Regulation, education, careers, community — on Blockchain.RIO's second and last day, women shaping digital finance turned big ideas into something people and businesses could actually work with.

Blockchain.RIO wrapped up its 2026 main event at ExpoRio on Thursday, August 13. Opening day set out the scale of Brazil's ambitions in digital finance.

The closing day, in turn, focused on how we're getting there. That said, it was about establishing clearer rules, products people can actually use, wider access, and the skills participation will require.

This thread ran through the whole official programme, with women bringing backgrounds spanning from law to education, AI and entrepreneurship into nearly every session.

Women Shaping Digital Finance: Regulation and Access

On the Main Stage, Tatiana Guazzelli, partner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados, joined the panel Regulação e Liquidez, moderated by journalist Aline Fernandes.

Guazzelli argued that Brazil's next steps should include specific legislation for stablecoins and clearer protections separating clients' assets from those of service providers. Together, she said, these would give investors and businesses something solid to stand on as they enter the market.

Regulation also opened the Criptorama programme, with ABCripto president Julia Rosin leading a session on the regulatory agenda for the crypto economy. Her message throughout the event centred on dialogue.

As reported by Cointelegraph Brasil, Rosin also sees education as the real starting point for better regulation, and she thinks the next few years will decide a lot for the industry.

That focus on making innovation understandable appeared elsewhere during the day. Antônia Souza, Visa's director of Digital Currencies for Latin America and the Caribbean, discussed the new generation of virtual-asset products.

For her part, Amanda Blum, legal director and head of strategy at Crown, dug into a thornier question: should stablecoins keep their current classification as virtual assets, or do they need their own category?

It turned out to be a version of the same question that kept coming up all day. Who are we building the product for?

Exame's coverage picked up on this too — tokenisation only takes off once its benefits are explained in plain terms, and once the room includes more than just the big financial institutions.

Careers, Education, and What Comes Next

Women also helped connect the financial agenda with professional opportunity.

Thaís Almeida of Contiliza Contabilidade and Lia Susin of Nium joined a session on careers created by the meeting of traditional finance and digital assets.

Later, Gabriela Trevisan and Nathalia Rodrigues of Nomad discussed Brazil's potential as an international financial hub.

Some of the day's warmest conversations moved beyond finance altogether. Two Sesc RJ panels featured entirely female line-ups.

Carol Santos (educator), Luisa Fosco (programme coordinator) and Amanda Cristina Doria (education specialist) explored how blockchain could support certification and more transparent learning.

Santos later joined Alessandra Caldeira and Isabel Mesquita to discuss Web3 communities and new forms of collaborative education.

The event's social side got another boost from the Blockchain Impact Summit, built with UNICEF Brazil, which put inclusion, education and youth opportunity right alongside the rest of the institutional agenda.

Conclusion

Blockchain.RIO's final day showed that women are working hard across the full journey of innovation.

They shape the rules, design the products, build trust and help more people understand where they might fit. That made their presence feel connected to what comes next.

Drofa Comms keeps a close eye on where women are moving fintech forward in our Women Leading the Way project.

Blockchain.RIO is just one stop, as more coverage is coming, so stay tuned.