

How Stablecoins and DePIN Will Disrupt Everything with Santiago Santos
Avalanche Summit Experience
- Santiago shares his experience at Avalanche summits and how serious builders set it apart.
- He values the quality of the team and the serious innovation happening there.
Crypto Public Companies Outperform
- Public companies using crypto outperform crypto tokens due to better distribution.
- Stablecoin companies like Circle show clear, clean investment stories for traditional investors.
How Stablecoins and DePIN Are Revolutionizing Real-World Infrastructure and Finance
Stablecoins are set to merge checking, savings, and money markets into a seamless, programmable financial solution, transforming traditional banking.
DePIN networks like HiveMapper and Helium provide reliable, community-owned data and infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of legacy providers, attracting real demand from Fortune 500 companies.
Crypto-enabled business transformations are enabling companies to cut costs and improve efficiency far beyond AI alone, showing profound near- and medium-term impacts.
This shift is attracting serious institutional interest, with traditional finance professionals joining crypto startups and recognizing the industry's maturation.
Tokenomics remain a challenge but can be restructured as demand grows, transitioning from earlier flawed models to sustainable ones powered by real use cases and adoption.