Vakeesan Mahalingam, CFA

The Bank of Montreal (one of Canada's largest banks, with nearly $1tn in assets) recently disclosed that it is holding 4 of the spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in the US in January - link in the comments. Nothing particularly remarkable about that - ongoing 13F filings with the SEC highlight a growing wave of institutional crypto adoption. (The "smart money" is finally wising-up). What's interesting is the large number of BOM's customers that are pretty outraged by the double-standards exhibited by the bank - these customers have previously been de-banked by BOM for attempting to send their own money to crypto exchanges! It will be interesting to see what happens in the UK in H2 2024 after our own spot Bitcoin and Ether ETPs launch on the London Stock Exchange. Pretty much all of the major UK retail banks limit transfers to crypto exchanges and have closed customer accounts for the same reasons as BOM (and still do). (For your protection, of course! 😉 ) We'll be watching Natwest, LBG, HSBC, Barclays etc. 👀

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Through a proof of concept called “Project Revo,” Toronto Stock Exchange owner TMX Group is testing a blockchain-based system for tracking the ownership of shares in private companies and the settlement of trades. Such blockchain experiments are very much back, part of a wave of renewed interest in crypto among financial institutions following the wild success of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which launched in the U.S. in January. Here's my story: https://lnkd.in/etHSquX4

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I'm excited to be attending next week's Blockchain Futurist Conference. Canada's largest Web3 event, it's jam packed with forward thinking topics and speakers like: 🔷 Blockchain technology 🔷 Cryptocurrencies / Digital Assets 🔷 Merger of DeFi and TradFi 🔷 Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization 🔷 Regulation in Web3 🔷 Decentralized Identity (will be vital for emerging AI economy) And speaking of AI, this year the conference has AI topics! Why? Because as I've said, these two Industry 4.0 technologies are destined to come together - and they are starting to. Speakers I'm most looking forward to hearing/meeting: 🏆 Lucas Matheson, MBA, CFA, Canada CEO @ Coinbase 🏆 Dean Skurka, CEO @ WonderFi 🏆 Mark Greenberg, Digital Assets @ Kraken Digital Asset Exchange 🏆 Dan Nuñez Cohen, Regulation @ Crypto.com 🏆 Claire Ching, Institutional @ Gemini And on the AI side: 🤖 Trevor Koverko, Co-Founder, Sapien 🤖 Ron Chan, Co-Founder Inference Labs Inc. 🤖 Shingai Manjengwa, Head of AI Education @ Theoriq 🤖 Toufi Saliba, CEO @ HyperCycle.ai. 🤖 Tomisin J., Founder @ HiveNetwork.ai 🤖 Ben-Zion Benkhin, CEO @ WOMBO.ai Who else is coming? See you there! #digitaltransformation #ai #artificialintelligence #bitcoin #cryptocurrency

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I had the pleasure of moderating the panel on stablecoins yesterday during the Canadian Blockchain Consortium Montreal Summit. Some of the key insights were: ➡️ Stablecoins are an integral part of modern financial and payment infrastructure. ➡️ Stablecoins serve as a core catalyst for innovation at the intersection of finance and technology. ➡️ The digital asset industry is just one of many industries driving adoption. ➡️ USD-denominated stablecoins effectively strengthen the USD as the global reserve currency as adoption accelerates. ➡️ Non-USD denominated stablecoins, such as CAD and EUR, are nascent but support cross-border and enterprise use cases. ➡️ 🇨🇦 CAD-denominated stablecoins are essential to ensure innovation and value remain in Canada. ⚠️ The shape of future regulation poses a significant risk or will be the catalyst to technological innovation in Canada and how Canadian businesses compete globally. Thank you to our amazing panelists: - Alex McDougall from Stablecorp Inc. - Eric Richmond from Shakepay - Fred Pye from 3iQ Corp - Michael Petch from Argo Digital Gold

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"Crypto is here to stay" "The ginie is not going back to the bottle" you name it! phrases i keep hearing about crypto from conversations around legislative bodies. this is definitely a good sign 🤞 Nowadays it is not weather or not crypto is legitimate or not, but it is about how exactly goverments are goong to walk towards embracing the crypro industry by giving it more attention and changing regulations around it. for us, precisely, as a web3 startup talking to Canadian business incubators, it sometimes has been challenging to introduce our startup, as we werent sure the other party had a good view on crypro as a permanent industry. sometimes, in websites we apply, in the dropdown for "choose your industry" doesn't involve crypro as a seperate industry, so often we can check SaSS or Fintech. We'd like to see more acceptance around crypto specifically in the Canadian start up community.

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Sometimes timing is everything and our launch of the first public Dogecoin proxy in Canada as CSE:SPIR and the US as OTC:SPLCF couldn't have been any better. The strategy is 2 fold: 1) Create and develop more utility for the Dogecoin ecosystem thus accelerating adoption and the institutionalization for global markets 2) Introduce an on-chain tokenized asset management platform that can take in crypto or fiat in exchange for LP exposure to traditional asset management funds and annual yield or distribution. As an example: Dogecoin can now allocate to real estate on-chain making 8-12% / yr and receive distributions in any currency or coin they deem. This is a business that is merging traditional asset management with digital asset management which is one of the largest trends underway globally, and we have a 16-24 month regulatory moat before we see any public listed full prospectus cleared competition. Bitcoin reaches its peak price in every cycle ~500 days post-halving like clockwork, which puts us in Sept 2026. I suspect the rest of the ecosystem will follow as always, especially Dogecoin.

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🇨🇦 The Case for a Canadian Bitcoin Strategic Reserve: A National Opportunity With the potential establishment of a US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve under the next administration, Canada faces a historic opportunity. Here's why this matters for our nation's future: Key Benefits: Protection against currency debasement Monetization of our abundant clean energy Enhanced monetary sovereignty Leading position in North American financial innovation Canada's Unique Advantages: ✅ Abundant hydroelectric power + Leader in nuclear power technology ✅ Cold climate for mining efficiency ✅ Strong financial infrastructure ✅ Existing mining operations in BC, AB, QC While this isn't a complete solution to monetary challenges, it represents a crucial first step toward sound money principles and financial innovation leadership. Time is of essence - early adopters will reap the greatest benefits. #Bitcoin CC: Bitcoin Coalition of Canada

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