Mychel Mendes
🇧🇷Brazil· Lago Sul,
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Mychel Mendes is the founder of Tokeniza, a Web3 infrastructure platform connecting real-world Brazilian assets, real estate, court-ordered payment credits, and agribusiness, to global markets on-chain. Alongside building Tokeniza, he runs a Portuguese-language YouTube channel with around 98,500 subscribers and more than 1,750 videos since 2017, focused on the practical side of being a Brazilian crypto investor: blockchain project deep dives, market commentary, and tutorials.
The channel's clearest differentiator is its recurring focus on Brazilian crypto income-tax compliance, including an annual Guia Imposto Cripto explainer that ships each tax season, a rarer angle than typical market-call content. He also hosts a dedicated talk-show format, Token Show com Mychel Mendes, bringing in expert guests for longer-form discussion. The editorial framing consistently emphasizes independent research and due diligence before investing, placing the brand in the responsible-educator camp rather than the high-leverage signal-caller camp.
Interview
How did Tokeniza come together, and what got you from ten years in accounting and fintech to building an RWA platform?
Tokeniza was born in November 2022, but the seed came earlier. I spent over 10 years in accounting and fintechs, and at Blue Consult, our crypto-specialized accounting firm, I saw both sides of the market. On one side, high-yield real assets like real estate, agribusiness and receivables, performing great but restricted to a small elite of investors. On the other, the average investor stuck in savings accounts and bank products that lose to inflation. I like to say the bank hands you the crumbs and keeps the picanha, our best cut of beef, for the few. When Brazil's securities regulator CVM created Resolution 88, we saw the path to fix this the right way: with regulation. We got our CVM authorization in May 2023, and today we have 130+ RWA operations, R$ 25 million raised and R$ 12 million paid back in dividends, with zero defaults.
Of the asset classes you tokenize, real estate, agribusiness, court-ordered credits, which is hardest to structure and why?
Court-ordered credits, no contest. Real estate has physical collateral and mature valuation. Agribusiness has a well-known production chain. A court-ordered credit is a claim against the government: the legal due diligence is heavy, the payment timeline is unpredictable, and pricing it fairly for the investor takes serious rigor. The lesson applies to everything: tokenization doesn't fix a bad asset. We've walked away from deals after due diligence found inflated valuations with no independent appraisal. The token is just the wrapper. The hard work is in the asset.
Could an RWA asset class work in a trading-tournament format?
I think so, but with a different format. RWA is not a day-trade asset, it's a fundamentals and yield asset. A "who flips faster" competition makes no sense with real estate or receivables. Now, an allocation competition, like who builds the best RWA portfolio on risk-adjusted return over months, would be excellent for the market. It would educate investors, give visibility to the secondary market and show that real, consistent yield beats speculation over the long run.
