Web3 Toronto (Web3TO) @Web3To

Toronto’s tech scene is in full swing 🍁 Elevate is now Nrth Festival, and Solana Summit Canada is bringing builders and industry leaders together downtown. Two major events. One big week in Toronto. 📍 nrth.ca ☀️ luma.com/Solana-Summit-… See you there 🚀

Solana Summit Canada starts tomorrow in Toronto ☀️ Two days of builders, founders and institutions at St. Lawrence Market North. Technical sessions, stablecoins, startups + institutional adoption. 📅 Sept 23 + 24 Free event. Registration required 🔗 luma.com/Solana-Summit-…

Elevate is in full swing in downtown Toronto 🚀 This week, the global spotlight is on Canada’s tech and innovation ecosystem as founders, investors and industry leaders come together at Elevate. See you there. 🎟️ Save 20% with WEB3TOELEVATE20 Register: elevatefestival.ca/tickets/

Proud to be a Community Sponsor of @ElevateTechCA Festival 🇨🇦 Join 10,000 tech professionals in Toronto for one of Canada’s biggest gatherings of founders, investors and industry leaders. 🎟️ Save 20% on tickets with code WEB3TOELEVATE20 Register: elevatefestival.ca/tickets/ See you at Elevate! 🚀

🇨🇦 CANADA IS ENTERING A DEFINING MOMENT. This September, Prime Minister Mark Carney is bringing the world’s largest investors to Toronto with an ambition to unlock $1 TRILLION in new investment into Canada. And we’re bringing together during this thrilling 48 hours in shaping the future of finance too. We're excited to Introduce Digital Asset Forum Canada. Tuesday September 15 2026. During one of the most important investment conferences Canada has seen yet. Banks. Government. Investors. Fintech. Digital assets. AI. Stablecoins. Tokenization. Payments. Capital. The conversation around Canada’s (and the World's) financial future is changing and this room is being built for the people who want to be part of it. 🎟️Launch offer: 50% off tickets with code INVEST50 for a very limited time. Very high demand this week, we're excited to be bringing this to you and look forward to seeing all of you very soon! digitalassetforum.ca

Huge congratulations 🥳 to the winners and every team that built, tested and pitched their next startup in just 1-day! Toronto and Canada continues to demonstrate extraordinary talent. Thanks to @Monad for the infrastructure and opportunity to move fast. See you all - in the Fall! 🍃

And the winners are 🏆 🥇Waleed Aamir Built VisEarn , A proof-of-attention rewards app that uses on-device AI to verify real engagement, then rewards users onchain through Monad. Private by design. Camera data stays in the browser. 🥈Michael Zoubkoff & Sacha Ghosh @rubiconpay Built Verity, A platform where companies upload optimization challenges and autonomous agents submit solutions, receive scores and earn payment automatically, without human intervention. 🥉 Alejandro Castellanos @AgenomicsLabs Built Cadence BlackBlox Monad, An onchain flight recorder for AI agents. It records proof of work as tasks happen, so payments can be released or disputed using a public, tamper resistant trail on Monad.

Last week we wrapped up Canada Crypto & AI Week w/ the Monad Blitz Toronto Hackathon, and Toronto showed up to build! ⚡ Monad Blitz Toronto brought builders together for one packed event @monad_xyz @monad_dev Full EVM compatibility, serious speed, low latency and serious entrepreneurs building their startups onchain. $4,000 awarded. One day. Ship it & Rip it - Let's go!

Thank you to every speaker, moderator, partner, attendee and community member who made the day possible. A special thank you to our partners @McMillanLLP , @LunaPRofficial (Marketing Partner) and @RSM_Canada for helping bring this event to life and supporting the Web3TO community. The value is always the room: the people, the conversations, the questions, the follow-ups and the chance to connect across sectors. This is why we keep building Web3TO. And this is only the beginning. Join us at our next event: Digital Asset Summit Toronto - Tuesday, September 22 as a part of Elevate Tech Week @ElevateTechCA 🔗 digitalassetsummit.to Use code EARLYBIRD70 for 70% off for a very limited time. More details coming soon. See you in September!

