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Dr. Tonya Evans
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The new economy is still moving faster than the information reaching you. This is not a failure of your intelligence. It is a failure of a system that was never built to make this clear to people like you. The regulatory landscape is shifting. Every week the rules change. New regulation. New technology. New money. So, every week, "Confidently Crypto & More!" will give you the insights and information to empower your next moves. Hosted by Dr. Tonya Evans, a singular authority on all things crypto, the show is your weekly guide through the new economy: digital assets, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, Web3, and the policy shaping all four. Dr. Evans is an attorney and former tenured law professor turned full-time regulatory strategist who leads Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies. She has testified before Congress, advised central bank crypto policy in West Africa, and sits on the board of the Digital Currency Group. She has been in the rooms where it happens. She doesn't hand you "crypto bro" hype. She delivers clarity and then gives you the tools to handle what comes next. The headlines aren't going to slow down. The only question is whether you will meet them confused or prepared. Be prepared! Tune into "Confidently Crypto & More!" Clarity to Strategy. Learn where to start: TonyaEvans.com/starthere. Show site: ConfidentlyCrypto.com

  1. 2d ago

    What Is AI, Really? The Foundation Every Leader Needs Before Machines Start Moving Money w/ Dr. Tonya Evans

    Everyone thinks they know what artificial intelligence is, but few can explain it. In Part 1 of a two-part series, Dr. Tonya M. Evans, digital asset attorney and regulatory strategist, gives AI the same foundational treatment she gave money earlier this season. She traces AI's history back more than 70 years, from Alan Turing's 1950 question about whether machines can think to the Dartmouth workshop that named the field, through the AI winters and the breakthroughs that led to today's chatbots. She breaks AI into five distinct types, from rule-based systems to machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, and the newest category, agentic AI, and explains why each carries a different kind of risk. In State of Crypto, Dr. Evans unpacks new BlackRock research on AI agents and stablecoin payments, explains why the stalled CLARITY Act leaves crypto governed by a patchwork of agency actions as SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce departs, drawing on her latest Forbes column, and examines the public debate between Bill Gates and President Trump over AI safeguards. The episode closes on the distinction every decision maker needs to understand, whether they run a large organization or a business of one: the difference between AI that talks and AI that acts, and why accountability becomes the central question once AI can move money. Part 2 takes that question straight to the balance sheet. Listeners can register for Dr. Evans' weekly Web3 Ready CLARITY™ live working sessions at Web3ReadyClarity.com/webinar and find transcripts and extras at ConfidentlyCrypto.com. Dr. Tonya M. Evans CEO | Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies 📖 Author: Digital Money Demystified |Cooperative Economics of Crypto 🔗 Connect: TonyaEvans.com 🎙️ Host: Confidently Crypto, SiriusXM Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  2. Sep 22

    Africa's Inspiring Digital Assets Future: My Full DASA 2026 Keynote, From Momo to Crypto w/ Dr. Tonya Evans

    Recorded on Founder's Day in Ghana, the September 21 holiday Parliament restored in 2025 to honor Kwame Nkrumah alone, this episode travels to Accra for Dr. Tonya Evans' full headline address at the Digital Assets Summit Africa 2026: From Momo to Crypto. Nkrumah won the political kingdom. The economic kingdom is still being built, and right now it is being built in code, in policy, and in digital money. Across Africa, mobile money already moves daily life. The question is what comes next, who writes the rules, and who prospers under them. Dr. Evans lays out the stakes for anyone advising a business, a bank, or a government: if Africa is not on your digital asset map, you are working with chapters missing. If it is, you are early, and early is where the advantage lives. The first voices in the episode belong to the children who opened the summit with poetry. The future of Ghana, and the world. Watch the full speech, download the slides, and get the Momo to Crypto 2026 report and video replay at tonyaevans.com/momotocrypto. Stay ahead of the regulatory curve with 7 days of complimentary access to Clarity at Web3ReadyClarity.com/apply. All the extras are at ConfidentlyCrypto.com. Dr. Tonya M. Evans CEO | Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies 📖 Author: Digital Money Demystified |Cooperative Economics of Crypto 🔗 Connect: TonyaEvans.com 🎙️ Host: Confidently Crypto, SiriusXM Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  3. Sep 15

