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What would your business do tomorrow if the tool it runs on disappeared today? Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department issued an export control directive ordering @AnthropicAI to suspend access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, anywhere. The only way to comply on short notice was to switch both models off for everyone. This is the first time a publicly deployed AI model has been pulled because of a government order. 🧵👇
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The same question applies to the rails that move our money, settle our assets, and run our public services. Canada has a real ten-year window to do something about this. We can fix the inefficiencies in our own infrastructure, build sovereign technology we actually control and export it to the world. Done right, that's one of our most valuable national assets for the decade ahead.
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What that takes, starting now: 1) Builders: design for portability and keep a sovereign fallback. Don't let one directive, anywhere, become your single point of failure. 2) Policymakers: treat AI, compute, and financial infrastructure as critical national infrastructure, and invest while the window is open. 3) All of us: stop importing dependence. Start exporting capability. Urgent? Yes. But this is an opportunity to build what can't be switched off💡
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CEO of Transactix @aliaboudaya will be speaking at @Futurist_conf this year! He will be on a panel discussing The Global Pulse: Navigating Regulation Across Every Border alongside Jason Brett (Forbes) - Moderator, Tanya Woods, ICD.D. (Questrade Financial Group), and Koleya Karringten (Canadian Bitcoin Consortium) 📆July 22, 2026 📍Rebel - 11 Polson St 🕑 1:45pm - 2:15pm Use ALI25 to receive 25% off tickets 👇 futuristconference.com
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The rules aren't finished. Whether a stablecoin is a payment instrument or something else. Who can issue versus who can only build on top. How yield and custody get treated. All of that is still open. The Canadian Stablecoin Act is a framework but the regulations that implement it may not arrive until 2027. The CLARITY Act in the US is moving faster. That gap is where builders either get ahead or get caught. The framework is coming. The infrastructure decisions being made right now will shape what the framework governs. Transactix is building accordingly 🇨🇦
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A stablecoin and a tokenized deposit are not the same product. Stablecoin: private issuer, consumer-facing, you call the issuer when something goes wrong. Tokenized deposit: bank-issued, institutional, how banks move money amongst each other. Same underlying technology. Different regulatory animal. Different use case. Different risk profile. Getting this distinction wrong is how you build the wrong thing for the wrong moment. The framework is coming. It isn't here yet. That's part of what makes this moment worth getting right
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We talk a lot about economic sovereignty in Canada. So let's take a look at how value actually moves here. 99% of the world's stablecoins settle on American rails. Canadians pay roughly $250 more a year in banking fees, and the best savings rate on offer is 0.5% while modern DeFi protocols pay 4–7%. None of these numbers are accidents. They're the cost of relying on legacy systems that were never built for speed, low cost, or Canadian interests. The good news: the technology to change this already exists. Moving value can be instant, compliant, and a fraction of the cost. The real question is whether we build that here in Canada or keep renting someone else's rails.
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CEO of Transactix @aliaboudaya spoke on a panel called What it Actually Takes at @cvca Invest Canada 26. “Trust is a hard currency in today's world.” Minister @FP_Champagne said this yesterday. Canada has an abundance of it. Blockchain and sovereign financial infrastructure are one of the most powerful ways Canada can export trust into the world. It’s verifiable, programmable, auditable, but most of all hosted in a trustworthy jurisdiction. Canada has a window to build its own. By building a sovereign blockchain infrastructure stack and knowing tokenization is coming, we keep billions in financial resources in Canada annually, on Canadian rails, under Canadian governance, and generating Canadian IP. John Paul Jones said: those who will not risk cannot win. We see it a little differently: those who are trustworthy and reliable will win. 🇨🇦💪
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Transactix Financial Inc retweeted
11:00 AM | STABLECOINS ⚡ Douglas Heintzman | Chief Catalyst, Blockchain Research Institute ⚡ Kesem Frank | CEO, Stablecorp ⚡ Ali Abou Daya | CEO, Transactix ⚡ Peter MacKenzie, PhD | Senior Policy Analyst, C.D. Howe Institute Canada's stablecoin future, regulation, infrastructure, and adoption.
