Santiago Roel Santos, the Founder and CEO of Inversion Capital, specializes in merging blockchain with traditional business models. He shares insights on how blockchain technology is set to revolutionize every industry, much like the internet did. Santiago explores the benefits of tokenization and stablecoins in reducing costs and enhancing transparency. He emphasizes the urgency for businesses to embrace this change, as ignoring it could mean getting left behind in an evolving financial landscape.
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From JP Morgan To Early Bitcoin Investor
Santiago started in JP Morgan's investment bank and first invested in Bitcoin when it was about $50.
His frustration with cross-border friction and remittance fees motivated his early crypto bets and later fund strategy.
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Make Tech Stacks Profitable With OnâChain Settlement
Turn legacy tech stacks from cost centers into profit centers by retrofitting blockchain settlement and tokenization.
Santiago's fund, Inversion, acquires companies and captures transaction flow by owning both the business and its settlement infrastructure.
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Blockspace Is Cheap; Demand Is The Constraint
Infrastructure (blockspace) is increasingly commoditized and easy to deploy, but demand â real enterprise transactions â remains the bottleneck.
Santiago warns many chains are like empty highways without cars; adoption and real use cases matter more than launching chains.
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Blockchain technology is no longer just hype. Corporations are now adopting this technology, and Santiago Roel Santos, founder & CEO of Inversion, argues that every business will use blockchain technology over the next 25 years, in much the same way every business eventually adopted the internet.
In this interview with CoinFundâs Chris Perkins, Santiago breaks down blockchainâs real impact: reducing friction in financial systems, lowering costs, improving transparency, and reshaping how businesses move money. From payments and stablecoins to private equity, infrastructure, and capital markets, this technology is gradually becoming the internet's settlement layer. This secular trend now set in motion is bigger than simply âcrypto winning.âItâs about financial infrastructure evolving and why businesses that ignore it risk being left behind.
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Chapters:
0:55 - Santiagoâs Career Background & What Inversion Is
8:27 - Why Did Inversion Choose Avalanche?
10:46 - Bringing Legacy Businesses into the Blockchain World
15:09 - Every Business Will Soon Be Using Blockchain Technology
17:40 - â Wealthion Golden Nugget: How Crypto Can Change Investor Access to Private Markets
23:44 - Is the Internet Going to Be Run by Dollars?
25:35 - Underwriting Crypto: Where Real and Sustainable Adoption Starts
34:18 - Why Decentralization Should Be Thought of As a Spectrum
38:18 - Will Valuations Soon Need to Matter to Crypto?
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