, Layoffhedge.com, Reuters, and Bloomberg. What separates this cycle from a traditional cost-cutting crisis is that both Visa and Mastercard reported strong financial results during the same quarter in which they announced the layoffs. This suggests capital reallocation rather than cash preservation.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qvzy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b8e7725-8bf9-4c8f-b6a9-ceeb6eb98ae0_632x620.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qvzy!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b8e7725-8bf9-4c8f-b6a9-ceeb6eb98ae0_632x620.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qvzy!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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He cited consumer payments, commercial money movement, and value-added services, a category that includes stablecoins, cross-border payments, and B2B payments. At Mastercard, CFO Sachin Mehra attributed the decision to an internal strategic review. The affected areas at both companies are primarily technology and product. This reinforces the view that these cuts are not simply broad operational reductions. They represent a reallocation of headcount away from maintaining card infrastructure and toward building rails capable of supporting payment initiation by AI agents.</p><p>The question for anyone operating a checkout experience today is whether the infrastructure was designed only for human buyers or whether it can also support an agent initiating a purchase on someone&#8217;s behalf. In Brazil, this transition may happen with less friction than in card-based markets because Pix and Open Finance already provide the necessary programmable rails. One interesting recent example was O Iniciador&#8217;s launch of the first Open Finance payments MCP for AI models. When two networks the size of Visa and Mastercard decide to reduce product teams to fund agentic commerce during the same quarter in which they report record profits, it suggests that the market already views this volume as relevant in the near term, rather than as a long-term research bet.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Until the next!</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>If you know anyone who would like to receive this e-mail or who is fascinated by the possibilities of financial innovation, I&#8217;d really appreciate you forwarding this email their way!</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, Walter Pereira, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors, partners, or clients of <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#175: Short Takes: A Revolut criou um algoritmo de crescimento próprio para disputar espaço com outros neobanks; por que Visa e Mastercard cortam vagas para pagar agentes]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #175]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/175-ptbr</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/175-ptbr</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Pereira]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:21:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59pP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaa6214-8475-46c7-a4ee-586ed7e39f56_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>English Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/175-en">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073;A <em>W Fintechs</em> &#233; uma newsletter focada em inova&#231;&#227;o financeira. 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>O algoritmo de crescimento da Revolut ainda n&#227;o desacelerou</h4><p>A Revolut fechou 2025 com receita de &#163;4,5 bilh&#245;es, um crescimento de 46% no ano (57% em d&#243;lares), sustentando um CAGR de 76% desde que cruzou a marca de US$1 bilh&#227;o em receita, em 2022. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Nesse grupo restrito de fintechs de consumo que j&#225; passaram desse patamar, s&#243; o Nubank cresce em ritmo parecido, e mesmo assim a compara&#231;&#227;o favorece a Revolut, que opera num mercado banc&#225;rio europeu maduro, ao contr&#225;rio do Nu, que cresce sobre uma base de mercados emergentes com menor penetra&#231;&#227;o banc&#225;ria pr&#233;via. Lucro antes de impostos subiu 57%, para &#163;1,7 bilh&#227;o, com margem de 38%, e o ROE bateu 35%, mesmo com a empresa operando descapitalizada em rela&#231;&#227;o ao m&#237;nimo regulat&#243;rio exigido <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>.</p><p>O que sustenta esse crescimento n&#227;o &#233; mais um &#250;nico produto. A Revolut hoje reporta seis linhas de receita (juros, pagamentos com cart&#227;o, wealth, FX, assinaturas e outras receitas), nenhuma responde por mais de 22% do total, e onze produtos diferentes j&#225; superam &#163;100 milh&#245;es em receita isolada. Taxas e comiss&#245;es representam 76% da receita, contra 22% de juros, uma propor&#231;&#227;o inversa &#224; de um banco tradicional, que tipicamente tira 70% ou mais da receita de juros sobre cr&#233;dito. &#201; essa composi&#231;&#227;o que permite &#224; Revolut manter ROE elevado mesmo num ciclo de queda de taxas de juros, algo que penalizaria um banco convencional. Do lado de usu&#225;rios, a base chegou a 68 milh&#245;es, mais que Sofi, Robinhood, Dave e Chime somados, com 65% dos novos clientes chegando organicamente ou por indica&#231;&#227;o, sem custo de aquisi&#231;&#227;o pago.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZOxG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fd743e5-1786-4f42-89c1-5dbd7dbaff6f_630x594.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZOxG!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fd743e5-1786-4f42-89c1-5dbd7dbaff6f_630x594.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 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O loan to deposit ratio da Revolut fechou 2025 em cerca de 6%, contra 70% a 90% de bancos estabelecidos, e mesmo assim a carteira de cr&#233;dito dobrou no ano. Usu&#225;rios que tratam a Revolut como conta prim&#225;ria cresceram 45%, quase o dobro do crescimento geral de usu&#225;rios, o que importa porque &#233; essa base que gasta e poupa cerca do dobro do que um usu&#225;rio secund&#225;rio movimenta na plataforma. </p><p>Como refer&#234;ncia de teto, a opera&#231;&#227;o de banking de consumo e neg&#243;cios do Barclays no Reino Unido gera um ARPU de cerca de &#163;435 por cliente, contra os &#163;72 que a Revolut reporta hoje. O pedido de charter banc&#225;rio nos Estados Unidos &#233; um outro ponto interessante deste movimento de maturidade, mostrando que a companhia est&#225; repetindo o mesmo playbook que j&#225; funcionou na Europa (entrada pelo c&#226;mbio, expans&#227;o para banco completo, conquista da conta prim&#225;ria, monetiza&#231;&#227;o via cr&#233;dito).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Layoffs.fyi, Layoffhedge.com, Reuters e Bloomberg. O detalhe que separa esse ciclo de uma crise de custos &#233; que tanto Visa quanto Mastercard reportam resultados financeiros fortes no mesmo trimestre em que anunciam os cortes, o que indica realoca&#231;&#227;o de capital, n&#227;o conten&#231;&#227;o de caixa.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qvzy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b8e7725-8bf9-4c8f-b6a9-ceeb6eb98ae0_632x620.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qvzy!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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servi&#231;os de valor agregado, categoria que inclui stablecoin, cross-border e B2B payments. Na Mastercard, o CFO Sachin Mehra atribuiu a decis&#227;o a uma revis&#227;o estrat&#233;gica interna. As &#225;reas afetadas em ambos os casos s&#227;o majoritariamente tecnologia e produto, o que refor&#231;a a leitura de que o corte n&#227;o &#233; enxugamento operacional gen&#233;rico, &#233; redirecionamento de headcount de manuten&#231;&#227;o da infraestrutura de cart&#227;o para constru&#231;&#227;o de rails que suportem inicia&#231;&#227;o de pagamento por agente.</p><p>A pergunta que fica para quem opera checkout hoje &#233; se a infraestrutura foi desenhada s&#243; para comprador humano ou j&#225; suporta um agente iniciando a compra em nome de algu&#233;m. No Brasil essa transi&#231;&#227;o pode chegar com menos atrito do que nos mercados de cart&#227;o, porque o Pix e o open finance j&#225; entregam os rails program&#225;ticos necess&#225;rios. Um caso recente interessante foi do Iniciador, lan&#231;ando o primeiro MCP de pagamentos open finance para modelos de IA. Quando duas redes do porte de Visa e Mastercard decidem cortar equipe de produto para financiar agentic commerce no mesmo trimestre em que reportam lucro recorde, isso sinaliza que o mercado j&#225; trata esse volume como relevante no curto prazo, n&#227;o como aposta de pesquisa de longo prazo.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Sa&#250;de e paz,</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>Se voc&#234; conhece algu&#233;m que gostaria de receber esta newsletter ou que seja fascinado pelas possibilidades da inova&#231;&#227;o financeira, eu agradeceria imensamente se voc&#234; encaminhasse este e-mail para essa pessoa!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> As opini&#245;es expressas aqui s&#227;o de total responsabilidade do autor, Walter Pereira, e n&#227;o refletem necessariamente as opini&#245;es dos patrocinadores, parceiros ou clientes da <em>W Fintechs.</em></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://a16z.com/the-algorithm-that-keeps-compounding/ </p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#174: Short Takes: In Stablecoins, Distribution Beats Design; How Digital Wallets Are Becoming Digital Public Infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #174]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/174-en</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/174-en</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:24:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59pP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaa6214-8475-46c7-a4ee-586ed7e39f56_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>Portuguese Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/173-ptbr">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073; <em>W Fintechs</em> is a newsletter focused on financial innovation. 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As the name suggests, unlike deep dives, these editions will explore a variety of topics that might later evolve into full deep-dive editions.</p><p><em>Short Takes is designed for entrepreneurs, investors, and operators looking for quick, actionable insights.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png" width="1456" height="303" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:303,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2074834,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/i/200970585?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Stablecoins are no longer about reserves. They are about distribution.</strong></p><p>The stablecoin market reached $320 billion in April 2026, growing 41% year over year. But the most interesting story in this market is not its size. It is about who manages to capture market share now that the rules have changed and competition has multiplied. A recent report from Stablecoin Insider mapped the top 100 stablecoins by market capitalization and arrived at a number that summarizes everything: the top five (USDT, USDC, USDS, USDe, and USD1) control 91.5% of the entire circulating supply. Hundreds of stablecoins have been launched over the last two years. Almost none have managed to scale. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The main reason is that the market expanded in the number of projects, but not in the distribution of power.</mark></p><p>Concentration is no longer a problem of design or collateral quality. In other words, the stablecoins that fail do so for the same reasons any crypto asset fails: weak collateral design, lack of real market liquidity, and regulatory pressure that cuts off banking access. These are well-known problems that have been understood and addressed for years. What separates USDC from GUSD, for example, is not the quality of reserves. GUSD holds an A rating from Bluechip, is backed 100% by Treasury instruments, and arguably has the most conservative design in the entire market. Its market capitalization is $43 million. USDC, with a virtually identical structure, is worth $78 billion. The difference is that one has PayPal operating behind it, Ethereum connecting liquidity, Solana bringing users, and TON offering native access. The other has excellent design, but nobody is using it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mZWm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50b26506-b39e-4df9-bdef-54c7e80df77f_1256x1276.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mZWm!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50b26506-b39e-4df9-bdef-54c7e80df77f_1256x1276.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mZWm!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>PYUSD is perhaps the clearest example of this dynamic. Launched in August 2023, it took only one year to surpass $1 billion in market capitalization. It grew 726% in twelve months. Its technical innovation is essentially zero. PYUSD is a standard stablecoin, with nothing particularly unique in terms of mechanism or collateral structure. Its key advantage is simply that it is backed by PayPal, which brings 400 million users who already trust the platform, years of reputation in payment processing, and a vast merchant network that accepts PayPal payments worldwide. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">PYUSD did not create a new market. 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>TON is an even more compelling case because it demonstrates that you do not need to dominate circulating supply to dominate growth. The network holds less total stablecoin liquidity than Ethereum or Tron, yet USDT on TON is growing faster than anywhere else. The primary reason is Telegram. Nine hundred million users. A user can send money directly within a chat conversation, just as easily as sending a message.</p><p>Banxa, which does not issue stablecoins but provides fiat-to-crypto infrastructure across 180 countries and holds licensing in 38 U.S. states, reports that USDC volumes increased 400% during 2025. The most important stablecoin fintech today is neither an issuer nor a blockchain. It is the on-ramp connecting fiat money to digital assets.</p><p>This balance has changed completely from what the market believed in 2022. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">At that time, competitive advantage belonged to those who could grow with low capital costs and minimal regulatory constraints. That window has closed. With higher interest rates, tighter regulation, and the need for real liquidity to sustain operations, those with established distribution have won. Any fintech attempting to launch a stablecoin today is not competing against other fintechs. It is competing against PayPal. It is competing against banks that bring deposits at scale. It is competing against messaging applications that bring hundreds of millions of daily users. No fintech without pre-existing distribution is winning that battle.</mark></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" width="1456" height="303" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:303,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2081439,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/i/200970585?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Digital Wallets Are Becoming Digital Public Infrastructure for Identity, Data, and Payments.</strong></p><p>A recent World Bank report on digital wallets proposes a redefinition that seems simple but changes everything about how we think about credentials and identity. Wallets are not merely payment applications. Wallets are cryptographic containers that converge portable identity, user-controlled data sharing, electronic signatures, and increasingly payments within a single environment.</p><p>For decades, digital identity, data sharing, electronic signatures, and payments evolved in completely separate silos, each with its own standards, cryptography, and trust frameworks. A person needed one application to access digital identity. Another to share documents. A third to sign contracts. A fourth to make payments. Ukraine built Diia as a super app integrating all these functions. Singapore has SingPass. Brazil has gov.br. Yet all of these were monolithic, closed, proprietary solutions. Everything still operated within institutional boundaries.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xz5Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b51eee8-37e5-405f-ac06-166ed86bfe04_1258x1202.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xz5Y!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b51eee8-37e5-405f-ac06-166ed86bfe04_1258x1202.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xz5Y!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>What the World Bank describes is an architecturally different paradigm. Instead of governments building a monolithic super app, credentials can be issued by multiple authorities and presented to verifiers without any bilateral integration. A person can prove their identity without revealing their date of birth. They can combine credentials from different sources. A bank can verify a government-issued credential without ever having directly connected to the government. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Trust becomes cryptographic rather than bureaucratic. 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In the old model, expanding an identity system meant redesigning everything from scratch. Governments implemented their own PKI frameworks. Banks had to establish bilateral integrations with every government. Verifiers remained trapped within isolated ecosystems. Now, a new issuer can enter the system without requiring anyone to redesign anything. A new verifier can do the same. The European Digital Identity framework is even opening the door for commercial wallets such as Apple Wallet to become certified as compliant with European standards, provided they meet security and privacy requirements. The requirement is not to be government-owned. 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Apple has already integrated mobile IDs into Apple Wallet. Google and Samsung have announced similar support. Brazil is exploring compatibility between gov.br and European wallet standards. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The implication is that citizens may eventually hold documents, credentials, and payment instruments all in one place, access services without repeatedly submitting the same information, share only the data that matters, and control who sees what. Trust verified cryptographically rather than by bureaucratic decree. That is the simple promise behind all of this: infrastructure that works because it was designed to operate at scale, not because it was mandated to do so.</mark></p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Until the next!</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>If you know anyone who would like to receive this e-mail or who is fascinated by the possibilities of financial innovation, I&#8217;d really appreciate you forwarding this email their way!</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, Walter Pereira, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors, partners, or clients of <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#174: Short Takes: Em stablecoin, distribuição vence o design; como as digital wallets estão se transformando em infraestruturas públicas digitais]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #174]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/174-ptbr</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/174-ptbr</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Pereira]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:21:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59pP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaa6214-8475-46c7-a4ee-586ed7e39f56_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>English Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/174-en">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073;A <em>W Fintechs</em> &#233; uma newsletter focada em inova&#231;&#227;o financeira. 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operadores que querem insights r&#225;pidos.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Stablecoins n&#227;o s&#227;o mais sobre reservas, s&#227;o sobre distribui&#231;&#227;o.</strong></p><p>O mercado de stablecoins atingiu 320 bilh&#245;es de d&#243;lares em abril de 2026, um crescimento de 41% em rela&#231;&#227;o ao ano anterior. Mas a hist&#243;ria mais interessante deste mercado n&#227;o est&#225; no seu tamanho, mas sim em quem consegue capturar market share quando as regras mudaram e surgiram mais op&#231;&#245;es e concorr&#234;ncia. Um relat&#243;rio recente do Stablecoin Insider mapeou as top 100 stablecoins por capitaliza&#231;&#227;o e chegou a um dado que resume tudo: as cinco primeiras (USDT, USDC, USDS, USDe e USD1) controlam 91,5% de toda a oferta circulante. Centenas de stablecoins foram lan&#231;adas nos &#250;ltimos dois anos. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Quase nenhuma conseguiu escalar. A raz&#227;o principal &#233; que o mercado se expandiu em quantidade de projetos, mas n&#227;o em poder concentrado.</mark></p><p>A concentra&#231;&#227;o n&#227;o &#233; mais um problema de design ou qualidade de colateral das stablecoins. Ou seja, as stablecoins que fracassam falham pelos mesmos motivos que qualquer cripto-ativo fracassa: design de colateral fraco, falta de liquidez real nos mercados e press&#227;o regulat&#243;ria que corta o acesso banc&#225;rio a esses ativos. Essas s&#227;o quest&#245;es conhecidas e resolvidas h&#225; anos. O que separa o USDC do GUSD, por exemplo, n&#227;o &#233; a qualidade das reservas. O GUSD tem um A da Bluechip, &#233; 100% colateralizado em Treasury instruments, provavelmente o design mais conservador do mercado todo. Sua capitaliza&#231;&#227;o &#233; 43 milh&#245;es de d&#243;lares. O USDC, com estrutura praticamente id&#234;ntica, vale 78 bilh&#245;es. A diferen&#231;a entre eles &#233; que um tem PayPal rodando atr&#225;s, Ethereum conectando liquidez, Solana trazendo usu&#225;rios, e TON oferecendo acesso nativo. O outro tem um design excelente, mas ningu&#233;m est&#225; usando.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mZWm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50b26506-b39e-4df9-bdef-54c7e80df77f_1256x1276.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mZWm!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50b26506-b39e-4df9-bdef-54c7e80df77f_1256x1276.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mZWm!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>O PYUSD &#233; talvez o exemplo mais claro disso. Lan&#231;ado em agosto de 2023, levou apenas um ano para cruzar um bilh&#227;o de d&#243;lares de capitaliza&#231;&#227;o. Cresceu 726% em doze meses. Sua inova&#231;&#227;o t&#233;cnica &#233; zero. O PYUSD &#233; uma stablecoin comum, sem nada de especial em termos de mecanismo ou colateral. Mas sua diferen&#231;a principal est&#225; no fato de ele ter por tr&#225;s o PayPal, que traz 400 milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios que j&#225; confiavam na plataforma, anos de reputa&#231;&#227;o em processamento de pagamentos e uma larga rede de comerciantes que aceita pagamentos PayPal em qualquer lugar. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">O PYUSD n&#227;o criou um novo mercado, mas colocou uma stablecoin dentro de um ecossistema que j&#225; estava funcionando, que j&#225; tinha liquidez, que j&#225; tinha confian&#231;a acumulada.</mark></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!61ec!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f9be491-9022-4dd8-b64d-9793fb918dbb_1242x1016.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!61ec!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f9be491-9022-4dd8-b64d-9793fb918dbb_1242x1016.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>TON &#233; um caso ainda mais expressivo porque mostra que voc&#234; n&#227;o precisa ser gigante em oferta circulante para dominar o crescimento. A rede tem menos stablecoin total do que Ethereum ou Tron, mas o USDT em TON cresce mais r&#225;pido que em qualquer outro lugar. A raz&#227;o principal para isso est&#225; no Telegram. Novecentos milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios. Um usu&#225;rio manda dinheiro direto do chat, no meio da conversa, como faz com uma mensagem. </p><p>Banxa, que n&#227;o emite stablecoin mas fornece a infraestrutura de acesso fiat-to-cripto em 180 pa&#237;ses com licensing em 38 estados americanos, relata que volumes de USDC subiram 400% em 2025. A maior fintech de stablecoins do momento n&#227;o &#233; nem um issuer nem uma blockchain. Mas sim a rampa que conecta o dinheiro fiat ao digital.</p><p>Esse equil&#237;brio mudou completamente em rela&#231;&#227;o ao que o mercado acreditava em 2022. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Naquela &#233;poca, a vantagem competitiva estava em quem conseguia crescer com custo de capital baixo e sem regula&#231;&#227;o apertada.</mark> <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mas essa janela fechou. Com juros altos, regula&#231;&#227;o apertando e a necessidade de liquidez real para sustentar opera&#231;&#245;es, quem tinha distribui&#231;&#227;o consolidada ganhou. Qualquer fintech tentando construir stablecoin agora n&#227;o compete com outras fintechs. Compete com PayPal. Compete com bancos que trazem dep&#243;sitos em escala. Compete com aplicativos de mensagem que trazem centenas de milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios di&#225;rios. Nenhuma fintech sem distribui&#231;&#227;o pr&#233;-existente t&#225; ganhando essa guerra.</mark></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" width="1456" height="303" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:303,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2081439,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/i/200970585?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Wallets digitais est&#227;o se transformando em infraestruturas p&#250;blicas digitais para identidade, dados e pagamentos.</strong></p><p>Um relat&#243;rio recente do Banco Mundial sobre wallets digitais prop&#245;e uma redefini&#231;&#227;o que parece simples mas muda tudo sobre como a gente pensa em credenciais e identidade. Wallets n&#227;o s&#227;o apenas aplicativos de pagamento. Wallets s&#227;o cont&#234;ineres criptogr&#225;ficos que convergem identidade port&#225;vel, compartilhamento de dados controlado pelo usu&#225;rio, assinatura eletr&#244;nica e, cada vez mais, pagamentos dentro de um mesmo ambiente. </p><p>Durante d&#233;cadas, identidade digital, compartilhamento de dados, assinatura eletr&#244;nica e pagamentos evolu&#237;ram em silos completamente separados, cada um com seus pr&#243;prios padr&#245;es, suas pr&#243;prias criptografias, suas pr&#243;prias regras de confian&#231;a. Uma pessoa precisava de um app para acessar identidade digital. Outro app diferente para compartilhar documentos. Um terceiro para assinar contratualmente. Um quarto para pagar. Ukraine construiu Diia como um superapp que integrou tudo. Singapore tem SingPass. Brasil tem gov.br. Mas todos esses eram solu&#231;&#245;es monol&#237;ticas, fechadas, propriet&#225;rias. Tudo ainda rodava em papel.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xz5Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b51eee8-37e5-405f-ac06-166ed86bfe04_1258x1202.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xz5Y!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b51eee8-37e5-405f-ac06-166ed86bfe04_1258x1202.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xz5Y!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>O que o Banco Mundial descreve &#233; um paradigma arquiteturalmente diferente. Em vez de um governo construir um superapp monol&#237;tico, voc&#234; tem credenciais que podem ser emitidas por diferentes autoridades e apresentadas a verificadores sem nenhuma integra&#231;&#227;o bilateral. Uma pessoa prova identidade sem revelar data de nascimento. Comp&#245;e credenciais de fontes diferentes. Um banco verifica credencial do governo sem nunca ter falado com o governo. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A confian&#231;a &#233; criptogr&#225;fica, n&#227;o burocr&#225;tica. A arquitetura &#233; modular, n&#227;o mais monol&#237;tica, consequentemente sendo mais interoper&#225;vel.</mark></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sl5R!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20d2b7b8-06c8-4645-ad71-7014b65d63ec_1180x966.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sl5R!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20d2b7b8-06c8-4645-ad71-7014b65d63ec_1180x966.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sl5R!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, 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17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Esse modelo muda radicalmente como voc&#234; constr&#243;i infraestrutura p&#250;blica em escala. No velho modelo, expandir um sistema de identidade significava redesenhar tudo de novo. Governos implementavam suas pr&#243;prias PKI. Bancos precisavam se integrar bilateralmente com cada governo. Verificadores ficavam presos em silos. Agora, um novo issuer entra no sistema sem que ningu&#233;m precise redesenhar nada. Um novo verificador tamb&#233;m. A Uni&#227;o Europeia de Identidade est&#225; at&#233; abrindo a porta para que wallets comerciais como Apple Wallet se certifiquem como conformes ao padr&#227;o europeu, desde que atendam aos crit&#233;rios de seguran&#231;a e privacidade. 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Apple j&#225; integrou IDs m&#243;veis em Apple Wallet. Google e Samsung anunciaram suporte similar. Brasil est&#225; explorando compatibilidade de gov.br com padr&#245;es de wallet europeus. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Significa que um cidad&#227;o pode ter seus documentos, credenciais e instrumentos de pagamento tudo em um lugar, acessar servi&#231;os sem repetir dados a cada plataforma, compartilhar apenas as informa&#231;&#245;es que importam, controlar quem v&#234; o qu&#234;. Confian&#231;a verificada criptograficamente em vez de por decreto burocr&#225;tico. &#201; a promessa simples disso tudo: infraestrutura que funciona porque foi projetada para funcionar em escala, n&#227;o porque foi mandado funcionar.</mark></p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Sa&#250;de e paz,</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>Se voc&#234; conhece algu&#233;m que gostaria de receber esta newsletter ou que seja fascinado pelas possibilidades da inova&#231;&#227;o financeira, eu agradeceria imensamente se voc&#234; encaminhasse este e-mail para essa pessoa!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> As opini&#245;es expressas aqui s&#227;o de total responsabilidade do autor, Walter Pereira, e n&#227;o refletem necessariamente as opini&#245;es dos patrocinadores, parceiros ou clientes da <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#173: Short Takes: Compliance as a competitive advantage, why fintechs are not yet at risk from AI, and the cycle that is closing for BNPL fintechs]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #173]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/173-short-takes-compliance-as-a-competitive</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/173-short-takes-compliance-as-a-competitive</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:23:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59pP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaa6214-8475-46c7-a4ee-586ed7e39f56_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>Portuguese Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/173-ptbr">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073; <em>W Fintechs</em> is a newsletter focused on financial innovation. 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As the name suggests, unlike deep dives, these editions will explore a variety of topics that might later evolve into full deep-dive editions.</p><p><em>Short Takes is designed for entrepreneurs, investors, and operators looking for quick, actionable insights.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>A recent a16z report brought a data point that says a lot about how the market responded to the wave of regulation over the past few decades: in the last 20 years, one of the fastest-growing professions in the United States was compliance officer, up 202%, behind only nail technicians and manicurists. Two occupations that barely exist in a formal corporate setting shared the top of the growth ranking with a function that lives inside banks, insurers, fintechs, and any minimally regulated company.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bFJf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa92d3c31-5666-42c8-a3c5-4664a8d388eb_1276x1158.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bFJf!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa92d3c31-5666-42c8-a3c5-4664a8d388eb_1276x1158.png 424w, 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Every new rule became a PDF that someone needed to read, interpret, turn into internal policy, and monitor. The result was a market with more than 400,000 compliance officers in the US alone, representing over 40 billion dollars in annual labor costs, not counting what goes to consultancies and outsourcing. And yet the industry kept accumulating billion-dollar fines.</p><p>The problem was never a shortage of headcount. It was the fact that the three layers that make compliance work are rarely in sync: the regulation that governs the work, the software systems that try to translate that regulation into processes, and the people who operate those systems day to day.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjCM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc97911a2-5578-4375-97ff-23b06864d235_1282x1076.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjCM!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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onboarding documents, reviews internal policies to assess whether the activity crosses the threshold for filing a SAR, and then goes back to the original system to write the narrative, manually copying data from every place they visited. That entire flow depends on a person with enough attention, time, and context to not make a mistake, over and over, all day long.</p><p>AI changes that calculation in a way that goes beyond automation itself. For a long time, the risk of migrating systems was greater than the risk of staying on legacy infrastructure. A poorly executed implementation could create an audit gap, a regulatory error, a fine. So everyone stuck with the old platforms, locked in, full of fragile integrations. That balance has shifted. As AI advances, those who do not modernize will lose not just operational efficiency but also revenue.</p><p>For Brazil, this has a specific dimension. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the financial segment, since the Central Bank began raising the bar for Brazilian fintechs, it is very likely that regtechs focused on improving the relationship between these three layers, using AI, will pull ahead of their competitors in the sector.</mark></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The SaaS market was caught off guard over the last two years by the rise of vibe coding, especially after years of strong gains. The idea that language models would replace an entire category of enterprise software became one of the dominant narratives in the technology world, and the market priced it aggressively. What Finch Capital shows in the State of AI in FinTech 2026 report is that this narrative, when applied to fintech, simply does not hold. Since December 2025, the SaaS index fell 32%, while the fintech index fell 19%.</p><p>In fintech, there is something AI cannot replicate: regulatory moats, proprietary data, and regulator-approved networks. The report benchmarks the sector against SaaS using an eight-moat framework and shows that SaaS has workflow and ecosystem moats, which are exactly the kind of thing AI agents can automate. Fintech, on the other hand, has moats that depend on years of audit history, licenses, and engagement with regulators. A company that wants to operate in KYC, transaction monitoring, or insurance underwriting needs to build that credential over time, and that time cannot be compressed by a language model.