Bernardo Brites

Enabling Enterprises to move $15Bn+ globally

CEO Trace Finance
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[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Trace Finance (@FinanceTrace) won the Grand Prix at the 2026 Money Awards on the @money2020 USA main stage on Sunday night. Proud is an understatement.

41 judges from J.P. Morgan, Citi, ING and U.S. Bank. One thesis: stablecoins plus regulated banks. https://t.co/AR135O0Kmy

[CrossTech @crosstech_]

@bebrites Co-founder & CEO of @FinanceTrace joins #CrossTechWorld2026 for “The Ramp Decision,” exploring how to choose the right on-ramp, off-ramp and liquidity partner.

📍Miami | Nov 16–19

Join us and be part o f the conversation
https://t.co/FBHv2czxts

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

@money2020 Book a meeting with the Trace Finance team at Money20/20: https://t.co/Lv5dhvxUVE

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Nine of us from @tracefinance are at @money2020 in Las Vegas this week, October 18 to 21.

If you are building payments, treasury or payouts into Latin America, come find us. Regulated stablecoin rails, BRL to USD in minutes, 24/7.

Booking link in the reply.

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

@tracefinance @openstandard Congrats @zcabrams and @benhoneill on shipping OUSD. Proud to build alongside you.

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Day two of $OUSD and it's already at $668,459,421 in total supply. Proud that @tracefinance is a launch partner. Over 200 partners, from banks to fintechs, behind one open dollar: this is what stablecoin scale looks like. Congrats @openstandard. https://t.co/985eqznX5v

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Brazil is #1 in @chainalysis's 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index, ahead of the US.

#2 in cross-border flows. A $252.5B crypto economy. LatAm growth driven by stablecoins.

@tracefinance is spearheading it: $15B+ moved on our rails. Much more to come.

https://t.co/wPCHoMCQqh

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Crypto's breadth beats the S&P 500's. But this rally is running on ETFs, not stablecoins, and that matters.

If stablecoin supply grows again, the base is solid. If ETFs remain the only engine, it is vulnerable.

My take in @CoinDesk, via @godbole17: https://t.co/sbEntBe8mE

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

@psneville Huge! Major milestone for @catena_labs

[Einar Braathen @einar_hb]

Always astounding how Trace keeps pushing the envelope of global payment rails

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Trace Finance is a @money2020 Money Awards finalist in two categories: Payments & Commerce and Infrastructure.

Regulated rails for stablecoins, built for emerging markets. Winners announced live in Las Vegas on October 18.

Proud of this team.

https://t.co/ZcmSOR9Wtj

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Great to see @tracefinance recognized as one of the leading stablecoin companies in the US, on the US Stablecoin Ecosystem Map 2026 by Chiara Munaretto (@stablecoininfo) and @notabene_id.

40+ companies, 8 categories. We are in on and off ramps.

Much more to come.

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

The CLARITY Act failed in the Senate. A huge setback for our industry, not a fatal one.

Without a clear SEC/CFTC line, founders keep operating on hope instead of rules, and institutional volume stays sidelined.

Talking to @murtuza_merc for https://t.co/hpY1HejbtF:

[Murtuza J Merchant @murtuza_merc]

The CLARITY Act stalling in the Senate is not a hit to crypto natives, it is a penalty on TradFi.

Prediction markets called it early, tanking odds from 90% to 18%. Degens and offshore desks trade through regulatory gray zones regardless. The actual casualties are traditional banks that need a legal permission slip before committing balance sheet capital.

Without a clear CFTC line, institutional volume stays sidelined and RWA secondary liquidity stays broken. US politics does not freeze global crypto, it just hands market share to Singapore and the UAE.

https://t.co/7CgZ7oOvoE

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Wrote in @DecryptMedia that stablecoins won't scale without banks. Judging by my inbox since it ran, the market agrees: banks, payment companies and global enterprises are all figuring out stablecoin flows.

Need banking infrastructure behind yours? Happy to chat. DMs open.

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Cross-border payments: $208T a year.
Stablecoins settle ~$390B of it.

The bottleneck is not the chain. It's the banking layer on both ends.

I wrote about why stablecoins won't scale without banks for @decryptmedia.

https://t.co/ZM8ZcbK3BL

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

It was a pleasure chatting with @SteveCleanBrook on @theindexshow!

[The Index Podcast @theindexshow]

🎙️ New episode! @bebrites (Trace Finance) joins @SteveCleanBrook to break down how $10B+ in cross-border payments proved stablecoins + real bank rails beat stablecoins alone.

Catch the convo!

[CoinFund @coinfund]

Catch @flex4blox at @TheTieIO's Out East Summit next week, where he'll join a panel covering one of the industry's current tensions: Should blockchain builders be optimizing for mass adoption or for the institutional capital that could bring in the next trillion dollars?

[CoinFund @coinfund]

.@pakman for @TheBlockCo 💪

Thank you, @gazza_jenks, for having us on! Watch the full pod here: https://t.co/jgzbq0aLKv

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

Great to be alongside @alvin_kan from @BitgetWallet, @OneRajkamal from @getTransFi sharing more on the latest

[Bernardo Brites @bebrites]

@Forbes @sobradob Wrote an amazing piece covering Trace Finance's Series A, why the infrastructurwe matters and what's happening in Emerging Markets https://t.co/2W4bMhR0qE