Edwin Durand

@YuvalRooz @CantonNetwork “alignment of economics” — that’s the phrase that matters to me as a holder. Once you understand token economics, you see how the game is rigged against you. Tech, utility, adoption — none of it matters unless it’s mechanically tied to token value. Canton gets it.

Why did we raise our last round: We’re already profitable. So why raise? For years we’ve asked ourselves what it would take to truly bring finance OnChain. We believe @CantonNetwork has finally identified the components needed to establish crypto rails as a new global settlement layer, rather than treating crypto wallets as a mere distribution mechanism (as most “tokenization” does today). Those components are: privacy, issuer control and sovereignty, governance, and alignment of economics. We have the largest organizations in the world moving their core businesses to run on Canton. That will drive utility to canton-network:native. @digitalasset’s entire business is canton-network:native. So why raise? Because we have a unique opportunity right now. Organizations are willing. Regulators are willing. Admin is willing. We could wait for organic growth, or DA can step in to accelerate it. Rather than wait for large corporates with long budget cycles to build this infrastructure, DA will build much of what’s needed to double, triple, and quadruple canton-network:native utility. We will enter new partnerships to build applications that drive more usage. Those will be announced later this year. We will partner with builders to bring burns to subnets. And there are potential M&A activities that will further align other companies with @CantonNetwork. All of this requires a healthy balance sheet, which we now have. There is still a lot of work to do, but I’m excited for what’s ahead.

Almost 12 years ago, I left @DRWTrading with @wesarn_real to start @digitalasset. @ShaulKfir joined us shortly after. The name felt right. The idea was simple but audacious: build a global settlement system that is asset agnostic. One that doesn’t eliminate banks, exchanges, and intermediaries, but tears down the barriers keeping people from accessing assets and settling at a fraction of today’s cost. A new financial world, built for the end consumer. We knew institutional adoption was the path. We just didn’t know how long it would take. We failed. We made bad decisions. There are things we would have done differently. But we never let go of our North Star, even when people around us were convinced we had no idea what we were doing. That focus, conviction, and most of all, patience, led us to launching @CantonNetwork. And the results speak for themselves. Today is a new chapter in that story. I’m proud to announce that @a16zcrypto is leading our latest round, joined by some of the giants of the global financial system, including @ABNAMRO, ADIA, @apolloglobal, @BNPParibasCIB, @Broadridge, @citsecurities, @CMEVentures, @cbventures, Green Wolf Asset Management, @Hanwha_Official, @HSBC, @icapitalnetwork, @LCVentures, @OptiverGlobal, @polychain, @R136Ventures, @SPGlobal, @sbigroup, @smash_capital, @SoFi, @Tradeweb, and @WilliamBlair, and others we’ll be naming shortly. Twelve years ago, I could not have imagined building alongside partners of this caliber. $CC today processes the highest fees of any institutional blockchain network. And we’re just getting started. What’s coming later this year is just as exciting. None of this happens without the builders, the ones who show up to weekly tokenomics meetings, dial into operations subcommittees, spend nights and weekends building apps on Canton, and show up on @X to cheer this ecosystem forward. You are not just supporters. You are partners. I’m honored to be on this journey with you. On a personal note: @a16z hits differently for me. Ben’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things was one I kept coming back to during the hard stretches. Having his firm lead this round is meaningful in a way that’s hard to put into words. So I’ll let him do it: “The hard thing isn’t setting a big, audacious goal. The hard thing is spending sleepless nights trying to achieve it. The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare. Motivating yourself by watching YouTube shorts or Instagram reels isn’t the hard thing. The hard thing is working every day and being consistent even if you feel like shit. The hard thing isn’t boasting you could achieve anything. The hard thing is working like hell to achieve something. The hard thing isn’t believing in yourself. The hard thing is getting things done when nobody believes in you, even when you doubt yourself. The hard thing isn’t telling yourself that you must achieve the impossible. The hard thing is toiling hard every day for years despite knowing that success is too uncertain.” theblock.co/post/404386/a1…

We have an early model of how to charge for CC burn in sub networks. We’re looking at the different use cases to make sure the model scales across models, and if so, we will run it through the tokenomics committee and then roll it out. It’s a top priority, but we want to make sure we get it right.

@CantonNetwork Ironically, my #1 concern as a CC holder: the CLARITY Act’s decentralization test was designed for BTC/ETH. Canton’s institutional governance may disqualify it by design. How does Canton navigate this under the existing framework?

Regulated exposure to Canton is now accessible through two listed instruments on Nasdaq. $TCAN and $CNTN reflect institutional demand for native network utility. Canton underpins coordination, fee settlement, and validator participation across shared financial infrastructure.