</p><p>One data point illustrates well where we are: Claude has 94% theoretical capability for Business and Financial tasks, the same percentage as Computer and Math. But 52% of enterprise AI usage is concentrated in coding, while only 3% goes to Business and Financial. The current phase of AI is precisely about automating workflows, not yet about replacing judgment, and in fintech, judgment is exactly where the value lives.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lpfh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feff511f5-a303-447b-8225-18e6f13ebf40_2554x1434.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lpfh!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feff511f5-a303-447b-8225-18e6f13ebf40_2554x1434.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lpfh!, 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On the horizontal axis, it shows the years of compliance investment required to operate in each segment. On the vertical axis, it shows how much of the compliance burden can be reduced by AI. The segments in the upper-right quadrant combine high barriers to entry with high automation potential. KYC, fraud detection, insurance underwriting, and trade surveillance are all there.</p><p>Finch Capital estimates OPEX reductions of 15% to 50% by 2030, but where that efficiency ultimately accrues depends on the segment. In Regulatory and Compliance, the projected reduction is between 30% and 50%, and the savings stay with the company in the form of margin. In Payments, the reduction is similar, but the savings are passed on through pricing because competition leaves no other alternative. This distinction is what separates those who will capture value from those who will merely enable it for the customer. 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Accenture recently published a report on the different BNPL strategies for banks, revisiting this topic from an interesting angle.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;fa48cb12-8c7a-4aef-9d76-a69eed0cbd3e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; English Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#FintechFrames: No checkout do crescimento, a Klarna usou dados, bandeiras de cart&#227;o e posicionamento no B2B e B2C para redefinir o cr&#233;dito&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5924217,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Pereira&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;A fintech builder and researcher in LatAm, exploring new trends, strategies, and unit economics in financial innovation. 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fintechs to capture the next BNPL cycle. </mark>The argument begins with a demand-side data point: less than 3% of consumers use BNPL for most high-value purchases, but 40% said they would use it more if the product were offered by their main bank. In Latin America, this number rises to 52%. The barrier is not technology, but trust and distribution, and banks already have both.</p><p>The report maps the fragmentation of business models across the BNPL value chain, analyzing everything from the vertically integrated model, where the bank controls the entire process, to non-linear models such as Enabler, Embedder, and Packager. Most incumbents still operate with linear models in 60% of the cases analyzed, but 14% are already experimenting with non-linear models in parallel with the core business. Barclays with Amazon in the United Kingdom and Santander with Zinia are examples of this transition. The estimate is that embedding BNPL into cards could increase credit limit utilization from 21% to 26% in the United States and from 19% to 28% in Europe, with a 10% to 16% impact on card revenue for a large bank.</p><p><mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What remains implicit in the report, but is worth stating directly, is that the cycle of pure-play BNPL fintechs is closing for reasons that anyone who followed the market could already see. Growing on the back of cheap capital and limited regulation was a window of opportunity, but it was not sustainable. </mark>With higher interest rates, increasing regulation, and rising delinquency, the competitive advantage shifts toward those with access to cheaper funding, historical credit data, and the ability to perform affordability checks in a more structured way. In most cases, those three things are found in banks. What remains open is whether they will move with the same speed fintechs did to occupy this space before it consolidates around other players.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Until the next!</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>If you know anyone who would like to receive this e-mail or who is fascinated by the possibilities of financial innovation, I&#8217;d really appreciate you forwarding this email their way!</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, Walter Pereira, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors, partners, or clients of <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#173: Short Takes: Compliance como vantagem competitiva; por que as fintechs ainda não correm risco com a IA; e o ciclo que se fecha para as fintechs de BNPL]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #173]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/173-ptbr</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/173-ptbr</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Pereira]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:21:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59pP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaa6214-8475-46c7-a4ee-586ed7e39f56_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>English Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/173-en">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073;A <em>W Fintechs</em> &#233; uma newsletter focada em inova&#231;&#227;o financeira. 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Um relat&#243;rio recente da a16z trouxe um dado que diz bastante sobre como o mercado respondeu ao aumento de regula&#231;&#227;o das &#250;ltimas d&#233;cadas: nos &#250;ltimos 20 anos, uma das profiss&#245;es que mais cresceu nos EUA foi a de compliance officer, com alta de 202%, perdendo apenas para manicure e pedicure. Duas ocupa&#231;&#245;es que praticamente n&#227;o existem em formato corporativo formal dividiram o p&#243;dio com uma fun&#231;&#227;o que est&#225; dentro de bancos, seguradoras, fintechs e qualquer empresa minimamente regulada.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bFJf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa92d3c31-5666-42c8-a3c5-4664a8d388eb_1276x1158.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bFJf!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Cada nova regra virava um PDF que algu&#233;m precisava ler, interpretar, transformar em pol&#237;tica interna e monitorar. O resultado foi um mercado com mais de 400 mil compliance officers s&#243; nos EUA, representando mais de 40 bilh&#245;es de d&#243;lares em gasto anual com m&#227;o de obra, fora o que vai para consultorias e terceiriza&#231;&#227;o. E mesmo assim, o setor continuou acumulando multas bilion&#225;rias. </p><p>O problema nunca foi falta de m&#227;o de obra, mas o fato de que as tr&#234;s camadas que fazem o compliance funcionar raramente est&#227;o sincronizadas: a regula&#231;&#227;o que governa o trabalho, os sistemas de software que tentam traduzi-la em processos e as pessoas que operam esses sistemas no dia a dia.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjCM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc97911a2-5578-4375-97ff-23b06864d235_1282x1076.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjCM!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Um analista de compliance que precisa investigar um alerta de transa&#231;&#227;o suspeita entra em um sistema, vai ao core banking para puxar o hist&#243;rico, acessa uma plataforma separada para ver o KYC do cliente, consulta uma pasta compartilhada para os documentos de onboarding, verifica as pol&#237;ticas internas para avaliar se a atividade cruza o threshold para emiss&#227;o de um SAR e depois volta ao sistema original para escrever a narrativa, copiando manualmente dados de cada lugar que visitou. Esse fluxo inteiro depende de uma pessoa com aten&#231;&#227;o, tempo e contexto suficientes para n&#227;o errar, repetidas vezes, o dia todo.</p><p>A IA muda esse c&#225;lculo de uma forma que vai al&#233;m da automa&#231;&#227;o em si. Durante muito tempo, o risco de migrar de sistema era maior do que o risco de ficar no legado. Uma implementa&#231;&#227;o mal feita podia gerar um buraco de auditoria, um erro regulat&#243;rio, uma multa. Ent&#227;o todo mundo ficou com as plataformas antigas, travadas, cheias de integra&#231;&#245;es fr&#225;geis. Esse equil&#237;brio inverteu. Conforme a IA avan&#231;a, quem n&#227;o se modernizar vai perder ainda mais efici&#234;ncia operacional e tamb&#233;m receita.</p><p>Para o Brasil, isso tem uma dimens&#227;o espec&#237;fica. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No segmento financeiro, desde que o Banco Central come&#231;ou a subir a r&#233;gua para as fintechs brasileiras, &#233; bem prov&#225;vel que regtechs focadas em melhorar o relacionamento entre essas tr&#234;s camadas, com IA, avancem mais do que seus concorrentes no setor.</mark></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>O mercado de SaaS foi pego de surpresa nos &#250;ltimos dois anos com o avan&#231;o do vibe coding, principalmente depois de anos de altas. A ideia de que modelos de linguagem v&#227;o substituir toda uma categoria de software empresarial virou um dos principais temas do mundo de tecnologia e o mercado precificou isso de forma agressiva. O que a Finch Capital mostra no relat&#243;rio State of AI in FinTech 2026 &#233; que essa narrativa, quando aplicada a fintech, simplesmente n&#227;o se sustenta. Desde dezembro de 2025, o &#237;ndice de SaaS caiu 32%, enquanto o &#237;ndice de fintech caiu 19%.</p><p>Em fintech, h&#225; algo que a IA n&#227;o consegue replicar: moats regulat&#243;rios, dados propriet&#225;rios e redes aprovadas pelos reguladores. O relat&#243;rio compara o setor com SaaS usando um framework de oito moats e mostra que SaaS tem moats de workflow e ecossistema, que s&#227;o exatamente o tipo de coisa que agentes de IA conseguem automatizar. Fintech, por outro lado, tem moats que dependem de anos de hist&#243;rico de auditoria, licen&#231;as e engajamento com reguladores. Uma empresa que queira operar em KYC, monitoramento de transa&#231;&#245;es ou underwriting de seguros precisa construir essa credencial ao longo do tempo, e esse tempo n&#227;o pode ser comprimido por um modelo de linguagem.</p><p>Um dado que ilustra bem onde estamos: o Claude tem 94% de capacidade te&#243;rica para tarefas de Business e Financial, o mesmo percentual de Computer e Math. Mas 52% do uso enterprise de IA est&#225; concentrado em coding, enquanto apenas 3% vai para Business e Financial. A fase atual da IA &#233; justamente a de automatiza&#231;&#227;o de workflows, antes de substituir o julgamento, e em fintech o julgamento &#233; exatamente onde mora o valor.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lpfh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feff511f5-a303-447b-8225-18e6f13ebf40_2554x1434.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lpfh!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feff511f5-a303-447b-8225-18e6f13ebf40_2554x1434.png 424w, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>O gr&#225;fico de moat defensibility deixa isso ainda mais claro. No eixo horizontal, os anos de investimento em compliance necess&#225;rios para operar em cada segmento. No eixo vertical, o quanto da carga de compliance pode ser reduzida por IA. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Os segmentos que ficam no quadrante superior direito combinam alta barreira de entrada com alto potencial de automa&#231;&#227;o. KYC, fraud detection, insurance underwriting e trade surveillance est&#227;o todos ali.</mark> </p><p>A Finch Capital estima cortes de OPEX entre 15% e 50% at&#233; 2030, mas onde essa efici&#234;ncia vai parar depende do segmento. Em Regulatory e Compliance, a proje&#231;&#227;o &#233; de 30% a 50% de corte, e a economia fica com a empresa na forma de margem. Em Payments, o corte &#233; parecido, mas a economia &#233; repassada em pre&#231;o porque a competi&#231;&#227;o n&#227;o deixa outra alternativa. Essa distin&#231;&#227;o &#233; o que separa quem vai capturar valor de quem vai apenas viabiliz&#225;-lo para o cliente. 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posicionados do que as fintechs para capturar o pr&#243;ximo ciclo do BNPL. </mark>O argumento come&#231;a num dado de demanda: menos de 3% dos consumidores usam BNPL para a maioria das compras de maior valor, mas 40% disseram que usariam mais se o produto fosse oferecido pelo seu banco principal. Na Am&#233;rica Latina esse n&#250;mero sobe para 52%. A barreira n&#227;o &#233; tecnol&#243;gica, &#233; de confian&#231;a e de distribui&#231;&#227;o, e os bancos j&#225; t&#234;m as duas coisas.</p><p>O relat&#243;rio mapeia a fragmenta&#231;&#227;o dos modelos de neg&#243;cio ao longo da cadeia de valor do BNPL, analisando desde o modelo verticalmente integrado, onde o banco controla tudo, at&#233; modelos n&#227;o-lineares como Enabler, Embedder e Packager. A maioria dos incumbentes ainda opera com modelos lineares em 60% dos casos analisados, mas 14% j&#225; experimentam modelos n&#227;o-lineares em paralelo ao core. O Barclays com a Amazon no Reino Unido e o Santander com a Zinia s&#227;o exemplos dessa transi&#231;&#227;o. A estimativa &#233; que embutir BNPL nos cart&#245;es poderia aumentar a utiliza&#231;&#227;o de limite de 21% para 26% nos EUA e de 19% para 28% na Europa, com impacto de 10% a 16% na receita de cart&#227;o de um banco de grande porte.</p><p><mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">O que fica impl&#237;cito no relat&#243;rio, mas que vale nomear diretamente, &#233; que o ciclo das fintechs puras de BNPL est&#225; se fechando pelas raz&#245;es que qualquer pessoa que acompanhou o mercado j&#225; notava. Crescer em cima de custo de capital baixo e sem regula&#231;&#227;o foi uma janela, mas n&#227;o era sustent&#225;vel. </mark>Com juros mais altos, regula&#231;&#227;o aumentando e inadimpl&#234;ncia subindo, a vantagem competitiva se desloca para quem tem acesso a funding barato, dados hist&#243;ricos de cr&#233;dito e capacidade de fazer affordability check de forma mais estruturada. Essas tr&#234;s coisas, na maioria dos casos, est&#227;o nos bancos. O que est&#225; em aberto &#233; se eles v&#227;o se mover com a mesma velocidade que as fintechs se moveram para ocupar esse espa&#231;o antes que ele se consolide em torno de outros players.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Sa&#250;de e paz,</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>Se voc&#234; conhece algu&#233;m que gostaria de receber esta newsletter ou que seja fascinado pelas possibilidades da inova&#231;&#227;o financeira, eu agradeceria imensamente se voc&#234; encaminhasse este e-mail para essa pessoa!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> As opini&#245;es expressas aqui s&#227;o de total responsabilidade do autor, Walter Pereira, e n&#227;o refletem necessariamente as opini&#245;es dos patrocinadores, parceiros ou clientes da <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#172: Short Takes: The second wave of BaaS, what the BIS found about liquidity buffers, and what comes after the payment]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #172]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/172-short-takes-a-segunda-onda-do</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/172-short-takes-a-segunda-onda-do</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:25:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59pP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaa6214-8475-46c7-a4ee-586ed7e39f56_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>Portuguese Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/172-ptbr">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073; <em>W Fintechs</em> is a newsletter focused on financial innovation. 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As the name suggests, unlike deep dives, these editions will explore a variety of topics that might later evolve into full deep-dive editions.</p><p><em>Short Takes is designed for entrepreneurs, investors, and operators looking for quick, actionable insights.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>We are entering the second wave of Banking-as-a-Service, and it is structurally different from the first</strong></p><p>A few months ago I wrote about Avenia&#8217;s strategy in Latin America around stablecoins. It is one of several companies covering gaps and opportunities in this market. The pattern that is beginning to emerge, however, is not simply another fintech renting a banking license. It is something structurally different.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;f9eedf70-c453-4b3c-975f-6335a781b1b6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; Portuguese Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#3WiF: Stablecoins are part of 'banking as a service 2.0', and Avenia wants to be this new infrastructure in LatAm&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5924217,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Pereira&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;A fintech builder and researcher in LatAm, exploring new trends, strategies, and unit economics in financial innovation. Every Monday in your inbox&#9997;&#65039;&#127974;&#129331;&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a3b11ecb-c531-4cc5-a9f9-cef2e4bef0bb_2048x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23T11:23:36.543Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Yt-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb23a7d5-507b-4d0c-ab8c-fa552dfdc023_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-en&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:191377397,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:2,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:358033,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lxhy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd9c4f64-3b0c-4871-ac09-ee046fd7b65d_300x300.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>The first wave of BaaS was the one in which fintechs connected to the legacy core systems of banks, depending on a long chain of regional intermediaries to operate. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This new wave is something else: companies building on onchain infrastructure, combining account, payment, FX, and credit into a single product without having to go through that chain.</mark></p><p>There are three layers worth paying close attention to in this movement. The first is the race for regulatory charter in the United States. Since the GENIUS Act, there has been a clear acceleration among stablecoin issuers to obtain the OCC National Trust Charter. If regulators eventually grant those charter holders direct access to the Federal Reserve&#8217;s rails, the issuers that secure that position now will be integrated into the core of the American financial system. Gradually, this has become less a question of compliance and more a dispute over hierarchical position within the US payments infrastructure.</p><p>The second is the liquidity problem. Stablecoins have already done a reasonable job of solving the &#8220;middle of the journey&#8221; in cross-border payments. The problem that persists, however, is the conversion between stablecoins and local currencies, especially in emerging markets. 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As I have shown in previous editions, the continued dominance of the dollar in stablecoins suggests we are living through one of the biggest American bets since Bretton Woods: that stablecoins will also serve to reinforce the relevance of the US currency globally.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>The BIS published the most relevant working paper on stablecoins in recent months, and the diagnosis is uncomfortable</strong></p><p>The Bank for International Settlements recently published a comprehensive analysis of stablecoin regulation around the world. The central conclusion is not that regulation is absent. It is that the regulation being designed in most jurisdictions treats liquidity buffers as hard minimums, and the paper demonstrates, with empirical calibration, that this approach may worsen exactly the risk it is trying to mitigate. A cash reserve that cannot be used in moments of stress is not a reserve.</p><p>The model developed by the authors starts from the premise that stablecoin issuers do not spontaneously internalize two costs. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The first is the default risk that falls on holders. The second is the systemic impact of forced government bond sales during mass redemption events.</mark> Without regulation that properly addresses this, the rational behavior for any issuer is to hold little cash and a lot of bonds, because bonds earn interest and cash does not. The result is an issuer optimized for profit under normal conditions and structurally fragile under stress.</p><p>The proposed solution combines two instruments treated as usable buffers, not as absolute floors. The first is a liquidity threshold, a minimum proportion of cash relative to coins in circulation, ensuring the issuer can honor redemptions without having to sell assets. The second is a capital threshold, a layer of equity that absorbs losses before holders are affected. The logic is elegant: the issuer can breach these thresholds under stress, but in doing so triggers real market discipline, because coin holders themselves begin to redeem more, creating a concrete incentive to maintain the buffers under normal conditions.</p><p>Using USDT and USDC data from 2020 to 2025, the authors show that a reasonable pair of thresholds reduces the weekly default probability from more than 15 basis points to 0.7 basis points. At a moment when MiCAR, the GENIUS Act, Hong Kong, and Singapore are all calibrating their frameworks simultaneously but still without consensus on how to treat these buffers, whoever gets the calibration right first will attract issuers and, consequently, liquidity.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png" width="1456" height="303" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:303,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2079033,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/i/200970585?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>What comes after the payment is where value will concentrate</strong></p><p>Much of the debate around stablecoins still orbits around settlement. Speed, cost, efficiency. These are legitimate discussions, but they increasingly feel like a conversation about the means rather than the destination. The layer that will concentrate value over the next few years is not payments itself. It is everything that becomes possible once payments already work.</p><p>The pattern that is emerging is structurally similar to what happened with Pix in Brazil. The payment infrastructure arrived first, cheap and ubiquitous, and opened space for an entire generation of products that simply did not exist before because the cost of settlement made them unviable. With stablecoins, that cycle may repeat at a global scale, but this time without depending on any specific central bank to make it happen.</p><p>There are concrete movements in this direction worth watching. Protocols that allow USDC-collateralized credit without a regional banking intermediary. Corporate treasuries replacing dollar checking accounts with native-yield stablecoin positions. B2B fintechs integrating payment, FX, and receivables anticipation into a single smart contract, eliminating the correspondent chain that currently captures a significant share of the margin in those operations.</p><p>What all of these movements have in common is that the payment has become the entry point, not the final product. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Once a user has access to a stable and programmable balance, the natural next question is what else they can do with it.</mark> And it is precisely in that space, between the balance and the complete financial product, that the most relevant positions of the current cycle are being built. The competition is no longer about who processes the most transactions. 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5RZH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682f3ca8-e54c-4210-9310-6f36141112a1_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Estamos entrando na segunda onda do Banking-as-a-Service, e ela &#233; estruturalmente diferente da primeira</strong></p><p>H&#225; alguns meses escrevi sobre a estrat&#233;gia da Avenia aqui na Latam em stablecoins. Ela &#233; uma, entre v&#225;rias outras empresas que est&#227;o cobrindo gaps e oportunidades deste mercado. O padr&#227;o que come&#231;a a emergir, no entanto, n&#227;o &#233; apenas mais uma fintech alugando licen&#231;a banc&#225;ria. &#201; algo estruturalmente diferente.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;a27203ef-347e-40de-b7da-e67c4d4d6551&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; English Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#3WiF: Stablecoins fazem parte do 'banking as a service 2.0', e a Avenia quer ser essa nova infraestrutura na LatAm&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5924217,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Pereira&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;A fintech builder and researcher in LatAm, exploring new trends, strategies, and unit economics in financial innovation. 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A primeira &#233; a corrida por charter regulat&#243;rio nos EUA. Desde o GENIUS Act, houve uma acelera&#231;&#227;o entre emissores de stablecoin para obter o OCC National Trust Charter. Se os reguladores eventualmente derem a esses detentores de charter acesso direto aos rails do Federal Reserve, os emissores que garantirem isso agora estar&#227;o integrados ao n&#250;cleo do sistema financeiro americano. Aos poucos, isso tem se transformado menos em uma quest&#227;o de compliance e mais em uma disputa por posi&#231;&#227;o hier&#225;rquica no sistema de pagamentos dos EUA.</p><p>A segunda &#233; o problema de liquidez. Stablecoins j&#225; resolveram razoavelmente bem o &#8220;meio da jornada&#8221; dos pagamentos cross-border. O problema que persiste, no entanto, &#233; a convers&#227;o entre stablecoins e moedas locais, especialmente em mercados emergentes. 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A a16z crypto usa o termo &#8220;dollar access is the wedge&#8221;. A ideia &#233; que, uma vez que um usu&#225;rio tem um saldo est&#225;vel em d&#243;lar, seja um pequeno empres&#225;rio em Lagos, um freelancer em Buenos Aires ou um poupador em Jacarta, ele passa a ter acesso a um produto financeiro completo pela primeira vez. Como mostrei em edi&#231;&#245;es anteriores, a relev&#226;ncia do d&#243;lar nas stablecoins sugere que estamos vivendo novamente uma das maiores apostas dos EUA desde Bretton Woods: a de que stablecoins servir&#227;o, tamb&#233;m, para aumentar a relev&#226;ncia da moeda americana.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yTLU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67c26c43-f394-49d6-8a4d-cd145cf64c68_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>O BIS publicou o working paper mais relevante sobre stablecoins dos &#250;ltimos meses, e o diagn&#243;stico incomoda</strong></p><p>O Bank for International Settlements publicou recentemente uma an&#225;lise completa sobre a regula&#231;&#227;o de stablecoins ao redor do mundo. A conclus&#227;o central n&#227;o &#233; que falta regula&#231;&#227;o. &#201; que a regula&#231;&#227;o que est&#225; sendo desenhada na maioria das jurisdi&#231;&#245;es trata buffers de liquidez como m&#237;nimos r&#237;gidos, e o paper demonstra, com calibra&#231;&#227;o emp&#237;rica, que isso pode piorar exatamente o risco que tenta mitigar. Uma reserva de caixa que n&#227;o pode ser usada em momentos de estresse n&#227;o &#233; uma reserva.</p><p>O modelo desenvolvido pelos autores parte da premissa de que emissores de stablecoin n&#227;o internalizam dois custos de forma espont&#226;nea. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">O primeiro &#233; o risco de default que recai sobre os detentores. O segundo &#233; o impacto sist&#234;mico de vendas for&#231;adas de t&#237;tulos do governo em momentos de resgate em massa.</mark> Sem regula&#231;&#227;o que trate disso adequadamente, o comportamento racional de qualquer emissor &#233; manter pouco caixa e muito bond, porque bond rende juros e caixa n&#227;o. O resultado &#233; um emissor otimizado para lucro em condi&#231;&#245;es normais e estruturalmente fr&#225;gil sob stress.</p><p>A solu&#231;&#227;o proposta combina dois instrumentos tratados como buffers utiliz&#225;veis, n&#227;o como pisos absolutos. O primeiro &#233; um threshold de liquidez, uma propor&#231;&#227;o m&#237;nima de caixa em rela&#231;&#227;o aos coins emitidos, garantindo que o emissor consiga honrar resgates sem precisar vender ativos. O segundo &#233; um threshold de capital, uma camada de patrim&#244;nio pr&#243;prio que absorve perdas antes que os detentores sejam afetados. A l&#243;gica &#233; elegante: o emissor pode romper esses thresholds em situa&#231;&#245;es de stress, mas ao fazer isso aciona uma disciplina de mercado real, porque os pr&#243;prios detentores de coins passam a resgatar mais, criando um incentivo concreto para manuten&#231;&#227;o dos buffers em condi&#231;&#245;es normais.</p><p>Usando dados de USDT e USDC entre 2020 e 2025, os autores mostram que um par razo&#225;vel de thresholds reduz a probabilidade semanal de default de mais de 15 bps para 0,7 bps. Num momento em que MiCAR, GENIUS Act, Hong Kong e Singapura est&#227;o todos calibrando seus frameworks simultaneamente, mas ainda sem consenso sobre como tratar esses buffers, quem acertar essa calibra&#231;&#227;o primeiro vai atrair emissores e, consequentemente, liquidez.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png" width="1456" height="303" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:303,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2079033,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/i/200970585?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-nr!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1dd63c1-8fa1-4d4d-a6f7-4d7d6c38156c_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>O que vem depois do pagamento &#233; onde o valor vai se concentrar</strong></p><p>Boa parte do debate sobre stablecoins ainda orbita em torno da liquida&#231;&#227;o. Velocidade, custo, efici&#234;ncia. S&#227;o discuss&#245;es leg&#237;timas, mas cada vez mais parecem uma conversa sobre o meio e n&#227;o sobre o destino. A camada que vai concentrar valor nos pr&#243;ximos anos n&#227;o &#233; a de pagamentos em si, &#233; tudo que passa a ser poss&#237;vel quando o pagamento j&#225; funciona.</p><p>O padr&#227;o que emerge &#233; parecido, em estrutura, com o que aconteceu com o Pix no Brasil. A infraestrutura de pagamento chegou primeiro, barata e ub&#237;qua, e abriu espa&#231;o para uma gera&#231;&#227;o inteira de produtos que simplesmente n&#227;o existiam antes porque o custo de liquida&#231;&#227;o os tornava invi&#225;veis. Com stablecoins, esse ciclo pode se repetir em escala global, mas desta vez sem depender de nenhum banco central espec&#237;fico para acontecer.</p><p>H&#225; movimentos concretos nessa dire&#231;&#227;o que valem aten&#231;&#227;o. Protocolos que permitem cr&#233;dito colateralizado em USDC sem intermedi&#225;rio banc&#225;rio regional. Tesourarias corporativas que substituem contas correntes em d&#243;lar por posi&#231;&#245;es em stablecoin com yield nativo. Fintechs B2B que integram pagamento, FX e antecipa&#231;&#227;o de receb&#237;veis em um &#250;nico contrato inteligente, eliminando a cadeia de correspondentes que hoje captura boa parte da margem nessas opera&#231;&#245;es.</p><p>O que todos esses movimentos t&#234;m em comum &#233; que o pagamento passou a ser o ponto de entrada, n&#227;o o produto final. <mark data-color="#fff2cc" style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Uma vez que um usu&#225;rio tem acesso a um saldo est&#225;vel e program&#225;vel, a pr&#243;xima pergunta natural &#233; o que mais ele pode fazer com isso.</mark> E &#233; exatamente nesse espa&#231;o, entre o saldo e o produto financeiro completo, que as posi&#231;&#245;es mais relevantes do ciclo atual est&#227;o sendo constru&#237;das. A disputa n&#227;o &#233; mais por quem processa mais transa&#231;&#245;es. &#201; por quem consegue fazer o usu&#225;rio ficar.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Sa&#250;de e paz,</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>Se voc&#234; conhece algu&#233;m que gostaria de receber esta newsletter ou que seja fascinado pelas possibilidades da inova&#231;&#227;o financeira, eu agradeceria imensamente se voc&#234; encaminhasse este e-mail para essa pessoa!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> As opini&#245;es expressas aqui s&#227;o de total responsabilidade do autor, Walter Pereira, e n&#227;o refletem necessariamente as opini&#245;es dos patrocinadores, parceiros ou clientes da <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#3WiF: Stablecoins are part of 'banking as a service 2.0', and Avenia wants to be this new infrastructure in LatAm]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTER #171]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-en</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-en</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Pereira]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:23:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Yt-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb23a7d5-507b-4d0c-ab8c-fa552dfdc023_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>Portuguese Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-ptbr">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><h5><em><strong>What, When, Who in Fintech:</strong></em></h5><p>Welcome to the <em><strong>3W in Fintech</strong></em> series. Here, I dive deep into the fintechs I believe are shaping the future of the industry, guided by three criteria: <em>strategy, differentiation, and innovation</em>. My goal is to deliver clear, practical insights for investors and entrepreneurs about companies that stand out not only for their growth, but also for their relevance and impact on the market.</p><p>In this third edition of the series, I will explore the history and strategies of Avenia, a company that was born as the issuer of a BRL-backed stablecoin, BRLA, and today seeks to use crypto technology as a foundation to revolutionize the traditional financial system. <strong>The proposal is based on a structural transformation, in which the entire financial system is gradually expected to migrate to this new technology over time.</strong></p><p>Founded by engineers trained at ITA, Instituto Tecnol&#243;gico de Aeron&#225;utica, Leandro Noel and Matheus Moura founded Avenia after gaining experience at a crypto asset manager focused on quantitative arbitrage, operating algorithmic strategies in global markets.</p><p>There, they experienced firsthand the delays of cross-border transfers that could take days. When raising funds in BRL through a local feeder fund and transferring them to a master fund abroad, the process would take days, sometimes fail, and cost around 60 dollars per deposit. In contrast, once inside the crypto environment, funds were moved between exchanges around the world almost instantly.</p><p>Matheus, Leandro, and the team experienced the pain points of this ecosystem firsthand, and this is precisely what underpins Avenia&#8217;s thesis, which aims to cover inflows, outflows, and circulation flows across Latin America, in a region where many GDPs depend on international transfers to survive or function. The company plans to operate multiple remittance and B2B payout corridors, leveraging the infrastructure behind stablecoins, with BRLA as the BRL-denominated asset and new local currencies per country on the roadmap to make this a reality. 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Every Monday, at 8:21 a.m. (Bras&#237;lia time), you will receive an in-depth analysis in your email.