After The Close: Building on Canton Network with Heslin Kim Part 2

Canton is positioned to become a dominant global financial infrastructure by integrating Zenith, an EVM-compatible layer that enables seamless, atomic composability for institutional and Web3 applications. By allowing developers to port existing EVM-based infrastructure without the friction of rewriting code in DAML, Zenith serves as a conduit for bringing mature DeFi protocols and institutional assets into the Canton ecosystem. This approach bypasses the risks associated with traditional bridging technology, relying instead on protocol-level consensus. With significant backing from major financial institutions like NASDAQ, S&P Global, and the DTCC, Canton aims to establish a robust network effect that could eventually rival established assets like Bitcoin. Guest Heslin Kim, a veteran in the tokenization and DLT space, highlights this strategy as a critical evolution for bridging the gap between fragmented Web3 environments and large-scale, regulated financial systems.