Andres Sol

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Canton did not appear overnight. It is the result of a decade of institutional groundwork, now becoming visible to Web3. For the first episode of After the Close, I sat down with @HeslinKim, one of the sharpest voices explaining why @CantonNetwork is not another L1 narrative. It is institutional market structure coming onchain.

These 6 founders are building Canton-native infrastructure on the same network the largest names in regulated finance are already running. The Canton Track finalists for Proof of Pitch 2026: → Coinversa - @coinversaa → Edel - @edeldotfinance → Ekiden - @ekidenfi → Minted - @tryMinted → Parthenon → Piggybank - @piggybank_fi On Day 2, these 6 startups pitch live to a jury of Tier 1 investors and institutional capital allocators including: - Leeor Groen @leeorgroen, Partner at @TheSpartanGroup - ⁠Keli Callaghan @KeliCallaghan, Partner at @Arrington_Cap - ⁠Danish Chaudhry @djchaudhry_, GP at @Papervc - ⁠Yiannis Varelas @bc1pxxx, Founder of @FiveNorthHQ The room where capital meets the next generation of institutional infrastructure. The Louvre Palace, June 2 & 3. tickets.proofoftalk.io/passes

This will take all of you by surprise The main institutional network Wall Street is choosing for tokenization that is backed and used by: Goldman Sachs Franklin Templeton HSBC DTCC S&P Global It's not $XRP or $ONDO It’s a top 15 project that almost nobody in CT is talking about yet it stands to benefit two projects in particular The first is Wall Street’s onchain operating system for moving trillions in tokenized assets: @CantonNetwork $CC The second is the only project on the network with a token building the institutional trading and liquidity layer for tokenized finance on Canton Network: @edeldotfinance $EDEL And here’s the crazy part: Canton isn’t some open free-for-all chain like $ETH and $SOL. There are only ~80 projects in the ecosystem where teams are screened and selected to participate. Edel was officially chosen as a Featured App by the Canton Network 👈 That’s a massive signal considering the caliber of institutions already building inside the network. The asymmetric opportunity looks like this: • Most Canton ecosystem companies are already valued in the 9+ figure range • The overwhelming majority are private and inaccessible to retail investors • $EDEL is one of the only investable opportunities tied directly to the ecosystem with a current valuation of only $7M My personal bet is on $CC and $EDEL as the beta play to the ecosystem

Right now the best place to make peg bets on $STRC is on @edeldotfinance You can leverage loop the depeg by 3x, while still getting the dividend distribution of the 11,5% APR Low borrowing APR, so if it pegs in the next week, you make ~4%, which is ~208% anualised