On October 31, 2026, Ran Neuner sat down with Yuval Rooz, CEO and cofounder of Digital Asset, the company behind the Canton Network, for a Crypto Banter and Crypto Insider interview. Their conversation centered on a development Wall Street can no longer treat as a distant possibility: securities moving onto blockchain infrastructure.
Three days earlier, on October 28, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) launched its Tokenization Service, integrating Canton alongside a private Hyperledger Besu network. DTCC holds more than $114 trillion in securities, making its involvement consequential for how American markets operate.
Under the service, eligible stocks and U.S. Treasury securities can receive digital representations while preserving underlying investor rights. Authorized participants gain a path to transfer those assets beyond conventional trading hours, subject to applicable safeguards.
And JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley are among twenty institutions that signed access agreements. For Rooz, the larger story is not simply putting assets onchain. It is rebuilding the machinery that moves them.
Canton Is Building What Traditional Blockchains Couldn’t
During the interview, Yuval Rooz explained why Canton was built around a problem traditional public blockchains had never fully resolved: financial privacy. On Ethereum, transaction information is generally visible across the network. Canton takes another approach, allowing smart contracts to determine which parties can access sensitive details.
Rooz then described Canton as a network of networks, comparing its structure to the internet. Banks and financial firms can operate under their own rules while using synchronizers to securely coordinate transactions with other participants. For institutions accustomed to keeping client activity confidential, that distinction matters.
He also pointed to the growing involvement of Broadridge, Nasdaq, Visa, and Japan’s MUFG, explaining that some organizations build applications while others participate in different capacities.
His vision extends beyond transferring assets. By connecting financial applications, Canton could help institutions use tokenized securities as collateral, streamline securities lending, and develop derivatives markets with more efficient financing. Rooz sees those capabilities as essential to bringing institutional trading onchain.
Canton Coin: Where Institutional Growth Meets Token Economics
Rooz then turned to a question investors rarely hear answered clearly: how does financial activity create value for Canton Coin ($CC)? His explanation began with Canton’s Burn-Mint Equilibrium. Users pay network fees in CC, and those payments are permanently burned. Meanwhile, newly minted tokens reward validators, developers, and applications that bring meaningful activity onto the network.
He compared the philosophy to Hyperliquid, where trading revenue funds HYPE buybacks and burns. Canton takes a different route by building the burn directly into network usage, rather than depending on discretionary purchases.
Rooz also described how applications can earn substantial rewards for attracting transactions, giving builders a reason to grow the ecosystem. More institutional participation could increase fees and token destruction, eventually exceeding new issuance and making CC net deflationary.
For investors, the connection matters. Growing transaction volume could strengthen demand and reduce circulating supply, but long-term valuation will depend on whether measurable, sustained adoption outpaces ongoing token issuance. But it is clear: Canton is setting itself up for when the floodgates open, so don’t get left behind.