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h5>Check out the previous edition of 3W in Fintech &#128071;</h5><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;873bb557-0b4f-4e87-ac8a-cdbee347d09c&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; Portuguese Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#3WiF: Between data and payments, Iniciador wants to be the bridge that connects the two through regulated infrastructures&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-09-08T11:22:24.429Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OQQJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b5e02c-2665-4d0a-9ff3-c4aa15a7821a_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-iniciador-en&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:172926274,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:1,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:358033,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lxhy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd9c4f64-3b0c-4871-ac09-ee046fd7b65d_300x300.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/t/3winfintech&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;All editions here&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/t/3winfintech"><span>All editions here</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>Why Avenia?</h4><ol><li><p>The company has been leveraging the current regulatory environment of the crypto market to expand its client base and strengthen its positioning as a money movement infrastructure, <strong>aiming to support the development of new financial products on top of a programmable infrastructure.</strong></p></li><li><p>By mid-2025, Avenia had already reached an annualized TPV close to BRL 2.2 billion, with more than 4 million transactions processed since the beginning of its operations and a base of over 50 active clients using its infrastructure for recurring flows.</p></li><li><p>In 2025, the company made it clear that it no longer wanted to compete solely as a BRL-backed token, but rather to position itself as a new money movement infrastructure to compete with SWIFT. This ambition led to the rebranding from BRLA Digital to Avenia, making its goal of becoming a multi-country company, connecting different markets and currencies, more explicit.</p></li><li><p>Even with the growth of issuers in Brazil, which already total 12 BRL stablecoin issuers, Avenia positions itself in the financial market similarly to how AWS operates in the cloud market. The more issuers, the better. In practice, the product goes beyond the token, including APIs, FX, and compliance.</p></li><li><p>The regional ambition stems from the goal of connecting Brazil to the main Latin American corridors to generate more value for its clients, rather than simply replicating its presence superficially across multiple countries without integration with operational needs.</p></li><li><p>Avenia is what I consider a 'banking as a service 2.0&#8217;, where DeFi, based on blockchain, and traditional rails come together to bring greater efficiency and cost reduction to financial transactions.</p></li></ol><div><hr></div><p>This edition took a few months to be completed. I have been following Avenia&#8217;s story since early last year, and since then, I believe the stablecoin and DeFi markets have evolved significantly.</p><p>We have never heard so much about stablecoins as in the past 14 months. Regulatory advancements to frame this new instrument within the reality of the traditional financial system have also progressed substantially, which has encouraged regulators and companies to deepen the discussion.</p><p>I have already touched on some of the challenges of cross-border payments. In previous editions, I showed how Wise created its own licensing framework to operate globally, moving away from reliance on the traditional SWIFT system. Circle followed a similar path, but leveraged the dollar to use blockchain networks and execute cross-border payments through its stablecoin, USDC. Among many other examples, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: we still face major deficiencies when it comes to paying someone or a business on the other side of the world.</p><div><hr></div><h6>Take a look at the Wise and Circle editions &#128071;</h6><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;e73ad322-8463-4559-bb11-7ccc33d6aee2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; Portuguese Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#FintechFrames: Wise turned the distance between two points into a cross-border payments infrastructure&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-04-14T11:21:40.296Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MkGz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f06eda0-ed1a-4075-84bc-b860a01b7901_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/fintechframes-02-en&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:161098775,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:2,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:358033,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lxhy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd9c4f64-3b0c-4871-ac09-ee046fd7b65d_300x300.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;43fedb3b-496e-451d-941e-c08a103b2585&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; Portuguese Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#FintechFrames: Circle&#8217;s ambition to create a &#8220;Money Protocol&#8221; with Stablecoins: cheaper, faster, and more efficient&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-06-02T11:22:21.090Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PTqA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe7e4196-8251-4794-90d0-7e552d07fbcb_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/fintechframes-03-en&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:164912521,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:358033,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lxhy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd9c4f64-3b0c-4871-ac09-ee046fd7b65d_300x300.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>Traditional cross-border money transfer methods can consume, on average, between 1.5% and 7% of the transaction value in fees. It is an expensive mechanism that affects millions of people who depend on it. In Latin America, a significant portion of the population lives outside their home countries and supports their families through international remittances. In Central America, this weight is even more evident: in El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, remittances account for around 20% to 30% of GDP. The international remittance market still has significant room for innovation, and although many countries have developed strong domestic systems, such as Pix in Brazil, global payments remain rigid.</p><p>I believe Avenia has the potential to position itself as a Latin American player to help transform this landscape. An interesting aspect of this story is that the stablecoin does not appear as the final product, but rather as a settlement layer, which led the company itself to undergo a rebranding at the end of 2025, changing its name from BRLA Digital to Avenia.</p><p>In other words, the competitor is no longer another BRL stablecoin issuer, but rather the dominant global infrastructure for international payments, in this case, SWIFT. <strong>This shifts the competition away from the market cap of a token and toward control over the entire transaction flow. The numbers help reinforce this, with more than USD 1 billion processed in 2025.</strong></p><p>In this edition, I will show how stablecoins are shaping a new concept of &#8220;banking as a service&#8221; and how their use is still underexplored, yet has the potential to reshape economies and financial dynamics across the region.</p><h1>The founders&#8217; obsession with settlement that led to the thesis</h1><p>One of the most interesting aspects of Avenia&#8217;s journey is the background the founders built before starting the company. Much of what Avenia has become stems from the prior experiences Matheus and Leandro had. They met at ITA, one of Brazil&#8217;s leading technology institutions. Part of ITA&#8217;s foundation is not only to train engineers, but to shape individuals capable of thinking in complex systems and, above all, pursuing efficiency.</p><p>Throughout the conversations I had with Leandro over the past few months, it became clear to me the ability that both he and the team they built have to structure thinking and solve problems that many have not yet been able to address.</p><p>As is common with many engineers in Brazil, after graduating they both had experiences at asset managers and consultancies such as Patria Investimentos, Alvarez &amp; Marsal, and BTG Pactual. It was in this context that they helped found ADA Capital, a quantitative fund focused on crypto arbitrage. The fund was structured outside Brazil, with a local vehicle for Brazilian investors, operating simultaneously across multiple global exchanges.</p><p>The strategy was based on buying the asset in the spot market, selling it in the futures market, and capturing the price difference between the two while maintaining minimal exposure. The goal was not to bet on the rise or fall of the crypto asset itself, but rather to exploit pricing inefficiencies.</p><p>It was while operating this model that the main friction began to emerge. Within exchanges, money moved in seconds across Mexico, the United States, Asia, and Europe. But when entering or exiting through the traditional banking system, the timing changed completely. Offshore investors would take days to settle subscriptions or redemptions.</p><p>That was when they realized the problem lay in the traditional banking and FX infrastructure, which continued to operate in slow cycles and with multiple intermediaries. This contrast between the efficiency of on-chain systems and the friction of off-chain processes became the starting point of their obsession with settlement.</p><p>At the same time, their interaction with founders in the Brazilian Web3 ecosystem revealed another distortion. Projects designed for the Brazilian market had to price their products in dollars because there was no BRL stablecoin with a solid institutional standard. <strong>This is where the initial BRLA thesis emerged: to create a BRL stablecoin fully backed by low-risk, highly liquid assets, with no FX exposure, and with auditability and transparency. 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large institutions, turned into an excessive burden of requirements, rejections, and disproportionate costs. Five banks denied the account opening, and one of them even requested close to 30 thousand dollars per month just to keep the structure active.</p><p><strong>At that moment, the insight became even clearer: the problem was not creating a token or programming a smart contract, the problem was ensuring that it had regulated access to the National Financial System and to the formal FX infrastructure, because without that access any stablecoin would be just a superficial layer, whereas with regulated access it would be possible to build an infrastructure capable of scaling institutionally.</strong></p><p>The approval of Law 14.478 in December 2022 brought the regulatory predictability that had been missing and reinforced the founders&#8217; strategy of not operating in a gray area. In that context, a stablecoin would need to be born as a trusted instrument within the National Financial System itself, and regulation stopped being seen as an obstacle and began to be understood as a fundamental component of this new architecture.</p><p>Over time, the thesis itself evolved. Issuing a stablecoin alone would not solve the structural problem. <strong>Stablecoins depend on liquidity, and liquidity depends on use cases.</strong> Without a major distributor driving volume, growth would be limited. <strong>The turning point came when the focus shifted away from the token and toward the money movement infrastructure.</strong> This is when BRLA Digital evolved into Avenia, and the company stopped positioning itself as an issuer of a digital asset and began to see itself as a money movement infrastructure.</p><h1>The emergence of stablecoins and their regulatory challenges</h1><p>When we look at the current landscape of cross-border transactions, it becomes clear that international transfers remain one of the most friction-heavy aspects of the financial system.</p><p>A payment between Brazil and the United States, for example, goes through multiple institutions, each applying its own compliance rules, FX conversion, and liquidity management. The result is a high cost, where beyond the explicit fees, there is also the implicit cost of capital tied up along the way, since each link in the chain needs to maintain its own liquidity to support the flow. 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/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F192b9808-faf3-4db9-8840-8331f5e27a97_1920x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mOnE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F192b9808-faf3-4db9-8840-8331f5e27a97_1920x1080.png" width="1456" height="819" 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/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F192b9808-faf3-4db9-8840-8331f5e27a97_1920x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 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Instead of settling each international transaction individually, the company matches positions within its own database and executes domestic settlements in each country. <strong>The model reduces costs and improves the user experience, but remains anchored in the traditional banking system, requiring local accounts and integration with the financial infrastructure of each market.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UEkX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe57f271-59e6-412b-980e-8b57cc40fb0e_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UEkX!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe57f271-59e6-412b-980e-8b57cc40fb0e_1920x1080.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UEkX!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe57f271-59e6-412b-980e-8b57cc40fb0e_1920x1080.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UEkX!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe57f271-59e6-412b-980e-8b57cc40fb0e_1920x1080.png 1272w, 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/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe57f271-59e6-412b-980e-8b57cc40fb0e_1920x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 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The dominant international messaging system, SWIFT, charges between three and five dollars per message, regardless of the amount transferred.</p><p>One of the key questions then becomes whether it is possible to reduce dependence on correspondent banks and on pre-positioned capital across different jurisdictions. In this sense, stablecoins gained relevance as they were treated as a direct on-chain settlement instrument, with lower dependence on intermediaries and a different cost structure. However, there is now another challenge being addressed by many regulators. If stablecoins assume the role of settlement, trust in the asset circulating within this layer becomes the central point of this new architecture. <strong>This is where the debate around reserves connects directly with the efficiency thesis.</strong></p><p>The discussion around reserves predates the current debate on stablecoins. If we go back to the years between 1837 and 1863, during the so-called Free Banking Era in the United States, we find a similar challenge to the one many regulators face today with stablecoins. During this period, private banks issued their own notes, backed by assets defined by the legislation of each state.</p><p>The absence of a single standard resulted in a fragmented environment, in which the value of notes varied according to the strength of the issuer and the quality of the assets backing them. The discount applied to each note reflected this risk assessment. When reserves were neither homogeneous nor transparent, the monetary unit ceased to be fully interchangeable. <strong>In other words, the core of the discussion is not the issuance mechanism of this new instrument, but rather the composition and liquidity of the assets that guarantee its convertibility and parity.</strong></p><p>The SVB episode in 2023 illustrated this well. After the bank&#8217;s collapse, USDC temporarily lost its peg because part of its reserves were held at the failed bank. <strong>The current regulatory discussion revolves around the quality of these reserves and their integration with the traditional financial system.</strong></p><p>There have been several advancements in this direction over the past nine months. For example, in the European Union, under MiCA and the complementary rules that followed, regulators began allowing bank deposits as part of the reserves backing these assets. In the United States, the movement was similar, but introduced the limitation that issuers cannot pay interest or any form of yield to those holding these assets.</p><p>In Brazil, by integrating FX and Virtual Asset Service Providers under the same supervisory framework and allowing reserves in highly liquid assets such as short-term government bonds and demand deposits, the regulator also signaled strong concern with the solidity of reserves. Between 2022 and 2026, regulation by the Central Bank of Brazil advanced over VASPs, defining requirements such as minimum capital, asset segregation, and risk management. <strong>This capital may vary depending on the type of operation, being higher for structures that offer BaaS technology services and accounts integrated with PIX, and potentially lower for custodians or pure intermediaries.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yc1k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ffb8134-de20-4893-b70e-12dc36a180a2_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yc1k!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, 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The main one, and something I discussed with Leandro in our conversations, was the emergence of new BRL stablecoin issuers. With regulatory progress, it was natural for this market to open up.</p><p>When we look at the current numbers of the Brazilian ecosystem, there are already 12 active issuers, with an aggregated supply of around 67 million dollars and more than 102 thousand holders distributed across 8 blockchains. Weekly volume exceeds 95 million dollars, which indicates that the market has started to develop different use cases.</p><p>However, liquidity remains concentrated in a few assets. Data from trading pools as of March 2026 shows that pairs involving BRLA and BRZ continue to dominate the main pools in terms of deposited value and trading volume <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>. The BRLA-USDC pair ranks first among the pools with the highest capital deposited and the largest weekly trading volume, followed by other pairs also involving BRL-linked tokens. In practice, this shows that even with the emergence of new issuers, most transactions still occur in a small number of tokens that concentrate market liquidity.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!18gt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8de9648-6737-4678-be9c-0218d8b354cf_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!18gt!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8de9648-6737-4678-be9c-0218d8b354cf_1920x1080.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!18gt!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8de9648-6737-4678-be9c-0218d8b354cf_1920x1080.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!18gt!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8de9648-6737-4678-be9c-0218d8b354cf_1920x1080.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!18gt!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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function for the financial system in the same way AWS did for the cloud world, abstracting complexities and allowing any company to build on top of a standardized foundation, without having to rebuild the entire regulatory and operational stack in each new country. In other words, they are no longer competing with issuers, but with SWIFT itself.</strong></p><p>In this sense, it is interesting to revisit the company&#8217;s evolution. The first phase, as BRLA, played a clear role as a final product, a BRL-backed token with a well-defined utility. Leandro explains that, in the beginning, they believed the main driver would be crypto trading and investment, as is the case with other currencies such as USDT and USDC. Over time, they realized that the main use case was actually in cross-border payments.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w2jo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F93dbf164-0f4f-4d97-a6dc-9277e1097286_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w2jo!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F93dbf164-0f4f-4d97-a6dc-9277e1097286_1920x1080.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w2jo!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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integration.</p><p>This shift explains part of what I would call 'banking as a service 2.0'. In the first generation, banks provided accounts, compliance, and access to rails so that players could build products on top. At Avenia, the wallet based on stablecoins and blockchains becomes the center of this new architecture. FX, on-ramps, off-ramps, settlement, and regulatory controls are embedded directly into the transactional flow. <strong>The infrastructure is now built on blockchain and offers account-like capabilities, with the banking system operating as a layer for connection and final settlement.</strong></p><p><strong>According to Leandro, the company&#8217;s long-term vision is that every account, whether for payments, investments, or non-residents, evolves into a wallet. In this context, BRLA emerges as the BRL-backed asset compatible with this vision, functioning as the monetary base within this new infrastructure.</strong></p><p>The value lies in coordinating these different components such as blockchain, banks, FX, and compliance, allowing companies to operate complex financial flows without having to build this infrastructure from scratch.</p><p>Integration with local rails was also designed to be structural. In Brazil, Pix can carry metadata that references on-chain transactions through hashes, creating continuity between the two layers. <strong>A flow can start in local currency, convert into USDC, move through BRLA, and settle via Pix, for example. In the opposite direction, a Pix transaction can be converted into BRLA, migrate to USDC, and then proceed via international wire. Blockchain does not replace the local system, but instead organizes settlement across different systems. In other words, the focus shifts from creating another digital asset to redesigning the settlement architecture.</strong></p><p>Operational data helps illustrate the evolution of this architecture. In 2024, the first full year of operation, the client base surpassed 30 companies and the processed volume reached hundreds of millions of dollars over the period. Growth occurred at an accelerated pace, with transaction volume expanding more than 140 times compared to 2023 and revenue increasing close to 100 times over the same interval.</p><p>During the first twelve months of operation, Avenia had already reached breakeven, and a significant part of this effort was directed toward building a team with experience in payments, FX, and blockchain.</p><p>The expansion of processed volume continued in the following cycle. By mid-2025, the company had already reached an annualized TPV close to 2.2 billion reais, with more than 4 million transactions processed since the beginning of operations and a base of over 50 active clients using the infrastructure for recurring financial flows.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBiM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F788a95f6-8f79-411b-800c-7d9273177e2f_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBiM!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Whenever a company converts BRL into a stablecoin, a stablecoin into dollars, or follows the reverse path, there is a small conversion and transaction fee. As the company operates international payments infrastructure, this flow happens multiple times throughout the day.</p><p>There is also a revenue stream called float, which is the yield generated from the funds held as collateral for the stablecoin. However, this is not the main driver of the business. It arises naturally because money remains temporarily idle while transactions are processed. In other words, interest income is a byproduct of transaction volume, not the company&#8217;s core strategy.</p><p>To ensure security and liquidity, the reserves backing the stablecoin are mostly held in cash and cash equivalents deposited in financial institutions, as well as in repurchase agreements collateralized by debentures.</p><p>The most recent transparency report shows that <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>, as of January 31, 2026, there were 36,979,119.37 BRLA in circulation, while reserves totaled BRL 41,093,713.64. Of this amount, BRL 39,626,013.64 was held in cash and cash equivalents distributed across Stark Bank, Woovi, and BTG Pactual, while BRL 1,467,700 was allocated to repurchase agreements collateralized by debentures. 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This will help spread the message and allow me to keep offering quality content for free.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-en?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-en?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>Competition for the rail</h1><p>In the segment where Avenia operates, there are different layers structuring the stablecoin market in Latin America. The first is the issuer layer. This includes companies responsible for creating and managing stablecoins, maintaining reserves that ensure the stability of the digital asset&#8217;s value. Avenia&#8217;s first phase placed it solely within this quadrant. The business model typically relies on reserve yield and fees associated with conversion processes between fiat and crypto. Players in this layer include Avenia itself, Transfero (BRZ), and Tokeniza (tBRL), which operate issuance and liquidity management structures linked to local currencies or the dollar.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OBf2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcbd598c-d7bc-4f66-a307-4bedb7c643d9_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OBf2!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcbd598c-d7bc-4f66-a307-4bedb7c643d9_1920x1080.png 424w, 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One is composed of liquidity providers and trading infrastructure players, responsible for ensuring that stablecoin transactions occur smoothly across exchanges and trading environments, as seen with companies like Nonco and Bitso. The other layer includes companies that use stablecoins as a foundation to build payment and capital movement infrastructure, offering APIs and settlement platforms to integrate with corporate financial flows. This is where companies like BlindPay, Lumx, and Caliza appear, alongside Avenia itself.</p><p>These multiple layers show that competition is not limited to token issuance, but also extends to control over the infrastructure that moves capital between financial systems and blockchains. Some banks and platforms have also entered the issuance space, with Mercado Pago (MUSD), Safra (Safra D&#243;lar), and XP (USDXP), among others, launching their own stablecoins. <strong>The risk for Avenia is not necessarily that another token will compete directly with BRLA, but that one of these players may offer a more efficient combination of FX, compliance, and APIs.</strong></p><h1>The LATAM-first strategy and Avenia&#8217;s future as infrastructure</h1><p>Avenia is currently in a favorable position, where Brazilian regulation and stablecoin adoption in Latin America are progressing at a faster pace than in other regions. Between 2023 and 2024, stablecoin-related activity in the region grew by around 43%, a rate higher than in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia.</p><p>This is partly explained by structural factors such as currency instability, high inflation in some markets, and the cost of international remittances. In 2024 alone, approximately 39% of all crypto purchases in the region already involved stablecoins, representing an increase compared to the previous year.</p><p>This movement is happening in parallel with the global consolidation of the market. The annual transaction volume of stablecoins has already reached trillions of dollars and is approaching the scale of major payment networks. In 2025, for example, annualized stablecoin volume reached around 3.2 trillion dollars, while Mastercard recorded approximately 4.2 trillion and Visa around 6.9 trillion, leading both to expand support for stablecoins and explore blockchain-based settlement for remittances and B2B payments.</p><p>Within this regional context, Avenia&#8217;s expansion has been driven by increasingly tangible market demand. Companies that were already using the infrastructure in Brazil began requesting operations in other regional markets, especially Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. The underlying view is that building infrastructure that connects Brazil to the main Latin American corridors creates more value than superficially replicating presence across multiple countries without operational integration.</p><p>At this point, I believe Avenia represents a compelling combination of BVNK&#8217;s model, which I covered in edition #163, where I showed that for them settlement is a service and that every payment, conversion, or transfer should pass through a network that is as reliable as the banking system and as agile as blockchain, along with elements of Circle&#8217;s model, which focuses on creating a trusted and regionally relevant token.</p><div><hr></div><h6>Take a look at the BVNK editions &#128071;</h6><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;68a9384a-1fbc-4ca4-94bf-e22f03cb32e0&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; Portuguese Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#FintechFrames: The bet of BVNK on building the next generation of financial infrastructure with stablecoins&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5924217,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Pereira&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;A fintech builder and researcher in LatAm, exploring new trends, strategies, and unit economics in financial innovation. Every Monday in your inbox&#9997;&#65039;&#127974;&#129331;&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a3b11ecb-c531-4cc5-a9f9-cef2e4bef0bb_2048x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-10-20T11:29:55.054Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CZVl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e004667-fbd4-472b-a1bd-375fb4f9f37f_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/fintechframes-04-en&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:176611692,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:1,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:358033,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lxhy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd9c4f64-3b0c-4871-ac09-ee046fd7b65d_300x300.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>The challenges in Latin America are different from those in more developed regions. FX frictions, higher costs in international payments, and limited integration between financial systems across the region still persist. It is in this context that Avenia can establish itself as a &#8216;banking as a service 2.0', acting as a bridge between DeFi and traditional finance in a region that depends on operational efficiency and cost reduction to enable companies to operate beyond their borders.</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>If you know anyone who would like to receive this e-mail or who is fascinated by the possibilities of financial innovation, I&#8217;d really appreciate you forwarding this email their way!</strong></em></p><p><strong>Until the next!</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, Walter Pereira, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors, partners, or clients of <em>W Fintechs.</em></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://iporesearch.ventures/dashboard</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://brladigital.notion.site/BRLA-Transparency-Page-238ba143aa2f4338902ee91ebe50298a</p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#3WiF: Stablecoins fazem parte do 'banking as a service 2.0', e a Avenia quer ser essa nova infraestrutura na LatAm]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTER #171]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-ptbr</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-ptbr</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Pereira]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:21:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Yt-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb23a7d5-507b-4d0c-ab8c-fa552dfdc023_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>English Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-en">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><h5><em>What, When, Who in Fintech:</em></h5><p>Bem vindo &#224; s&#233;rie <em><strong>3W in Fintech</strong></em>. Aqui eu exploro profundamente as fintechs que acredito que v&#227;o moldar o futuro do setor, considerando tr&#234;s crit&#233;rios: <em>estrat&#233;gias adotadas, diferencia&#231;&#227;o e inova&#231;&#227;o</em>. Meu objetivo &#233; trazer insights claros e pr&#225;ticos para investidores e empreendedores sobre empresas que se destacam n&#227;o apenas pelo crescimento, mas pela relev&#226;ncia e impacto no mercado.</p><p>Nesta terceira edi&#231;&#227;o da s&#233;rie, vou explorar a hist&#243;ria e as estrat&#233;gias da Avenia, uma empresa que nasceu como emissora da stablecoin lastreada em real, a BRLA, e hoje busca utilizar<strong> </strong>a tecnologia cripto como base para revolucionar o sistema financeiro tradicional.<strong> A proposta passa por uma transforma&#231;&#227;o estrutural, em que gradualmente todo o sistema financeiro tende a migrar para essa nova tecnologia ao longo do tempo. </strong></p><p>Fundada por engenheiros formados no ITA - Instituto Tecnol&#243;gico de Aeron&#225;utica,  Leandro Noel e Matheus Moura fundaram a Avenia ap&#243;s uma experi&#234;ncia em uma gestora de criptoativos voltada &#224; arbitragem quantitativa, operando estrat&#233;gias algor&#237;tmicas em mercados globais.</p><p>Ali, sentiram de perto a demora de dias em transfer&#234;ncias cross-border. Ao captar recursos em BRL via um fundo feeder local e transferi-los para um fundo master no exterior, o processo levava dias, &#224;s vezes falhava e custava cerca de 60 d&#243;lares por dep&#243;sito. Em contrapartida, uma vez dentro do ambiente cripto, os recursos eram movimentados entre exchanges ao redor do mundo de forma praticamente instant&#226;nea. </p><p>Matheus, Leandro e time, viveram na pele as dores desse ecossistema e &#233; exatamente essa a base que explica a tese da Avenia, que tem como ambi&#231;&#227;o cobrir os fluxos de entrada, sa&#237;da e circula&#231;&#227;o pela Am&#233;rica Latina, em uma regi&#227;o onde muitos PIBs dependem de transfer&#234;ncias internacionais para sobreviver ou funcionar. A empresa pretende operar m&#250;ltiplos corredores de remessas e payouts B2B, apostando na infraestrutura por tr&#225;s das stablecoins, com a BRLA como o ativo em real e novas moedas locais por pa&#237;s no roadmap, para tornar isso realidade. 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Toda segunda-feira, &#224;s 8:21 a.m. (hor&#225;rio de Bras&#237;lia), voc&#234; receber&#225; uma an&#225;lise profunda no seu e-mail.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h5>Confira a edi&#231;&#227;o anterior do 3W in Fintech &#128071;</h5><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;162b203b-c0c2-47ce-b542-691075919109&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; English Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#3WiF: Entre dados e pagamentos, o Iniciador quer ser a ponte que liga os dois atrav&#233;s de infraestruturas reguladas&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5924217,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Pereira&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;A fintech investor and researcher in LatAm, exploring new trends, strategies, and unit economics in financial innovation. 