🚨XRP BREAKING NEWS: Cardano Founder JUST DROPPED A HUGE WARNING on Ripple XRP!!!🚨 Ripple is DUMPING XRP to fund their business - and none of the value accrued by Ripple goes to XRP holders, according to Charles Hoskinson.😳 Is he right? Is Ripple DUMPING XRP? If you own any $XRP and $ADA, watch this NOW!👀 #XRP #Ripple #Cardano #Crypto #Bitcoin #Altcoins BTCC (Sign-up NOW!) 👉btcc.com/market-promoti…

@Lu30La @YuvalRooz @MikeSkiXRP @CantonNetwork lol

@EdwinJDurand @YuvalRooz @MikeSkiXRP @CantonNetwork Which, incidentally, is the dream of any CEO.😜

I think HYPE is undervalued and buying it back makes sense. When we designed @CantonNetwork, burn was a critical metric in our option. Therefore we didn’t have MEV. No payment for validators for ordering. You want to transact on the network, you burn coins. Long term, the price which determines how many coins will be burned will reflect the multiple the market gives on the $ utility the network generates which I think is healthy. I think multiples will come down on networks that don’t generate revenues. It’s all a question of when. And my prediction is that when it happens, it will be violent. @dotcuriouscat should have added $CC multiples. 😀

Former XRP believer here. Got in under $0.50 — back when I thought adoption alone was a thesis. It’s not. If the token has no mechanical link to network value, you’re not investing. You’re donating. 🤦🏾‍♂️

@Lu30La @YuvalRooz @MikeSkiXRP @CantonNetwork It’s a sweet deal when you can offload billions in supply onto your most devoted holders with zero accountability. Somehow Ripple built a fanbase willing to bet their financial futures on a token with no mechanical, on-chain link to network activity or company performance.

@YuvalRooz @MikeSkiXRP @CantonNetwork Which, incidentally, is the dream of any CEO.

@MikeSkiXRP @YuvalRooz @CantonNetwork Ripple the company and XRP the token are not the same bet. ODL buys and sells XRP in the same transaction — that’s not demand, that’s a treadmill. No burn, no fee revenue, heavy insider supply. Cheering for adoption that structurally can’t reach your bag.

@YuvalRooz @CantonNetwork What I wouldnt give for just the cliff notes inside your head, Yuval, regarding the future of the XRPL..and NOT on the P Baron show! I'm a Ripple/XRPL believer, but once I glanced at the Canton Network capabilities, you now have my undivided attention.

This is all you have to know going forward: The majority of crypto is a scam and the cat’s out of the bag. Even the few projects that are legit and heavily utilized have tokens that are horrible investment vehicles - extractive tokenomics, governance theater, or forced utility that adds no real value. Traditional finance is rushing to innovate by utilizing blockchain’s unique capability: atomic cross-institution settlement that eliminates counterparty risk and frees up trillions in trapped capital. They don’t need public chains. They don’t need DeFi speculation. They need privacy-enabled infrastructure that lets Goldman atomically settle with JPM without seeing each other’s positions. Canton Network is the only architecture solving this - programmable privacy + atomic composability at production scale. Goldman, DTCC, BNP Paribas already routing real transactions through it. DTCC launching Treasury settlement in 2026. Every atomic settlement across institutions requires burning $CC. Not optional. Not extractive. Mandatory utility - you literally cannot use the Global Synchronizer without it. Currently burning 14% of market cap annually at $6B FDV. When DTCC scales this, when repo markets route through it, when equity settlement follows - the burn rate could exceed the market cap multiple times over. The $2-3T crypto market cap has to consolidate somewhere as retail figures out most tokens are exit liquidity for VCs. Institutional blockchain infrastructure with mandatory burns on trillions in real financial flows? That’s $CC.

This is actually the most bullish thing about Canton. In any other industry, “our product is only valuable if people use it” is obvious. In crypto, it’s somehow controversial, because most tokens are designed to extract value regardless of adoption. Canton is saying the quiet part out loud: no false promises, no ICO, no VC unlocks. The token accrues value only if the network is used. If it isn’t, it should be worthless. If they’d made false promises to create exit liquidity for VCs and insiders like nearly every other crypto project, I’d run. But with $CC, there are no false promises and no VCs to dump on retail. The reason they’re comfortable stating this publicly is because they know who’s already building on it. This isn’t a whitepaper promise, it’s live infrastructure with institutional participants processing real transactions. I’ve been covering Canton for weeks now and have yet to encounter a compelling counter-argument for why it won’t be among the top-performing crypto assets from 2026 onward. The question isn’t legitimacy. It’s execution. And that’s a far better risk profile than 99% of crypto.

@synergy0421 What are your thoughts on the Canton Network and DTCC partnership?

The fact that #DTCC's internal tokenization engine (#Securrency/#ComposerX) was built and tested alongside #XDC‼️ gives the #XDC‼️ Network a massive competitive advantage. As #Nasdaq and #DTCC move toward T+0 (Instant) settlement in 2026

America lost today…

Why did 40 dollar haircuts have to be a thing once it was MY turn to became an adult. Some sick ahh shi fr 😭😭🤦🏾‍♂️

Eth is a Ponzi scheme….

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