CoinDesk’s Money Reimagined

2023: The Year of Institutional DeFi, With Polygon’s Colin Butler

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ABOUT

A positive theme emerged after the FTX blowup: the survival of decentralized finance, or DeFi.

On this episode of “Money Reimagined,” Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are finally together again and are joined by Colin Butler, Polygon’s global head of institutional capital, to discuss “bringing the world to Ethereum.”

If you're unfamiliar with Polygon, it's a blockchain designed to interact directly with Ethereum to help improve some of its inefficiencies and scaling issues. Powered by Ethereum's blockchain, Polygon provides a bridge between different Ethereum-based projects, enabling developers to build scalable, user-friendly dapps without compromising security.


This episode was produced and edited by Michele Musso with announcements by Adam B. Levine and our executive producer, Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Shepard.”

HOSTS

Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Casey is Chairman of The Decentralized AI Society, former Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk and co-author of Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age. Previously, Casey was the CEO of Streambed Media, a company he cofounded to develop provenance data for digital content. He was also a senior advisor at MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where his last position was as a senior columnist covering global economic affairs.

Casey has authored five books, including "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order" and "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything," both co-authored with Paul Vigna.

Upon joining CoinDesk full time, Casey resigned from a variety of paid advisory positions. He maintains unpaid posts as an advisor to not-for-profit organizations, including MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and The Deep Trust Alliance. He is a shareholder and non-executive chairman of Streambed Media.

Casey owns bitcoin.

Michael J. Casey
2023: The Year of Institutional DeFi, With Polygon’s Colin Butler