🚨NEW EPISODE: How Canton Unlocks Institutional DeFi with Ethereum🚨
Today we're joined by
@NorbertVadas, Head of Product at Zenith (
@ZenithFdn), to explore how
@ethereum compatibility is coming to
@CantonNetwork and what that means for institutional finance.
In this episode we're discussing:
- What Zenith is building on Canton
- Canton’s privacy-first architecture
- DAML and Canton smart contracts
- Why EVM compatibility matters
- Bridging Canton assets into Ethereum
- CIP-56 assets explained
- Unified liquidity for institutional assets
- Bringing DeFi to Canton
- Rollup-inspired architecture
- State management and scalability
- Institutional adoption and real-world assets
- Mainnet roadmap and what's next
- And much more—enjoy!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:51) What is Zenith?
(04:04) Norbert's background
(06:02) Why build Zenith?
(08:22) Understanding DAML
(12:45) Why EVM compatibility?
(17:14) CIP-56 assets explained
(27:43) How Zenith executes
(39:13) RWA lending example
(42:15) Bringing DeFi to Canton
(45:58) State growth & scalability
(50:14) Who is using Zenith?
(56:46) What's next?
(1:01:28) Mainnet roadmap
(1:03:24) Outro