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The blockchain ecosystem is home to several highly successful smart contract protocols, which makes the arrival of newcomers highly competitive. Canton Network is one of the newest ‘next generation layer one’ to vie for users and capital from incumbents like Ethereum and Solana. Alongside SUI and Aptos, Canton’s rise challenges the assumption that we have too many blockchains. The rise of @CantonNetwork may seem fast, but it’s been a decade in the making. A decade of learning from the mistakes of others…@gazza_jenks and I chat with the co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset, @YuvalRooz, to hear the origin story of Canton.https://t.co/6koyyOsnht — Robert Baggs (@rkbaggs) November 24, 2025 Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction daily show, Yuval Rooz, co-founder of Digital Asset, recounted the backstory behind the Canton Network, which opted out of an initial coin offering (ICO) during its decade-long development journey to where it is today.  “Our thesis was focused on serving large-scale institutions. We’ve been very patient. We refused to do an ICO. We refuse to do a token pre-mine. We’ve really thought about the tokenomics,” Rooz told Cointelegraph. “Every time we thought we were ready, someone else made a mistake. We were like, what would happen if we were to make this mistake? That wouldn’t be good.” The Canton Network is designed for financial institution utility, enabling secure, interoperable, and privacy-preserving transactions. Digital Asset, the company that created Canton Network, describes the protocol’s architecture as a ‘network of networks’ aimed at real-world asset tokenization, trading and settlement.  The protocol and its native token grabbed major headlines in 2025. Digital Asset closed a $135 million funding round in June to continue developing the Canton ecosystem and spearhead RWA tokenization on the protocol. Then came biotech company Tharimmune, which raised $540 million in private funding to build a…

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