Tonya M. Evans is a crypto law and digital asset policy strategist who, in June 2025, transitioned to full-time strategic practice serving global clients after a career in academic legal leadership. Tonya M. Evans's Twitter Score is 68 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #12,328 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Tonya M. Evans serves as CEO of Advantage Evans and as an Independent Board Member of Digital Currency Group. She previously worked at Penn State Dickinson Law as a Professor of Law. She authored Digital Money Demystified and Electing Crypto, two works focused on digital assets and their legal and policy dimensions.
Tonya M. Evans hosts Confidently Crypto on SiriusXM's Financially Speaking podcast and also hosts the Tech Intersect podcast. She provided testimony to the U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets in 2023 and served as an External Expert Reviewer for the Central Bank of Nigeria's Virtual Asset Service Provider Regulations in 2025. She advises central banks and regulators across Nigeria, Ghana, Bermuda, and the United States on VASP frameworks and digital asset policy, and holds membership on the Bermuda Global FinTech Advisory Board and the World Economic Forum/Wharton DAO Project Series Working Group. She is a Senior Advisor to Black NFT Art and an Advisor to Emerging Impact. She previously served as Chairperson of Maker DAO's Maker Ecosystem Growth Foundation and was formerly a member of the Consensys Grants Advisory Board.
Tonya M. Evans has published 66,196 posts on the platform. Her work and commentary have been mentioned by 109 accounts, with 300 total mentions.
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