In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Jack McDonald, CEO of PolySign, a fintech company building institutional grade infrastructure for digital assets, about why trusted investment custodians for crypto have been a long time coming, and how PolySign positions itself as the ideal solution. Regulated, insured, and conflict-free, Polysign provides the infrastructure for tomorrow’s digital-native trading and investment environment.
We also speak about Jack’s unusual path to the position of Polysign CEO, how an outsider found himself at the top of the organization, Jack’s background in financial services, the current state of the crypto and digital assets space, and how Polysign found the balance between feedback from the market and keeping their leading innovation under wraps until it was ready to launch.
Topics Discussed:
- Jack’s career in the financial sector, from big banks to smaller, more nimble institutions
- How Jack came to find himself coming from the outside to the position of CEO at Polysign, and why Arthur Britto is such a unique business partner
- Why trusted, regulated infrastructure is an essential part of future trading in crypto and digital assets
- Why the other path to being a custodian for crypto is setting up as a trusted company, and why Polysign decided to follow that path
- The current state of the crypto trading landscape, how it’s moving past some troubled times towards a more secure future
- How Polysign struck a balance between good market feedback and keeping their product under wraps until it was ready to launch
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