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Essa ambi&#231;&#227;o resultou no rebranding de BRLA Digital para Avenia, deixando mais clara a ambi&#231;&#227;o de se tornar uma empresa multi-country, conectando diferentes mercados e moedas.</p></li><li><p>Mesmo com o avan&#231;o de emissores no Brasil, que j&#225; somam 12 emissores de stablecoin em real, a Avenia se posiciona para o mercado financeiro de forma semelhante &#224; AWS no mercado de cloud. Quanto mais emissores, melhor. Na pr&#225;tica, o produto oferece algo al&#233;m do token, incluindo APIs, FX e compliance.</p></li><li><p>A ambi&#231;&#227;o regional surge do objetivo de conectar o Brasil aos principais corredores latino-americanos para gerar mais valor para seus clientes, em vez de simplesmente replicar sua presen&#231;a de forma superficial em v&#225;rios pa&#237;ses sem integra&#231;&#227;o com as necessidades operacionais.</p></li><li><p>A Avenia &#233; o que considero um &#8220;banking as a service 2.0&#8221;, em que o DeFi, baseado em blockchain, e os trilhos tradicionais se unem para trazer mais efici&#234;ncia e redu&#231;&#227;o de custos para as movimenta&#231;&#245;es financeiras.</p></li></ol><div><hr></div><p>Esta edi&#231;&#227;o levou alguns meses para ser terminada. Venho acompanhando a hist&#243;ria da Avenia desde o in&#237;cio do ano passado e acho que desde ent&#227;o o mercado de stablecoin e de DeFi evoluiu bastante. </p><p>Nunca ouvimos falar tanto de stablecoin quanto nos &#250;ltimos 14 meses. Os avan&#231;os regulat&#243;rios para enquadrar este novo instrumento &#224; realidade do sistema financeiro tradicional tamb&#233;m avan&#231;aram muito, o que fez com que muitos reguladores e empresas incentivassem mais o debate.</p><p>J&#225; abordei um pouco sobre os desafios dos pagamentos cross-border. Em edi&#231;&#245;es anteriores, mostrei como a Wise criou um mecanismo pr&#243;prio de licen&#231;as para operar globalmente, fugindo da depend&#234;ncia do tradicional sistema SWIFT. A Circle seguiu um prop&#243;sito semelhante, mas se apoiou no d&#243;lar para utilizar redes blockchain e executar pagamentos cross-border atrav&#233;s de sua stablecoin, a USDC. Entre tantos outros exemplos, uma coisa que fica cada vez mais clara &#233; que ainda temos grandes defici&#234;ncias para pagar algu&#233;m ou uma empresa do outro lado do mundo.</p><div><hr></div><h6>Confira as edi&#231;&#245;es da Wise e Circle &#128071;</h6><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;ca74503d-737d-4492-80ca-105f88f6bb4e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; English Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#FintechFrames: A Wise transformou a dist&#226;ncia entre dois pontos em uma infraestrutura de pagamentos cross-border &quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5924217,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Pereira&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;A fintech investor and researcher in LatAm, exploring new trends, strategies, and unit economics in financial innovation. 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Na Am&#233;rica Latina, uma parte significativa da popula&#231;&#227;o vive fora de seus pa&#237;ses de origem e sustenta fam&#237;lias por meio de remessas internacionais. Na Am&#233;rica Central, esse peso &#233; ainda mais evidente: em El Salvador, Honduras e Nicar&#225;gua, as remessas chegam a representar cerca de 20% a 30% do PIB. O mercado de remessas internacionais ainda tem muito espa&#231;o para inova&#231;&#227;o e embora muitos pa&#237;ses tenham desenvolvido sistemas dom&#233;sticos s&#243;lidos, como o Pix no Brasil, os pagamentos globais seguem engessados. </p><p>Acredito que a Avenia tem potencial de se posicionar como um player latino-americano para ajudar a transformar esse cen&#225;rio. Um ponto interessante desta hist&#243;ria &#233; que a stablecoin n&#227;o aparece como o produto final, mas sim como uma camada de liquida&#231;&#227;o, o que faz a pr&#243;pria empresa passar por um rebranding no fim de 2025, mudando sua marca de BRLA Digital para Avenia. </p><p>Ou seja, o concorrente deixou de ser outro emissor de stablecoin em real e passou a ser a infraestrutura global dominante de pagamentos internacionais, neste caso, o SWIFT. <strong>Isso faz com que a disputa deixe de ser pelo market cap de um token e passe a ser pelo controle de todo o fluxo de transa&#231;&#245;es. Os n&#250;meros ajudam a refor&#231;ar isso, onde mais de US$ 1 bilh&#227;o foi processado em 2025.</strong></p><p>Nesta edi&#231;&#227;o, vou mostrar como stablecoins est&#227;o moldando um novo conceito de &#8220;banking as a service&#8221; e como o uso de stablecoins ainda &#233; pouco explorado, mas pode redesenhar economias e din&#226;micas financeiras em toda a regi&#227;o.</p><h1>A obsess&#227;o dos fundadores com settlement que levou a tese</h1><p>Uma das coisas mais interessantes da jornada da Avenia &#233; a bagagem que os fundadores acumularam antes de fundarem a empresa. Boa parte do que a Avenia se tornou nasceu das experi&#234;ncias anteriores que Matheus e Leandro tiveram. Eles se conheceram no ITA, uma das principais institui&#231;&#245;es de tecnologia do Brasil. Parte dos fundamentos do ITA &#233; formar n&#227;o apenas engenheiros, mas sim pessoas capazes de pensar em sistemas complexos e, principalmente, buscar efici&#234;ncia. </p><p>Durante as conversas que tive com Leandro ao longo dos &#250;ltimos meses, ficou claro para mim a capacidade que tanto ele, quanto o time que formaram, possuem em estruturar pensamentos e resolu&#231;&#245;es de problemas que muitos ainda n&#227;o conseguiram resolver. </p><p>Como acontece com muitos engenheiros no Brasil, ap&#243;s a faculdade ambos tiveram experi&#234;ncias em gestoras e consultorias, como Patria Investimentos, Alvarez &amp; Marsal e BTG Pactual. Foi nesse contexto que ajudaram a fundar a ADA Capital, uma gestora quantitativa focada em arbitragem cripto. O fundo foi estruturado fora do Brasil, com um ve&#237;culo local para investidores brasileiros, operando simultaneamente em m&#250;ltiplas exchanges globais. </p><p>A estrat&#233;gia era baseada em comprar o ativo no mercado &#224; vista, vender no mercado futuro e capturar a diferen&#231;a de pre&#231;o entre os dois, mantendo uma exposi&#231;&#227;o m&#237;nima. O objetivo n&#227;o era apostar na alta ou na queda do criptoativo em si, mas sim explorar as poss&#237;veis inefici&#234;ncias de pre&#231;o.</p><p>Foi operando esse modelo que o principal inc&#244;modo come&#231;ou a aparecer. Dentro das exchanges, o dinheiro circulava em segundos entre M&#233;xico, Estados Unidos, &#193;sia e Europa. Quando precisava entrar ou sair pelo sistema banc&#225;rio tradicional, o tempo mudava completamente. Investidores offshore levavam dias para liquidar aportes ou resgates. </p><p>Foi quando perceberam que o problema estava na infraestrutura banc&#225;ria e cambial tradicional que continuava operando em ciclos lentos e cheios de intermedi&#225;rios. Esse contraste entre a efici&#234;ncia do on chain e a fric&#231;&#227;o do off chain acabou se tornando o ponto de partida da obsess&#227;o dos dois pelo settlement.</p><p>Ao mesmo tempo, o contato com fundadores do ecossistema Web3 brasileiro mostrava outra distor&#231;&#227;o. Projetos pensados para o p&#250;blico brasileiro precisavam precificar produtos em d&#243;lar porque n&#227;o havia uma stablecoin em real com um padr&#227;o institucional s&#243;lido.<strong> Da&#237; nasce a tese inicial da BRLA: criar uma stablecoin de real totalmente lastreada em ativos de baixo risco e alta liquidez, sem exposi&#231;&#227;o cambial, com auditoria e transpar&#234;ncia. 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institui&#231;&#245;es, se transformava em um excesso de exig&#234;ncias, recusas e custos desproporcionais, fazendo com que 5 bancos negassem a abertura e um deles chegasse a pedir algo pr&#243;ximo de 30 mil d&#243;lares por m&#234;s apenas para manter a estrutura ativa. </p><p><strong>Foi nesse momento que o insight se tornou ainda mais claro: o problema n&#227;o era criar um token nem programar um smart contract, o problema era fazer com que isso tivesse acesso regulado ao Sistema Financeiro Nacional e &#224;s engrenagens formais de c&#226;mbio, porque sem esse acesso qualquer stablecoin seria apenas uma camada superficial, enquanto com esse acesso regulado seria poss&#237;vel construir uma infraestrutura capaz de escalar de forma institucional.</strong></p><p>A aprova&#231;&#227;o da Lei 14.478, em dezembro de 2022, trouxe a previsibilidade regulat&#243;ria que faltava e refor&#231;ou a estrat&#233;gia dos fundadores de n&#227;o operar em uma zona cinzenta. Naquele contexto, uma stablecoin precisaria nascer como instrumento de confian&#231;a dentro do pr&#243;prio Sistema Financeiro Nacional, e a regula&#231;&#227;o deixava de ser vista como um obst&#225;culo e passava a ser entendida como uma pe&#231;a fundamental para essa nova arquitetura.</p><p>Com o tempo, a pr&#243;pria tese evoluiu. Emitir uma stablecoin n&#227;o resolveria o problema estrutural por si s&#243;. <strong>Stablecoin depende de liquidez, e liquidez depende de caso de uso.</strong> Sem um grande distribuidor puxando o volume, o crescimento seria limitado. <strong>A virada acontece quando o foco deixa de ser o token e passa a ser a infraestrutura de movimenta&#231;&#227;o de dinheiro.</strong> &#201; nesse ponto que a BRLA Digital evolui para a Avenia e a empresa deixa de se posicionar como emissora de um ativo digital e passa a se enxergar como uma infraestrutura de money movement.</p><h1>O surgimento das stablecoins e seus desafios regulat&#243;rios</h1><p>Quando olhamos para o cen&#225;rio atual de transa&#231;&#245;es cross border, fica evidente que o desafio das transfer&#234;ncias internacionais permanece como um dos pontos de maior fric&#231;&#227;o do sistema financeiro.</p><p>Um pagamento entre Brasil e Estados Unidos, por exemplo, percorre diversas institui&#231;&#245;es, cada uma aplicando suas pr&#243;prias regras de compliance, convers&#227;o cambial e gest&#227;o de liquidez. O resultado disso acaba sendo um custo elevado, que al&#233;m do custo expl&#237;cito, tamb&#233;m existe o custo impl&#237;cito do capital imobilizado ao longo do caminho, pois cada elo da cadeia precisa manter sua pr&#243;pria liquidez para honrar o fluxo, o que pressiona ainda mais as margens e encarece o servi&#231;o final. <strong>Em 2023, a Am&#233;rica Latina recebeu mais de 150 bilh&#245;es de d&#243;lares em remessas e uma parcela relevante desse montante foi absorvida por custos de intermedia&#231;&#227;o. </strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mOnE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F192b9808-faf3-4db9-8840-8331f5e27a97_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Em vez de liquidar cada transa&#231;&#227;o internacional de forma individual, a empresa cruza posi&#231;&#245;es em sua pr&#243;pria base de dados e realiza liquida&#231;&#245;es dom&#233;sticas em cada pa&#237;s. <strong>O modelo reduz os custos e melhora a experi&#234;ncia para o usu&#225;rio, mas permanece ancorado no sistema banc&#225;rio tradicional, exigindo contas locais e integra&#231;&#227;o com a infraestrutura financeira de cada mercado.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UEkX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe57f271-59e6-412b-980e-8b57cc40fb0e_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UEkX!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, 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O sistema dominante de mensagens internacionais, o SWIFT, cobra entre tr&#234;s e cinco d&#243;lares por mensagem, independentemente do valor transferido. </p><p>Uma das quest&#245;es ent&#227;o passa a ser se &#233; poss&#237;vel reduzir a depend&#234;ncia de bancos correspondentes e de capital pr&#233; posicionado em diferentes jurisdi&#231;&#245;es. Foi nesse sentido que a stablecoin ganhou relev&#226;ncia pois foi tratada como esse instrumento de liquida&#231;&#227;o direta on chain, com menor depend&#234;ncia de intermedi&#225;rios e com uma outra estrutura de custo. Mas h&#225; hoje um outro desafio que est&#225; sendo abordado por muitos reguladores. Se a stablecoin assume o papel de settlement, a confian&#231;a no ativo que circula nessa camada torna-se o ponto central dessa nova arquitetura. <strong>&#201; nesse momento que o debate sobre o lastro se conecta diretamente com a tese de efici&#234;ncia.</strong></p><p>O debate sobre lastro antecede a pr&#243;pria discuss&#227;o atual sobre stablecoins. Se voltarmos para os anos de 1837 e 1863, durante a chamada Era da Banca Livre nos Estados Unidos, encontramos um desafio semelhante que muitos reguladores t&#234;m enfrentado com as stablecoins. Neste per&#237;odo, bancos privados emitiam notas pr&#243;prias, garantidas por ativos definidos pela legisla&#231;&#227;o de cada estado. </p><p>A aus&#234;ncia de um padr&#227;o &#250;nico resultou em um ambiente fragmentado, no qual o valor das notas variava conforme a solidez do emissor e a qualidade dos ativos que as sustentavam. O desconto aplicado a cada papel refletia essa avalia&#231;&#227;o de risco. Quando o lastro n&#227;o era homog&#234;neo e transparente, a unidade monet&#225;ria deixava de ser plenamente intercambi&#225;vel. <strong>Ou seja, o ponto central da discuss&#227;o n&#227;o est&#225; no mecanismo de emiss&#227;o desse novo instrumento, mas sim na composi&#231;&#227;o e na liquidez do ativo que garante essa conversibilidade e paridade.</strong></p><p>O epis&#243;dio do SVB em 2023 mostrou bem isso. Ap&#243;s a quebra do banco, a USDC perdeu temporariamente sua paridade pois parte de suas reservas estavam depositada no banco que colapsou. <strong>A discuss&#227;o regulat&#243;ria atual gira em torno da qualidade desse lastro e da integra&#231;&#227;o com o sistema financeiro tradicional. </strong></p><p>H&#225; diversos avan&#231;os neste sentido que ocorreram nos &#250;ltimos 9 meses. Por exemplo, na Uni&#227;o Europeia, dentro do MiCA e das regras complementares que vieram depois, os reguladores passaram a aceitar dep&#243;sitos em bancos como parte da reserva que sustenta esses ativos. Nos Estados Unidos, o movimento foi parecido, mas trouxe a limita&#231;&#227;o de que os emissores n&#227;o podem pagar juros ou algum tipo de rendimento para quem mant&#233;m esses ativos.</p><p>No Brasil, ao integrar c&#226;mbio e Prestadoras de Servi&#231;os de Ativos Virtuais (PSAVs) sob a mesma supervis&#227;o e admitir reservas em ativos de alta liquidez, como t&#237;tulos p&#250;blicos federais de curt&#237;ssimo prazo e dep&#243;sitos &#224; vista, o regulador tamb&#233;m sinalizou forte preocupa&#231;&#227;o com a solidez do lastro. Entre 2022 e 2026, a regula&#231;&#227;o do Banco Central do Brasil avan&#231;ou sobre as PSAVs, definindo requisitos como capital m&#237;nimo, segrega&#231;&#227;o patrimonial e gest&#227;o de riscos. <strong>Esse capital pode variar de acordo com o tipo de opera&#231;&#227;o, sendo mais elevado para estruturas que oferecem servi&#231;os de tecnologia de BaaS e contas com integra&#231;&#227;o ao PIX, e potencialmente menor para custodiante ou intermedi&#225;rios puros</strong>. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yc1k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ffb8134-de20-4893-b70e-12dc36a180a2_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yc1k!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, 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O principal, e um dos pontos que conversei com o Leandro em nossas conversas, era o surgimento de novos emissores de stablecoin de real. Com o avan&#231;o regulat&#243;rio, era natural que este mercado se abrisse. </p><p>Quando olhamos para os n&#250;meros atuais do ecossistema brasileiro, j&#225; existem 12 emissores ativos, com um supply agregado (valor total em circula&#231;&#227;o somado de todos os tokens emitidos) pr&#243;ximo de 67 milh&#245;es de d&#243;lares e mais de 102 mil holders distribu&#237;dos em 8 blockchains. O volume semanal ultrapassa 95 milh&#245;es de d&#243;lares, o que indica que o mercado passou a ter diferentes aplica&#231;&#245;es de uso.</p><p>Mas a liquidez ainda permanece concentrada em poucos ativos. Os dados de pools de negocia&#231;&#227;o (mar&#231;o/2026) mostram que pares envolvendo BRLA e BRZ continuam dominando os principais pools por valor depositado e volume de negocia&#231;&#227;o <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>. O par BRLA-USDC aparece na primeira posi&#231;&#227;o entre os pools com mais dinheiro depositado e maior volume de negocia&#231;&#245;es na semana, seguido por outros pares que tamb&#233;m envolvem tokens ligados ao real. Na pr&#225;tica, isso mostra que, mesmo com o surgimento de novos emissores, a maior parte das transa&#231;&#245;es ainda acontece em poucos tokens que concentram a liquidez do mercado.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!18gt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8de9648-6737-4678-be9c-0218d8b354cf_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!18gt!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8de9648-6737-4678-be9c-0218d8b354cf_1920x1080.png 424w, 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funcione para o sistema financeiro como a AWS funcionou para o mundo cloud, abstraindo as complexidades e permitindo que qualquer empresa construa em cima de uma base padronizada, sem precisar reconstruir toda a engrenagem regulat&#243;ria e operacional a cada novo pa&#237;s. Ou seja, de fato eles passam a competir n&#227;o com emissores, mas com o pr&#243;prio SWIFT.</strong></p><p>Neste sentido, &#233; interessante resgatar a evolu&#231;&#227;o da empresa. A primeira fase, como BRLA, cumpria um papel claro como um produto final, um token lastreado em real com utilidade bem definida. Leandro conta que, no in&#237;cio, acreditavam que o caso que mais tracionaria seria o de crypto trading e investimento, como ocorre com outras moedas, como a USDT e a USDC. 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liquida&#231;&#227;o e integra&#231;&#227;o via API.</p><p>Esse movimento explica parte do que vou chamar de "banking as a service 2.0&#8221;. Na primeira gera&#231;&#227;o, os bancos ofereciam contas, compliance e acesso a rails para que os players constru&#237;ssem produtos na ponta. Na Avenia, a wallet baseada em stablecoin/blockchains assume o centro dessa nova arquitetura. FX, on ramp, off ramp, liquida&#231;&#227;o e controles regulat&#243;rios est&#227;o embutidos no fluxo transacional. <strong>Agora a infraestrutura &#233; constru&#237;da sobre uma blockchain e oferece as capacidades de conta, com o sistema banc&#225;rio operando como uma camada de conex&#227;o e liquida&#231;&#227;o final.</strong></p><p><strong>De acordo com Leandro, a vis&#227;o de longo prazo da empresa &#233; que toda conta, seja de pagamento, investimento ou de n&#227;o residente, evolua para uma wallet</strong>. <strong>Nesse contexto, o BRLA surge como o ativo lastreado em BRL compat&#237;vel com essa vis&#227;o, e funcionando como a base monet&#225;ria dentro dessa nova infraestrutura</strong>.</p><p>O valor est&#225; na coordena&#231;&#227;o entre essas diferentes pe&#231;as como o blockchain, bancos, c&#226;mbio e compliance, permitindo que as empresas operem fluxos financeiros complexos sem precisar montar essa infraestrutura do zero.</p><p>A integra&#231;&#227;o com rails locais foi desenhada para ser estrutural tamb&#233;m. No Brasil, o Pix pode carregar metadados que referenciam transa&#231;&#245;es on chain por meio de hash, criando continuidade entre as duas camadas. <strong>Um fluxo pode sair de moeda local, converter para USDC, transitar por BRLA e liquidar via Pix, por exemplo. No sentido inverso, um Pix pode ser convertido em BRLA, migrar para USDC e seguir por wire internacional. A blockchain n&#227;o substitui o sistema local, mas acaba organizando a liquida&#231;&#227;o entre os diferentes sistemas. Ou seja, o foco ent&#227;o deixa de ser criar mais um ativo digital e passa a ser redesenhar a arquitetura de settlement.</strong></p><p>Os dados operacionais ajudam a dimensionar a evolu&#231;&#227;o dessa arquitetura. Em 2024, o primeiro ano completo de opera&#231;&#227;o, a base de clientes ultrapassou 30 empresas e o volume processado alcan&#231;ou centenas de milh&#245;es de d&#243;lares ao longo do per&#237;odo. O crescimento ocorreu em um ritmo acelerado, onde o volume transacionado registrava uma expans&#227;o superior a 140 vezes em rela&#231;&#227;o a 2023 e a receita aumentava a algo pr&#243;ximo de 100 vezes no mesmo intervalo.</p><p>Durante os primeiros doze meses de opera&#231;&#227;o, a Avenia j&#225; havia atingido seu breakeven e parte relevante desse esfor&#231;o foi direcionada &#224; forma&#231;&#227;o de um time com experi&#234;ncia em pagamentos, c&#226;mbio e blockchain.</p><p>A expans&#227;o do volume processado continuou no ciclo seguinte. At&#233; meados de 2025, a empresa j&#225; registrava um TPV anualizado pr&#243;ximo de 2,2 bilh&#245;es de reais, com mais de 4 milh&#245;es de transa&#231;&#245;es processadas desde o in&#237;cio da opera&#231;&#227;o e uma base superior a 50 clientes ativos utilizando a infraestrutura para fluxos recorrentes de movimenta&#231;&#227;o financeira.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBiM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F788a95f6-8f79-411b-800c-7d9273177e2f_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBiM!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Sempre que uma empresa transforma reais em stablecoin, stablecoin em d&#243;lares, ou faz o caminho inverso, existe uma pequena taxa de convers&#227;o e de opera&#231;&#227;o. Como a empresa opera infraestrutura de pagamentos internacionais, esse fluxo acontece muitas vezes ao longo do dia.</p><p>Existe tamb&#233;m uma receita chamada float, que &#233; o rendimento gerado pelo dinheiro que fica guardado como garantia da stablecoin. Mas esse rendimento n&#227;o &#233; o principal motor do neg&#243;cio. Ele aparece naturalmente porque h&#225; dinheiro parado temporariamente enquanto as transa&#231;&#245;es acontecem. Ou seja, o ganho com juros &#233; uma consequ&#234;ncia do volume movimentado, mas n&#227;o a estrat&#233;gia principal da empresa.</p><p>Para garantir a seguran&#231;a e a liquidez, as reservas que lastreiam a stablecoin s&#227;o mantidas majoritariamente em caixa e equivalentes depositados em institui&#231;&#245;es financeiras, al&#233;m de opera&#231;&#245;es de recompra colateralizadas por deb&#234;ntures. </p><p>O relat&#243;rio de transpar&#234;ncia mais recente mostra que<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>, em 31 de janeiro de 2026, havia 36.979.119,37 BRLA em circula&#231;&#227;o, enquanto as reservas totalizavam R$41.093.713,64. Desse valor, R$39.626.013,64 estavam mantidos em caixa e equivalentes distribu&#237;dos entre Stark Bank, Woovi e BTG Pactual, enquanto R$1.467.700 estavam alocados em opera&#231;&#245;es de recompra colateralizadas por deb&#234;ntures. 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href="https://file.notion.so/f/f/7cc5d753-b4f1-4267-9ad1-3e6bd0141d8d/7e14e563-3153-4a10-9740-76f916fd4aa9/Avenia_-_Transparency_Report_-_20260131_(Audit_Attestation).pdf?table=block&amp;id=3047f28f-0ae4-805e-b4c6-c35745bcd41e&amp;spaceId=7cc5d753-b4f1-4267-9ad1-3e6bd0141d8d&amp;expirationTimestamp=1772668800000&amp;signature=MYJXcLreVB3_ZXVbaLdWGc_ukQUA6Tx70On8majnzh0&amp;downloadName=Avenia+-+Transparency+Report+-+20260131+%28Audit+Attestation%29.pdf">here</a></figcaption></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RMKN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2678c0c-9a8a-4c61-b55d-c8f8a6cda4c8_1294x380.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RMKN!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, 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17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Source &#128073; <a href="https://file.notion.so/f/f/7cc5d753-b4f1-4267-9ad1-3e6bd0141d8d/7e14e563-3153-4a10-9740-76f916fd4aa9/Avenia_-_Transparency_Report_-_20260131_(Audit_Attestation).pdf?table=block&amp;id=3047f28f-0ae4-805e-b4c6-c35745bcd41e&amp;spaceId=7cc5d753-b4f1-4267-9ad1-3e6bd0141d8d&amp;expirationTimestamp=1772668800000&amp;signature=MYJXcLreVB3_ZXVbaLdWGc_ukQUA6Tx70On8majnzh0&amp;downloadName=Avenia+-+Transparency+Report+-+20260131+%28Audit+Attestation%29.pdf">here</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Em termos de modelo de neg&#243;cio, na pr&#225;tica a Avenia opera no modelo B2B e B2B2B, oferecendo APIs para diferentes segmentos moverem dinheiro entre pa&#237;ses, pagar Pix com d&#243;lares ou USDC e receber pagamentos do Brasil.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Se voc&#234; est&#225; gostando desta edi&#231;&#227;o, compartilhe com um amigo. Isso ajudar&#225; a espalhar a mensagem e me permitir&#225; continuar oferecendo conte&#250;do de qualidade de forma gratuita.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-ptbr?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/3wif-avenia-ptbr?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>A competi&#231;&#227;o pelo rail</h1><p>No segmento em que a Avenia opera, existem diferentes camadas que estruturam o mercado de stablecoins na Am&#233;rica Latina. A primeira delas &#233; a dos emissores. Nessa camada est&#227;o empresas respons&#225;veis por criar e gerenciar stablecoins, mantendo reservas que garantem a estabilidade de valor do ativo digital. A primeira fase da Avenia a colocava somente neste quadrante. O modelo de neg&#243;cio costuma se basear na remunera&#231;&#227;o das reservas e nas taxas associadas a processos de convers&#227;o entre moeda fiduci&#225;ria e cripto. Entre os nomes dessa camada est&#227;o empresas como a pr&#243;pria Avenia, Transfero (BRZ) e a Tokeniza (tBRL) que operam estruturas de emiss&#227;o e gest&#227;o de liquidez atreladas a moedas locais ou ao d&#243;lar.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OBf2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcbd598c-d7bc-4f66-a307-4bedb7c643d9_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OBf2!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Uma delas &#233; formada por provedores de liquidez e infraestrutura de negocia&#231;&#227;o, respons&#225;veis por garantir que opera&#231;&#245;es com stablecoins ocorram com fluidez em exchanges e ambientes de trading, como fazem empresas como Nonco e Bitso. A outra re&#250;ne companhias que utilizam stablecoins como base para construir infraestrutura de pagamentos e movimenta&#231;&#227;o de capital, oferecendo APIs e plataformas de liquida&#231;&#227;o para integra&#231;&#227;o com fluxos financeiros corporativos, onde aparecem empresas como BlindPay, Lumx e Caliza, al&#233;m da pr&#243;pria Avenia. </p><p>Essas m&#250;ltiplas camadas mostram que a disputa n&#227;o ocorre apenas pela emiss&#227;o do token, mas tamb&#233;m pelo controle da infraestrutura que movimenta o capital entre os sistemas financeiros e as blockchains. Alguns bancos e plataformas tamb&#233;m entraram na disputa da emiss&#227;o, com Mercado Pago (MUSD), Safra (Safra D&#243;lar), XP (USDXP) e outros exemplos criando suas pr&#243;prias stablecoins. <strong>O risco para a Avenia n&#227;o est&#225; necessariamente no token competir com o BRLA, mas em algum desses players oferecer uma combina&#231;&#227;o mais eficiente de FX, compliance e APIs.</strong></p><h1>A estrat&#233;gia LATAM first e o futuro da Avenia como infraestrutura</h1><p>A Avenia est&#225; em um momento de vantajoso, onde a regula&#231;&#227;o brasileira e a ado&#231;&#227;o de stablecoins na Am&#233;rica Latina ocorrem em um ritmo superior ao observado em outras regi&#245;es. Entre 2023 e 2024, a atividade relacionadas as stablecoins cresceu cerca de 43% na regi&#227;o, &#237;ndice acima de &#193;frica, Europa Oriental e &#193;sia. </p><p>Isso &#233; explicado em partes pelos fatores estruturais como a instabilidade cambial, infla&#231;&#227;o elevada em alguns mercados e os custos das remessas internacionais. S&#243; em 2024, aproximadamente 39% de todas as compras de cripto na regi&#227;o j&#225; envolviam stablecoins, com aumento em rela&#231;&#227;o ao ano anterior.</p><p>O movimento ocorre em paralelo &#224; consolida&#231;&#227;o global desse mercado. O volume anual de transa&#231;&#245;es com stablecoins j&#225; alcan&#231;a trilh&#245;es de d&#243;lares e se aproxima da escala de grandes redes de pagamento. Em 2025, por exemplo, o volume anualizado de stablecoins alcan&#231;ou cerca de 3,2 trilh&#245;es de d&#243;lares, enquanto a Mastercard registrava aproximadamente 4,2 trilh&#245;es e a Visa cerca de 6,9 trilh&#245;es, levando ambas a ampliar o suporte a stablecoins e a explorar liquida&#231;&#227;o em blockchain para remessas e pagamentos B2B.</p><p>Dentro desse contexto regional, a expans&#227;o da Avenia foi puxada por uma demanda cada vez mais real do mercado. Empresas que utilizavam a infraestrutura no Brasil passaram a solicitar opera&#231;&#245;es em outros mercados da regi&#227;o, especialmente Argentina, Col&#244;mbia e M&#233;xico. A leitura &#233; que construir uma infraestrutura que conecte o Brasil aos principais corredores latino americanos gera mais valor do que replicar superficialmente sua presen&#231;a em v&#225;rios pa&#237;ses sem integra&#231;&#227;o operacional. </p><p>Acredito que neste ponto, a Avenia seja uma combina&#231;&#227;o bem interessante entre o modelo da BVNK, que abordei na edi&#231;&#227;o #163 onde mostrei que para ela a liquida&#231;&#227;o &#233; um servi&#231;o e que cada pagamento, convers&#227;o ou transfer&#234;ncia deve passar por uma rede t&#227;o confi&#225;vel quanto o sistema banc&#225;rio e t&#227;o &#225;gil quanto o blockchain, como tamb&#233;m &#233; uma combina&#231;&#227;o com o modelo da Circle, de criar um token que seja confi&#225;vel e regional.</p><div><hr></div><h6>Confira a edi&#231;&#227;o da BVNK &#128071;</h6><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;39237641-0beb-4104-81ac-e119fdf5519c&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; English Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#FintechFrames: A aposta da BVNK na constru&#231;&#227;o da pr&#243;xima gera&#231;&#227;o de infraestrutura financeira com stablecoins&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5924217,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Pereira&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;A fintech builder and researcher in LatAm, exploring new trends, strategies, and unit economics in financial innovation. 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17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Bem vindo a edi&#231;&#227;o Short Takes e, como o nome sugere, diferente dos deep dives, em edi&#231;&#245;es como essa vou explorar diversos assuntos que, posteriormente, podem se tornar uma edi&#231;&#227;o deep dive.</p><p><em>Short Takes &#233; focado para empreendedores, investidores e operadores que querem insights r&#225;pidos.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Em dezembro, a W Fintechs lan&#231;ou um report sobre os 5 anos do Pix (link para vers&#227;o em PT-BR, <a href="https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-ptbr">aqui</a>). Em apenas cinco anos, o sistema alcan&#231;ou mais de 160 milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios, conectou 800+ institui&#231;&#245;es, processou 200 bilh&#245;es de transa&#231;&#245;es e movimentou mais de R$ 80 trilh&#245;es. Esses n&#250;meros, por si s&#243;, j&#225; dizem muito, mas ganham ainda mais sentido quando observados no tempo. </p><p>Ao olhar a s&#233;rie recente de volumes transacionais, entre setembro de 2024 e setembro de 2025, fica claro que o Pix n&#227;o apenas superou os instrumentos tradicionais, como passou a ocupar de forma est&#225;vel o centro da infraestrutura de pagamentos. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XhAF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb19ce581-2b7e-40ed-91dd-1ffb395cdbd3_1200x1200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XhAF!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XhAF!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb19ce581-2b7e-40ed-91dd-1ffb395cdbd3_1200x1200.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Essa escala ajuda a explicar por que o Pix passou a ocupar tamb&#233;m o centro do debate sobre riscos e seguran&#231;a. Casos recentes amplamente noticiados no Brasil, como o ataque &#224; C&amp;M Software, que resultou em desvios estimados em centenas de milh&#245;es de reais, al&#233;m de incidentes envolvendo prestadores de servi&#231;os de menor porte com perdas na casa de dezenas de milh&#245;es, ganhou ainda mais relev&#226;ncia tanto no notici&#225;rio, quanto para o regulador.</p><p>Os ataques, atribu&#237;dos ao Pix, foram rapidamente enquadrados no debate p&#250;blico como falhas do sistema de pagamentos instant&#226;neos em si, quando, na pr&#225;tica, eles revelam algo bem diferente. O n&#250;cleo do Pix, operado pelo Banco Central por meio do SPI (Sistema de Pagamentos Instant&#226;neos), permaneceu &#237;ntegro e dispon&#237;vel ao longo de todos os epis&#243;dios. <strong>O que foi explorado, no entanto, n&#227;o foi o cora&#231;&#227;o do sistema de pagamento, mas o seu entorno operacional, composto por intermedi&#225;rios, prestadores de tecnologia e cadeias de acesso que se tornaram, ao longo do tempo, essenciais para a escala do modelo.</strong></p><p>Existe uma diferen&#231;a fundamental entre atacar um sistema centralizado, desenhado com controles rigorosos de governan&#231;a, e explorar os intermedi&#225;rios que orbitam esse sistema. No primeiro caso, o hacker precisa romper diferentes camadas de seguran&#231;a, criptografia e monitoramento. No segundo, basta encontrar um elo com maturidade inferior, onde processos, pessoas e controles n&#227;o evolu&#237;ram no mesmo ritmo da tecnologia. Foi o que aconteceu nos casos noticiados.</p><p>As prestadoras de servi&#231;os de tecnologia (PSTIs) assumiram um papel estrutural relevante no ecossistema do Pix, principalmente para institui&#231;&#245;es menores poderem acessar o sistema. Ao conectar dezenas de institui&#231;&#245;es menores ao Sistema de Pagamentos Brasileiro, elas se tornaram verdadeiros hubs de acesso &#224; liquida&#231;&#227;o instant&#226;nea possibilitada pelo Pix. Essa centralidade operacional trouxe efici&#234;ncia, reduziu barreiras de entrada e acelerou a inclus&#227;o financeira, mas tamb&#233;m criou novos pontos de possibilidade de falha.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35a69118-e10d-4dae-ac4e-e82583f8d5b9_325x629.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35a69118-e10d-4dae-ac4e-e82583f8d5b9_325x629.jpeg 424w, 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13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Fonte: <a href="https://oglobo.globo.com/economia/financas/noticia/2025/09/09/pix-sob-ataque-entenda-o-caminho-do-dinheiro-e-como-hackers-invadem-o-sistema-de-pagamentos.ghtml">O Globo</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Um elemento comum a quase todos os epis&#243;dios foi o uso de credenciais v&#225;lidas. N&#227;o houve quebra de criptografia, invas&#227;o direta ao SPI ou explora&#231;&#227;o de falhas no protocolo do Pix. <strong>Os hackers, na verdade, entraram pela porta da frente, utilizando chaves leg&#237;timas obtidas por engenharia social, abuso de confian&#231;a ou falhas de governan&#231;a interna.</strong> O sistema, ao receber ordens corretamente assinadas, fez exatamente o que foi projetado para fazer. Foi justamente a partir desse ponto que o regulador passou a ampliar o olhar para os PSTIs, reconhecendo que o problema n&#227;o estava no funcionamento do Pix em si, mas nas condi&#231;&#245;es de acesso &#224; sua arquitetura, na governan&#231;a dos ambientes intermedi&#225;rios e nos requisitos exigidos para operar essa infraestrutura.</p><h1>A arquitetura do Pix</h1><p>A arquitetura do Pix foi pensada para ser simples e instant&#226;nea na liquida&#231;&#227;o desde o d0, e principalmente permitir o acesso de diferentes institui&#231;&#245;es. O desenho do SPI pressup&#245;e um ambiente de confian&#231;a institucional elevada, no qual participantes autorizados interagem diretamente com o Banco Central.