On holidays, it’s always good to think about the future. Imagine I send a payment to someone in Europe. Days later, that person travels to the United States and hires a service from a company operating in India. The funds I sent were used there, to pay for something elsewhere — crossing continents, time zones, and legal systems.
The question is: where, exactly, did this financial transaction “happen”?
This kind of scenario, increasingly common, highlights a transformation in progress: money is losing its geographic anchor. With interoperable digital infrastructures and tokenized assets, the traditional logic of jurisdiction begins to give way to a logic based on identity, purpose, and programmed rules.
Whereas before it was possible to say a transaction was “Brazilian” or “foreign” based on the sender and receiver, this becomes increasingly difficult when value is transferred via tokens that carry with them metadata, contractual clauses, and identity links. The payment becomes less a transfer of value and more a message with embedded instructions.
In this new context, there arises a need to rethink not only the payment infrastructure, but also the regulatory pillars. Who performs the KYC? Where does compliance apply? Which jurisdiction oversees the final use of the funds? The destination of the funds matters less than the context and the rules of the contract that transports them.
This is where DREX comes in: by offering a programmable, auditable, and interoperable base, it can enable Brazil to participate in a new global financial architecture — in which tokens can circulate around the world with security, traceability, and embedded logic. Not as an exception, but as the standard.
We are facing a future in which international remittances, foreign exchange, and global payments will be reconfigured by public digital infrastructure. A future in which trust ceases to be a checkpoint and becomes part of the very code.