Zenith
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Zenith is the EVM and SVM execution layer for Canton Network, advancing real-world capital markets initiatives on-chain.
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JUST IN: Zenith has joined the DTC Digital Assets Solutions Industry Working Group as a participating member, alongside 100+ firms including BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Nasdaq, and NYSE 🏛. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's subsidiary, the Depository Trust Company (DTC), is the custodian behind $114 trillion in U.S. securities. The working group is building and testing the infrastructure to bring that market on-chain, with a full launch targeted for October 2026. Zenith joins as a Canton Network Tier-1 Super Validator and developer of an Ethereum-compatible execution environment for Canton, contributing its perspective on blockchain infrastructure and application development alongside other market participants. In June, Zenith joined Japan's JGB repo working group targeting the $1.6 trillion JGB repo market. Today's announcement is the U.S. counterpart. The conviction is the same on both sides of the Pacific. Zth.
Zenith360,556 views • 1 month ago
Zenith is not a bridge connecting two environments. It is not an L2 posting state roots back to a base layer. Zenith is an EVM extension to Canton's core protocol. The practical difference: a Canton-native application can consume an ERC-20 token, bring it to Canton Network, use it in a workflow, and return the output to the EVM side without writing specific EVM logic or running a separate node. Both environments are covered by Canton's Global Synchronizer: sequencing, mediation, and finality handled by the same consensus mechanism across both sides simultaneously. Norbert Vadas explains the full architecture in his Indexed Podcast episode: Zth.
Zenith452,289 views • 2 months ago
Two years ago, internal teams at Digital Asset thought bringing EVM natively to Canton was technically impossible. Earlier this month, Canton distributed 25,424,478 $CC to Zenith for proving it works end-to-end. Zenith is a native extension of Canton's consensus into the EVM execution environment, opening Canton Network's institutional rails to Ethereum and Solana developers without rewrites, bridges, or learning a new language from scratch. Canton is where JPMorgan, DTCC, Goldman Sachs, Broadridge, and Visa process $9T+ in monthly settlement volume. We were built to realize Canton's own Polyglot vision, bringing Solidity and Rust developers natively into that infrastructure without asking either side to compromise on what makes them work. Two milestones complete. Both milestones were independently evaluated by Canton's governance committees, and the external_call() primitive enabling the atomic composability is now merged into Canton's repository. What comes next: public Testnet arriving soon, the external_call() primitive rolling out to Canton Mainnet with the Canton 3.6 upgrade, and institutional pilots already underway including Zenith's participation in Progmat's JGB working group alongside MUFG, Mizuho, BlackRock Japan, and State Street, targeting Japan's $1.6 trillion JGB repo market. The wall between DeFi and institutional finance is coming down. Zenith is where developers walk through. Zth.
Zenith366,233 views • 2 months ago
JUST IN: The Zenith EVM Testnet is live and open to the public. For the first time, 31800+ Ethereum developers can deploy standard Solidity applications that compose atomically with Canton Network - the institutional blockchain where DTCC, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Visa process $9T+ in monthly settlement volume. Point your existing tools at the Zenith RPC endpoint and deploy. Your contracts don't change, your tooling doesn't change, and every transaction is finalized through Canton's consensus with deterministic finality in seconds. The external_call() primitive enables atomic composability with Canton-native Daml workflows directly, and the Linked Transactions explorer shows you the full lifecycle of every transaction across both environments in one place. Zenith is already contributing to two of the most significant tokenization initiatives running on Canton: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation 's DTC Digital Assets Solutions Industry Working Group bringing $114 trillion in U.S. securities on-chain, and Progmat,Inc.'s Tokenized JGB working group targeting Japan's $1.6 trillion JGB repo market alongside MUFG, Mizuho, and BlackRock Japan. This is the first public venue where Ethereum's programmability and Canton's institutional rails meet. Get started: Explore: Full announcement: To test atomic cross-environment workflows with the Zenith Gateway, reach out to us directly: [email protected] Zth.
Zenith34,895 views • 1 month ago
JUST IN: Zenith has been invited to join Progmat's Tokenized JGB and On-chain Repo Working Group, a consortium bringing together MUFG, Mizuho, Sumitomo Mitsui, BlackRock Japan, State Street, SBI Securities, Japan Exchange Group, and other major players, conducting a joint study on bringing Japan's $1.6 trillion JGB (Japanese Government Bond) repo market on-chain. Japan's JGB repo market is one of the largest in the world, processing ¥250-270 trillion annually and representing roughly 10% of the global government bond-backed repo market. Today it settles a business day after a trade is executed, operates within traditional market hours, and requires manual processes at every step. The working group is targeting same-day settlement, 24/7 availability, and cross-border access, enabling fully on-chain repo transactions using tokenized JGB collateral paired with stablecoin cash legs via lending protocols. A comprehensive report is expected in October 2026, with issuance pilots targeted for later this year. Read the full announcement: Zth.
