Carlos Salinas is an international crypto banker with deep roots in traditional capital markets and a decade building digital asset infrastructure inside regulated institutions. He currently leads the Digital Platforms Business at Estating, structuring institutional-grade real estate as programmable collateral for DeFi lending venues, stablecoin treasuries, and crypto-native capital markets.
What makes his perspective unusual is the combination: he understands how banks actually work — risk committees, compliance architecture, custody liability, client reporting — and he understands how on-chain markets actually work — protocol mechanics, liquidity dynamics, collateral design, governance. Most people have one side. He has both, built over years of operating at the boundary rather than observing it from either direction.
Previously, he led digital asset strategy at MoraBanc in Andorra — building the principality's first regulated crypto custody wallet, a stablecoin settlement rail integrating Fireblocks with front and back office operations, and CME futures access via Hidden Road as prime broker. That experience produced a structural conviction that still drives his work: the meaningful question in digital assets is never which assets to hold, but what infrastructure is required to hold them properly.
He is a faculty member at Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (IEB) in Madrid, where he teaches digital assets, risk frameworks, and structured products to finance professionals. He organizes Crypto Mondays Andorra, a monthly practitioner forum. He contributes regularly to Cinco Días, ABC Economía, Funds Society, and IEB publications. He has spoken at the European Blockchain Convention, Blockchain Summit LATAM, the ICAM International Congress on Digital Assets, the World Token Congress, and the Andorra Economic Forum.
He sees trends before consensus forms around them. He was making the case for regulated custody infrastructure in 2020, the stablecoin settlement thesis in 2021, the RWA collateral argument in 2023, and the Morpho curator strategy in 2024 — each well ahead of when those became the dominant conversations. That track record is not luck. It comes from working inside the system while watching how capital actually moves.
Over more than 80 conferences attended — from the European Blockchain Convention and EthCC to Blockchain Summit LATAM, the World Token Congress, and the Andorra Economic Forum — he has built a curated network of hundreds of operators, investors, protocol founders, regulators, and institutional decision-makers actively shaping the digital asset industry. That network is not a contact list. It is a working map of who is building what, where the real capital is moving, and which projects are worth taking seriously. For the people he works with, that context is often as valuable as the strategy itself.
