Polygon Launches Private Stablecoins! Is this the Future of Payments? | Marc Boiron

**Marc Boiron** (0:00)
You can look at crypto in many ways as no different than early stage companies. You ultimately have a bunch of early stage networks that are trying to develop, and some of them have a bunch of potential.

**Amanda Wickroft** (0:13)
Polygon has launched the private stablecoin payments using zero-knowledge proofs to hide senders, receivers.

**Marc Boiron** (0:20)
Yeah, to me, the most important thing is choice.

**Tony Edward** (0:28)
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Hi, everyone. Welcome into the Thinking Crypto Podcast. I'm your host, Tony Edward.

**Amanda Wickroft** (2:56)
I'm Amanda Wickroft.

**Tony Edward** (2:58)
Joining us today is Marc Boiron, who is the CEO of Polygon Labs, which is a global leader in software development, driving the advancement of the polygon and ag layer ecosystems. Marc, great to have you.

**Marc Boiron** (3:10)
Thanks for having me. Excited to be here.

**Tony Edward** (3:12)
Yeah, Marc, lots of exciting news happening in the polygon ecosystem, so lots of dive into, we're excited for this conversation. Let's kick it off with your background. Tell us about where you're from, how did you get into crypto, and much more.

**Marc Boiron** (3:25)
Yeah. By background, I'm the lawyer.
Originally wanted to go into investment banking and then realized that was actually more boring than I thought it was, and decided to go into the second most boring thing I could find, which was being a lawyer. I went and did that for a few years. I was M&A, securities lawyer. But ultimately decided that if you actually want to be successful, you probably need to go into an area A, that you enjoy and B, where there's going to be massive growth.
Back in late 2016, started looking at getting into crypto a little bit more. I've been studying Ethereum for a long time, loved it, sold it on the rabbit hole, like everybody ends up doing, and decided to jump into that. Early 2017 till about three years ago, spent all my time on the legal side of things in crypto. The interesting thing about that when you're a lawyer is that if you're going to do a good job in crypto, you need to actually really understand products. I got a chance to work at the first real outside council for Compound and Uniswap and most of the DeFi protocols, probably 90 or 100 DeFi protocols back in 2019 to 2021