While Venezuela has been battling an economic crisis for years, including devaluation and hyperinflation, recent events have brought the possibility of a recovery, with potential gains for international investors taking part.

Fred Ersham, co-founder of U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and Paradigm, a venture capital firm, has traveled to Venezuela several times and has been meeting with government officials, including interim president Delcy Rodriguez and U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, according to Bloomberg. The reason behind these visits would be to explore investments as the country aims to reinsert itself in the international economic system.

Ersham, with a net worth of $2.6 billion, would be interested in investing in several sectors of the Venezuelan economy, including fintech and payments, but also in energy and gas.

He appeared this week in a tech event organized by one of the main state-owned banks, Banco de Venezuela, to promote the country’s potential to become “the best country in Latam.”

In private meetings with business leaders, Ersham highlighted that assets in Venezuela were “deeply undervalued” and that now was the moment to invest in the country. Nonetheless, no deal has been disclosed at the time of writing.

While Venezuelans have managed to build their own financial infrastructure using cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance as a gateway for stablecoins, the country is ripe for international financial services companies like Coinbase, which could also expand its influence as part of the nation’s alternative financial system.

Other companies are seeking to position themselves to provide institutional financial services during a transitional period. Erebor Bank would be willing to bridge the Venezuelan financial system to the world, offering correspondent lines with Venezuelan banks and setting up sub-accounts for clients. Jacob Hirshman, co-founder of Erebor, would have suggested the idea to the new Venezuela’s central bank chief, Luis Perez.

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