Defying 'DeFi-nition' with Jason Hsu

Welcome to the Policy People Podcast. In this conversation, I discuss the policy of decentralized finance and new blockchain technologies with Jason Hsu. We discuss the democratization of technology and finance, recent cryptocurrency market trends and the regulatory backlash, why tech and politics are becoming more tightly intertwined, how to bridge the gaps in thinking between tech entrepreneurs and policy people, Central Bank Digital Currencies and geopolitical competition, how think tanks can generate more public interest around their events, Taiwan’s approach to DeFi and the country’s new strategy for the 4th Industrial Revolution, why policy is a state of mind and how to keep cultivating it and many more topics.

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Jason Hsu is a visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University and a Legislator at-large for Taiwan’s Parliament where he is a member of the Advisory Committee on blockchain technology policy. He is also Head of Legislative Advocacy for the Blockchain and Climate Institute, Senior Advisor at CSCIS and Founding Chairman of FutureX, and a Venture Partner at Outliers Fund. He is the author of the blog The Third Thinking. You can connect with Jason on LinkedIn or follow him on Twitter at the handle @augama.

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