How Stablecoins Are Saving the US Dollar

Central banks face an impossible choice: adopt stablecoins or lose sovereignty over their own currencies.

Bernardo Brites, Founder and CEO of Trace Finance, has built the stablecoin infrastructure backbone for cross-border payments across Brazil and Latin America. He's processing $11 billion in annualized volume for Amazon, Uber, Spotify, Nintendo, and the region's largest payment processors. And he just turned down a major acquisition offer.

In this conversation, Bernardo lays out the institutional case for why stablecoins aren't a crypto novelty - they're the mechanism through which the US dollar crystallizes its dominance and the central bank system preserves the dollar as the global reserve currency. Without them, the dollar loses that status within decades.

He explains why 2025 was the year stablecoins went mainstream, why 2026 is when major companies use stablecoins as their primary payment rail, and why he rejected a life-changing exit to bet everything on launching the world's largest emerging markets stablecoin: the Brazilian Real.

Not crypto maximalism. Geopolitics.

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