Zenith105,335 views • 4 months ago
General purpose blockchains are dead. Ethereum and Solana pioneered DeFi and built the world's most active programmable financial ecosystem: 76M+ deployed smart contracts, 127M active wallets, and $160B in DeFi TVL. That foundation is real and it matters, but the institutions moving trillions on-chain chose different infrastructure entirely. Canton Network already processes $9T in monthly institutional settlement, DTCC is tokenizing U.S. Treasuries on it, Broadridge processes $8T+ in monthly repo on it, JPMorgan and HSBC are running production operations on it. These two worlds weren't competing, they were building in different languages for different requirements, with no native connection between them. Our recent report (p.19) cites Canton's Polyglot Whitepaper on what was needed: "Canton Network aims to apply the best parts of crypto and DeFi to traditional finance, and to break down the currently hard barrier between those two worlds." Zenith is what makes that breakdown real. Solidity developers deploy existing code without modification, EVM execution routes natively through Canton's consensus, and DeFi protocols become atomically composable with the institutional assets and capital flows that have been operating on Canton for years, without asking either side to compromise on what makes them work. Dive into the full “Canton or Ethereum” report: Zth.
Zenith26,456 views • 4 months ago
Cross-chain infrastructure has a vocabulary problem. The word "Atomic" appears in bridge protocols, HTLC swaps and interoperability solutions of every kind. It's being used to describe mechanisms that deliver fundamentally different guarantees, and the industry isn't being precise enough about the difference. > Economic atomicity is what most bridges and cross-chain swaps deliver. The smart contract guarantees an all-or-nothing outcome at the application layer, but both legs still settle on separate chains through separate consensus mechanisms. The guarantee depends on both parties behaving rationally within timelock windows that are measured in hours. When a validator gets compromised, a chain reorgs, an attacker locks counterparty capital and simply waits, the smart contract can't protect against any of it. The window of exposure between two separate settlement events is where the damage happens. > Consensus-level atomicity is what Zenith delivers. Both legs of a transaction are processed within the same single consensus mechanism as one indivisible operation. There is no window and no timelock. The protocol itself guarantees that both legs commit together or neither does, regardless of what either party does or what the infrastructure beneath them does. For consumer applications that distinction is manageable, but for institutional finance moving real capital across chain boundaries, it's the difference between infrastructure you can depend on and infrastructure that works until something goes wrong. The EVM execution adds a few hundred milliseconds to Canton's native finality time, that's the entire overhead. Compared to timelock windows measured in hours, the latency difference alone changes what's possible to build. We wrote the full breakdown about two flavours of atomic that are worth understanding clearly before you build on either: Zth.
Zenith21,333 views • 5 months ago
Canton processes $9T+ in monthly settlement volume. 600+ institutions including JPMorgan, DTCC, Goldman Sachs, Broadridge, and Visa run production operations on it. Until Zenith, the only way to access that ecosystem as a developer was to learn Daml, a powerful language purpose-built for institutional contracts and entirely unfamiliar to most of the developer community that built DeFi. Zenith brings EVM execution to Canton Network with SVM coming next. Existing Solidity applications deploy on Canton without a single line of code changed. Hardhat, Foundry, MetaMask, the full Ethereum developer toolkit works exactly as expected. Every EVM transaction routes natively through Canton's Global Synchronizer, composing atomically with Daml-native contracts, tokenized assets, and institutional workflows already live on the network. This isn't EVM compatibility layered on top of Canton through a bridge or a separate settlement mechanism, it's native execution inside Canton's own consensus, both the EVM leg and the Canton leg of every transaction committing simultaneously, with Canton's determinism guarantees maintained and no additional trust assumptions introduced. Zth.
Zenith11,323 views • 3 months ago
Until now, accessing Canton Network as a developer meant learning Daml. For most of the Ethereum ecosystem, that was a wall and the institutional infrastructure on the other side of it remained out of reach regardless of how good your product was. Zenith changes that. Your existing Solidity contracts work on Zenith EVM without modification with the same tooling and one RPC endpoint change. The developer experience is EVM-equivalent: Hardhat, Foundry, MetaMask, all working exactly as expected. What changes is what your application can now touch: Canton-native assets, Daml-based settlement workflows, and institutional counterparties running live production operations on the same ledger. Zenith isn't a bridge or a rollup, but an execution environment designed in a close collaboration with Digital Asset, the creator of Canton Network. EVM transactions are wrapped into native Canton transactions, validated by every Canton validator, and settled with the same determinism guarantees as Daml native. Canton Foundation published the full technical walkthrough of what this means for EVM developers and existing Canton/Daml builders alike: Testnet is coming. Register interest or follow for updates: Zth.
Zenith15,283 views • 5 months ago
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