    Clarity Act Cloture Vote: What Yes or No Means for the Future of US Crypto Law w/ Dr. Tonya Evans

    The U.S. Senate is finally confronting the question digital-asset businesses have been waiting years to answer: who regulates crypto—and under what rules? In this episode of Confidently Crypto & More, Dr. Tonya M. Evans breaks down the September 15 cloture vote on the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, H.R. 3633, and what a "yes" or "no" vote actually means for the future of U.S. digital-asset regulation. Dr. Evans examines the latest Senate text, including the new ethics provisions, developer protections, stablecoin yield restrictions, and the proposed Treasury "circuit breaker" for potential bank deposit flight. She also cross-examines the argument that interest-bearing stablecoins could pull trillions of dollars out of traditional banks—and what the competing models actually tell us. But this episode is recorded from Accra, Ghana, where Dr. Evans is attending Digital Assets Summit Africa (DASA 2026). That vantage point offers a striking contrast: while Washington debates whether to regulate digital assets, countries across Africa are already writing the rules and asking how digital assets can drive investment, financial access, and economic growth. From the CLARITY Act and stablecoins to managed digital sovereignty, this is a conversation about the rules being written now, and the leaders who need to understand them before everyone else does. In this episode:• The September 15 Senate cloture vote• What the latest CLARITY Act text changes• Ethics, developer protections, and stablecoin yield• The bank-deposit debate• What U.S. regulation looks like from Africa• Managed digital sovereignty and the future of digital assets Transcript, glossary, reading list, and State of Crypto summary: confidentlycrypto.com Ready to move from confusion to clarity and strategy? TonyaEvans.com/starthere  Dr. Tonya M. Evans CEO | Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies 📖 Author: Digital Money Demystified |Cooperative Economics of Crypto 🔗 Connect: TonyaEvans.com 🎙️ Host: Confidently Crypto, SiriusXM Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  4. Sep 8

    How Eben Ghanney's WeWire Is Rewiring Africa's $80-Country Payment Rails w/ Dr. Tonya Evans

    This week: the CLARITY Act's make-or-break Senate vote, why the House going quiet doesn't slow crypto regulation down, and a fact-check of Congressman Al Green's claims on The Joy Reid Show, plus a plain-language breakdown of CBDCs, stablecoins, Bitcoin, and shitcoins. Then, Ebenezer Ghanney, founder and CEO of WeWire, joins to talk about building the payment rails moving billions across African borders. He explains how a stint at a retail crypto exchange revealed the real problem was business payments, not consumer trading, why mobile money and stablecoins are more alike than different, and how WeWire sequenced regulatory licenses across three continents when no single country's framework fit. We close on the African Continental Free Trade Area and WeWire's role at this year's Digital Assets Summit Africa.   Full transcript, glossary, and this week's listener poll at ConfidentlyCrypto.com. https://www.wewire.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebenezer-ghanney/ Dr. Tonya M. Evans CEO | Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies 📖 Author: Digital Money Demystified |Cooperative Economics of Crypto 🔗 Connect: TonyaEvans.com 🎙️ Host: Confidently Crypto, SiriusXM Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  5. Sep 1

    From Momo to Regulated Crypto: Caleb Kwaku Afaglo & Ghana's Blueprint for the New Economy

    Ghana just did what Washington is still debating. On December 19, 2025, Parliament passed the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, and a market that recorded over $10 billion in transactions moved from the shadows into a rules-based system. This week, Dr. Tonya Evans sits down with Caleb Kwaku Afaglo, president of the Chamber of Digital Assets and Blockchain Innovations, Ghana chapter, and the man at the center of that transformation. They trace the path from Momo to regulated crypto: how Ghana split oversight by activity instead of turf, why tax clarity is what actually brings banks off the sidelines, and the four-level AML certification program preparing an entire industry for licensing. If your business touches African corridors, the liability is already yours. The opportunity can be too. Full transcript, glossary, and this week's resources at ConfidentlyCrypto.com. Dr. Tonya M. Evans CEO | Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies 📖 Author: Digital Money Demystified |Cooperative Economics of Crypto 🔗 Connect: TonyaEvans.com 🎙️ Host: Confidently Crypto, SiriusXM Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  6. Aug 25

