Blockchain Papers

Harley Pacheco de Sousa

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Harley Pacheco de Sousa

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Tiago Ferreira Cavazin

O estudo analisa o cenário de investimento no ecossistema de startups Web3 entre os anos de 2024 e 2025, identificando um processo de maturação e consolidação setorial. Observa-se a transição de um modelo de financiamento especulativo para uma abordagem estratégica, com foco em infraestrutura crítica e modelos de negócio sustentáveis. Embora os dados apontem uma redução quantitativa no volume de transações — exemplificada pela queda de 34% no primeiro trimestre de 2025 em comparação ao período anterior —, constata-se um aumento no valor médio por investimento. Conclui-se que o mercado atravessa uma fase de ajuste pós-volatilidade, na qual a sofisticação dos investidores prioriza a robustez tecnológica e a viabilidade comercial de longo prazo em detrimento do volume de operações.<br>

Ricardo Bruno Boff

Regional banks emerged around the 1960s with the mission of contributing to the development and integration of Latin America, primarily through the financing of infrastructure projects, essential to the region's industrialization and trade flows.In 2000, the South American Regional Integration Initiative (IIRSA) was created, under whose Secretariat the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), and FONPLATA -Development Bank -began working together to promote territorial planning and find financing solutions.Even with the dissolution of IIRSA, resulting from the paralysis of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) starting in 2017, the coordinated action of the three banks continued, through initiatives such as the Alliance for the Integration and Development of Latin America and the Caribbean (ILAT), the Sucre Declaration, and the "South American Integration Routes," demonstrating the resilience of infrastructure integration in the face of political change.Therefore, the overall objective of this thesis was to analyze the contribution of the development banks IDB, CAF, and FONPLATA to building regional infrastructure integration in South America.The methodology involved identifying integration models and operational concepts under which these banks operate; identifying the specific problems of Latin American regional infrastructure and its financing; and analyzing the performance of IDB, CAF, and FONPLATA both individually, focusing on documents, projects, and institutional structures focused on integration, and collectively, from the emergence of IIRSA to the Integration Routes.It was found that, despite the current general crisis in Latin American regionalism, both intellectual and institutional, the three banks are at the center of building a governance system for financing regional infrastructure in South America.However, they have shifted from a model centralized in IIRSA to one, after the end of this Initiative, focused on decentralized cooperation.

Eduardo Maia

The novelty of the subject and the small amount of publicity outside specialized circles turn non-fungible tokens (NFTs) something that is still mysterious and lacks materiality. In response to the question: "What are NFTs?", we will characterize them as digitally created assets that can represent virtual or non-virtual objects, which are registered on a blockchain, traded using cryptocurrencies and protected using cryptography. The research is linked to a class perspective, as an intellectual effort to confront and defend the overcoming of the capitalist order, inserting itself into the gaps in content and approach on the subject. The aim is to make a contribution to the existing knowledge that also take on the perspective of the working class in order to think about a diferente sociability from the current one. It is, therefore, necessary to analyze NFTs within capitalist sociability, as an object that arose in a specific context, under specific conditions and with underlying political-ideological values. The effort to understand specific contemporary phenomena can reveal clues that help us understand the capitalist system as a whole. In other words, NFTs offer an opportune way of shedding light on contemporary capitalism through the articulation between recent technological development and the theoretical tradition begun by Marx. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the links between new technologies, fetishism, alienation, and capitalist ideology, based on the phenomenon of NFTs. In this process, critical reflections on the categories of fetishism, alienation and ideology will be developed in order to understand the process by which NFTs, as an example of new technology, correspond to a fetish and thus contribute to the reproduction of capitalist ideology. As a working hypothesis, we sought to verify whether, and if so, how technologies that present themselves as revolutionary within the capitalist framework conform to capitalist society by exacerbating dominant social relations and contributing to the reproduction of its ideology, based on the case of NFTs. To this end, a bibliographical research was carried out, fulfilling the objectives of substantiating the object and positioning the research critically against current views. The scheme of successive readings, from exploratory to interpretative readings, met the need to discuss the subject critically and interpret it from our position and purpose. The theoretical framework was based on the Marxist tradition, taking up classic categories and authors and articulating them with contemporary authors. Through this process, the ways in which NFTs contribute to the reproduction of capitalist society were identified. Their discursive role and their role in propagating capitalist values go alongside the functions of enabling channels for capital appreciation and as a means of commodifying previously non-marketable objects. NFTs are both a reflection of the capitalist mode and an element that reinforces its logic, constituting fetishes.