</p><p>A partir desse desenho, a forma como uma institui&#231;&#227;o acessa o Pix passa a moldar as diferen&#231;as reais de responsabilidade, controle e risco ao longo do sistema. Institui&#231;&#245;es com acesso direto ao SPI operavam sob um regime mais rigoroso de controles, governan&#231;a e responsabilidade operacional, enquanto os participantes indiretos dependem de prestadoras de servi&#231;os de tecnologia para intermediar sua rela&#231;&#227;o com o Banco Central. </p><p><a href="https://cmsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HOMOLOGACAO-PLANO-DE-NEGOCIOS-CM-BACEN-1-1.pdf">Documentos da C&amp;M Software de 2020</a>, por exemplo, mostram que esse acesso intermediado foi estruturado a partir de uma l&#243;gica de isolamento e confian&#231;a operacional, na qual cada institui&#231;&#227;o cliente operava em t&#250;neis segregados, com certificados pr&#243;prios e controles dedicados, enquanto o PSTI, neste caso a C&amp;M, assumia o papel de hub de mensageria e conectividade com a RSFN (a rede do sistema financeiro) e, posteriormente, com o SPI. O arranjo buscava manter o n&#250;cleo protegido e, ao mesmo tempo, abrir espa&#231;o para a expans&#227;o do sistema, sem empurrar para cada participante o custo integral de operar diretamente com o Banco Central.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V3pW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb88d1e7-e36d-440c-8191-0c3a1e3607a4_648x350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V3pW!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb88d1e7-e36d-440c-8191-0c3a1e3607a4_648x350.png 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/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb88d1e7-e36d-440c-8191-0c3a1e3607a4_648x350.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V3pW!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb88d1e7-e36d-440c-8191-0c3a1e3607a4_648x350.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V3pW!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb88d1e7-e36d-440c-8191-0c3a1e3607a4_648x350.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V3pW!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb88d1e7-e36d-440c-8191-0c3a1e3607a4_648x350.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>A camada intermedi&#225;ria sempre fez parte da arquitetura do Pix para viabilizar escala, reduzir barreiras de entrada e permitir que institui&#231;&#245;es menores acessassem o sistema sem operar diretamente no SPI. Esse arranjo foi decisivo para a r&#225;pida expans&#227;o do Pix e para a diversidade de participantes que ele alcan&#231;ou. O que mudou depois dos epis&#243;dios recentes foi o peso que ela passou a carregar &#224; medida que o n&#250;mero de institui&#231;&#245;es conectadas cresceu e novos modelos operacionais, como o BaaS, se consolidaram.</p><p>Nos casos de ataques aos diferentes PSTIs, o vetor explorado foi exatamente esse elo intermedi&#225;rio: <strong>uma PSTI que concentrava o acesso de m&#250;ltiplas institui&#231;&#245;es, onde credenciais v&#225;lidas e privil&#233;gios administrativos foram utilizados de forma indevida para acionar assinaturas que, do ponto de vista do SPI, eram leg&#237;timas</strong>. O sistema respondeu como sempre respondeu, executando ordens corretamente assinadas.</p><p>As contas reserva s&#227;o onde essa din&#226;mica se materializa de forma mais concreta. Como o Pix liquida em tempo real, qualquer ordem validamente assinada produz efeitos imediatos e irrevers&#237;veis. <strong>Durante os ataques, os valores foram debitados diretamente dessas contas, mantidas no Banco Central, o que significa que o Banco Central executou transa&#231;&#245;es corretas do ponto de vista t&#233;cnico, mesmo quando depois se constatou o uso indevido de credenciais.</strong></p><h1>As respostas do regulador e os novos limites do Pix</h1><p>Foi a partir dessa reorganiza&#231;&#227;o do risco, e n&#227;o de uma falha t&#233;cnica do Pix, que a resposta regulat&#243;ria ganhou mais tra&#231;&#227;o. O Banco Central reagiu impondo limites transacionais, antecipando exig&#234;ncias de licenciamento e refor&#231;ando obriga&#231;&#245;es de seguran&#231;a. Eram medidas necess&#225;rias diante da gravidade e do impacto financeiro dos epis&#243;dios, mas que tamb&#233;m exp&#245;em um tra&#231;o recorrente da regula&#231;&#227;o financeira: <strong>ela costuma avan&#231;ar com mais rapidez quando o risco deixa de ser uma hip&#243;tese distante e passa a se materializar em perdas concretas.</strong></p><p>Ao longo de 2025, essa resposta come&#231;ou a se traduzir em normas que refletem uma leitura mais ampla do funcionamento real do Pix. <strong>Sem eliminar a distin&#231;&#227;o formal entre participantes diretos e indiretos, o regulador passou a aproximar as exig&#234;ncias aplic&#225;veis &#224; opera&#231;&#227;o indireta, sobretudo nos casos em que o acesso ao sistema depende de intermedi&#225;rios tecnol&#243;gicos.</strong> Limites mais restritivos para acessos via PSTIs, maior rigor na segrega&#231;&#227;o de credenciais, restri&#231;&#245;es ao compartilhamento de chaves privadas e exig&#234;ncias adicionais de valida&#231;&#227;o de mensagens indicam uma mudan&#231;a importante. A depend&#234;ncia de terceiros deixou de ser vista apenas como conveni&#234;ncia operacional e passou a ser tratada como parte da superf&#237;cie de risco do arranjo.</p><p>Nesse contexto, as prestadoras de servi&#231;os de tecnologia passaram a ocupar um lugar mais claro na equa&#231;&#227;o regulat&#243;ria. Elas sempre fizeram parte do funcionamento do ecossistema, viabilizando acesso, conectividade e opera&#231;&#227;o para uma parcela relevante dos participantes. <strong>O que muda agora n&#227;o &#233; a sua fun&#231;&#227;o em si, mas o reconhecimento de que esse papel carrega responsabilidades compat&#237;veis com a posi&#231;&#227;o que ocupam na arquitetura real do sistema.</strong> Em um arranjo baseado em cadeias de acesso, credenciais e privil&#233;gios, o n&#237;vel de governan&#231;a exigido precisa acompanhar o grau de centralidade operacional que esses agentes passaram a exercer.</p><p>O fortalecimento do Mecanismo Especial de Devolu&#231;&#227;o se insere nesse mesmo movimento e ajuda a dimensionar a escala do problema. Dados reunidos no estudo do Pix da W Fintechs mostram que o volume de pedidos via MED j&#225; n&#227;o pode ser tratado como exce&#231;&#227;o operacional: foram cerca de 1,5 milh&#227;o em 2022, 2,5 milh&#245;es em 2023 e mais de 1,6 milh&#227;o apenas nos primeiros meses de 2024. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7whu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a5f3ba4-1a3a-48a5-875e-922a57243466_1200x1200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7whu!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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O MED (Mecanismo Especial de Devolu&#231;&#227;o) surge como uma tentativa de reduzir a fragmenta&#231;&#227;o que existia at&#233; ent&#227;o, quando cada institui&#231;&#227;o decidia isoladamente como conduzir o ressarcimento de valores em casos de fraude. O movimento aponta para mais coordena&#231;&#227;o em um sistema instant&#226;neo, com rastreamento de fluxos, bloqueios mais r&#225;pidos e esfor&#231;os estruturados para recuperar recursos antes que eles se dispersem, um tema abordado na edi&#231;&#227;o #152.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UDa6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc52ae4a1-8f6e-4746-bde2-614b2db38c1c_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UDa6!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Empresas como a Futurex, por exemplo, atuam exatamente nesse n&#237;vel. Seus HSM f&#237;sicos e em nuvem, integrados ao CryptoHub para gest&#227;o centralizada de chaves, permitem que bancos e provedores de servi&#231;os de tecnologia mantenham chaves e dados cr&#237;ticos isolados em hardware certificado, com ader&#234;ncia a padr&#245;es como PCI DSS e PCI PIN v3. Em vez de tratar seguran&#231;a como camada adicional, a proposta &#233; exatamente estruturar a cust&#243;dia criptogr&#225;fica como n&#250;cleo da opera&#231;&#227;o, reduzindo exposi&#231;&#227;o a chaves em texto claro e organizando a administra&#231;&#227;o de credenciais de forma audit&#225;vel e centralizada.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://info.futurex.com/ano-seguro-2026&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Conhe&#231;a a solu&#231;&#227;o da Futurex&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://info.futurex.com/ano-seguro-2026"><span>Conhe&#231;a a solu&#231;&#227;o da Futurex</span></a></p><p>Ainda assim, por mais sofisticado que seja, o MED continua atuando depois que a liquida&#231;&#227;o j&#225; ocorreu. Nos epis&#243;dios citados acima, o impacto n&#227;o esteve no n&#237;vel do usu&#225;rio final, mas nas contas reserva mantidas pelas institui&#231;&#245;es junto ao Banco Central, que s&#227;o usadas exclusivamente para a liquida&#231;&#227;o entre participantes do Pix. Quando ordens validamente assinadas alcan&#231;am esse n&#237;vel, o d&#233;bito acontece de forma imediata e definitiva. Em um sistema pensado para operar em tempo real, o intervalo entre a execu&#231;&#227;o da ordem e a dispers&#227;o dos recursos &#233; curto demais para que qualquer resposta posterior seja plenamente eficaz. O que esses epis&#243;dios deixam claro &#233; que o centro da discuss&#227;o est&#225; antes da liquida&#231;&#227;o, no ambiente onde ordens s&#227;o emitidas, onde chaves e credenciais s&#227;o guardadas, utilizadas e supervisionadas. &#201; nesse terreno que a regula&#231;&#227;o passa a cumprir um papel menos reativo e mais estrutural, n&#227;o como obst&#225;culo &#224; inova&#231;&#227;o, mas como uma condi&#231;&#227;o para que a confian&#231;a sist&#234;mica, em todas as partes envolvidas, consiga acompanhar a escala que o Pix j&#225; alcan&#231;ou.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Sa&#250;de e paz,</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>Se voc&#234; conhece algu&#233;m que gostaria de receber esta newsletter ou que seja fascinado pelas possibilidades da inova&#231;&#227;o financeira, eu agradeceria imensamente se voc&#234; encaminhasse este e-mail para essa pessoa!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> As opini&#245;es expressas aqui s&#227;o de total responsabilidade do autor, Walter Pereira, e n&#227;o refletem necessariamente as opini&#245;es dos patrocinadores, parceiros ou clientes da <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#170: Short Takes: The security of Pix and PSTIs, and how hacker attacks resulted in new regulations]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #170]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/170-en</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/170-en</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:21:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59pP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaa6214-8475-46c7-a4ee-586ed7e39f56_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>Portuguese Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/170-ptbr">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073; <em>W Fintechs</em> is a newsletter focused on financial innovation. 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As the name suggests, unlike deep dives, these editions will explore a variety of topics that might later evolve into full deep-dive editions.</p><p><em>Short Takes is designed for entrepreneurs, investors, and operators looking for quick, actionable insights.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png" width="1456" height="303" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:303,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2090577,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fteL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf499a69-9efd-4656-ac85-885ffbd3d103_6912x1440.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In December, W Fintechs released a report on the 5 years of Pix (link to the EN version, <a href="https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en">here</a> ). In just five years, the system reached more than 160 million users, connected 800+ institutions, processed 200 billion transactions, and moved more than R$ 80 trillion. These numbers alone already say a lot, but they gain even more meaning when observed over time.</p><p>When looking at the recent series of transactional volumes, between September 2024 and September 2025, it becomes clear that Pix not only surpassed traditional instruments, but also came to consistently occupy the center of the payments infrastructure.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XhAF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb19ce581-2b7e-40ed-91dd-1ffb395cdbd3_1200x1200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XhAF!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This scale helps explain why Pix has also come to occupy the center of the debate on risk and security. Recent cases widely reported in Brazil, such as the attack on C&amp;M Software, which resulted in estimated losses of hundreds of millions of reais, in addition to incidents involving smaller service providers with losses in the tens of millions, gained even more relevance both in the news and for the regulator.</p><p>The attacks, attributed to Pix, were quickly framed in the public debate as failures of the instant payments system itself, when in practice they reveal something quite different. The Pix core, operated by the Central Bank through the SPI (Instant Payments System), remained intact and available throughout all the episodes. <strong>What was exploited, however, was not the heart of the payment system, but its operational surroundings, composed of intermediaries, technology providers, and access chains that have become, over time, essential to the scale of the model.</strong></p><p>There is a fundamental difference between attacking a centralized system, designed with rigorous governance controls, and exploiting the intermediaries that orbit this system. In the first case, the hacker needs to break through different layers of security, encryption, and monitoring. In the second, it is enough to find a link with lower maturity, where processes, people, and controls have not evolved at the same pace as the technology. This is what happened in the reported cases.</p><p>Technology service providers (PSTIs) assumed a structurally relevant role in the Pix ecosystem, mainly to allow smaller institutions to access the system. By connecting dozens of smaller institutions to the Brazilian Payments System, they became true access hubs to the instant settlement enabled by Pix. This operational centrality brought efficiency, reduced entry barriers, and accelerated financial inclusion, but it also created new potential points of failure.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35a69118-e10d-4dae-ac4e-e82583f8d5b9_325x629.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35a69118-e10d-4dae-ac4e-e82583f8d5b9_325x629.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35a69118-e10d-4dae-ac4e-e82583f8d5b9_325x629.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35a69118-e10d-4dae-ac4e-e82583f8d5b9_325x629.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35a69118-e10d-4dae-ac4e-e82583f8d5b9_325x629.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35a69118-e10d-4dae-ac4e-e82583f8d5b9_325x629.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0n1B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35a69118-e10d-4dae-ac4e-e82583f8d5b9_325x629.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 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There was no breaking of encryption, no direct intrusion into the SPI, and no exploitation of flaws in the Pix protocol. <strong>The hackers, in fact, entered through the front door, using legitimate keys obtained through social engineering, abuse of trust, or failures in internal governance.</strong> The system, upon receiving correctly signed orders, did exactly what it was designed to do. It was precisely from this point that the regulator began to broaden its focus to PSTIs, recognizing that the problem was not in the functioning of Pix itself, but in the conditions of access to its architecture, in the governance of intermediary environments, and in the requirements imposed to operate this infrastructure.</p><h1>The architecture of Pix</h1><p>The architecture of Pix was designed to be simple and instantaneous in settlement from day zero, and above all to allow access by different institutions. The design of the SPI assumes an environment of high institutional trust, in which authorized participants interact directly with the Central Bank.</p><p>From this design, the way an institution accesses Pix begins to shape the real differences in responsibility, control, and risk throughout the system. Institutions with direct access to the SPI operate under a stricter regime of controls, governance, and operational responsibility, while indirect participants depend on technology service providers to intermediate their relationship with the Central Bank.</p><p><a href="https://cmsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HOMOLOGACAO-PLANO-DE-NEGOCIOS-CM-BACEN-1-1.pdf">Documents from C&amp;M Software from 2020</a>, for example, show that this intermediated access was structured based on a logic of isolation and operational trust, in which each client institution operated in segregated tunnels, with its own certificates and dedicated controls, while the PSTI, in this case C&amp;M, assumed the role of a messaging and connectivity hub with the RSFN (the financial system network) and later with the SPI. The arrangement sought to keep the core protected and, at the same time, create room for the expansion of the system, without pushing the full cost of operating directly with the Central Bank onto each participant.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V3pW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb88d1e7-e36d-440c-8191-0c3a1e3607a4_648x350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V3pW!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb88d1e7-e36d-440c-8191-0c3a1e3607a4_648x350.png 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17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The intermediary layer has always been part of Pix&#8217;s architecture to enable scale, reduce entry barriers, and allow smaller institutions to access the system without operating directly in the SPI. This arrangement was decisive for the rapid expansion of Pix and for the diversity of participants it reached. What changed after the recent episodes was the weight this layer began to carry as the number of connected institutions grew and new operational models, such as BaaS, became established.</p><p>In the cases of attacks against different PSTIs, the exploited vector was precisely this intermediary link: <strong>a PSTI that concentrated access for multiple institutions, where valid credentials and administrative privileges were improperly used to trigger signatures that, from the SPI&#8217;s perspective, were legitimate.</strong> The system responded as it always had, executing correctly signed orders.</p><p>Reserve accounts are where this dynamic materializes most concretely. Because Pix settles in real time, any validly signed order produces immediate and irreversible effects. <strong>During the attacks, amounts were debited directly from these accounts, held at the Central Bank, which means that the Central Bank executed transactions that were technically correct, even when the improper use of credentials was later identified.</strong></p><h1>The regulator&#8217;s responses and the new limits of Pix</h1><p>It was from this reorganization of risk, and not from a technical failure of Pix, that the regulatory response gained momentum. The Central Bank reacted by imposing transactional limits, anticipating licensing requirements, and reinforcing security obligations. These were necessary measures given the severity and financial impact of the episodes, but they also expose a recurring trait of financial regulation:<strong> it tends to advance more rapidly when risk stops being a distant hypothesis and becomes materialized in concrete losses.</strong></p><p>Throughout 2025, this response began to translate into rules that reflect a broader reading of Pix&#8217;s real functioning. <strong>Without eliminating the formal distinction between direct and indirect participants, the regulator began to bring closer the requirements applicable to indirect operations, especially in cases where system access depends on technological intermediaries.</strong> More restrictive limits for access via PSTIs, stricter segregation of credentials, restrictions on the sharing of private keys, and additional message validation requirements indicate an important shift. Dependence on third parties ceased to be seen merely as an operational convenience and started to be treated as part of the arrangement&#8217;s risk surface.</p><p>In this context, technology service providers began to occupy a clearer place in the regulatory equation. They have always been part of the ecosystem&#8217;s functioning, enabling access, connectivity, and operation for a relevant share of participants. <strong>What changes now is not their function itself, but the recognition that this role carries responsibilities consistent with the position they occupy in the system&#8217;s real architecture.</strong> In an arrangement based on chains of access, credentials, and privileges, the level of governance required needs to keep pace with the degree of operational centrality these agents have come to exercise.</p><p>The strengthening of the Special Return Mechanism fits into this same movement and helps to size the scale of the problem. Data compiled in the Pix study by W Fintechs show that the volume of requests via MED can no longer be treated as an operational exception: there were around 1.5 million in 2022, 2.5 million in 2023, and more than 1.6 million in just the first months of 2024.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7whu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a5f3ba4-1a3a-48a5-875e-922a57243466_1200x1200.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7whu!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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The MED (Special Return Mechanism) emerges as an attempt to reduce the fragmentation that existed until then, when each institution independently decided how to handle the reimbursement of funds in cases of fraud. The move points to greater coordination in an instant system, with flow tracing, faster blocking, and structured efforts to recover resources before they disperse, a topic addressed in <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/152-en">edition #152</a>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UDa6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc52ae4a1-8f6e-4746-bde2-614b2db38c1c_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UDa6!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Companies such as Futurex operate precisely at this level. Their physical and cloud based HSMs, integrated with CryptoHub for centralized key management, allow banks and technology service providers to keep critical keys and data isolated within certified hardware, in alignment with standards such as PCI DSS and PCI PIN v3. Rather than treating security as an additional layer, the approach is to structure cryptographic custody as the core of the operation, reducing exposure to clear text keys and organizing credential management in an auditable and centralized manner.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://info.futurex.com/ano-seguro-2026&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get to know Futurex solution&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://info.futurex.com/ano-seguro-2026"><span>Get to know Futurex solution</span></a></p><p>Even so, as sophisticated as it may be, the MED continues to act after settlement has already occurred. In the episodes mentioned above, the impact was not at the level of the end user, but in the reserve accounts maintained by institutions at the Central Bank, which are used exclusively for settlement among Pix participants. When validly signed orders reach this level, the debit occurs immediately and definitively. In a system designed to operate in real time, the interval between order execution and the dispersion of resources is too short for any subsequent response to be fully effective. What these episodes make clear is that the center of the discussion lies before settlement, in the environment where orders are issued, where keys and credentials are stored, used, and supervised. It is in this terrain that regulation begins to play a less reactive and more structural role, not as an obstacle to innovation, but as a condition for systemic trust, across all parties involved, to keep pace with the scale that Pix has already achieved.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Until the next!</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>If you know anyone who would like to receive this e-mail or who is fascinated by the possibilities of financial innovation, I&#8217;d really appreciate you forwarding this email their way!</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, Walter Pereira, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors, partners, or clients of <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#169: Novo Report: Um novo planeta chamado Pix - 5 anos - Versão inglês]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #169]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/169-ptbr</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/169-ptbr</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:26:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-AZk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe52491c-3015-46c9-b58e-25cc63e8764c_2554x1426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>English Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/169-en">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073;A <em>W Fintechs</em> &#233; uma newsletter focada em inova&#231;&#227;o financeira. 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E ele j&#225; movimenta tr&#234;s trilh&#245;es de reais por m&#234;s.</p><p>Durante anos, o Brasil girou em torno de velhas &#243;rbitas. O TED, DOC, boleto, cart&#227;o, cada uma tinha sua pr&#243;pria gravidade, seus limites e seus pr&#243;prios atrasos. Mas em novembro de 2020, uma luz atravessou o espa&#231;o e abriu uma nova &#243;rbita de possibilidades. Essa luz se chamava Pix. Mas n&#227;o foi um evento isolado. Na verdade, foi uma soma de inquieta&#231;&#245;es, talentos e necessidades que o sistema financeiro brasileira vivia. 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O report &#233; dividido em tr&#234;s cap&#237;tulos. Come&#231;amos reconstruindo o passado. Como os meios de pagamento foram evoluindo. Como o Brasil foi se organizando, regulando e  testando diferentes meios de pagamentos. Depois, mergulhamos na chegada do Pix. Seus bastidores, a sua arquitetura, seus primeiros dias de vida. Por fim, entramos nas camadas mais recentes: os impactos sociais, a evolu&#231;&#227;o funcional, a sua internacionaliza&#231;&#227;o e os novos sat&#233;lites que orbitam esse ecossistema.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Baixe agora (EN)&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en"><span>Baixe agora (EN)</span></a></p><p>Para contar essa hist&#243;ria, trouxemos quem viveu tudo isso de perto. Leandro Piano, da Belvo, comenta como os iniciadores de pagamentos, uma de suas funcionalidades, est&#227;o deixando os pagamentos cada vez mais invis&#237;veis. Matheus Rauber, do Banco Central, compartilha como o regulador tem integrado o Pix e Open Finance em uma agenda evolutiva de inova&#231;&#227;o. Ana Carla Abr&#227;o, CEO do Open Finance Brasil, mostra como o Pix abriu caminho para um novo modelo de interoperabilidade de pagamentos e dados. E Daniel Ruhman, CEO da Cumbuca, que trouxe perspectivas de como uma empresa estrangeira poderia operar dentro deste ecossistema.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ChDc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F07e38202-b72b-4949-9e32-e618b264c391_2558x1428.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ChDc!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F07e38202-b72b-4949-9e32-e618b264c391_2558x1428.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ChDc!, 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O ticket m&#233;dio j&#225; ultrapassa os 460 reais. S&#227;o 178 milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios ativos. Nove em cada dez s&#227;o pessoas f&#237;sicas. E mesmo com todo esse volume, o Pix ainda tem espa&#231;o para crescer. Em um &#250;nico m&#234;s, ele j&#225; movimenta mais do que o PIB da Argentina.</p><p>Mostramos tamb&#233;m como as engrenagens funcionam. A liquida&#231;&#227;o instant&#226;nea, o SPI, o DICT, o RSFN. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6QVH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63a0102e-c836-4791-8708-ffa6d1300458_2556x1432.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6QVH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63a0102e-c836-4791-8708-ffa6d1300458_2556x1432.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6QVH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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Pix Saque, Pix Troco, MED 1.0 e 2.0, Pix Autom&#225;tico, NFC, Pix Cobran&#231;a com vencimento e o Pix em Garantia. Como os golpes evolu&#237;ram. Como o Banco Central respondeu. Como funciona o MED 2.0 e quais s&#227;o os fluxos reais de contesta&#231;&#227;o. Tamb&#233;m mapeamos o ecossistema de seguros que surgiu em torno do Pix. 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Mostramos como o Pix come&#231;ou a ser usado como ponto de partida para financiar compras. E como players como Nubank, Mercado Pago e Pagaleve v&#234;m testando diferentes modelos. Parcelamentos em 4x sem juros, op&#231;&#245;es em 12 ou 24 vezes com taxas de at&#233; 9% ao m&#234;s. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBtn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd8bbbab-4d8d-4b01-84e3-ab44f341fb24_2552x1442.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBtn!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd8bbbab-4d8d-4b01-84e3-ab44f341fb24_2552x1442.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBtn!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, 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data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en"><span>Baixe agora (EN)</span></a></p><p>Al&#233;m disso, o documento traz compara&#231;&#245;es com outros sistemas de pagamentos ao redor do mundo. Apesar do Pix ter se inspirado no UPI, da &#205;ndia, sua forma de operar &#233; muito mais inclusiva e ampla. Ainda que o UPI tenha uma participa&#231;&#227;o ativa de TPPs dentro do seu ecossistema, diferente da parcela de participa&#231;&#227;o do Pix, onde o ecossistema de ITP est&#225; em desenvolvimento.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l7jV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa438ea0a-81a2-46f5-8eb1-898ed3fcec9e_2550x1436.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l7jV!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa438ea0a-81a2-46f5-8eb1-898ed3fcec9e_2550x1436.png 424w, 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cotidiano do brasileiro, e o por que.</p><p>Se voc&#234; quer entender o Pix de verdade, leia o report completo. Que esse novo planeta continue se expandindo. E que a gente saiba explor&#225;-lo.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Baixe agora (EN)&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en"><span>Baixe agora (EN)</span></a></p><p>Boa leitura!</p><h5>Agradecimentos especiais aos patrocinados <a href="https://belvo.com/pt-br?utm_campaign=30303265-202511_Branded_Content&amp;utm_source=Wfintechs%20Report&amp;utm_medium=report&amp;utm_content=pix-report-wfintech">Belvo</a>, <a href="https://www.cumbuca.com/">Cumbuca</a> e <a href="https://bdglobal.ai">Boyce Data</a>.</h5><div><hr></div><p><strong>Sa&#250;de e paz,</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>Se voc&#234; conhece algu&#233;m que gostaria de receber esta newsletter ou que seja fascinado pelas possibilidades da inova&#231;&#227;o financeira, eu agradeceria imensamente se voc&#234; encaminhasse este e-mail para essa pessoa!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> As opini&#245;es expressas aqui s&#227;o de total responsabilidade do autor, Walter Pereira, e n&#227;o refletem necessariamente as opini&#245;es dos patrocinadores, parceiros ou clientes da <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#169: New Report: A New Planet Called Pix – 5 Years - English Version]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTTER #169]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/169-en</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/169-en</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:22:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-AZk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe52491c-3015-46c9-b58e-25cc63e8764c_2554x1426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5><strong>&#128064; Portuguese Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/169-ptbr">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><p>&#128073; <em>W Fintechs</em> is a newsletter focused on financial innovation. 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And it already moves three trillion reais every month.</p><p>For years, Brazil revolved around old orbits. TED, DOC, boletos, cards, each had its own gravity, its own limits, its own delays. But in November 2020, a light cut through space and opened a new orbit of possibilities. That light was Pix. And it wasn&#8217;t an isolated event. It was the sum of tensions, talent, and needs that had been building within the Brazilian financial system. It truly felt as if we were witnessing a planetary alignment.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Download Now (EN)&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en"><span>Download Now (EN)</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZOvT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1c1f0a2-8b86-4e49-99e9-f72a0f8dfa8f_2552x1440.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZOvT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, 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The report is structured into three chapters. We begin by reconstructing the past, tracing how payment methods evolved over time and how Brazil gradually organized, regulated, and tested different payment instruments. We then dive into the arrival of Pix, exploring its inner workings, its architecture, and its earliest days. Finally, we turn to the most recent layers, examining its social impact, functional evolution, international expansion, and the new satellites now orbiting this ecosystem.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Download Now (EN)&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en"><span>Download Now (EN)</span></a></p><p>To tell this story, we brought together those who experienced it up close. Leandro Piano from Belvo explains how payment initiators, one of its core functionalities, are making payments increasingly invisible. Matheus Rauber from the Central Bank shares how the regulator has been integrating Pix and Open Finance into an evolving innovation agenda. Ana Carla Abr&#227;o, CEO of Open Finance Brasil, shows how Pix paved the way for a new model of interoperability between payments and data. 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The average ticket has surpassed 460 reais. There are 178 million active users, nine out of ten of whom are individuals. And even at this scale, Pix still has room to grow. In a single month, it already moves more than Argentina&#8217;s GDP.</p><p>We also show how the machinery works: instant settlement, SPI, DICT, RSFN.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6QVH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63a0102e-c836-4791-8708-ffa6d1300458_2556x1432.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6QVH!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63a0102e-c836-4791-8708-ffa6d1300458_2556x1432.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6QVH!, 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We explain how fraud evolved, how the Central Bank responded, how MED 2.0 works, and what real dispute flows look like. We also map the insurance ecosystem that formed around Pix, as banks and fintechs began offering protection against theft, coercion, and unauthorized transactions.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2IzT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3b419c9-e6a1-4cd6-8079-bab5fe9004e9_2558x1430.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2IzT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3b419c9-e6a1-4cd6-8079-bab5fe9004e9_2558x1430.png 424w, 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We show how Pix began to serve as a starting point for financing purchases, and how players like Nubank, Mercado Pago, and Pagaleve are testing different models: four interest-free installments, and 12- or 24-installment plans with rates of up to 9 percent a month.