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Santiago Velez is a Co-Founder and R&D Division Lead at Block Digital.
He discusses topics including security tokenization, STOs, decentralized finance, and blockchain interoperability within the digital assets space.
1Interview
2020First on the show
Nov 2020Latest appearance
21 minOn camera
20:51
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Key points
- Bitcoin's revolutionary peer-to-peer transaction model without intermediaries applies beyond currency to any interaction with counterparty risk.
- Security tokenization represents massive potential across asset classes including equities, real estate, bonds, and gold but faced regulatory hurdles.
- ICOs damaged security token offerings by prioritizing technology development without accounting for compliance and jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements.
- Global financial markets contain significant inefficiencies in capital creation, equity management, and securities supply chains that blockchain technology can disrupt.
- Institutional interest in security tokens is growing as regulations and compliance frameworks finally catch up with the underlying technology.
In their own words
“I really like the projects that are building interoperability frameworks, the idea of cross-chain smart contracts and abstractions of smart contracts onto business logic.”
