Takeaways from Canton Summit NYC: - tons of suits everywhere, feels like the mix was 65% finance 35% DeFi - privacy privacy privacy - canton founders are chads, both Eric & Yuval are well spoken and resonate well with institutions - epic venue in FiDi - most asset managers are all very bullish composability with tokenized assets - vault companies are struggling to raise series B rounds b/c of little revenue - stablecoins are such an obvious snowball trend that they almost aren’t talked about as much as you’d think with TradFi - trillions are coming onchain - 24/7 trading is clearly the focus of the finance industry to solve urgently - canton pulls an insane crowd - some asset mngrs want to be able to buy a yard of T-bills onchain by 2028 Overall extremely positive on the convergence of finance and digital assets.