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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... show more

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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.

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.

Zenith

11,323 views • 1 month 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.

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.

Zenith

15,283 views • 3 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.

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.

Zenith

362,206 views • 9 days 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.

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.

Zenith

21,333 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.

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.

Zenith

26,195 views • 2 months ago

Most blockchains ask banks to adapt to crypto. Metal Blockchain was built the other way around. A BSA-ready Layer 0 where compliance is the architecture - sovereign subnets that can require validators in a specific country, or run fully private with the ledger visible only to them. An EVM chain live today. Bitcoin and Antelope VMs in the works. Blockchain for banking, from Layer 0 up.

Most blockchains ask banks to adapt to crypto. Metal Blockchain was built the other way around. A BSA-ready Layer 0 where compliance is the architecture - sovereign subnets that can require validators in a specific country, or run fully private with the ledger visible only to them. An EVM chain live today. Bitcoin and Antelope VMs in the works. Blockchain for banking, from Layer 0 up.

Metal Blockchain

16,389 views • 2 months ago

TOKENFI TOKEN LAUNCHER IS LIVE ON MAINNET IT’S OFFICIAL! TokenFi Token Launcher is live on the mainnet of five top EVM blockchains: Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, and opBNB. With TokenFi Token Launcher, ANYONE can create a fungible crypto token (ERC-20), NFT (ERC-721), or Multi-Token (ERC-1155) in just a few clicks, regardless of their crypto experience. The TokenFi platform and framework has been thoroughly audited and is being monitored in real-time by industry-leading blockchain security auditor Certik. This means that the tokens you create with TokenFi are safe and audited. TokenFi Token Launcher is powered by $TOKEN as its main utility token, and every successful transaction on the Ethereum and BNB blockchains buys and burns $TOKEN, enhancing its utility and making it perpetually deflationary as adoption of the platform grows. TokenFi Token Launcher aims to be the dominant token creation platform on EVM blockchains, and to this effect, we will be rolling out the platform on dozens of additional EVM blockchains in the coming weeks and months. You can learn more about TokenFi Token Launcher here:

TOKENFI TOKEN LAUNCHER IS LIVE ON MAINNET IT’S OFFICIAL! TokenFi Token Launcher is live on the mainnet of five top EVM blockchains: Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, and opBNB. With TokenFi Token Launcher, ANYONE can create a fungible crypto token (ERC-20), NFT (ERC-721), or Multi-Token (ERC-1155) in just a few clicks, regardless of their crypto experience. The TokenFi platform and framework has been thoroughly audited and is being monitored in real-time by industry-leading blockchain security auditor Certik. This means that the tokens you create with TokenFi are safe and audited. TokenFi Token Launcher is powered by $TOKEN as its main utility token, and every successful transaction on the Ethereum and BNB blockchains buys and burns $TOKEN, enhancing its utility and making it perpetually deflationary as adoption of the platform grows. TokenFi Token Launcher aims to be the dominant token creation platform on EVM blockchains, and to this effect, we will be rolling out the platform on dozens of additional EVM blockchains in the coming weeks and months. You can learn more about TokenFi Token Launcher here:

TokenFi

1,288,989 views • 2 years ago

"We're not anti-bundling, we're just bundling so it doesn't extract value." .Justin 🅿️ebis explains solana:Em6ajM2xwou6y2YkfqAxsr5zMjmLepbJUtBaEzCypump's bundling mechanism... Built as a layer on top of ethereum:0x07f5b6823751c2e2cd4560f28af75ff887102241, it buys the bundle and routes it into a locked vault with no withdrawal function and buy/sell limits on both sides - The goal is to make bundling an accretive mechanism - generates long-term fees for holders, keeping teams incentivized without token selling

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MCG

14,200 views • 7 days ago

You can now move $QUBIC to Ethereum and back. No custodian. No middleman. QBridge is live, and we just dropped a full tutorial showing you exactly how to use it. In under 3 minutes you'll learn how to: → Connect your wallet (MetaMask Snap, WalletConnect, or seed) → Bridge QUBIC to Ethereum as wQUBIC (ERC-20) → Add the wQUBIC token to your EVM wallet Built by VOTTUN🌐🔗. Non-custodial. 2-of-3 multisig. Audited by Certik. 📷 Bridge: 📷 wQUBIC CA: 0xa989EDfee575425904514D4090846a5AFD58F225 Full tutorial 👇

