Ernesto Contreras founder of UnaLivio and Caracas Blockchain Week

We are joined on today's ESW webcast no 3 by Ernesto Contreras, a Venezuelan-born, Mexico City-based and Dubai DeFi conferences-frequenter and innovator in the LatAm payments space.

Ernesto is the founder and CEO of UnaLivio, a platform helping Latinos working in North America save on fees for remittances sent back to their families in LatAm and much more. He also co-founded Caracas Blockchain Week. You can find him on X/Twitter: @ernestocontrer and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/contrerasernesto/

Ernesto's company is here: https://unalivio.com/

Ernesto's company is here: https://unalivio.com/

Show Q&A for one hour journalistic-style interview format:

1) Where Ernesto grew up in Venezuela and how seeing the hyperinflation and suffering in that country fueled his passion for helping people escape government/central banking failure & DeFi start ups

2) On what led Ernesto to found UnaLivio to reduce payment costs for Latin Americans working in the USA, Canada, Spain and Portugal using stablecoins

3) On the growing ties between the UAE investors and LatAm DeFi companies

4) On the advantages of being based in Mexico City with flights to the rest of LatAm and LatAm's unofficial capital of Miami

4) What in your opinion is the Latin American Renaissance? What do you like in El Salvador? Are such changes possible in other LatAm countries currently plagued by gang violence and extortion such as Ecuador or portions of Mexico?

5) Where he sees the neo-banking space going across Latin America

6) Closing thoughts