Zenith

They told us it was impossible. We did it anyways. Today we announce Zenith. POV: You wake up H2 2026 and Ethereum‘s application layer has fully teleported into Wall Street’s blockchain of choice. We are that protocol, now opening a direct on-ramp between the world’s largest programmable and institutional blockchain ecosystems.

Good read from @CantonFdn today, a technical walkthrough of what building on Zenith EVM looks like for both EVM developers and existing Canton/Daml builders: canton.foundation/canton-opens-d… Zth.

@CoinMarketCap Huge 👏

LATEST: 🏦 Societe Generale will deploy its EURCV and USDCV stablecoins on Canton to power tokenized collateral, repo financing, and institutional settlement workflows.

500,000+ transactions with 100% success rate and 1.5 second average latency on a stack we haven't optimized once. Every transaction routed through Canton's consensus and settled atomically. The explorer is live if you want to verify: explorer.zenith.network Mainnet in 2026 awaits.

@CantonNetwork @ZenithFdn @HeslinKim sounds clean on paper, show me it in prod at scale

The infrastructure exists and it works. @ZenithFdn delivers the execution layer that connects Ethereum developer tooling to Canton's privacy and compliance architecture, enabling atomic composability across both. @HeslinKim on what that means.

@CantonNetwork @HeslinKim 🤝

Canton has the institutional rails. Ethereum has the developer ecosystem and the composable financial primitives that traditional finance has been watching closely for years. Zenith is what connects them, without asking either side to compromise on what makes them work. Zth.

@CantonNetwork 🫡

Zenith's test network has processed 500,000+ EVM transactions with a 100% success rate and 1.5 second average latency on an unoptimized stack. Every transaction routed through Canton's Global Synchronizer with consensus-level atomicity and no additional trust assumptions. ↓

@CantonArmy We are making our best to bring @CantonNetwork to it's Zenith.

Canton’s EVM story is starting to get very real.

Information-sensitive assets need Canton’s architectural privacy. Zenith makes that rail EVM-native: unmodified Solidity apps now settle atomically, under the same consensus and confidentiality guarantees. Solving risks at the protocol level 🫡 Zth.

@0xPRIMORDiAL_ 🫰

@ZenithFdn Ah, Paris; Ville de l'Amour I can already tell it's gonna be a great event!

See you in Paris. Talking cross-VM architecture, app composability, and what it actually takes to bridge DeFi and institutional finance on the same rails. 📍 June 2–3, Louvre Palace

@reikopuls The future of AllFi 🫡

@ZenithFdn Zenith is the future of DeFi

The purpose-built infrastructure era is already operating at $9T+ monthly on Canton. Institutions aren't waiting for blockchain to mature. JPMorgan, DTCC, Goldman Sachs, Broadridge, and Visa are already operating on @CantonNetwork, running live production workflows at institutional scale. The infrastructure exists and it works. What's been missing is an execution layer that brings the composable financial primitives, pioneered on Ethereum, onto those rails without introducing the tradeoffs institutions can't accept. Zenith removes those tradeoffs. Familiar tooling for developers, native privacy and compliance for institutions, with atomic composability between the two in the same transaction on the same base layer. Zth.

@McuratorX Zth!

@ZenithFdn Zth.

@waynefong @CantonNetwork Zth 🫡

This is an important distinction most people miss when talking about “atomic swaps.” @ZenithFdn executes both legs inside the same @CantonNetwork consensus process. That changes the tradeoffs around latency, finality, composability, and settlement risk entirely.

@SupersetFinance Protocol-level atomicity is everything. 🤝🏼

"Economic vs consensus atomicity" is the cross-chain distinction that matters. Economic: smart contract guarantee, separate settlement, timelock windows = exposure Consensus: single mechanism, no window, both commit or neither For institutional stablecoin flows, this is everything.

Cross-chain infrastructure has a vocabulary problem. The word "Atomic" appears in bridge protocols, HTLC swaps and interoperability solutions of every kind. It's being used to describe mechanisms that deliver fundamentally different guarantees, and the industry isn't being precise enough about the difference. > Economic atomicity is what most bridges and cross-chain swaps deliver. The smart contract guarantees an all-or-nothing outcome at the application layer, but both legs still settle on separate chains through separate consensus mechanisms. The guarantee depends on both parties behaving rationally within timelock windows that are measured in hours. When a validator gets compromised, a chain reorgs, an attacker locks counterparty capital and simply waits, the smart contract can't protect against any of it. The window of exposure between two separate settlement events is where the damage happens. > Consensus-level atomicity is what Zenith delivers. Both legs of a transaction are processed within the same single consensus mechanism as one indivisible operation. There is no window and no timelock. The protocol itself guarantees that both legs commit together or neither does, regardless of what either party does or what the infrastructure beneath them does. For consumer applications that distinction is manageable, but for institutional finance moving real capital across chain boundaries, it's the difference between infrastructure you can depend on and infrastructure that works until something goes wrong. The EVM execution adds a few hundred milliseconds to Canton's native finality time, that's the entire overhead. Compared to timelock windows measured in hours, the latency difference alone changes what's possible to build. We wrote the full breakdown about two flavours of atomic that are worth understanding clearly before you build on either: zenith.network/resources/blog… Zth.

@SuontamaJulia Zth.

@ZenithFdn Atomicity cooked in the protocol is the only way to do it for institutions wanting both legs. Zth.

@cantonnews_org Soon:

500,000+ EVM transactions have now been routed through Canton Network in @ZenithFdn's internal test environment. 100% success rate. 1.5s average latency. Unoptimized stack. Read the full story on CantonNews ↓ cantonnews.org/zenith-surpass…

@SuontamaJulia soo ready 🫡

We are ready to burn canton-network:native

Zenith committed to @CantonNetwork in Q1 2025, coming off ZK proving work for the Ethereum Foundation, investigating RISC-V for Canton, and eventually landing on a ground-up co-architecture with Digital Asset's CPO and CTO. 500,000 EVM transactions later, with a 100% success rate and 1.5 second average latency on an unoptimized stack, the architecture that came out of that process is working exactly as designed. Full story in the article. Zth.