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Episode #159: The Latam <-> Asia Stablecoin Corridor with Reap co-founder Daren Guo
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- Brazil Crypto Report
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- Aug 3, 2025
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- 2533
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🙌 Friendly reminder that you can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Olá pessoal! Our guest for this week is Daren Guo, co-founder of Reap, a Hong Kong-based fintech. We discuss Reap’s role as a payments infrastructure provider focused on connecting Asia and other emerging markets like Brazil and Latin America. Drawing from his experience as an early Stripe employee who helped scale the company from 90 to 2,000 employees, Daren outlined Reap’s vision for creating accessible, internet-native financial infrastructure powered by stablecoins. The Problem: Financial Access Inequality Daren highlighted a fundamental challenge for businesses and individuals in emerging markets: accessing stable, USD-denominated financial services. As we’ve explored on this show in depth, he notes that traditional cross-border payment systems are plagued by inefficiencies — as Guo noted: "I can fly to Brazil before my money lands there." This reality creates significant barriers for businesses operating across borders, particularly in the Global South where corresponding banking networks are often unreliable and costly. Reap’s Solution: Three-Pillar Approach Reap addresses these challenges through a comprehensive stablecoin-native infrastructure that supports three core product lines: * White-labeled stablecoin card-as-a-service platform for modern neobanks to issue stablecoin-backed cards * Cross-border payments platform enabling trade financing and import-export operations with multi-currency payouts * Financial operations platform connecting stablecoin treasury to business expenses through corporate cards and bill payments Strategic Advantages in Asia Operating out of H…