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Inversion's Vision for Real-World Crypto w/ Santiago Roel Santos

12/9/2025 • 51 min

In this episode, Austin chats with Santiago Roel Santos, founder of Inversion, discussing why crypto has struggled to reach mainstream adoption and what it will take to change that. Santiago explains how Inversion applies a private-equity-style model to deploy capital into real-world use cases, rather than chasing speculative cycles. He outlines why stablecoins … Play episode

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