🌴ETH Rio Day 2-3 Recap + CZ's Surprise Visit

Hello friends,

I spun up Brazil Crypto Report almost a year ago now with the thesis that Brazil was easily the most overlooked crypto market in the world.

However, after last few days I’m not sure that my thesis holds water anymore. ETH Rio, which was topped off by a surprise appearance from Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, has put Brazil on the global crypto map for good.

Ethereum.Rio | 11-20 March 2022 Rio de Janeiro @EthereumRio

Nosso convidado especial de hoje foi o CZ, ele está visitando o Rio de Janeiro e trabalhando em projetos para o Brasil 🇧🇷 Our special guest today was…@cz_binance ! He is in Rio working on exciting things for Brazil @ChicaoBulhoes / @eduardopaes #Binance  #ethereumrio

CZ 🔶 Binance @cz_binance

Was just at the ETH Rio conference. The energy level, the enthusiasm…

Importantly, CZ announced plans to acquire banks and payment processors in Brazil. I’ll dive into this news in more depth in my weekly recap, but there is really no way to understate the importance of this development.

If you missed any of the content, the Twitch streams can be found here.

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Top Moments

Here’s a snippet of some of the content and experiential highlights from days 2-3, per Brian from Bankless Brasil.

1. Corina Dolghier’s packed lecture discussing the dissolution of the Maker Foundation and transition to becoming a true DAO.

   

2. The DAOs and Governance Experience panel featuring Corina Dolghier, Angela Ocando of Platzi, Jose Couto from Harmony and Valeriya Minaeva from 1inch

   

3. David Tarditi from CertiK’s lecture on common code vulnerabilities

4. Tons of content and experiences aimed at building the Latina crypto community

   Camila Russo @CamiRusso

   👸this is crypto 🇧🇷🇨🇱🇦🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸🇨🇴 #ethrio

   

5. The final day was introductory Portuguese language content aimed at giving local residents the tools to participate in this new economy. Super cool initiative.

   Conor Brady @Conordb

   Last day in the museum today. #EthereumRio2022 open day (blockchain 101 em português) to help locals understand this amazing experiment that we are living. Friday to Sunday is the #Hackathon for the city of #riodejaneiro

   

Afterparty scene

So many contenders here it would be impossible to rank, so here we go in no particular order.

1. Lemon and MakerDAO threw a rager

   Lemon Brasil @lemonapp_br

   Mais alguem pilhado como nós com a Lemon chegando no Brasil? 🤩🔥 #TheLemonMaker ao vivo 👇 @MakerDAO

2. The FTX, DaoMaker and Transfero party atop Sugarloaf Mountain

   Natnet (📍, Crypto de Janeiro) @daonatnet

   Crypto de Janeiro Sunset view from Sugarloaf, need to provide name and company, after 6pm first come first… See you friends! ❤️😈 @TheDaoMaker @ftx_app @transferogroup #ethrio

   

   

3. The official event closing party wasn’t too shabby either

   Ethereum.Rio | 11-20 March 2022 Rio de Janeiro @EthereumRio

   This is how we roll at #ethereumrio - main event closing party

4. CeloLaunch hosted a very on-brand and FOMO-inducing Samba school happy hour. I’ve been to a lot of crypto conferences in my day but never seen anything quite like this

   Ethereum.Rio | 11-20 March 2022 Rio de Janeiro @EthereumRio

   When in Rio…learn Samba dance 💃 Today at 5:30PM @CeloLaunch is hosting a Happy Hour 🍻 with Beija-Flor Samba School ✨ Location: Museu do Amanha

   

That’s all for now folks. Stay tuned as I’ll be sending out my weekly news recap later this week.

Thanks for reading,

- Aaron

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