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBtn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd8bbbab-4d8d-4b01-84e3-ab44f341fb24_2552x1442.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBtn!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Although Pix was inspired by India&#8217;s UPI, its operating model is far more inclusive and wide-ranging. While UPI has a strong and active participation of TPPs within its ecosystem, Pix follows a different path, with its ITP ecosystem still under development.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l7jV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa438ea0a-81a2-46f5-8eb1-898ed3fcec9e_2550x1436.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l7jV!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa438ea0a-81a2-46f5-8eb1-898ed3fcec9e_2550x1436.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l7jV!, 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Brazilian life, and why it did so. </p><p>If you want to truly understand Pix, read the full report. May this new planet continue to expand, and may we know how to explore it.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Download Now (EN)&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.wfintechs.com/pix-en"><span>Download Now (EN)</span></a></p><p>Enjoy the read. </p><h5>Special thanks to our sponsors <a href="https://belvo.com/pt-br?utm_campaign=30303265-202511_Branded_Content&amp;utm_source=Wfintechs%20Report&amp;utm_medium=report&amp;utm_content=pix-report-wfintech">Belvo</a>, <a href="https://www.cumbuca.com/">Cumbuca</a> e <a href="https://bdglobal.ai">Boyce Data</a>.</h5><div><hr></div><p><strong>Until the next!</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>If you know anyone who would like to receive this e-mail or who is fascinated by the possibilities of financial innovation, I&#8217;d really appreciate you forwarding this email their way!</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, Walter Pereira, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors, partners, or clients of <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#FintechFrames: A Brex brilhou os olhos da Capital One. 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techs. Durante d&#233;cadas, o cart&#227;o foi tratado de forma desconectada do restante da opera&#231;&#227;o financeira, enquanto as startups operavam em um ritmo que o sistema banc&#225;rio n&#227;o estava preparado para acompanhar.</p><p>Foi nesse espa&#231;o que surgiram as condi&#231;&#245;es para o nascimento da Brex. A tese da empresa era tentar reorganizar a forma como essas novas empresas acessavam cr&#233;dito, controlavam suas despesas e estruturavam sua vida financeira desde os primeiros est&#225;gios de crescimento. </p><p>Ao contr&#225;rio do que muitas vezes se imagina, o problema n&#227;o era a falta de capital, mas a incapacidade dos modelos tradicionais de underwriting de lidar com empresas que ainda n&#227;o se encaixavam nos padr&#245;es hist&#243;ricos de risco. Startups bem financiadas eram avaliadas com a mesma l&#243;gica aplicada a pequenas empresas locais, criando um descompasso estrutural entre o risco percebido e o risco real.</p><p>A Brex nasceu focada em pagamentos e baseada na tentativa de construir uma nova camada de interpreta&#231;&#227;o financeira para essas novas empresas. O cart&#227;o corporativo foi o primeiro ponto de entrada para acessar o fluxo de despesas, pagamentos e decis&#245;es financeiras que, at&#233; ent&#227;o, permaneciam fragmentados entre bancos e diferentes sistemas desconectados.</p><p>Desde sua funda&#231;&#227;o, em 2017, a Brex atravessou uma trajet&#243;ria marcada por altos e baixos, operando por anos sob um n&#237;vel elevado de cash burn. Em determinado momento, a empresa chegou a queimar cerca de US$ 17 milh&#245;es por m&#234;s e, segundo fontes do mercado, dispunha de caixa suficiente apenas at&#233; mar&#231;o de 2026<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>. Foi nesse contexto que surgiu alguns movimentos internos que combinou cortes de custos, incluindo a demiss&#227;o de quase um ter&#231;o do time, com um foco ainda maior em aumentar a efici&#234;ncia operacional. O resultado desse ajuste come&#231;ou a aparecer no primeiro trimestre de 2024, quando a companhia conseguiu reduzir o cash burn em aproximadamente 90% na compara&#231;&#227;o com o mesmo per&#237;odo do ano anterior.</p><p>Ao longo dessa trajet&#243;ria, a Brex levantou mais de US$ 1,5 bilh&#227;o em rodadas prim&#225;rias e secund&#225;rias desde 2017. No auge do ciclo de valuation, em 2022, a empresa chegou a ser avaliada em mais de US$ 12,3 bilh&#245;es. J&#225; em fevereiro, a startup projetava atingir uma receita l&#237;quida anual de US$ 500 milh&#245;es em 2024 e, apenas dois meses depois, em abril, reportou um crescimento superior a 154% na receita efetivamente realizada.</p><p>Esse percurso ajuda a explicar o interesse da Capital One pela Brex e o desfecho de uma transa&#231;&#227;o estimada em US$ 5 bilh&#245;es, que representa um retorno de cerca de 700 vezes em nove anos para os investidores que apostaram na empresa desde o in&#237;cio.</p><p>Ao longo desta edi&#231;&#227;o, quero mostrar como Henrique e Pedro se tornaram fundadores inevit&#225;veis, desde os tempos de Twitter e f&#243;runs online, e tamb&#233;m entender o que a Brex revela sobre o mercado de corporate cards e expense management nos Estados Unidos, e os desafios que surgem quando concorrentes come&#231;am a fazer o mesmo que voc&#234; e passam a disputar o mesmo espa&#231;o dentro da stack financeira das empresas.</p><h1>O problema que os bancos tradicionais n&#227;o conseguiam resolver</h1><p>O acesso a capital sempre foi um dos principais determinantes da sobreviv&#234;ncia e do crescimento de empresas nos Estados Unidos, mas tamb&#233;m um dos mecanismos mais desiguais do sistema financeiro americano. Mesmo empresas j&#225; financiadas por fundos institucionais enfrentam dificuldades recorrentes de acesso a cr&#233;dito corporativo. Startups com US$ 1 a 2 milh&#245;es em venture capital frequentemente recebiam limites inferiores a US$ 20 mil junto a bancos incumbentes, valores insuficientes para cobrir despesas operacionais elementares como software, cloud, marketing ou viagens corporativas. Na pr&#225;tica, isso empurrava empresas institucionalmente financiadas a operar com cart&#245;es pessoais de fundadores.</p><p>Alguns relat&#243;rios do Federal Reserve ajudam a explicar esse comportamento. Bancos comerciais tendem a restringir a concess&#227;o de cr&#233;dito a pequenas empresas porque o custo de avalia&#231;&#227;o, monitoramento e compliance em opera&#231;&#245;es menores &#233; elevado, enquanto a rentabilidade ajustada ao risco &#233; inferior &#224; de grandes empresas <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>. Isso acaba reproduzindo um vi&#233;s contra neg&#243;cios em crescimento, mesmo quando esses neg&#243;cios apresentam fundamentos econ&#244;micos s&#243;lidos.</p><p>Esse vi&#233;s se manifesta antes mesmo da negativa formal. Aproximadamente 40% dos potenciais tomadores sequer chegam a solicitar cr&#233;dito por conta de toda burocracia. No centro desse problema est&#225; a inadequa&#231;&#227;o dos dados utilizados para avalia&#231;&#227;o de risco. Bancos tradicionais continuam baseando decis&#245;es em informa&#231;&#245;es retrospectivas, como hist&#243;rico de cr&#233;dito pessoal, 3 anos de balan&#231;o e garantias pessoais, enquanto startups operam com estruturas orientadas ao futuro, receitas vol&#225;teis e modelos de neg&#243;cio ainda em forma&#231;&#227;o. Esse desalinhamento cria um descompasso que inviabiliza an&#225;lises de risco compat&#237;veis com a realidade econ&#244;mica dessas empresas. </p><h1>Os puzzles da Brex</h1><p>Foi nesse contexto que surgiu a oportunidade para a Brex. Mas a hist&#243;ria j&#225; tinha come&#231;ado bem antes. Henrique, de S&#227;o Paulo, e Pedro, do Rio de Janeiro, haviam se conhecido em 2012 enquanto discutiam no Twitter. Em um podcast para o seu irm&#227;o, Ale Dubugras, Henrique conta que naquela &#233;poca ele tinha zero vergonha para come&#231;ar conversas online. </p><p>Os dois j&#225; eram conhecidos naquele tempo por seus feitos na internet. Pedro, aos 13 anos, tinha sido o primeiro a fazer jailbreak do iPhone 3G no Brasil, algo que lhe rendeu entrevistas e deu uma certa fama de garoto prod&#237;gio. Henrique, aos 14, j&#225; tinha criado uma empresa de games que acabou recebendo uma notifica&#231;&#227;o de patente da Apple.</p><p>A troca no Twitter acabou virando um call no Skype. Depois outro. Depois mais um. 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Comprar acess&#243;rios dentro de jogos, cr&#233;ditos, itens digitais ou servi&#231;os online no Brasil era uma experi&#234;ncia ruim. </p><p>Na &#233;poca, o PayPal ainda mal funcionava no Brasil. Cielo e Redecard, por sua vez, eram desenhadas para o varejo f&#237;sico, n&#227;o para os fluxos online. </p><p>Foi a&#237; que os rumos dessas conversas no Skype mudariam. Nascia neste contexto, a ideia do Pagar.me. Em 2013, eles come&#231;aram a construir o que viria a ser conhecido como o &#8220;Stripe brasileiro&#8221;. Um gateway de pagamentos pensado para ser developer-first e com menos fric&#231;&#227;o.</p><p>Ambos gostavam de programar, mas ao longo do caminho, a divis&#227;o de pap&#233;is aconteceria de forma natural. Pedro ficaria com a parte da engenharia. Henrique passaria a cuidar das &#225;reas de vendas, relacionamento e tudo o que precisava ser feito para o neg&#243;cio existir fora do c&#243;digo.</p><p>O Pagar.me se tornou um dos maiores players de pagamentos no Brasil, o que fez que em 2016 a empresa fosse vendida para a Stone.</p><p>O n&#250;mero da venda para a Stone nunca foi oficialmente divulgado. Alguns dizem que eles venderam o controle da empresa por R$ 1 milh&#227;o. Um valor pequeno mas que permitiu com que eles pudessem entrar no ecossistema da Stone.</p><p>Depois do primeiro exit da dupla, ambos foram estudar em Stanford. L&#225;, tentaram criar uma startup de realidade virtual. Mas o momento ainda n&#227;o era ideal para isso e eles tinham pouca experi&#234;ncia com o tema. Ent&#227;o, eles viram outro problema: startups do Y Combinator conseguiam levantar milh&#245;es em investimento, mas n&#227;o conseguiam um cart&#227;o de cr&#233;dito corporativo. Foi ent&#227;o que, em 2017, sa&#237;ram de Stanford e fundaram a Brex. </p><h3>A tese da Brex</h3><p>A tese da Brex foi vivida pelos pr&#243;prios fundadores. Mesmo com US$ 125 mil em caixa provenientes do YC, Henrique e Pedro foram negados em pedidos de cart&#227;o corporativo, por exemplo. </p><p>A maior parte das institui&#231;&#245;es continuava avaliando empresas jovens a partir de par&#226;metros pensados para neg&#243;cios maduros, com underwriting baseado no FICO pessoal dos fundadores, exig&#234;ncia de garantias individuais e processos manuais longos. <strong>Para startups rec&#233;m-criadas, muitas vezes lideradas por fundadores estrangeiros sem hist&#243;rico de cr&#233;dito nos Estados Unidos, esse modelo se tornava excludente. </strong></p><p>Esse problema se tornava ainda mais evidente quando se observava o pano de fundo do mercado. <strong>O mercado de pagamentos B2B nos Estados Unidos movimenta cerca de US$ 25 trilh&#245;es por ano, aproximadamente tr&#234;s vezes o tamanho do B2C, mas apenas 4% desses pagamentos s&#227;o feitos via cart&#227;o. </strong>Checks e ACH continuam dominando justamente pela fric&#231;&#227;o no 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A pergunta que orientou os primeiros passos da empresa n&#227;o era como competir com bancos em produtos tradicionais, mas como redesenhar o pr&#243;prio ponto de partida da rela&#231;&#227;o financeira entre uma startup e o sistema. </p><p>O cart&#227;o corporativo aparecia como a interface mais direta do gasto di&#225;rio, especialmente porque muitos vendors B2B n&#227;o aceitavam ACH de startups em est&#225;gio inicial, o que fazia do cart&#227;o um ponto de entrada m&#237;nimo de sobreviv&#234;ncia operacional.</p><p>A decis&#227;o da Brex foi inverter a l&#243;gica de avalia&#231;&#227;o de risco. <strong>Enquanto bancos analisavam o FICO pessoal dos fundadores, a Brex passou a olhar para o capital em caixa, o backing institucional e o padr&#227;o de gastos da empresa.</strong> O primeiro produto foi um charge card corporativo, com liquida&#231;&#227;o mensal obrigat&#243;ria, cujo limite era definido principalmente pelo caixa dispon&#237;vel. </p><p>Essa estrutura reduzia o risco 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simplesmente n&#227;o enxergavam. Ao tratar o cart&#227;o corporativo como  ponto de partida, a empresa construiu uma base que explicava n&#227;o apenas sua ado&#231;&#227;o inicial, mas tamb&#233;m por que aquele produto simples se tornaria o primeiro bloco de uma ambi&#231;&#227;o maior, que mais tarde se expandiria para conta, gest&#227;o financeira e uma plataforma integrada.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cLAU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b3bb0f6-2050-4424-aec3-1cd1a651676d_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cLAU!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Eles n&#227;o come&#231;aram focando em tentar conquistar &#8220;os Estados Unidos&#8221;. Mas sim conquistar um raio de poucas milhas onde se concentrava uma fatia desproporcional do mercado que ela queria atacar. Em uma entrevista para a CNN, Pedro explica que em um raio de cerca de 10 milhas em torno de S&#227;o Francisco estavam algo como 40% das startups de tecnologia relevantes do pa&#237;s naquele momento<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>. Ou seja, boa parte dos tomadores de decis&#227;o e do efeito rede estavam ali.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg" width="508" height="389.7225274725275" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1117,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:508,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Meninos' do Brasil lucram com startups nos EUA - 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O invent&#225;rio inteiro de outdoors de S&#227;o Francisco custava algo pr&#243;ximo de US$ 300 mil. Para aquele p&#250;blico concentrado, o custo por aquisi&#231;&#227;o era ordens de magnitude menor do que vendas outbound ou m&#237;dia digital pulverizada. </p><p>Diferente de muitas fintechs, a Brex usou tr&#234;s pilares de crescimento:</p><ol><li><p>Refer&#234;ncias entre fundadores </p></li><li><p>Efeito rede dentro do ecossistema de venture capital </p></li><li><p>Uso de clientes &#226;ncora como prova social: por exemplo, quando empresas como DoorDash, Zoom e Coinbase passaram a usar a plataforma, a Brex deixou de ser &#8220;uma fintech nova&#8221; e passou a ser ainda mais legitimada. O marketing acabou virando consequ&#234;ncia do portf&#243;lio de clientes.</p></li></ol><h3>A virada da estrat&#233;gia e gest&#227;o</h3><p>Mas nem tudo saiu como o planejado. A primeira grande inflex&#227;o no ciclo de crescimento da Brex veio no final de 2023, quando a empresa come&#231;ou a sentir os efeitos da revers&#227;o do ambiente de capital abundante que havia sustentado todo o boom das fintechs anteriores. </p><p>Essa press&#227;o se traduziu, no in&#237;cio de 2024, em uma redu&#231;&#227;o de aproximadamente 20% do quadro de funcion&#225;rios, afetando 282 pessoas, em uma tentativa de reduzir o cash burn e tornar a opera&#231;&#227;o mais &#225;gil e focada no que realmente gerava valor para o cliente <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a>.  Naquele momento, Pedro escreveu que:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;With our focus on financial software and high-quality growth, we grew gross profit by 75%+ last year. While we're proud of those accomplishments, we still have a way to go to ensure high-velocity growth and profitability for years to come. Combined, these changes enable us to get there and become cash flow positive with the money we have in the bank.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Ao mesmo tempo, a Brex percebeu que precisava simplificar tanto sua execu&#231;&#227;o quanto seu design de produto, removendo camadas de gest&#227;o e aproximando l&#237;deres da execu&#231;&#227;o di&#225;ria para acelerar decis&#245;es e melhorar a qualidade dos lan&#231;amentos, um movimento que resultaria no Brex 3.0<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wOyq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ad4e2c0-b6ed-4174-9e7b-f5f5b7134f0f_3388x1702.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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era priorit&#225;rio e menos toler&#226;ncia para iniciativas desconectadas da experi&#234;ncia do cliente e da coes&#227;o do produto. </p><p>Essa mudan&#231;a de design se assemelha a um manifesto de foco e escolha, no qual apenas temas que representavam &#8220;step-function changes&#8221; na experi&#234;ncia do usu&#225;rio eram mantidos, enquanto tudo o mais era descartado, e o pr&#243;prio CEO assumiu papel de editor principal do que seria lan&#231;ado.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;We release 4 times a year, and each release has no more than 3 big themes. This forces me to choose what truly matters, allowing us to make a large, company-affecting investment in the few things that are step-function changes to the customer experience, and drop everything else.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Essa reorienta&#231;&#227;o tamb&#233;m se refletiu na evolu&#231;&#227;o do portf&#243;lio de produtos. A Brex ficou conhecida inicialmente por seus cart&#245;es corporativos e contas de gest&#227;o de caixa para startups, mas passou a ampliar seu leque ao longo dos anos para incluir ferramentas de bill pay, gest&#227;o de despesas, automa&#231;&#227;o cont&#225;bil, travel e servi&#231;os banc&#225;rios e de tesouraria, buscando se tornar uma plataforma de finan&#231;as empresariais mais completa. </p><p>A tentativa de servir uma base muito ampla de pequenas empresas acabou gerando unit economics fracos e atritos no atendimento, levando a companhia a reduzir deliberadamente sua exposi&#231;&#227;o a clientes menores para preservar foco e qualidade de servi&#231;o, um movimento que abriu espa&#231;o para concorrentes como Ramp ganharem relev&#226;ncia justamente por focarem nesse segmento menos atendido do mercado.</p><p>A Brex manteve como priorit&#225;rio o atendimento a startups bem financiadas e empresas em crescimento, enquanto gradualmente expandiu para clientes maiores e de m&#233;dio porte, ajustando sua proposta de valor e capacidades de produto a necessidades mais complexas de <em>finance ops</em>. </p><div><hr></div><p><em>Se voc&#234; est&#225; gostando desta edi&#231;&#227;o, compartilhe com um amigo. Isso ajudar&#225; a espalhar a mensagem e me permitir&#225; continuar oferecendo conte&#250;do de qualidade de forma gratuita.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/135-ptbr?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTI0MjE3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTk4ODA5MTMsImlhdCI6MTc0NDM0MTc0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2OTMzNzQ4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzU4MDMzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BldeqjIMPhnF9_SU94qqrrpAEwfRh673QMflKLsK5Vk&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/135-ptbr?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTI0MjE3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTk4ODA5MTMsImlhdCI6MTc0NDM0MTc0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2OTMzNzQ4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzU4MDMzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BldeqjIMPhnF9_SU94qqrrpAEwfRh673QMflKLsK5Vk"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>O calcanhar de aquiles chamado Ramp</h1><p>Logo que a Brex come&#231;ou a ajustar seu foco operacional e a buscar mais efici&#234;ncia, um outro player que havia surgido dois anos depois da Brex come&#231;ou a incomodar. A Ramp, fundada em 2019, em Nova York, entrou no mercado com uma tese que, desde o in&#237;cio, procurava ser distinta da narrativa tradicional de corporate cards. </p><p>Os fundadores perceberam que os emissores de cart&#245;es existentes tinham fortes especializa&#231;&#245;es segmentadas. 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Isso, para eles, criava uma abertura para desenhar uma empresa de tecnologia financeira fundada em princ&#237;pios de engenharia e produto, n&#227;o apenas em processos banc&#225;rios ou incentivos de recompensa.</p><p>Em vez de apenas emitir cart&#245;es, ela se colocou como uma plataforma de opera&#231;&#245;es financeiras voltada para reduzir custos e tempo de trabalho manual, e prometendo automa&#231;&#227;o e controle do back office como valor central.</p><p>Esse enfoque ficou mais claro &#224; medida que a Ramp ampliou seu escopo de produto al&#233;m dos cart&#245;es corporativos. A tra&#231;&#227;o que a Ramp conseguiu tamb&#233;m contrastou com o momento de transi&#231;&#227;o da Brex. Em 2025, a empresa contou com uma nova rodada de investimento que a avaliou para cerca de US$ 22,5 bilh&#245;es, impulsionada por um aporte de US$ 500 milh&#245;es, e posteriormente para cerca de US$ 32 bilh&#245;es, com crescimento de receita anualizada superior a US$ 1 bilh&#227;o e uma base muito maior de clientes. <strong>Esse crescimento foi acompanhado de uma narrativa forte em torno de economia operacional (</strong><em><strong>save your company time and money</strong></em><strong>) e automa&#231;&#227;o  de processos que tradicionalmente exigiam alto trabalho manual.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tLda!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c8ec9b4-0ed5-426b-a053-9ca509503700_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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de trabalho para equipes de <em>finance ops</em>, com ferramentas que substituem relat&#243;rios manuais, revis&#245;es de despesas e aprova&#231;&#245;es lentas por processos automatizados que integram diretamente com sistemas cont&#225;beis e ERPs. </p><h1>Os desafios daqui em diante</h1><p>Mesmo com as melhorias operacionais e a acelera&#231;&#227;o evidente de receita nos &#250;ltimos trimestres, a trajet&#243;ria da Brex at&#233; 2026 mostra tanto conquistas quanto os desafios deste mercado. </p><p>Entre 2017 e 2022, a empresa passou de uma valuation inicial de dezenas de milh&#245;es de d&#243;lares para um pico de cerca de US$ 12,3 bilh&#245;es. Nesse per&#237;odo, as receitas estimadas pelo Sacra apontam que a Brex atingiu cerca de US$ 700 milh&#245;es em receita anualizada em agosto de 2025, com crescimento de cerca de 50% ano sobre ano, ap&#243;s uma fase de desacelera&#231;&#227;o em 2022 e 2023. Mas o caminho at&#233; a lucratividade foi longo e exigiu ajustes sucessivos de estrat&#233;gia.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8sbN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff38ebeff-19d8-453a-b911-177d862328e0_832x840.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8sbN!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff38ebeff-19d8-453a-b911-177d862328e0_832x840.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8sbN!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, 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Ao atingir o auge em 2022 com US$ 12,3 bilh&#245;es, a expectativa de muitos investidores era que a empresa pudesse continuar sua escalada independentemente. Entretanto, em 2026, com a venda para a Capital One por cerca de US$ 5,15 bilh&#245;es, representou uma marca substancialmente inferior ao seu valuation m&#225;ximo. </p><p>Os investidores iniciais que entraram em 2017 tiveram um retorno estimado em torno de ~700 vezes o capital, um dos m&#250;ltiplos mais altos em um ciclo recente de venture capital. Em contrapartida, quem entrou mais tarde acabou tendo retornos abaixo do capital investido, especialmente em rodadas pr&#243;ximas ao ciclo de pico de valuation. </p><p>Uma coisa &#233; fato: a Brex conseguiu construir uma hist&#243;ria impressionante neste mercado. Um ponto que Pedro citou em uma de suas entrevistas foi que uma das bases dessa aquisi&#231;&#227;o foi o fato de a Capital One ainda ser comandada por seu fundador, Rich Fairbank, tr&#234;s d&#233;cadas ap&#243;s a cria&#231;&#227;o do banco e por ser uma institui&#231;&#227;o de escala sist&#234;mica que ainda opera com vis&#227;o de longo prazo, um grande apetite por tecnologia e disposi&#231;&#227;o para reinventar seu pr&#243;prio core. O budget tamb&#233;m &#233; ainda maior. O banco opera hoje com um or&#231;amento anual da ordem de US$ 6 bilh&#245;es apenas em marketing e outros US$ 6 bilh&#245;es em engenharia e produto, n&#250;meros que mudam completamente a natureza da ambi&#231;&#227;o poss&#237;vel para a Brex. </p><p>Mesmo que o valor da transa&#231;&#227;o tenha ficado abaixo do que parte dos investidores esperava, essa uni&#227;o entre as duas empresas tem potencial para redesenhar a din&#226;mica competitiva deste mercado. Dez anos separam a venda do Pagar.me para a Stone da aquisi&#231;&#227;o da Brex pela Capital One. Operar com a muni&#231;&#227;o de um big bank amplia de forma significativa o alcance e a ambi&#231;&#227;o poss&#237;vel da plataforma, mas tamb&#233;m vai impor novos tipos de press&#245;es. A Brex passa a jogar um jogo de escala muito maior. Ser&#225; interessante acompanhar como a stack financeira das empresas americanas poder&#225; ser redesenhada por essa jun&#231;&#227;o.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Sa&#250;de e paz,</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> As opini&#245;es expressas aqui s&#227;o de total responsabilidade do autor, Walter Pereira, e n&#227;o refletem necessariamente as opini&#245;es dos patrocinadores, parceiros ou clientes da <em>W Fintechs.</em></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://startups.com.br/la-fora/brex-e-zip-firmam-acordo-para-reduzir-queima-rumo-ao-ipo/ </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2022-october-availability-of-credit-to-small-businesses.htm</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><div id="youtube2-FhmeeFWjn10" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;FhmeeFWjn10&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FhmeeFWjn10?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.brex.com/journal/a-message-from-our-founder</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.brex.com/journal/building-brex-3-0-march-2024</p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#FintechFrames: Brex caught Capital One’s attention. 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For decades, the card was treated in isolation from the rest of the financial operation, while startups were operating at a pace that the banking system was not designed to follow.</p><p>It was in this gap that the conditions for Brex&#8217;s emergence were created. The company&#8217;s thesis was to reorganize the way these new companies accessed credit, controlled their spending, and structured their financial lives from the earliest stages of growth.</p><p>Contrary to what is often assumed, the problem was not a lack of capital, but the inability of traditional underwriting models to deal with companies that did not yet fit historical risk patterns. Well funded startups were assessed using the same logic applied to small local businesses, creating a structural mismatch between perceived risk and actual risk.</p><p>Brex was born focused on payments and grounded in the attempt to build a new layer of financial interpretation for these new companies. The corporate card was the first entry point to access spending flows, payments, and financial decisions that had previously remained fragmented across banks and disconnected systems.</p><p>Since its founding in 2017, Brex has gone through a trajectory marked by highs and lows, operating for years with a high level of cash burn. At one point, the company was burning around US$17 million per month and, according to market sources, had enough cash only until March 2026<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>. It was in this context that a series of internal moves emerged, combining cost cuts, including the layoff of nearly one third of the team, with an even stronger focus on increasing operational efficiency. The results of this adjustment began to appear in the first quarter of 2024, when the company managed to reduce cash burn by approximately 90 percent compared to the same period of the previous year.</p><p>Over this journey, Brex raised more than US$1.5 billion through primary and secondary rounds since 2017. At the peak of the valuation cycle in 2022, the company was valued at more than US$12.3 billion. In February, the startup projected reaching annual net revenue of US$500 million in 2024 and, just two months later in April, reported growth of more than 154 percent in realized revenue.</p><p>This path helps explain Capital One&#8217;s interest in Brex and the outcome of a transaction estimated at US$5 billion, representing a return of roughly 700 times over nine years for investors who backed the company from the beginning.</p><p>Throughout this edition, I want to show how Henrique and Pedro became inevitable founders, from their early days on Twitter and online forums, and also explore what Brex reveals about the corporate cards and expense management market in the United States, as well as the challenges that emerge when competitors begin to do the same things you do and start competing for the same space within companies&#8217; financial stacks.</p><h1>The problem traditional banks could not solve</h1><p>Access to capital has always been one of the main determinants of company survival and growth in the United States, but also one of the most unequal mechanisms within the American financial system. Even companies already backed by institutional funds face recurring difficulties in accessing corporate credit. Startups with US$1 to 2 million in venture capital often received credit limits below US$20,000 from incumbent banks, amounts insufficient to cover basic operating expenses such as software, cloud services, marketing, or corporate travel. In practice, this pushed institutionally funded companies to operate using founders&#8217; personal credit cards.</p><p>Some Federal Reserve reports help explain this behavior. Commercial banks tend to restrict credit to small businesses because the cost of evaluation, monitoring, and compliance for smaller operations is high, while risk adjusted profitability is lower than that of large corporations <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>. This dynamic ends up reproducing a bias against growing businesses, even when those businesses show solid economic fundamentals.</p><p>This bias manifests itself even before a formal rejection. Approximately 40 percent of potential borrowers do not even apply for credit due to the level of bureaucracy involved. At the core of this problem is the inadequacy of the data used for risk assessment. Traditional banks continue to base decisions on retrospective information such as personal credit history, three years of financial statements, and personal guarantees, while startups operate with forward looking structures, volatile revenues, and business models still under construction. This misalignment creates a gap that prevents risk analyses from being compatible with the economic reality of these companies.</p><h1>The puzzles of Brex</h1><p>It was in this context that the opportunity for Brex emerged. But the story had started much earlier. Henrique, from S&#227;o Paulo, and Pedro, from Rio de Janeiro, met in 2012 while debating on Twitter. In a podcast for his brother, Ale Dubugras, Henrique recounts that at the time he had zero hesitation about starting conversations online.</p><p>Both were already known at that time for their achievements on the internet. Pedro, at age 13, had been the first person to jailbreak the iPhone 3G in Brazil, something that earned him interviews and a certain reputation as a prodigy. Henrique, at 14, had already created a gaming company that ended up receiving a patent notice from Apple.</p><p>The exchange on Twitter eventually turned into a Skype call. Then another. Then another. 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Buying in game accessories, credits, digital items, or online services in Brazil was a poor experience.</p><p>Back then, PayPal barely worked in Brazil. Cielo and Redecard, in turn, were designed for physical retail, not for online flows.</p><p>That was when the direction of those Skype conversations changed. In this context, the idea for Pagar.me was born. In 2013, they began building what would become known as the Brazilian Stripe. A payment gateway designed to be developer first and with less friction.</p><p>Both enjoyed programming, but over time, the division of roles happened naturally. Pedro focused on engineering. Henrique took on sales, relationships, and everything that needed to happen for the business to exist outside of code.</p><p>Pagar.me became one of the largest payments players in Brazil, which led to the company being sold to Stone in 2016.</p><p>The sale price to Stone was never officially disclosed. Some say they sold control of the company for R$1 million. A small amount, but one that allowed them to enter the Stone ecosystem.</p><p>After their first exit, both went on to study at Stanford. There, they tried to build a virtual reality startup. But the timing was not right, and they had little experience in the field. Then they noticed another problem. Startups in Y Combinator were able to raise millions in funding, but could not obtain a corporate credit card. That was when, in 2017, they left Stanford and founded Brex.</p><h3>The Brex thesis</h3><p>The Brex thesis was lived by the founders themselves. Even with US$125,000 in cash from Y Combinator, Henrique and Pedro were denied when applying for a corporate credit card, among other examples.</p><p>Most institutions continued to assess young companies using parameters designed for mature businesses, with underwriting based on the founders&#8217; personal FICO scores, requirements for personal guarantees, and long manual processes. <strong>For newly created startups, often led by foreign founders without a U.S. credit history, this model became exclusionary.</strong></p><p>This problem became even more evident when looking at the broader market context. <strong>The B2B payments market in the United States moves around US$25 trillion per year, roughly three times the size of B2C, yet only 4 percent of those payments are made via cards.</strong> Checks and ACH continue to dominate precisely because of the friction that still exists in access to corporate cards in the country.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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The question guiding the company&#8217;s first steps was not how to compete with banks on traditional products, but how to redesign the very starting point of the financial relationship between a startup and the system.</p><p>The corporate card emerged as the most direct interface with day to day spending, especially because many B2B vendors did not accept ACH from early stage startups, making the card a minimum point of operational survival.</p><p>Brex&#8217;s decision was to invert the logic of risk assessment. <strong>While banks analyzed the founders&#8217; personal FICO scores, Brex chose to look at cash on hand, institutional backing, and the company&#8217;s spending patterns. </strong>The first product was a corporate charge card with mandatory monthly settlement, whose limit was defined primarily by available cash.</p><p>This structure reduced risk and, at the same time, allowed limits between ten and twenty times higher than those offered by incumbents such as AmEx, without requiring personal guarantees.</p><p>The MVP was a corporate card for startups, without the ambition of solving the entire financial life of the company all at once. <strong>The priorities were fast onboarding, high limits, and the absence of personal guarantees.</strong> The product was delivered in about four months, with approval processes taking up to 24 hours.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Btx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F070d5a9a-01e9-4c21-977b-b3708923c76b_1342x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Btx!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Brex started with only eight pilot customers, many of them foreign founders or companies excluded by the traditional financial system.