Evan Thomas
@evanmthomas
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gc @alluvialfinance | building @liquid_col | ex @Wealthsimple @Osler_Law | discredited investor @BOD_Capital | aspiring thought leader
Toronto, Canada
Joined November 2009
The phrase “keep up with innovation” on stablecoins is so telling about the state of Canadian finreg policy. It’s an admission that Canada is behind and not innovating. The Canadian crypto industry has been telling regulators and policy makers for close to 3 years, maybe.
Canada is working on a stablecoin framework to “keep up with innovation” in the U.S. and abroad, says OSFI head Peter Routledge 🇨🇦. CW3 supports treating stablecoins as digital payments, with rules that ensure trust, resilience & innovation.
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RT @liquid_col: Fireblocks x Liquid Collective. Today, @FireblocksHQ has launched support for Liquid Collective’s LsETH, bringing instituti….
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RT @liquid_col: Liquid Collective and @galaxyHQ are partnering to define the next era of institutional staking—secure, liquid, and built fo….
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I started poking around Canada’s new draft “border security” legislation and was surprised by all the provisions that would require “electronic service providers” to give law enforcement access to their systems and data - glad to see @mgeist is already sounding the alarm bells.
Privacy At Risk: Government Buries Lawful Access Provisions in New Border Bill - my 2,600 word post on the history of lawful access and the new “information demand” power, global production orders, and new rules on law enforcement access to communications.
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RT @alluvialfinance: Our General Counsel, @evanmthomas took the stage at @consensus2025 to talk institutional staking, regulation, and what….
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RT @TeamPOSA: Staking secures networks. It is not a security. Read our letter to the SEC here 👇
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RT @crypto_council: 1/ Today, CCI is proud to stand alongside nearly 30 key players in the industry to secure US leadership in staking. Thi….
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RT @c_spelliscy: Policy decisions made in the next two years could shape the future of the blockchain industry for decades to come. A key….
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Brilliant work by @SH_Brennan and @c_spelliscy in building out a thoughtful, detailed roadmap for using control as a unifying principle informing legal tests for decentralization.
Grateful for the feedback and engagement from across the ecosystem on v1. Today, we’re publishing Designing Policy for a Flourishing Blockchain Industry (v2) — a clearer roadmap to help policymakers turn decentralization principles into actionable, workable law and regulation.
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Really cool new product from @lex_node and @MetaLeX_Labs 👇.
Fund your company the legal way in a few clicks, 100% onchain-on MetaLeX . is the first app using our new protocol for putting real-world entities & their securities lifecycle onchain . available on Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum.
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RT @JacobRobinsonJD: Thrilled to be restarting the Law of Code podcast this week — with less hair but just as great guests (like @larryflor….
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The SEC Division of Corporate Finance today published a Statement on Stablecoins (link in reply). The gist is that the SEC does not consider USD stablecoins to be securities where they can be redeemed for USD on a 1:1 basis and are fully backed by low-risk, readily liquid.
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One of the amazing things about healthy democracies is that all citizens - even wealthy tech entrepreneurs - are at liberty to express their views on public policy issues and other citizens can agree with them, critique them or just ignore them! . Whether you agree or disagree.
Canada doesn't have its own Elon Musk, but our tech bros also want to play at politics. Why do wealthy tech entrepreneurs think they can—or should—revamp the government?
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RT @crypto_council: Productive meeting with the @SECGov Crypto Task Force on staking-as-a-service, liquid staking, & ETPs and briefing w/ S….
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Open banking in Canada is long overdue, mostly because of opposition from incumbent financial institutions. These opponents cloak themselves in concerns about privacy, ignoring that privacy is inherently about control of your personal information. FIs that oppose or obstruct open.
It's time to give Canadians control of their data. This will increase competition and lower pricing across a host of industries. Let's start with financial services, where progress has begun on open banking, but work remains. Let's get it done!. See my new @build_canada memo 👇.
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RT @RSSH273: Great to see the SEC clarifying that PoW mining does not implicate the securities laws. It would be important to take this a….
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Kudos to @somseif @aiouy @ericrichy @alextapscott @ddebow @liamihorne @lucmatheson @brianmosoff and other leaders for continuing to advocate for fit for purpose stablecoin policy in Canada. Unfortunately, the stablecoin file reflects the profound lack of urgency and opposition.
The world is moving ahead with stablecoins, meanwhile Canada is actively trying to fight this technology. Unlike cryptocurrencies that can fluctuate wildly in price, stablecoins are a digital currency designed to maintain a stable value by being backed by the Canadian dollar.
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