Panel: Payments & Stablecoins We closed the panels with one of the fastest-moving areas in digital assets. Stablecoins, trusted digital dollars, cross-border payments and new rails for money are no longer far-off ideas. They are becoming part of the future of finance. Thank you to Sean Stapley ( @PartnersPenrose ), @nisrine_labcir (Interac) , Patrick Doyle (Mastercard Canada) and @kevinzhangTO (Loon / CADC) .

Panel: From Tokenization to Liquidity This panel went into tokenization, RWAs, liquidity, distribution, compliance and trust. Tokenization is a huge opportunity, but the real work is making these markets usable, trusted and ready for broader adoption. Thank you to Hamed Faqirzai ( @LunaPRofficial ), Natalie Hirsch ( @PolymathNetwork ) , @jaimeleverton (Jaime Leverton Ventures & Advisory) and @AdamCai15 (Virgo co).

Keynote: Toronto as a Global Tech and Innovation Capital Thank you to @BradMBradford for speaking about Toronto’s future. Toronto has the talent, the institutions, the builders and the ambition. Now it's time to keep creating the environment that keeps entrepreneurs, capital and opportunity at home and in the city.

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Last Week was Huge for our City and Our Country - and we kicked off Canada Crypto & AI Week w/ the 5th Annual Web3 Toronto Conference! 🇨🇦 Web3 industry leaders, government and TradFI gathered in an intimate setting to build the future - to say the least, an incredible day! Thank you to everyone who attended, we hope it was as extraordinary for you as it was for us! Here’s how the day played out 📷👀👇

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Lunch + Networking with Minister Nina Tangri A special thank you to @ninatangri for joining us during lunch. It was great to have the Ontario government in the room with founders, financial institutions, investors and builders, having a real conversation about small business, entrepreneurship, innovation in Ontario, and where we go from here.

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Panel: Public Policy for AI & Digital Assets in Canada This conversation focused on how Canada moves forward. We discussed regulation, clarity, speed, competitiveness and the need to create an environment where entrepreneurs, investors and founders want to stay and build. Thank you to Shereen Khan (Regulativity Inc) @khandomindset , Asad Akhtar (NEXV LAW) , Nima Kazerooni @OceaneXchange (Founder Haus & JUPTER ) and Jonathan Han (EraTree) .

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Panel: Sovereignty for Canadians and Tech This was one of the most important conversations of the day. We talked about sovereignty, identity, fraud, blockchain, AI and trust and how these tools can help create better systems for Canadians, businesses, institutions and government. Thank you to Douglas Heintzman @DHeintzman (Blockchain Research Institute), Jeffrey McLarty (Agora), Dana O’Born (Council of Canadian Innovators) and Dr. Steven Liss ( Toronto Metropolitan University) for an enlightening discussion.

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Panel: Startup and Venture in Canada This panel got into one of the biggest questions for Canada right now: how do we build more great companies here, fund them here, and give founders a real reason to stay? We talked about founders, capital, customers, venture, and what it will take to help more companies build here, scale here and stay here. Thank you to Justin Krieger (@RSM_Canada ),@allenlau ( Two Small Fish Ventures), @marcusdaniels (Highline Beta) and @SunilSharmaCo (Founder Institute Canada) for an incredible panel!

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Panel: TradFi Meets Digital Assets & AI Next up we discussed where traditional finance, digital assets and AI meet - how that impacts the world, the future of finance, and where we go from here. From banks and fintechs, to stablecoins, tokenized assets and new market infrastructure, this conversation set the tone for the day. Thank you to our great panelists Jonathan Rizzo (ATB Financial), Zach Landau (Digital Motion Corp.) @0xLands and Ahad Ahmed (@stablecorp )

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