Digital Assets and Blockchain Day 2025

Overview

As Canada’s leading forum for institutional-grade discussions, CAASA’s Digital Assets Day brings together top-tier allocators, asset managers, service providers, to explore the rapidly evolving landscape of digital assets and blockchain technology.

This one-day event provides a curated platform for thoughtful dialogue on the real-world applications, investment opportunities, and risk considerations shaping this dynamic sector. From tokenization and custody to regulatory shifts and institutional adoption, attendees gain deep insights from both pioneering innovators and seasoned financial professionals operating at the intersection of traditional finance and emerging technology.

Whether you’re navigating your first crypto exposure or refining a sophisticated digital asset strategy, Digital Assets Day is a must-attend for those serious about the future of finance.

When

  • September 16, 2025
  • 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET

Where

The Cambridge Club
11th Floor – 100 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario

Enter the Sheraton Centre via Richmond Street or via the lobby. Just head to the Richmond Tower elevators and go to 11/top floor.

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2025 Distinguished Speakers

2024 Distinguished Speakers

Agenda 2025

Day 1

  • September 16, 2025
  • 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

  • September 16, 2025
  • 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Day 1

12:00 pm

Registration

12:30 pm

Lunch

12:45 pm

Fireside: Insitutional Adoption of Digital Assets

We’re in for a treat! Both of these speakers are thought leaders in their own right with a great deal of experience and expertise in their day jobs and also their avocations. Institutions such as pensions usually lead adoption of alternatives: whether it’s PE, infrastructure, or real estate investing on a grand scale (and family offices leading venture). With digital assets it started with (nerdy) retail investors with some penetration in the family office realm (some of them owing their existence to investing early) and now the asset class is starting to be seeing as a ‘real’ alternative – especially with AUM of the industry growing from $500B in 2018 to $4T presently. This chat will illuminate all and bring to the fore some important questions and topics that many likely did not envision.

1:30 pm

Panel – Watershed Moment: Cryptocurrency funds on equal footing

AlIt seems that every asset class, including private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure – as well as alternative trading strategies such as those employed by hedge funds – is finding its way into retail portfolios. Recent legislation from the CSA (Canadian Securities Administrators – or overarching body of Canadian securities regulators) has been issued that enhances ‘alternative mutual funds’ (aka ‘liquid alts funds’) to invest in crypto assets. This allows the $60B+ in liquid alts funds to be invested in all types of equities, fixed income, derivatives and (now) crypto assets. This panel will explain the reasoning behind this watershed moment and what it means for investors. https://mcmillan.ca/insights/codifying-crypto-changes-to-national-instrument-81-102-regarding-investments-in-crypto-assets/

2:15 pm

Coffee Break & 1:1 meetings

3:15 pm

Now Talk – Beyond Bitcoin: Portfolio construction in today’s world

Digital assets have progressed past just Bitcoin (there were others prior, but none achieved much traction) to include so-called altcoins – whether you define those as Ethereum and all the other coins, all coins except Ethereum, or all coins other than ETH, XRP, SOL and a few OGs.

3:45 pm

Panel – A Brave New World (with Brave Investors): Allocating to digital assets

Whether one is an asset-owner or an asset allocator, taking a position in a new asset class or investment idea/security can be harrowing. Failing conventionally is a career non-destruction tactic – moreso than succeeding unconventionally might be a career advancer. Thus, when a move is made it is after a great deal of thought about not only the opportunity but also the potential downside. For pensions and more public investors (such as MFOs) this can include reputation risk and at SFOs it’s either one’s family money or the money of one’s employer – either way, a misstep might not be widely known, but it has consequences.

4:30 pm

Reception

6:00 pm

End of Conference

Member – Investor

Complimentary: Pensions, Endowments, Foundations, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Single Family Offices, Multi Family Offices, Investment Advisors

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Non-member – Investor

Complimentary: Pensions, Endowments, Foundations, Sovereign Wealth Funds, or Single Family Offices

$160: Multi-Family Offices & Investment Advisors (pricing includes CAASA Membership)

 

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Member – Managers

CAASA Members
$500

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Member – Service Providers

CAASA Members
$500

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