All right, it's time for another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast, and we got a special one for you.

Our conversation today is actually an interview that we've prepared for our upcoming digital currency summit, which starts March 8th.

And this is just one of 47, count of 47 different interviews that we've gathered for the Digital Currency Summit.

And if you want to hear from every single one of them, all you have to do is claim your free ticket right now.

And yes, this is a virtual event that you can watch

from the comfort of your own home and it's totally free. So to reserve your ticket, just go to

digital currency summit.com and click the link. All right. So enjoy this preview interview and get ready for a whole lot more

at the Digital Currency Summit. We are joined today by Jack McDonald, who is the CEO of PolySign

and Standard Charter and Custody. Is that right? Did I say that correctly?

Standard custody and trust. In trust. Sorry. Thank you so much. We're so excited to be here today with

you, Jack. Before we even dive in to everything that you're doing, why don't we just get a quick

background? What were you doing before you started running PolySign?

And why did you even dive into the crypto industry to get started?

Yeah, first of all, thanks very much for having you. It's excited to be back on your show.

I come from a Tradify world like many of us. Somebody recently told me that's not Tradify anymore.

It's legacy finance just to make me feel even older than I am in the space.

I used to run a company called Conifer, which had a broker-dealer business where we did prime brokerage and trading for hedge funds and family offices.

We also had a fund administration business.

And I sold those two businesses after bringing on Carlisle,

sold the broker-dealer to Cowan and Company and the Fund Abin to SS&C.

And through a VC friend of mine met Arthur Brito,

who was the original founder of Ripple together with Chris Larson, Jed McCallup,

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