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Startup Track | Plenty of rails, not enough native financial products

Date: 29/10/2026
18:10h. - 18:20h.
Place: MADRID Stage

Language: Spanish. Over the last few years the ecosystem has built rails for everything: stablecoins, payment networks, custody, tokenization, onchain settlement. The infrastructure is already there. What is still missing are the native financial products that actually make use of it, the ones a user or a company can use without needing to know there is crypto underneath. In this keynote, Shellment explains why the industry has spent years building pipes and so little building product, what still needs to be built on top, and what the next generation of native products for this new financial system should look like.

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