</p><p>This initial design also revealed a deeper problem in the B2B financial system. <strong>Companies&#8217; financial operations were 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They did not start by trying to conquer the entire United States. Instead, they focused on winning a radius of just a few miles where a disproportionate share of the market they wanted to attack was concentrated. In an interview with CNN, Pedro explains that within a radius of roughly 10 miles around San Francisco there were around 40 percent of the most relevant technology startups in the country at that time<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>. In other words, a large share of decision makers and network effects were located there.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wuKT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg" width="508" height="389.7225274725275" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5e8d25d0-c491-447b-aaef-cb6245af935e_3600x2763.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1117,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:508,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Meninos' do Brasil lucram com startups nos EUA - 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The entire billboard inventory in San Francisco cost something close to US$300,000. For that concentrated audience, customer acquisition cost was orders of magnitude lower than outbound sales or fragmented digital media.</p><p>Unlike many fintechs, Brex relied on three growth pillars:</p><ol><li><p>Founder referrals;</p></li><li><p>Network effects within the venture capital ecosystem;</p></li><li><p>The use of anchor customers as social proof. For example, when companies such as DoorDash, Zoom, and Coinbase began using the platform, Brex stopped being seen as a new fintech and became significantly more legitimized. Marketing ended up becoming a consequence of the customer portfolio itself.Refer&#234;ncias entre fundadores.</p></li></ol><h3>The strategic and management pivot</h3><p>But not everything went according to plan. The first major inflection point in Brex&#8217;s growth cycle came at the end of 2023, when the company began to feel the effects of the reversal of the abundant capital environment that had supported the previous fintech boom.</p><p>This pressure translated, in early 2024, into a reduction of approximately 20 percent of the workforce, affecting 282 people, in an attempt to reduce cash burn and make the operation more agile and focused on what truly generated value for customers <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a>.  At that time, Pedro wrote:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;With our focus on financial software and high-quality growth, we grew gross profit by 75%+ last year. While we're proud of those accomplishments, we still have a way to go to ensure high-velocity growth and profitability for years to come. Combined, these changes enable us to get there and become cash flow positive with the money we have in the bank.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>At the same time, Brex realized it needed to simplify both its execution and its product design, removing layers of management and bringing leaders closer to day to day execution in order to accelerate decisions and improve the quality of launches, a move that would result in Brex 3.0<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wOyq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ad4e2c0-b6ed-4174-9e7b-f5f5b7134f0f_3388x1702.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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and less tolerance for initiatives disconnected from the customer experience and product cohesion.</p><p>This design change resembled a manifesto of focus and choice, in which only themes that represented step function changes in the user experience were kept, while everything else was discarded, and the CEO himself assumed the role of chief editor of what would be shipped.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;We release 4 times a year, and each release has no more than 3 big themes. This forces me to choose what truly matters, allowing us to make a large, company-affecting investment in the few things that are step-function changes to the customer experience, and drop everything else.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>This reorientation was also reflected in the evolution of the product portfolio. Brex initially became known for its corporate cards and cash management accounts for startups, but over the years expanded its scope to include bill pay tools, expense management, accounting automation, travel, and banking and treasury services, seeking to become a more complete business finance platform.</p><p>The attempt to serve a very broad base of small businesses ended up generating weak unit economics and service friction, leading the company to deliberately reduce its exposure to smaller customers in order to preserve focus and service quality, a move that opened space for competitors such as Ramp to gain relevance by focusing precisely on this underserved segment of the market.</p><p>Brex kept serving well funded startups and growing companies as a priority, while gradually expanding to larger and mid market clients, adjusting its value proposition and product capabilities to more complex financial operations needs.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>If you&#8217;re enjoying this edition, share it with a friend. It will help spread the message and allow me to keep providing high-quality content for free.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/135-ptbr?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTI0MjE3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTk4ODA5MTMsImlhdCI6MTc0NDM0MTc0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2OTMzNzQ4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzU4MDMzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BldeqjIMPhnF9_SU94qqrrpAEwfRh673QMflKLsK5Vk&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/135-ptbr?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTI0MjE3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTk4ODA5MTMsImlhdCI6MTc0NDM0MTc0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2OTMzNzQ4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzU4MDMzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BldeqjIMPhnF9_SU94qqrrpAEwfRh673QMflKLsK5Vk"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>The Achilles heel called Ramp</h1><p>Just as Brex began to adjust its operational focus and pursue greater efficiency, another player that had emerged two years after Brex started to gain traction and create discomfort. Ramp, founded in 2019 in New York, entered the market with a thesis that, from the outset, sought to differentiate itself from the traditional corporate card narrative.</p><p>The founders realized that existing card issuers had strong, segmented specializations. Capital One focused on underwriting, American Express on rewards, and Brex on marketing to newly formed startups.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ohVt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd55ad7-b31f-4b6f-be6c-0a075af7095d_1395x1507.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ohVt!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd55ad7-b31f-4b6f-be6c-0a075af7095d_1395x1507.webp 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ohVt!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, 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For them, this created an opening to design a financial technology company built on engineering and product principles, not merely on banking processes or reward incentives.</p><p>Instead of simply issuing cards, Ramp positioned itself as a financial operations platform aimed at reducing costs and manual work time, with automation and back office control as its core value proposition.</p><p>This focus became clearer as Ramp expanded its product scope beyond corporate cards. Ramp&#8217;s traction also contrasted with Brex&#8217;s moment of transition. In 2025, the company closed a new funding round valuing it at around US$22.5 billion, driven by a US$500 million investment, and later at approximately US$32 billion, with annualized revenue growth exceeding US$1 billion and a much larger customer base. <strong>This growth was accompanied by a strong narrative around operational savings and process automation, summarized in the promise to save companies time and money.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tLda!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c8ec9b4-0ed5-426b-a053-9ca509503700_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tLda!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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operations teams, with tools that replace manual reporting, expense reviews, and slow approvals with automated processes that integrate directly with accounting systems and ERPs.</p><h1>The challenges ahead</h1><p>Even with operational improvements and a clear acceleration in revenue over recent quarters, Brex&#8217;s trajectory through 2026 reflects both achievements and the structural challenges of this market.</p><p>Between 2017 and 2022, the company moved from an initial valuation in the tens of millions of dollars to a peak of around US$12.3 billion. During this period, revenue estimates from Sacra indicate that Brex reached approximately US$700 million in annualized revenue by August 2025, with around 50 percent year over year growth, following a slowdown phase in 2022 and 2023. The path to profitability, however, was long and required successive strategic adjustments.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8sbN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff38ebeff-19d8-453a-b911-177d862328e0_832x840.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8sbN!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff38ebeff-19d8-453a-b911-177d862328e0_832x840.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8sbN!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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After reaching its peak in 2022 at US$12.3 billion, many investors expected the company to continue scaling regardless of market conditions. However, in 2026, the sale to Capital One for approximately US$5.15 billion represented a figure substantially below its peak valuation.</p><p>Early investors who entered in 2017 achieved an estimated return of around 700 times their capital, one of the highest multiples in a recent venture capital cycle. In contrast, later stage investors saw returns below invested capital, particularly those who entered during rounds closer to the peak valuation cycle.</p><p>One thing is clear. Brex managed to build an impressive story in this market. One point Pedro highlighted in an interview was that a key foundation of the acquisition was the fact that Capital One is still led by its founder, Rich Fairbank, three decades after the bank&#8217;s creation, and that it is a systemically scaled institution that continues to operate with a long term vision, a strong appetite for technology, and a willingness to reinvent its own core. The budget is also significantly larger. Today, the bank operates with an annual budget of roughly US$6 billion in marketing and another US$6 billion in engineering and product, figures that fundamentally change the scope of ambition possible for Brex.</p><p>Even if the transaction value came in below what some investors expected, the union between the two companies has the potential to reshape the competitive dynamics of this market. Ten years separate the sale of Pagar.me to Stone from the acquisition of Brex by Capital One. Operating with the resources of a large bank significantly expands the platform&#8217;s reach and ambition, but it will also impose new kinds of pressure. Brex is now playing a much larger scale game. It will be interesting to watch how the financial stack of American companies may be redesigned by this combination.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>If you know anyone who would like to receive this e-mail or who is fascinated by the possibilities of financial innovation, I&#8217;d really appreciate you forwarding this email their way!</strong></em></p></div><p><strong>Until the next!</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, Walter Pereira, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors, partners, or clients of <em>W Fintechs.</em></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://startups.com.br/la-fora/brex-e-zip-firmam-acordo-para-reduzir-queima-rumo-ao-ipo/ </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2022-october-availability-of-credit-to-small-businesses.htm</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><div id="youtube2-FhmeeFWjn10" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;FhmeeFWjn10&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FhmeeFWjn10?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; 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represented a radical shift in how people related to financial services.</p><p>Many of these theses were based on making the banking experience more functional and understandable for the average user, with a strong focus on better customer service. Many of these fintechs started by offering a debit card, a simple digital account, or a better-designed interface, and only later moved into credit, investments, and other financial services.</p><p>The ecosystem came as a consequence, and also as a response to the need to increase revenue margins. This movement coincided with a perfect storm in emerging markets, marked by the rapid adoption of smartphones, gradual improvements in connectivity, and a population that began accessing digital services even before fully entering the traditional banking system.</p><p>But there is an important detail that is often overlooked when this story is told in a linear way. Not all neobanks followed the classic path of starting as a bank and then becoming a platform. Some were born outside the financial system, solving seemingly peripheral everyday problems such as mobile top-ups, bill payments, or essential services, and only later realized that they were, in practice, building a much more frequent and deeper financial relationship with their users than many digital banks. It is within this group that RecargaPay&#8217;s story begins to stand out.</p><p>In this edition, I will analyze the thesis behind RecargaPay and how three young Argentinians came together to found one of the largest neobank success stories in Brazil. <strong>The reader will quickly notice that Rodrigo, Gustavo, and &#193;lvaro are entrepreneurs by instinct. There is in them an almost natural drive to solve problems. But they became RecargaPay&#8217;s founders much more through intuition than by following a predefined playbook.</strong> At a time when the market was still in its early stages in terms of smartphone adoption and the attraction of venture capital to Latin America, they bet on the thesis that digitizing processes that cost users time and money, as well as simplifying people&#8217;s relationship with financial services, could be the next big wave.</p><p>Although most neobanks follow the same playbook, I want to show that, unlike the more common Latin American cases, RecargaPay carved out its own path. The company has raised around US$120 million in investment rounds since its founding and, in recent years, has obtained different licenses from the Central Bank of Brazil to operate in payments and credit.</p><h1>Entrepreneurs by instinct, founders by intuition</h1><p>Wasting time in lines, wasting time paying simple bills, wasting time keeping basic services running. For most people, this was always treated as an inevitable part of daily life.<strong> For Rodrigo, Gustavo, and &#193;lvaro, this kind of friction was a clear signal of inefficiency.</strong></p><p>In the late 1990s and early 2000s, entrepreneurship in Argentina meant living with economic instability, recurring crises, capital constraints, and very few references of scalable technology companies in the region. Fnbox itself would be founded in this context, in June 2002, when the concept of a startup as we understand it today did not yet exist, nor was there abundant access to venture capital. It was in this environment that the three began to develop a sharper eye for problems that could be solved with technology.</p><p>Rodrigo&#8217;s trajectory begins back in the 1990s, when he abandoned the more predictable path of a young economist to dive into the first internet boom. There was no innovation ecosystem, no playbooks, and certainly none of the glamour that many preach today. There was only curiosity, trial and error, and the intuition that software and distribution could change the way people connected and transacted information. <strong>This initial impulse was born, in part, from a personal pain point: the high cost of calling from the United States to Argentina, something common for Latin American immigrants at the time.</strong></p><p>The experiences Rodrigo had during childhood and youth, especially his education in the United States, laid the foundation for an ambition that would later become clearer: building global businesses, operable remotely and independent of a single country. From the outset, Fnbox operated in a distributed way, with the founder in the U.S., operations in Argentina, and technological development in Ukraine&#8212;something far ahead of the norm at the time. This characteristic remains present to this day at RecargaPay.</p><p>&#193;lvaro, Rodrigo&#8217;s brother, and Gustavo, &#193;lvaro&#8217;s college classmate, joined this journey bringing a level of complementarity that went beyond the classic division of roles. From the beginning, &#193;lvaro took on the technology role, sustaining each cycle and pivot of the business. Gustavo, in turn, acted as the operator of it all, responsible for giving economic shape to the group&#8217;s ideas.</p><p>These individual characteristics led to the creation of Sonico, a social network that would reach more than 55 million users across Latin America. Launched in 2007, Sonico was one of the first social networks designed specifically for the Latin American audience, reaching millions of users in its very first year. <strong>It was there that the group learned one of the most important lessons in business, and also one of the most expensive: scaling too early and competing directly with global platforms like Facebook, without solid economic foundations, consumed a great deal of cash and energy.</strong></p><p>It was in this context that a conversation emerged with one of the leading investors in the social media ecosystem at the time, Peter Thiel, during a transition period between MySpace and Facebook, when there was still room to compete for attention and social traffic.</p><p>The group already held assets that were structurally similar and, more importantly, complementary. Sonico concentrated tens of millions of users and social data such as birthdays, connections, and recurring interactions, in addition to something extremely rare at the time: proprietary distribution via email. <strong>In parallel, platforms like Phonico, Tarjetas Telef&#243;nicas, and birthday reminder sites (all part of the same group) expanded this base, creating a core of value sustained by recurring traffic and direct relationships with users.</strong></p><p>In practice, Fnbox operated businesses simultaneously across telecom, social media, top-ups, digital advertising, and e-commerce, all focused on the Latin American community. By 2010, this set of assets already totaled more than 75 million active users.</p><p>Recarga.com allowed users to add credit to prepaid mobile phones in multiple countries, integrating more than 20 operators. Phonico and Tarjetas Telef&#243;nicas sold hundreds of millions of international calling minutes.</p><p>Cup&#243;nica and Datam rounded out the portfolio with daily deals and lead generation. <strong>Viewed as a whole, it was a sequence of companies converging around businesses built on proprietary distribution, recurring transactions, and accumulated learnings about people&#8217;s digital behavior.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A0yF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98176302-a96e-4bc0-9375-149477c67828_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A0yF!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, 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Added to this was an additional and decisive factor: geopolitical risk. Although the company had regional ambitions, it kept its team concentrated in Argentina at a time of severe institutional instability, marked by a deep crisis, recurring conflicts, road blockades, tensions with the agricultural sector, and constant negative exposure in the international media.</p><p><strong>On the other hand, Sonico and other assets within the group created something rare by the standards of the time: a massive user base before monetization.</strong> Millions of people interacted daily with the group&#8217;s products, ranging from mini-applications to early experiments with recurring digital services, such as mobile top-ups. This base made it possible to test monetization models, advertising, e-commerce, and financial services long before any clear fintech thesis existed. <strong>Distribution came before money, and this base functioned as a living laboratory to understand social behaviors, something that would later become a central element in the construction of RecargaPay.</strong></p><p>One of these creations was Tarjetas Telef&#243;nicas, which already carried many of the elements that would later define RecargaPay. In the early 2000s, international communication was expensive, difficult to access, and dependent on physical channels. The platform sold phone cards and international calling services. Five days after launch, the website was already selling hundreds of dollars in VoIP minutes, quickly validating the thesis. <strong>The group explored a clear technological arbitrage between the inflated costs of traditional telecommunications and the efficiency of VoIP, offering much cheaper and simpler calls, especially for Latin communities and immigrants.</strong></p><p>The business went on to generate around ten million dollars in revenue as early as 2006, with a significant share coming from recurring transactions. The operation also required the development of proprietary fraud-control systems capable of processing tens of thousands of transactions per month with chargeback rates below the industry average. This led to an insight that would be applied again later: <strong>when usage is frequent, predictable, and essential, the transaction stops being an isolated event and starts to sustain an ongoing relationship with the customer.</strong></p><p><strong>There is also an irony in this story. The logic that ultimately killed the social network ended up saving it and giving rise to RecargaPay. </strong>The concept of unbundling emerged as a direct consequence of these learnings. Fnbox began to function as the structure that organized this multiplicity of fronts built over the years, bringing together social businesses, telecom, top-ups, group buying, and other digital experiments the group had developed by then, all operational and some profitable.</p><p>Over time, however, it became clear that one of these fronts was addressing a problem too large to be treated as just another vertical. That was when the group decided to shut down some of its operations across seven countries.</p><p>At that point, the hard-earned discipline from the social network phase led the group to focus more heavily on profitable fronts such as top-ups, allowing them to sustain the pivot and build a durable fintech. <strong>In other words, if Peter Thiel had come in as an investor, the social network might have had another chance, but there were no guarantees that Sonico would become a global winner, and in that scenario, RecargaPay might never have existed.</strong></p><p>It is within this context that Brazil emerged as a strategic choice. While the United States was already showing signs of saturation in digital services, Brazil combined high technology adoption, a strong prepaid culture, low levels of banking penetration, and an enormous amount of friction in everyday financial life. 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</strong>They paid bills in lines, topped up credit in fragmented ways, and lived with small, normalized inefficiencies. <strong>The thesis was that anything physical, recurring, standardized, and predictable would eventually migrate to digital. </strong>If a payment happens every week, every month, for an entire lifetime, it becomes the most powerful possible point of entry.</p><p>Fnbox&#8217;s definitive shift toward RecargaPay happened because there was a daily relationship between people and money that no one was treating with the importance it deserved. The name change symbolized this transition clearly. <strong>It was no longer about top-ups as an isolated product, but about payments as a variable that would perpetuate this relationship.</strong> The company was not born trying to replace the bank, but rather by occupying a space the bank had not yet prioritized. Instead of starting with an account or a card, it started with payments for things that were essential to everyday life.</p><h1>The neobank thesis: why payments are starting points?</h1><p>For a long time, payments were treated as just another detail in the user journey. Banks viewed them as a cost or as an intermediate step toward a &#8220;noble&#8221; product, usually credit. More recent fintechs often repeated the same mistake by treating payments as a feature inside a larger app, something that helps with acquisition but does not define the model. What RecargaPay&#8217;s trajectory helps illustrate is an inversion of this logic.</p><p>When one looks more closely at financial behavior in emerging markets, it becomes clear how costly this shortsightedness has been. <strong>Mobile top-ups, bill payments, public transportation, and small recurring payments were always treated as isolated products, each with fragmented experiences, separate channels, and little connectivity between them.</strong> This fragmentation created a false sense of simplicity, while in practice it hid a huge amount of friction.</p><p>The logic of essential recurring payments changes this perspective because it starts from user behavior, not from the product. It does not matter whether the user is paying an electricity bill, topping up a phone, or validating public transportat<strong>ion. What matters is that the same financial gesture is being repeated with high frequency and low ticket size throughout an adult lifetime.</strong> It is through this repetition that habits, trust, and predictability are built. <strong>That is precisely why these payments function as a far more powerful entry point into financial life than more complex and sporadic products.</strong></p><p>This perspective helps explain why payments precede credit, data, and even financial identity. <strong>Before someone takes out a loan, invests, or accesses any more sophisticated product, that person has already paid bills, dealt with money in everyday life, and revealed extremely valuable behavioral patterns.</strong></p><p>It is at this point that RecargaPay&#8217;s thesis moves away from the traditional neobank narrative and toward something more structural. <strong>Instead of starting by offering credit and then trying to generate usage, the company built usage first, on top of unavoidable needs, and allowed everything else to emerge over time. Credit appears as a logical consequence of an already established relationship.</strong> This order matters greatly in markets where institutional trust is limited and where formal financial history does not reflect the reality of most of the population.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFOS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F884edb4d-81b1-4f7f-83d1-e682115da46f_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFOS!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Square, for example, built its model by solving payments for small merchants before expanding into broader financial services. Paytm was born from top-ups and everyday payments in India before becoming a full financial ecosystem. Alipay turned digital payments into a central layer of Chinese economic life long before users ever thought about banking. <strong>In all of these cases, the pattern repeats itself. 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They did not initially present themselves as complete platforms, but as simple solutions to specific and recurring problems. <strong>Sophistication came over time, driven by the volume of interactions and the density of data generated through everyday use.</strong> The same movement can be observed at RecargaPay, which began by solving something considered too small by many traditional players, but which in practice concentrates one of the greatest opportunities for continuous financial relationships.</p><h1>The perfect storm for building a neobank in emerging countries</h1><p>Building a neobank in an emerging country requires constant contextual awareness, precisely because in these markets users often enter the digital financial world out of necessity and urgency, not convenience. Brazil is a perfect example of this ambiguity, as it combines continental scale, inequality, informality, and an extremely advanced financial system in terms of payment infrastructure. This combination completely reshapes the order of decisions.</p><p><strong>The first variable is the most counterintuitive. A country can have massive smartphone penetration and still carry deep gaps in banking access. </strong>Brazil, for example, has 212 million people and around 260 million smartphones, but that does not mean everyone has credit, spending limits, banking relationships, or financial products that make sense in real life.</p><p>The second variable is cultural and is often underestimated by those who observe emerging markets from afar. Before the pandemic, cash dominated in Brazil. Analyses of the ecosystem highlighted not only the volume of cash transactions, but also the existence of tens of millions of unbanked people and hundreds of billions of reais in purchasing power circulating outside the traditional banking system. <strong>This creates an environment in which everyday friction is normalized, lines are part of the ritual of paying bills, and users learn to switch naturally between channels such as cash, boleto, and cards, depending on what is possible at any given moment.</strong></p><p>The pandemic further accelerated the digitization of these services. Emergency Aid distributed more than R$300 billion to over 68 million Brazilians through a digital account. In theory, this should have pushed millions of people definitively into the digital world. In practice, a significant portion of that money flowed back into cash.</p><p>It was at this moment that Pix arrived. Recently, in the report &#8220;A New Planet Called Pix,&#8221; I showed how Pix not only accelerated the digitization of payments, but also reorganized social behaviors.</p><div><hr></div><h5>Read the full report &#128071;</h5><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4RnL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18024e20-d7a7-407c-820c-62f9714fc0e8_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4RnL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Data from the Central Bank shows that Pix usage is most intense among young adults aged 18 to 39, but it has also achieved consistent adoption among people over 50, especially for bill payments, family transfers, and top-ups. <strong>In the case of mobile top-ups and pay-as-you-go services, Pix reduced friction, removed intermediaries, and brought predictability to those who live on small amounts, allowing balances for essential services to be treated almost as an extension of the money held in an account.</strong></p><p>Many fintechs also began using Pix as a settlement rail while attaching personal credit lines, BNPL, and even insurance to the act of paying. RecargaPay is one of these cases. One of the features launched was called &#8220;Pix Now, Pay Later,&#8221; which allows customers who are eligible for a loan to make a Pix payment now and pay later. Since the beginning of Pix operations in November 2020, the fintech also started offering Pix funded by credit cards to a portion of its customer base, gradually extending the solution to all users.</p><p>One year after the creation of the instant payments system, the company saw the number of customers using the technology quadruple. <strong>The main use cases were concentrated in bill payments, mobile or transit card top-ups, and peer-to-peer transfers. Cash-in via Pix on the platform, which accounted for 61% in the first three months, represented more than 85% of total user cash-in by 2022.</strong></p><div><hr></div><p><em>If you&#8217;re enjoying this edition, share it with a friend. It will help spread the message and allow me to keep providing high-quality content for free.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/135-ptbr?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTI0MjE3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTk4ODA5MTMsImlhdCI6MTc0NDM0MTc0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2OTMzNzQ4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzU4MDMzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BldeqjIMPhnF9_SU94qqrrpAEwfRh673QMflKLsK5Vk&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/135-ptbr?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTI0MjE3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTk4ODA5MTMsImlhdCI6MTc0NDM0MTc0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2OTMzNzQ4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzU4MDMzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BldeqjIMPhnF9_SU94qqrrpAEwfRh673QMflKLsK5Vk"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>An ecosystem built on top-ups, payments, and credit</h1><p>The construction of RecargaPay&#8217;s ecosystem emerged as a natural response to the company&#8217;s growth. When we look at the timeline the company itself describes, it begins with digital businesses outside the &#8220;bank,&#8221; moves through top-ups, shifts to a full focus on Brazil, and only later incorporates credit, Pix, and the components that now make the app resemble a superapp. <strong>In other words, it is clear that the platform was not born trying to be a bank, but rather became a bank as it organized everyday payments.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4l8B!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37847a62-a22f-4dfe-adc3-7905ec3b2353_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4l8B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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recurring needs, because users do not want to navigate multiple banking experiences to solve simple problems.</strong> RecargaPay captured this dynamic well by making the app a place to pay, invest, finance, and earn money in a simple and secure way. The digital account with daily yield was another signal of this strategy to be more than just an account.</p><p>The second layer is the set of essential payments that generate real transactional frequency. Mobile top-ups are the classic case, but expansion into bill payments, boletos, transportation, and gift cards is what transformed a single-use utility into multiple behaviors.<strong> The thesis behind this is built-in frequent payment experiences, where the goal is not for the user to open the app to &#8220;check the bank,&#8221; but to solve their financial life.</strong></p><p>All of this converges into a B2C and B2B2C logic at the same time. RecargaPay starts by solving the consumer&#8217;s needs, but gradually also created tools and rails for small businesses, through Tap to Pay, business accounts, and payment links. With each small merchant that begins accepting payments via mobile phone, the ecosystem gains more touchpoints, and consumers find more places where the app makes sense.</p><p>In 2024, RecargaPay reached 10 million users and processed R$24.4 billion in total transaction volume. I believe this is where the competitive advantage of an ecosystem lies, precisely in its ability to be indispensable in moments that truly matter. <strong>In RecargaPay&#8217;s case, what sustains this advantage is not the accumulation of isolated products, but the frequency with which the platform naturally enters the user&#8217;s life. Frequency becomes the core of RecargaPay&#8217;s thesis because, unlike financial products that are triggered only at specific moments, such as credit or investments, essential payments happen every day and across all economic cycles.