Right now, two financial systems are running in parallel. They don't talk to each other...
Institutional finance is tokenizing at scale.
Public chains have deep, permissionless liquidity. But there's no bridge between them that doesn't reintroduce the exact problems tokenization was supposed to solve.
Here's what changes when that connection exists:
Tokenized Treasuries become DeFi collateral
@The_DTCC is already tokenizing US Treasuries on @CantonNetwork.
The US Treasury market alone is worth $30T+.
Once those assets can reach public chains, DeFi gets a collateral base backed by sovereign debt, not algorithmic pegs. That's a structural shift in what underpins onchain lending, borrowing, and derivatives.
Repo desks settle against stablecoins in real time
@Broadridge runs $350B+ in daily repo on Canton. That's $8T+ per month flowing through institutional rails.
Now imagine that settlement extending to USDC and USDT on Ethereum.
- No batch windows
- No T+1
- Atomic
- Around the clock
Repo is the backbone of short-term funding markets. Making it composable with public chain liquidity doesn't just improve efficiency... it changes how capital moves globally.
Global collateral finally gets unlocked
$300T in high-quality liquid assets sit across the world's financial system. Only ~10% is used as collateral at any given time.
Why you may ask.
Moving securities across borders is slow, expensive, and operationally painful.
Canton just completed the first cross-border intraday repo with tokenized UK gilts. DTCC, Euroclear, Citadel, Tradeweb, all involved.
The infrastructure to mobilize trapped collateral is live.
The path to public chain liquidity is what's missing...
RWAs move freely between private and public infrastructure
The tokenized RWA market has surpassed $25B. Tokenized bonds, fund shares, and structured products currently on Canton could access:
- Public chain liquidity pools
- DEXs
- Lending protocols
...without exposing institutional data or reintroducing custody risk.
Private and public don't have to be separate worlds.
The wall between institutional finance and DeFi disappears
Not through hype. Not through narrative. Through infrastructure.
- 600+ institutions
- $8T+ in onchain assets
- $350B+ in daily repo
- Chainlink live
- Bloomberg data on Canton
- JPMorgan validating
$350B settles daily on Canton. None of it reaches public chains.
Not because the demand isn't there. Not because the technology doesn't exist. Because there's no settlement layer built to connect them without reintroducing the problems tokenization was supposed to solve.
That's what Cancore is building.
Atomic settlement between Canton Network and public blockchains. No custody layer. No relay networks. No middlemen.
cancore.io