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Tomorrow 👀 CEO of Transactix Financial Inc. @aliaboudaya will be at the Digital Asset Summit in Toronto @Web3To discussing Stablecoins, CBDCs, payments, and Canada's regulatory framework in a panel moderated by Doug Heintzman, @blockchainRI along with fellow speakers Peter MacKenzie @CDHoweInstitute, and Kesem Frank @stablecorp Inc. Tickets and information 🔽 digitalassetsummit.ca/
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CEO of Transactix Financial Inc. @aliaboudaya was at the @BlockchainIEEE conference earlier this week for Toronto Tech Week Key takeaway: The goal of Stablecoin adoption When stablecoin adoption becomes ubiquitous, nobody will know it runs on blockchain. That's the goal. A wallet backed by a Canadian stablecoin on sovereign infrastructure lets people buy things faster, earn real yield on savings, and get the best foreign exchange rate when they travel. The user experience wins. The sovereignty is the architecture underneath it.
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Today in Crypto History💡 May 22, 2010, the day Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. At today's prices: that's ~$800M worth of pepperoni. Everyone laughed at that trade. Nobody's laughing now. That transaction proved one thing: value can move between two people without a bank, a clearinghouse, or anyone's permission. Two parties. One ledger. No permission required. Sixteen years later, BlackRock holds a Bitcoin ETF. Nation states hold it on their balance sheets. The US Senate is voting on digital asset legislation. Iran is accepting it for Strait of Hormuz transit fees. The idea won. Bitcoin proved the rails could exist. The next decade is about what moves on them, and who controls the infrastructure it runs on. That's what we're building at Transactix. Happy Pizza Day 🍕 Tip your driver well. Maybe not in BTC.
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In this week's Transactix Tuesday Terminal: 1️⃣The CLARITY Act cleared a key Senate committee 15-9 2️⃣BMO sold its $14.5B transportation and vendor finance business to Stonepeak (US) 3️⃣The SEC is reportedly preparing a plan to allow trading of tokenized versions of stocks 4️⃣Iran will accept $BTC payments for Strait of Hormuz transit through its new maritime insurance platform All this and more ⬇️ Follow Transactix Financial Inc. for weekly updates and insights.
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Canada's financial future is being decided now and most people don't know it. Sovereign by Design, a new research report authored by CEO of Transactix @aliaboudaya, asks one critical question: when Canada builds its tokenized settlement infrastructure, who controls it? Right now, the answer isn't Canada. We looked at how Switzerland, Japan, and the UAE are doing it, and mapped a clear path forward. The key takeaway: Canada needs its own sovereign Layer 1. Read the full report 👇 linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Mid to late 2027 for Canadian stablecoin rules 🎉 That's not far away. The infrastructure being built today is the infrastructure that will operate under those rules. CADX™️ has been compliance-first from day one. We're not waiting to see how the rules land.
Bank of Canada says stablecoins rules could be introduced by mid or late 2027 ctvnews.ca/canada/article/ba…
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Big news for Canada's financial future 🇨🇦 @DGC_CGN has launched exploratory work to develop a national Unified Ledger standard covering tokenized identity, financial instruments, and government records. Our CEO @AliAbouDaya proposed this work and helped get it off the ground 💪 We're proud to be part of shaping this standard from the beginning. Read the report 👇 dgc-cgn.org/product/unified-…
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$3 Trillion by 2031. That's not a prediction, that's a roadmap. The question for Canada isn't whether stablecoins win. It's whether Canada shows up with its own infrastructure when they do, or ends up running its digital economy on someone else's rails. CADX™️ is our answer to that question. 🇨🇦
🎥 @Ripple CEO @bgarlinghouse predicts stablecoin market cap to hit $3T by 2031. He breaks down the bullish outlook on the @Anchorage Digital Mainstage at @consensus2026 Miami.
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