</strong></p><h1>The biggest lesson from recargapay</h1><p>RecargaPay&#8217;s story helps clarify a thesis that is common among some neobanks but still not widely discussed: <strong>payments are the first financial language anyone learns. </strong>Before understanding interest rates, limits, or even credit scores, every user learns how to pay bills, top up services, and transfer money to solve immediate needs. <strong>When a neobank positions itself at this initial point of the journey, it begins to follow financial life as it happens in real time, not only when the user seeks credit.</strong></p><p>While researching the company, and through conversations I had with some of RecargaPay&#8217;s executives and employees, several lessons became clear, lessons the company has carried across more than two decades of history, from Fnbox to RecargaPay.</p><p>The first lesson is that the company was built before the &#8220;startup manual&#8221; existed, which shaped a culture deeply oriented toward operational efficiency, data, and long-term survival. The business did not begin as a fintech, nor as a promise of financial disruption, but as technological arbitrage in telecom and later as the digitization of recurring transactions. <strong>This origin explains why RecargaPay has always treated payments as a continuous relationship rather than an isolated product, and why structural decisions, such as long pivots and shutting down operations, were guided by hard criteria related to cost, margin, and viability.</strong></p><p>Over time, this discipline translated into clear competitive advantages. The experience of scaling too early with Sonico taught that traction without sustainability consumes cash and energy. <strong>That was when the founders realized that the answer was not to reduce ambition, but to compress it operationally and improve efficiency.</strong></p><p>Another important lesson appears in how the company approaches technology and artificial intelligence. AI is present across different areas of RecargaPay&#8217;s business, including fraud prevention, risk analysis, customer support, regulatory automation, and internal productivity. The pilot for automating AML analysis during onboarding illustrates this well. In just a few months, the company reduced roughly 90 percent of operational work by automating decisions that previously depended on hours of manual analysis, without inflating teams and while maintaining the necessary regulatory control.</p><p>This combination of decisions explains why RecargaPay never pursued growth for growth&#8217;s sake. <strong>The company learned early on that frequency matters more than occasional volume, and that relationships are built through repeated use of basic but essential functionalities.</strong> By prioritizing recurring and essential payments, the company began observing financial behavior in real time. The result is a model that learns from the user before attempting deeper monetization. <strong>The main lesson from RecargaPay is that becoming indispensable in a customer&#8217;s daily life is the most effective way to scale a business.</strong></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>If you know anyone who would like to receive this e-mail or who is fascinated by the possibilities of financial innovation, I&#8217;d really appreciate you forwarding this email their way!</strong></em></p></div><p><strong>Until the next!</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, Walter Pereira, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors, partners, or clients of <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#FintechFrames: Da recarga a um neobank em um mercado emergente: como a RecargaPay construiu um banco a partir de pagamentos essenciais]]></title><description><![CDATA[W FINTECHS NEWSLETTER #167]]></description><link>https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/fintechframes-05-ptbr</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/fintechframes-05-ptbr</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:21:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uq4h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64205622-d61a-4f10-81be-89c81bd334cb_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h5>&#128064; <strong>English Version &#128073; <a href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/fintechframes-05-en">here</a></strong></h5><div><hr></div><h5><em>Fintech Frames &#8212; #05 edi&#231;&#227;o</em></h5><p><em>Fintech Frames </em>&#233; uma s&#233;rie da <em>W Fintechs Newsletter </em>que destaca as jornadas e estrat&#233;gias de fintechs que se estabeleceram no mercado &#8212; seja por meio de um IPO, aquisi&#231;&#227;o ou uma avalia&#231;&#227;o superior a USD 10 bilh&#245;es.</p><h6>Outras edi&#231;&#245;es Fintech Frames</h6><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;7852a65b-a92a-4c4e-acae-c2665d8f81f3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#128064; English Version &#128073; here&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;#FintechFrames: A aposta da BVNK na constru&#231;&#227;o da pr&#243;xima gera&#231;&#227;o de infraestrutura financeira com stablecoins&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:5924217,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Pereira&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;A fintech investor and researcher in LatAm, exploring new trends, strategies, and unit economics in financial innovation. 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mudan&#231;a radical na forma como as pessoas se relacionavam com servi&#231;os financeiros. </p><p>Muitas das teses se baseavam em tornar a experi&#234;ncia banc&#225;ria mais funcional e compreens&#237;vel para o usu&#225;rio comum, com foco em um melhor atendimento. Muitas dessas fintechs come&#231;aram oferecendo um cart&#227;o de d&#233;bito, uma simples conta digital ou uma interface melhor desenhada, e s&#243; depois avan&#231;aram para cr&#233;dito, investimentos e outros servi&#231;os financeiros. </p><p>O ecossistema veio como consequ&#234;ncia, e tamb&#233;m por uma maior necessidade de aumentar a margem de receita. Esse movimento coincidiu com uma <em>perfect storm</em> que os mercados emergentes passavam, marcada pela r&#225;pida ado&#231;&#227;o de smartphones, pela melhora gradual da conectividade e por uma popula&#231;&#227;o que passou a acessar servi&#231;os digitais antes mesmo de acessar plenamente o sistema banc&#225;rio tradicional.</p><p>Mas h&#225; um detalhe importante que costuma ser ignorado quando essa hist&#243;ria &#233; contada de forma linear. Nem todos os neobanks seguiram esse caminho cl&#225;ssico de come&#231;ar pelo banco para depois virar plataforma. Alguns nasceram fora do sistema financeiro, resolvendo problemas cotidianos aparentemente perif&#233;ricos, como recargas, pagamentos de contas ou servi&#231;os essenciais, e s&#243; mais tarde perceberam que estavam, na pr&#225;tica, construindo uma rela&#231;&#227;o financeira muito mais frequente e profunda com seus usu&#225;rios do que muitos bancos digitais. &#201; nesse grupo que a hist&#243;ria da RecargaPay come&#231;a a se diferenciar.</p><p>Nesta edi&#231;&#227;o, vou analisar a tese por tr&#225;s da RecargaPay e como tr&#234;s jovens argentinos se juntaram para fundar um dos maiores cases de sucesso de neobank no Brasil. <strong>O leitor logo perceber&#225; que Rodrigo, Gustavo e &#193;lvaro s&#227;o empreendedores por instinto. H&#225; neles um desejo quase natural de resolver problemas. Mas se tornam fundadores da RecargaPay muito mais por intui&#231;&#227;o do que por seguir um manual pr&#233; definido.</strong> Em um momento em que o mercado ainda estava em est&#225;gio inicial no uso de smartphones e na atra&#231;&#227;o de capital de risco para a Am&#233;rica Latina, eles apostaram na tese de que digitalizar processos que custavam tempo e dinheiro ao usu&#225;rio, assim como simplificar a rela&#231;&#227;o das pessoas com servi&#231;os financeiros, poderia ser a pr&#243;xima grande onda. </p><p>Apesar de a maioria dos neobanks seguir um mesmo playbook, quero mostrar que, diferente dos casos latinos mais comuns, a RecargaPay criou o seu pr&#243;prio caminho. A empresa j&#225; captou cerca de US$ 120 milh&#245;es em rodadas de investimento desde a sua cria&#231;&#227;o at&#233; hoje e, nos &#250;ltimos anos, obteve do Banco Central do Brasil diferentes licen&#231;as para operar com pagamentos e cr&#233;dito.</p><h1>Empreendedores por instinto, mas fundadores por intui&#231;&#227;o</h1><p>Perder tempo em filas, perder tempo para pagar contas simples, perder tempo para manter servi&#231;os b&#225;sicos funcionando. Para a maioria das pessoas, isso sempre foi tratado como parte inevit&#225;vel da rotina. <strong>Para Rodrigo, Gustavo e &#193;lvaro, esse tipo de fric&#231;&#227;o era um sinal claro de inefici&#234;ncia.</strong></p><p>No fim dos anos 90 e in&#237;cio dos anos 2000, empreender na Argentina significava conviver com instabilidade econ&#244;mica, crises recorrentes, restri&#231;&#227;o de capital e poucas refer&#234;ncias de empresas de tecnologia escal&#225;veis na regi&#227;o. A pr&#243;pria Fnbox seria fundada nesse contexto, em junho de 2002, quando ainda n&#227;o existia o conceito de startup como ele &#233; entendido hoje, nem acesso abundante a capital de risco. Foi nesse cen&#225;rio que os tr&#234;s come&#231;aram a desenvolver um olhar mais atento para problemas que poderiam ser solucionados com tecnologia.</p><p>A trajet&#243;ria de Rodrigo come&#231;a ainda nos anos 90, quando abandona o caminho mais previs&#237;vel de um jovem economista para mergulhar no primeiro boom da internet. N&#227;o havia ecossistema de inova&#231;&#227;o, nem playbooks, muito menos o glamour que muitos pregam hoje. Havia apenas curiosidade, tentativa e erro e a intui&#231;&#227;o de que o software e a distribui&#231;&#227;o poderiam mudar a forma como pessoas se conectavam e transacionavam informa&#231;&#227;o. <strong>Esse impulso inicial nasce, inclusive, de uma dor pessoal: o alto custo para ligar dos Estados Unidos para a Argentina, algo comum para imigrantes latino-americanos naquele per&#237;odo.</strong></p><p>As experi&#234;ncias que Rodrigo teve durante a inf&#226;ncia e juventude, especialmente sua forma&#231;&#227;o nos Estados Unidos, deram base para a ambi&#231;&#227;o que anos depois apareceria com mais clareza: construir neg&#243;cios globais, oper&#225;veis remotamente e independentes de um &#250;nico pa&#237;s. Desde o in&#237;cio, a Fnbox operava de forma distribu&#237;da, com o fundador nos EUA, opera&#231;&#227;o na Argentina e desenvolvimento tecnol&#243;gico na Ucr&#226;nia, algo muito &#224; frente do padr&#227;o da &#233;poca. Essa caracter&#237;stica segue presente at&#233; hoje na RecargaPay.</p><p>&#193;lvaro, irm&#227;o de Rodrigo, e Gustavo, colega de faculdade de &#193;lvaro, se somariam a essa trajet&#243;ria trazendo uma complementaridade que iria al&#233;m da divis&#227;o cl&#225;ssica de fun&#231;&#245;es. Desde o in&#237;cio, &#193;lvaro assumiria o papel da tecnologia, que sustentaria cada ciclo e pivot do neg&#243;cio. Gustavo, por sua vez, seria como o operador disso tudo, respons&#225;vel por dar forma econ&#244;mica &#224;s ideias do grupo.</p><p>Essas caracter&#237;sticas de cada um resultariam na cria&#231;&#227;o da Sonico, uma rede social que chegaria a mais de 55 milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios na Am&#233;rica Latina. Lan&#231;ada em 2007, a Sonico foi uma das primeiras redes sociais pensadas especificamente para o p&#250;blico latino-americano, alcan&#231;ando milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios j&#225; no primeiro ano. <strong>Foi ali que o grupo aprendeu uma das li&#231;&#245;es mais importantes para um neg&#243;cio, e tamb&#233;m uma das mais caras: escalar cedo demais e competir diretamente com plataformas globais como o Facebook, sem bases econ&#244;micas s&#243;lidas, consumia muito caixa e energia.</strong></p><p>&#201; nesse contexto que surge uma conversa com um dos principais investidores do ecossistema de redes sociais da &#233;poca, Peter Thiel, em um momento de transi&#231;&#227;o entre o MySpace e o Facebook, quando ainda existia espa&#231;o para disputar a aten&#231;&#227;o, e o tr&#225;fego social. </p><p>O grupo j&#225; tinha em m&#227;os ativos estruturalmente semelhantes e, mais importante, complementares. A Sonico concentrava dezenas de milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios e dados sociais como anivers&#225;rios, conex&#245;es e intera&#231;&#245;es recorrentes, al&#233;m de um elemento rar&#237;ssimo para a &#233;poca, a distribui&#231;&#227;o pr&#243;pria via e-mail. <strong>Em paralelo, plataformas como Phonico, Tarjetas Telef&#243;nicas e sites de alerta de anivers&#225;rios, todos parte do mesmo grupo, ampliavam essa base, criando um n&#250;cleo de valor sustentado por tr&#225;fego recorrente e relacionamento direto com o usu&#225;rio.</strong></p><p>Na pr&#225;tica, a Fnbox operava simultaneamente neg&#243;cios de telecom, m&#237;dia social, recarga, publicidade digital e com&#233;rcio eletr&#244;nico, todos voltados para a comunidade latino-americana. Em 2010, esse conjunto de ativos j&#225; somava mais de 75 milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios ativos. </p><p>A Recarga.com permitia adicionar cr&#233;ditos a celulares pr&#233;-pagos em diversos pa&#237;ses, integrando mais de 20 operadoras. 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Somava-se a isso um fator adicional e decisivo, o risco geopol&#237;tico. Embora a empresa tivesse aspira&#231;&#227;o regional, ela mantinha sua equipe concentrada na Argentina em um momento de forte instabilidade institucional, marcado por uma crise profunda, conflitos recorrentes, bloqueios de estradas, tens&#245;es com o setor agropecu&#225;rio e uma exposi&#231;&#227;o negativa constante na m&#237;dia internacional.</p><p><strong>Por outro lado, a Sonico e outros ativos do grupo criaram algo raro para os padr&#245;es da &#233;poca: uma base massiva de usu&#225;rios antes da monetiza&#231;&#227;o.</strong> Milh&#245;es de pessoas interagiam diariamente com produtos do grupo, desde miniaplica&#231;&#245;es at&#233; os primeiros testes com servi&#231;os digitais recorrentes, como a pr&#243;pria recarga de celular. Essa base permitiu experimentar modelos de monetiza&#231;&#227;o, publicidade, e-commerce e servi&#231;os financeiros muito antes de qualquer tese clara de fintech existir. <strong>A distribui&#231;&#227;o veio antes do dinheiro e essa base funcionava como um laborat&#243;rio vivo para entender os comportamentos sociais, algo que mais tarde se tornaria uma pe&#231;a central na constru&#231;&#227;o da RecargaPay.</strong></p><p>Uma dessas cria&#231;&#245;es foi a Tarjetas Telef&#243;nicas, que j&#225; carregava muitos dos elementos que mais tarde definiriam a RecargaPay. No in&#237;cio dos anos 2000, comunica&#231;&#227;o internacional era cara, pouco acess&#237;vel e dependente de canais f&#237;sicos. A plataforma vendia cart&#245;es telef&#244;nicos e servi&#231;os de chamadas internacionais. Cinco dias ap&#243;s o lan&#231;amento, o site j&#225; vendia centenas de d&#243;lares em minutos de VoIP, validando rapidamente a tese. <strong>O grupo explorou uma arbitragem tecnol&#243;gica clara entre o custo inflado das telecomunica&#231;&#245;es tradicionais e a efici&#234;ncia do VoIP, oferecendo chamadas muito mais baratas e simples, especialmente para comunidades latinas e imigrantes.</strong></p><p>O neg&#243;cio chegou a gerar cerca de 10 milh&#245;es de d&#243;lares em receita ainda em 2006, com uma parcela relevante vindo de transa&#231;&#245;es recorrentes. A opera&#231;&#227;o tamb&#233;m exigiu o desenvolvimento de sistemas pr&#243;prios de controle de fraude, capazes de processar dezenas de milhares de transa&#231;&#245;es mensais com &#237;ndices de chargeback inferiores &#224; m&#233;dia do setor. Isso trouxe um ensinamento que seria explorado em outros momentos: <strong>quando o uso &#233; frequente, previs&#237;vel e essencial, a transa&#231;&#227;o deixa de ser um evento isolado e passa a sustentar uma rela&#231;&#227;o cont&#237;nua com o cliente.</strong></p><p><strong>H&#225; uma ironia tamb&#233;m em toda essa hist&#243;ria. A l&#243;gica que matou a rede social acabou salvando e resultando na RecargaPay.</strong> O conceito de unbundling surgiu como consequ&#234;ncia direta desses aprendizados. A Fnbox passaria a funcionar como a estrutura que organizava essa multiplicidade de frentes constru&#237;das ao longo dos anos, reunindo neg&#243;cios sociais, telecom, recargas, compras coletivas e outros experimentos digitais que o grupo tinha constru&#237;do at&#233; ent&#227;o, todos operacionais e alguns lucrativos. </p><p>Com o tempo, por&#233;m, ficaria claro que uma dessas frentes atacava um problema grande demais para ser tratada apenas como mais uma vertical. Foi ent&#227;o que o grupo decidiu desligar algumas das opera&#231;&#245;es em sete pa&#237;ses.</p><p>&#201; nesse momento que a disciplina aprendida a duras penas na fase da rede social, fez com que o grupo apostasse mais em frentes que davam lucro, como a recarga, permitindo sustentar o pivot e construir uma fintech dur&#225;vel. <strong>Em outras palavras, se Peter Thiel tivesse entrado como investidor, talvez a rede social tivesse tido mais uma chance, mas n&#227;o havia garantias de que a Sonico se tornaria um vencedor global, e &#233; poss&#237;vel que, nesse cen&#225;rio, a RecargaPay nunca tivesse existido.</strong></p><p>&#201; nesse contexto que o Brasil aparece como uma escolha estrat&#233;gica. Enquanto os Estados Unidos j&#225; mostravam sinais de satura&#231;&#227;o em servi&#231;os digitais, o Brasil combinava alta ado&#231;&#227;o tecnol&#243;gica, forte cultura pr&#233; paga, bancariza&#231;&#227;o baixa e uma quantidade enorme de fric&#231;&#245;es no dia a dia financeiro. Recargas f&#237;sicas, boletos, filas e dinheiro vivo eram rituais do cotidiano do brasileiro. <strong>Para os fundadores, isso era um oceano de inefici&#234;ncias prontas para digitaliza&#231;&#227;o.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czR2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcd6944e-4785-4161-9c06-3aa3b2b50f00_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czR2!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcd6944e-4785-4161-9c06-3aa3b2b50f00_1920x1080.png 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ou acesso flu&#237;do a servi&#231;os financeiros. </strong>Pagavam contas em filas, recarregavam cr&#233;ditos de forma fragmentada e conviviam com pequenas inefici&#234;ncias normalizadas. <strong>A tese era que tudo o que fosse transa&#231;&#227;o f&#237;sica, recorrente, padronizada e previs&#237;vel tenderia a migrar para o digital. </strong>Se aquele pagamento acontece toda semana, todo m&#234;s, por toda a vida, ele se torna o ponto de entrada mais poderoso poss&#237;vel.</p><p>A virada definitiva de Fnbox para RecargaPay aconteceu ent&#227;o porque ali existia uma rela&#231;&#227;o cotidiana entre pessoas e dinheiro que ningu&#233;m estava tratando como deveria. A mudan&#231;a de nome simbolizava exatamente essa transi&#231;&#227;o de forma clara. <strong>N&#227;o se tratava mais de recarga como um produto isolado, mas sim de pagamentos como uma vari&#225;vel que perpetuaria essa rela&#231;&#227;o. </strong>A empresa n&#227;o nasceu tentando substituir o banco, mas sim ocupando um espa&#231;o que o banco n&#227;o havia ainda priorizado. Ao inv&#233;s de come&#231;ar pela conta ou pelo cart&#227;o, ela come&#231;ou pelo pagamento de coisas essenciais para o cotidiano.</p><h1>A tese dos neobanks: por que pagamentos s&#227;o pontos de partida?</h1><p>Durante muito tempo, pagamentos foram tratados como um detalhe a mais na jornada do usu&#225;rio. Bancos os enxergavam como um custo ou como uma etapa intermedi&#225;ria para chegar ao produto &#8220;nobre&#8221;, geralmente o cr&#233;dito. Fintechs mais recentes, por sua vez, muitas vezes repetiram o mesmo erro ao tratar pagamentos como uma feature dentro de um aplicativo maior, algo que ajuda na aquisi&#231;&#227;o, mas n&#227;o define o modelo. O que a trajet&#243;ria da RecargaPay ajuda a mostrar &#233; uma invers&#227;o dessa l&#243;gica. </p><p>Quando se observa com mais proximidade o comportamento financeiro em mercados emergentes, fica evidente o quanto essa miopia custou caro. <strong>Recarga de celular, pagamento de contas, transporte p&#250;blico e pequenos pagamentos recorrentes sempre foram tratados como produtos isolados, cada um com sua experi&#234;ncia fragmentada, canais pr&#243;prios e pouca conectividade entre eles.</strong> Essa fragmenta&#231;&#227;o criou uma falsa sensa&#231;&#227;o de simplicidade, quando na pr&#225;tica escondia uma enorme quantidade de fric&#231;&#227;o.</p><p>A l&#243;gica dos pagamentos recorrentes essenciais muda esse ponto de vista porque parte do comportamento do usu&#225;rio, n&#227;o do produto. N&#227;o importa se o usu&#225;rio est&#225; pagando uma conta de luz, recarregando o celular ou validando o transporte. <strong>O que importa &#233; que ele est&#225; repetindo um mesmo gesto financeiro, com alta frequ&#234;ncia e baixo ticket, ao longo de toda a sua vida adulta. </strong>&#201; nesse tipo de repeti&#231;&#227;o que se constr&#243;i h&#225;bito, confian&#231;a e previsibilidade. <strong>E &#233; exatamente por isso que esses pagamentos funcionam como uma porta de entrada muito mais poderosa para a vida financeira do que produtos mais complexos e espor&#225;dicos.</strong></p><p>Essa leitura ajuda a entender por que pagamentos antecedem cr&#233;dito, dados e at&#233; a identidade financeira. <strong>Antes de algu&#233;m tomar um empr&#233;stimo, investir ou acessar qualquer produto mais sofisticado, essa pessoa j&#225; pagou contas, j&#225; lidou com dinheiro no cotidiano e j&#225; revelou padr&#245;es de comportamento extremamente valiosos</strong>.</p><p>&#201; nesse 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A Square, por exemplo, construiu seu modelo ao resolver pagamentos para pequenos comerciantes antes de expandir para servi&#231;os financeiros mais amplos. A Paytm nasceu em recargas e pagamentos cotidianos na &#205;ndia antes de virar um ecossistema financeiro completo. A Alipay transformou pagamentos digitais em uma camada central da vida econ&#244;mica chinesa muito antes de o usu&#225;rio pensar em banco. <strong>Em todos esses casos, o padr&#227;o se repete. O pagamento vem primeiro, o restante se organiza em torno dele.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mhlp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ac269d4-32dd-4661-8fda-2c0b5840c182_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mhlp!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ac269d4-32dd-4661-8fda-2c0b5840c182_1920x1080.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mhlp!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_848, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, 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Eles n&#227;o se apresentaram inicialmente como plataformas completas, mas como solu&#231;&#245;es simples para problemas espec&#237;ficos e recorrentes. <strong>A sofistica&#231;&#227;o veio com o tempo, impulsionada pelo volume de intera&#231;&#245;es e pela densidade de dados gerados no uso cotidiano.</strong> Esse mesmo movimento pode ser observado na RecargaPay, que come&#231;a resolvendo algo considerado pequeno demais por muitos players tradicionais, mas que na pr&#225;tica concentra uma das maiores oportunidades de relacionamento financeiro cont&#237;nuo.</p><h1>A <em>perfect storm</em> para se criar um neobank em pa&#237;ses emergentes</h1><p>Criar um neobank em pa&#237;s emergente &#233; um trabalho constante de leitura de contexto, justamente porque nesses mercados o usu&#225;rio muitas vezes entra no mundo financeiro digital pela necessidade e pela urg&#234;ncia, e n&#227;o pela conveni&#234;ncia. O Brasil &#233; o exemplo perfeito dessa ambiguidade, j&#225; que combina escala continental, desigualdade, informalidade e um sistema financeiro extremamente avan&#231;ado em meios de pagamento. E essa combina&#231;&#227;o muda completamente a ordem das decis&#245;es.</p><p><strong>A primeira vari&#225;vel &#233; a mais contraintuitiva, porque o pa&#237;s pode ter uma presen&#231;a massiva de smartphones e ainda assim carregar lacunas profundas de acesso banc&#225;rio.</strong> Por exemplo, o Brasil tem 212 milh&#245;es de pessoas e cerca de 260 milh&#245;es de smartphones, mas isso n&#227;o significa que todos tenham cr&#233;dito, limite, relacionamento banc&#225;rio ou produtos que fa&#231;am sentido na vida real.</p><p>A segunda vari&#225;vel &#233; cultural e ela costuma ser subestimada por quem olha mercado emergente de longe. Antes da pandemia, o cash era dominante no Brasil e a pr&#243;pria an&#225;lise do ecossistema destacava n&#227;o s&#243; o volume de transa&#231;&#245;es em dinheiro, mas tamb&#233;m a exist&#234;ncia de dezenas de milh&#245;es de desbancarizados e centenas de bilh&#245;es de reais de poder de compra circulando fora do sistema banc&#225;rio tradicional. <strong>Isso cria um ambiente em que a fric&#231;&#227;o cotidiana &#233; normalizada, filas s&#227;o parte do ritual de pagar contas, e o usu&#225;rio aprende a alternar canais com naturalidade, dinheiro, boleto, cart&#227;o, dependendo do que for poss&#237;vel naquele momento.</strong></p><p>A pandemia contribuiu para digitalizar ainda mais esses servi&#231;os. O Aux&#237;lio Emergencial colocou mais de R$ 300 bilh&#245;es na rua para mais de 68 milh&#245;es de brasileiros por meio de uma conta digital, um movimento que, na teoria, deveria ter empurrado milh&#245;es de pessoas para o digital de forma definitiva. S&#243; que uma parte relevante desse dinheiro voltou para o papel.</p><p>Foi nesse momento que o Pix chegou. Recentemente, mostrei no report &#8220;Um Novo Planeta Chamado Pix&#8221; que o Pix n&#227;o apenas acelerou a digitaliza&#231;&#227;o dos pagamentos, como tamb&#233;m reorganizou os comportamentos sociais. </p><div><hr></div><h5>Leia o report completo &#128071;</h5><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4RnL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18024e20-d7a7-407c-820c-62f9714fc0e8_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4RnL!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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di&#225;rio supera o de cart&#245;es. Dados do Banco Central mostram que o Pix &#233; mais intenso entre jovens adultos de 18 a 39 anos, mas j&#225; apresenta ado&#231;&#227;o consistente entre faixas acima de 50 anos, especialmente para contas, transfer&#234;ncias familiares e recargas. <strong>No caso de recarga e pay-as-you-go, o Pix reduziu a fric&#231;&#227;o, eliminou intermedi&#225;rios e trouxe previsibilidade para quem vive de pequenos valores, permitindo que o saldo de servi&#231;os essenciais fosse tratado quase como extens&#227;o do dinheiro em conta.</strong></p><p>Muitas fintechs tamb&#233;m passaram a usar o Pix como trilho de liquida&#231;&#227;o enquanto acoplavam linhas de cr&#233;dito pessoal, BNPL e at&#233; seguros ao ato de pagar. A RecargaPay &#233; um desses casos. Uma das funcionalidades lan&#231;adas foi o chamado &#8220;Pix Now, Pay Later&#8221;, em que o cliente eleg&#237;vel a um empr&#233;stimo pode realizar um Pix agora e pagar depois. Desde o in&#237;cio da opera&#231;&#227;o do Pix, em novembro de 2020, a fintech tamb&#233;m come&#231;ou a oferecer o Pix com cart&#227;o de cr&#233;dito para uma parcela da base de clientes e, aos poucos, a solu&#231;&#227;o foi estendida para todos os usu&#225;rios. </p><p>Ap&#243;s um ano da cria&#231;&#227;o do sistema de pagamentos instant&#226;neos, em novembro de 2020, a empresa viu quadruplicar a quantidade de clientes usando a tecnologia. <strong>Os principais usos estavam concentrados em pagamento de contas, recargas de celular ou cart&#227;o de transporte, e transfer&#234;ncias entre pessoas.</strong> <strong>O cash-in via Pix na plataforma, que representava 61% nos primeiros tr&#234;s meses, em 2022 correspondia a mais de 85% do cash-in na conta do usu&#225;rio. </strong></p><div><hr></div><p><em>Se voc&#234; est&#225; gostando desta edi&#231;&#227;o, compartilhe com um amigo. Isso ajudar&#225; a espalhar a mensagem e me permitir&#225; continuar oferecendo conte&#250;do de qualidade de forma gratuita.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/p/135-ptbr?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTI0MjE3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTk4ODA5MTMsImlhdCI6MTc0NDM0MTc0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2OTMzNzQ4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzU4MDMzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BldeqjIMPhnF9_SU94qqrrpAEwfRh673QMflKLsK5Vk&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/p/135-ptbr?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTI0MjE3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTk4ODA5MTMsImlhdCI6MTc0NDM0MTc0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2OTMzNzQ4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzU4MDMzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BldeqjIMPhnF9_SU94qqrrpAEwfRh673QMflKLsK5Vk"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>Um ecossistema baseado em recarga, pagamento e cr&#233;dito</h1><p>A constru&#231;&#227;o do ecossistema da RecargaPay nasceu como resposta natural do crescimento da empresa. Quando consideramos a linha do tempo que a pr&#243;pria companhia conta, ela come&#231;a com neg&#243;cios digitais fora do &#8220;banco&#8221;, passa por recargas, migra para o foco total no Brasil e, s&#243; depois, incorpora cr&#233;dito, Pix e os componentes que hoje fazem o app parecer um superapp. <strong>Ou seja, fica claro que a plataforma n&#227;o nasceu tentando ser um banco, mas foi se tornando um banco conforme organizava os pagamentos do cotidiano.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4l8B!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37847a62-a22f-4dfe-adc3-7905ec3b2353_1920x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4l8B!, /__u/wfintechs.substack.com/w_424, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>O primeiro degrau, e talvez o mais subestimado, foi de ter a wallet como um hub. <strong>Em mercados emergentes, a conta digital n&#227;o &#233; apenas um local para manter o dinheiro, mas tamb&#233;m acaba se tornando um mecanismo de coordena&#231;&#227;o de necessidades recorrentes, porque o usu&#225;rio n&#227;o quer navegar por diferentes experi&#234;ncias banc&#225;rias para resolver coisas simples. </strong>A RecargaPay conseguiu capturar isso bem, fazendo com que o aplicativo seja para pagar, investir, financiar e ganhar dinheiro de forma simples e segura. A conta digital com rendimento di&#225;rio foi um outro tra&#231;o dessa consolida&#231;&#227;o de estrat&#233;gia de ser mais que uma conta.</p><p>A segunda camada &#233; o conjunto de pagamentos essenciais que geram frequ&#234;ncia transacional real. Recarga de celular &#233; o caso cl&#225;ssico, mas a expans&#227;o para pagamento de contas, boletos, transporte e gift cards &#233; o que transformou uma utilidade pontual em outros diversos comportamentos. <strong>A tese por tr&#225;s &#233; a de &#8220;built in frequent payment experiences&#8221;, onde o objetivo n&#227;o &#233; fazer o usu&#225;rio abrir o aplicativo para &#8220;ver o banco&#8221;, mas sim para resolver a sua vida financeira. </strong></p><p>Tudo isso converge para uma l&#243;gica B2C e B2B2C ao mesmo tempo. A RecargaPay come&#231;a resolvendo a vida do consumidor, mas aos poucos tamb&#233;m criou ferramentas e trilhos para pequenos neg&#243;cios, seja com o Tap to Pay, conta PJ e links de pagamento.. A cada pequeno comerciante que passa a aceitar pagamentos pelo celular, o ecossistema ganha mais pontos de contato e o consumidor encontra mais lugares onde o aplicativo faz sentido.</p><p>Em 2024, a RecargaPay bateu 10 milh&#245;es de usu&#225;rios e processou R$ 24,4 bilh&#245;es em volume total de transa&#231;&#245;es. Acredito que aqui esteja a vantagem competitiva de um ecossistema, justamente na capacidade de ser indispens&#225;vel para os momentos que realmente importam. <strong>No caso da RecargaPay, o que sustenta essa vantagem n&#227;o &#233; o ac&#250;mulo de produtos isolados, mas a frequ&#234;ncia com que a plataforma entra na vida do usu&#225;rio de forma natural. A frequ&#234;ncia acaba sendo o cora&#231;&#227;o da tese da RecargaPay porque, ao contr&#225;rio de produtos financeiros que s&#227;o acionados s&#243; em momentos espec&#237;ficos, como cr&#233;dito ou investimento, pagamentos essenciais acontecem todos os dias e em todos os ciclos econ&#244;micos.</strong> </p><h1>A maior li&#231;&#227;o da RecargaPay</h1><p>A hist&#243;ria da RecargaPay ajuda a esclarecer uma tese comum entre alguns neobanks, mas pouco difundida: <strong>o pagamento &#233; o primeiro idioma financeiro que qualquer pessoa aprende.</strong> Antes de entender juros, limite ou o pr&#243;prio score, todo usu&#225;rio aprende a pagar contas, recarregar servi&#231;os e transferir dinheiro para resolver necessidades imediatas. <strong>Quando um neobank se posiciona nesse ponto inicial da jornada, ele passa a acompanhar a vida financeira acontecendo em tempo real, e n&#227;o apenas quando o usu&#225;rio procura cr&#233;dito.</strong></p><p>Enquanto estudava sobre a empresa, e tamb&#233;m nas conversas que tive com alguns executivos e funcion&#225;rios da RecargaPay, ficaram claras algumas li&#231;&#245;es que a companhia carrega ao longo de mais de duas d&#233;cadas de trajet&#243;ria, da Fnbox &#224; RecargaPay.</p><p>A primeira dessas li&#231;&#245;es &#233; que a empresa foi constru&#237;da antes do &#8220;manual startup&#8221; existir, o que moldou uma cultura profundamente orientada a efici&#234;ncia operacional, dados e sobreviv&#234;ncia de longo prazo. O neg&#243;cio n&#227;o nasceu como uma fintech desde o inicio, nem como promessa de disrup&#231;&#227;o financeira, mas como arbitragem tecnol&#243;gica em telecom e depois como digitaliza&#231;&#227;o de transa&#231;&#245;es recorrentes. <strong>Essa origem explica por que a RecargaPay sempre tratou pagamentos como rela&#231;&#227;o cont&#237;nua e n&#227;o como um produto isolado, e por que decis&#245;es estruturais, como piv&#244;s longos e desligamento de opera&#231;&#245;es, foram guiadas por crit&#233;rios frios de custo, margem e viabilidade.</strong></p><p>Com o tempo, essa disciplina se traduz em vantagens competitivas claras. A experi&#234;ncia de escalar cedo demais com a Sonico ensinou que a tra&#231;&#227;o sem sustentabilidade consome caixa e energia. <strong>Foi ai que os fundadores logo perceberam que a resposta n&#227;o era desacelerar a ambi&#231;&#227;o, mas sim comprimi-la operacionalmente e buscar melhorar a efici&#234;ncia operacional. </strong></p><p>Outro ensinamento importante aparece na forma como a empresa trata tecnologia e intelig&#234;ncia artificial. A IA est&#225; presente em diferentes frentes do neg&#243;cio da RecargaPay, na preven&#231;&#227;o a fraudes, na an&#225;lise de risco, no atendimento, na automa&#231;&#227;o regulat&#243;ria e na produtividade interna.  O piloto de automa&#231;&#227;o de an&#225;lise de PLD no onboarding ilustra bem isso: em poucos meses, a empresa reduziu cerca de 90% do trabalho operacional, automatizando decis&#245;es que antes dependiam de horas de an&#225;lise manual, sem inflar equipes e mantendo o controle regulat&#243;rio necess&#225;rio.</p><p>Essa combina&#231;&#227;o de decis&#245;es explica por que a RecargaPay nunca perseguiu o crescimento pelo crescimento. <strong>A empresa aprendeu cedo que frequ&#234;ncia vale mais do que um volume pontual e que relacionamento se constr&#243;i no uso repetido de funcionalidades b&#225;sicas, mas essenciais.</strong> Ao priorizar pagamentos recorrentes e essenciais, a companhia passou a observar o comportamento financeiro acontecendo em tempo real. O resultado &#233; um modelo que aprende com o usu&#225;rio antes de tentar monetiz&#225;-lo de forma mais profunda. <strong>A maior li&#231;&#227;o da RecargaPay que fica &#233; a de entender que se tornar indispens&#225;vel no cotidiano do cliente &#233; a melhor forma de escalar um neg&#243;cio.</strong></p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Sa&#250;de e paz,</strong></p><p><em>Walter Pereira</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share W Fintechs Newsletter&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/wfintechs.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share W Fintechs Newsletter</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>Disclaimer</strong></em><strong>:</strong> As opini&#245;es expressas aqui s&#227;o de total responsabilidade do autor, Walter Pereira, e n&#227;o refletem necessariamente as opini&#245;es dos patrocinadores, parceiros ou clientes da <em>W Fintechs.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>