Inside MERGE São Paulo: On-the-Ground Coverage from BeInCrypto
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São Paulo delivered the conversations. The city itself, less so. As an official media partner, BeInCrypto was on the ground for all of it. Our LATAM Team Lead, Luis Magalhães, led our presence at the event, conducting exclusive interviews, joining panel discussions, and ensuring our audience across Portuguese, Spanish, and global platforms had full access to the conversations shaping the region’s crypto landscape. Here is what the week looked like from where we were standing. What Stood Out on the Floor MERGE São Paulo drew a crowd that is genuinely hard to find at most conferences in this space. The people in the room were builders, operators, and capital allocators who had done the reading and put in the hours. No wristband queue stretching around the block. No shouting over a DJ at 2 p.m. just to exchange a business card. What gave the event its edge on a packed conference calendar was the company mix. Regulated institutions, self-custody infrastructure companies, and fintechs processing real payment volume, all in the same room, conversing and bouncing off of ideas. Which makes the crossover even more rare, and Brazil needs more of it. The event was also the right size. Big enough to feel significant and small enough to run into the same interesting person three times in a day. On-Ground Leadership and Exclusive Interviews BeInCrypto conducted exclusive interviews with key figures across traditional finance, decentralized infrastructure, and fintech, including: Stijn Vander Straeten, CEO at Crypto Finance. Check out the exclusive interview here. André Portilho, Head of Digital Assets at BTG Pactual. Check out the exclusive interview here. On the Panel Stage Beyond the interviews, Luis also took the stage as a moderator at the event’s invitation-only Institutional Summit. There, he led the panel ‘Stablecoins in Practice: Real-World Use Cases Across Brazil’s…
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