    What Is Money? Part Two: Bitcoin's Answer and Washington's Fight w/ Dr. Tonya Evans1

    In this episode, Dr. Tonya M. Evans explores the concept of trust in money, particularly focusing on Bitcoin and its implications in the current financial landscape. She discusses the historical context of money, the ongoing regulatory battles in Washington, and the evolving definition of money in the digital age. The episode emphasizes the importance of understanding the trust model behind different forms of money and the need for flexible compliance frameworks in the face of regulatory uncertainty. Dr. Tonya M. Evans CEO | Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies 📖 Author: Digital Money Demystified |Cooperative Economics of Crypto 🔗 Connect: TonyaEvans.com 🎙️ Host: Confidently Crypto, SiriusXM Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  7. Aug 18

    Money Is Already Digital. The Question Is Who Controls It?: Part One w/ Dr. Tonya Evans

    Money has been digital for years. The real question was never whether it should be, it's who controls the database behind it: a bank, a government, or math. In this episode, Dr. Tonya Evans opens with that question, sparked by something Karen Hunter, host of The Karen Hunter Show on SiriusXM Urban View Radio, asked her live on air the week before: what is money? Dr. Evans runs it through debit cards, Venmo, direct deposit, and the twenty in your wallet to make the case that money made the jump to digital a long time ago, then goes deeper into what money is actually for. You've never wanted the dollar itself; you've wanted what it can get you. From there, the episode traces the three kinds of trust that have carried money through human history: trust in people, trust in institutions, and now, trust in verification. This is part one of a two-part series. Part two picks up next week with Bitcoin's answer to the trust question, and the fight happening in Washington right now over who gets to decide what counts as money. Dr. Tonya M. Evans CEO | Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies 📖 Author: Digital Money Demystified |Cooperative Economics of Crypto 🔗 Connect: TonyaEvans.com 🎙️ Host: Confidently Crypto, SiriusXM Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  8. Aug 11

    Satoshi Nakamoto, The Ghost Who Changed Money and Why the Mystery Still Protects Yours w/ Dr. Tonya Evans

    Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Bitcoin's creator built a new kind of money, walked away in 2011, and left a fortune worth tens of billions untouched for 17 years. This year the New York Times went hunting and came back with a name, and the man they named says it isn't him. This episode unpacks the greatest unsolved mystery in money: why the creator vanished as governments closed in, and why that empty chair may be protecting your money right now, from founder risk, from regulators, from single points of failure. You'll also learn the one question that exposes every fake "Satoshi unmasked" headline before you fall for it. Plus, your State of Crypto: the Senate punts the CLARITY Act to September while institutional money keeps flowing, and the debut of a new recurring segment, The Greatest Threat to the Greatest Threat, tracking what could disrupt the disruptor, from AI deepfake scams coming for your wallet to the quantum countdown. What it is. What it means. What to do. Get the free State of Crypto Executive Summary at tonyaevans.com/report. Full transcript and show notes at ConfidentlyCrypto.com. Dr. Tonya M. Evans CEO | Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies 📖 Author: Digital Money Demystified |Cooperative Economics of Crypto 🔗 Connect: TonyaEvans.com 🎙️ Host: Confidently Crypto, SiriusXM Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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The new economy is still moving faster than the information reaching you. This is not a failure of your intelligence. It is a failure of a system that was never built to make this clear to people like you. The regulatory landscape is shifting. Every week the rules change. New regulation. New technology. New money. So, every week, "Confidently Crypto & More!" will give you the insights and information to empower your next moves. Hosted by Dr. Tonya Evans, a singular authority on all things crypto, the show is your weekly guide through the new economy: digital assets, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, Web3, and the policy shaping all four. Dr. Evans is an attorney and former tenured law professor turned full-time regulatory strategist who leads Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies. She has testified before Congress, advised central bank crypto policy in West Africa, and sits on the board of the Digital Currency Group. She has been in the rooms where it happens. She doesn't hand you "crypto bro" hype. She delivers clarity and then gives you the tools to handle what comes next. The headlines aren't going to slow down. The only question is whether you will meet them confused or prepared. Be prepared! Tune into "Confidently Crypto & More!" Clarity to Strategy. Learn where to start: TonyaEvans.com/starthere. Show site: ConfidentlyCrypto.com

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