Evan Weis, Chief Operating Officer at Alluvial, is a seasoned expert in the crypto industry. Prior to Alluvial, he served as the Business Development Lead for Coinbase Cloud at Coinbase, where played a crucial role in leading business teams for the launch of Coinbase's Wallet-as-a-Service. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Business Operations at Bison Trails, where he successfully managed sales, business operations, and customer success teams. Under Evan's leadership, these teams facilitated the active participation of enterprises and institutional investors in decentralized networks, overseeing assets staked totaling over $30 billion by November 2021.

Evan is also the founder of the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), a nonprofit industry alliance established in 2019. POSA has been a driving force in advocating for forward-thinking public policies to foster innovation in proof of stake ecosystems. Evan's work with POSA includes contributions to legal frameworks for staking, industry principles for staking-as-a-service, and fair taxation of staking rewards. His efforts have resulted in the publication of the first legal research addressing staking regulation and tax considerations, particularly in the context of liquid staking in the United States.