Financial institutions are moving onto blockchain infrastructure built to keep their transactions private. @YuvalRooz, Co-Founder and CEO of @digitalasset, joins the Real-World Asset Summit Brooklyn 2026 speaker lineup. The company created the technology behind the @CantonNetwork, a public L1 with institutional-grade privacy and selective data sharing; and helped establish the foundation that governs it. Banks, exchanges, and asset managers use it to issue, settle, and mobilize instruments onchain. Rooz co-founded Digital Asset in 2014 after years running algorithmic trading desks, and he sits on the CFTC advisory subcommittee on digital asset markets. His position has held throughout: infrastructure has to be designed around privacy, compliance, and interoperability.

@binance @The_DTCC @Visa @circle @apolloglobal @Nomura @mizuhobank @KKR_Co @Citi @chainlink 12/ Our roadmap view: 🥇 Near-term: $CC & institution-centric networks lead (privacy + institutional readiness) 🥈 Long-term: Open networks like $ETH & $SOL drive broader adoption as privacy tech matures + larger TAM via open access

1/ Tokenization is poised to transform capital markets Grayscale Research believes $ETH $SOL $CC $BNB $AVAX $LINK are well positioned to benefit from more than $300T+ in assets moving onchain 🧵↓

.@temple_ny just raised the bar again. Two major moves in quick succession. First, Temple participated in one of the first onchain US Treasury repo trades on Canton through @The_DTCC's tokenization service. A tokenized US Treasury was financed against @circle's USDCx via Temple's RFQ platform and settled atomically onchain, with delivery-versus-payment in real time. Second, a partnership with @BitGo to expand qualified custody for tokenized assets on Canton, bringing regulated cold storage and settlement to institutional clients. Temple keeps proving why it's the backbone of institutional trading on Canton. Representing over 40% of all network traffic and nearing $330 million in total volume, now adding regulated custody and live Treasury repo execution. Temple continues to lead.

A @CantonNetwork first. @canton_loop is now the first and only wallet where every participant is multi-party-hosted, onboarded to 5N and two co-validator nodes, built with MPCH and @digitalasset No single point of failure. No single point of trust. Verify it on-chain via Lighthouse 👇 Proud of this team @FiveNorthHQ Grateful to the Canton ecosystem. Building the most secure infrastructure on the network. 🔒 And there’s more coming this coming week… 👀

Digital Asset has expanded its funding round with Shinhan Financial Group and @SCVenturesDNA as investors. Their participation brings global reach and ecosystem connectivity to Canton's growth as onchain infrastructure for regulated markets. Full PR:

Canton Network 🌐 Not trillions. Quadrillions. @CantonStrategic explains how the Canton Network is being built alongside institutions like DTCC, Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, JPMorgan, and LSEG. "It's not about talk. You have to deliver results." — @MarkWendlandCSH

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.”