You can now move $QUBIC to Ethereum and back. No custodian. No middleman. QBridge is live, and we just dropped a full tutorial showing you exactly how to use it. In under 3 minutes you'll learn how to: → Connect your wallet (MetaMask Snap, WalletConnect, or seed) → Bridge QUBIC to Ethereum as wQUBIC (ERC-20) → Add the wQUBIC token to your EVM wallet Built by VOTTUN🌐🔗. Non-custodial. 2-of-3 multisig. Audited by Certik. 📷 Bridge: 📷 wQUBIC CA: 0xa989EDfee575425904514D4090846a5AFD58F225 Full tutorial 👇

Qubic

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'This is not a job done, everyone home, and both sides claim victory. It is just an extension of the space in which they can talk.' Mark Stone reacts to Pakistan's PM's claim that the U.S. and Iran have reached a final peace agreement 📺 Sky 501

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Sky News

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White House Karoline Leavitt addresses "misinformation" surrounding discussions around a Russia-Ukraine peace plan: "The idea that the United States of America is not engaging with both sides equally in this war, to bring it to an end, is a complete and total fallacy."

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Fox News

112,448 views • 9 months ago

Today LayerZero is introducing a new claiming mechanism called Proof-of-Donation, which will result in ~$18.5 million donated to Protocol Guild, a collective funding mechanism for Ethereum developers. Protocol Guild and Ethereum's core developers have been fundamental to LayerZero's growth, driving the proliferation of the EVM, Ethereum's L2-centric roadmap, and the broader crypto ecosystem. By donating to Protocol Guild, eligible recipients show long-term alignment with the LayerZero protocol and a commitment to the future of crypto. To claim ZRO, users must donate $0.10 in USDC, USDT, or native ETH per ZRO. This small donation goes directly to the Protocol Guild. The LayerZero Foundation is matching all donations up to $10 million. For details on claim information and Proof-of-Donation, read here: .

Today LayerZero is introducing a new claiming mechanism called Proof-of-Donation, which will result in ~$18.5 million donated to Protocol Guild, a collective funding mechanism for Ethereum developers. Protocol Guild and Ethereum's core developers have been fundamental to LayerZero's growth, driving the proliferation of the EVM, Ethereum's L2-centric roadmap, and the broader crypto ecosystem. By donating to Protocol Guild, eligible recipients show long-term alignment with the LayerZero protocol and a commitment to the future of crypto. To claim ZRO, users must donate $0.10 in USDC, USDT, or native ETH per ZRO. This small donation goes directly to the Protocol Guild. The LayerZero Foundation is matching all donations up to $10 million. For details on claim information and Proof-of-Donation, read here: .

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1,822,304 views • 2 years ago

Some men are sick in the head. An orgasm is not consent. It does not erase coercion, force or rape. This is misogynistic, degrading and utterly contemptible by male supremacist & anti-feminist Andrew Wilson. His rhetoric is not “just an opinion” or clever logic. It feeds a dangerous myth that can minimise sexual violence, discredit victims and make rape easier to rationalise.

Some men are sick in the head. An orgasm is not consent. It does not erase coercion, force or rape. This is misogynistic, degrading and utterly contemptible by male supremacist & anti-feminist Andrew Wilson. His rhetoric is not “just an opinion” or clever logic. It feeds a dangerous myth that can minimise sexual violence, discredit victims and make rape easier to rationalise.

Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu

12,184 views • 16 days ago

What wisdom pushes someone to do such a podcast that brings ridicule to both parties, where do you put an end to it, after how many interviews? What is the end game? It will cut both ways, the interviewer is not a therapist but in business, you are the product. Chesaa!!

What wisdom pushes someone to do such a podcast that brings ridicule to both parties, where do you put an end to it, after how many interviews? What is the end game? It will cut both ways, the interviewer is not a therapist but in business, you are the product. Chesaa!!

George T. Diano

40,423 views • 7 months ago

Base just launched something that changes how AI agents interact with blockchain. It's called Base MCP. Here's what it actually does 🧵 Base MCP is an open-source MCP server built by Coinbase for the Base network. It connects AI clients, Claude, ChatGPT, to Base Network. You type a natural language prompt. The agent prepares the transaction. You approve it. Done. Your keys never touch the server. Nothing moves on-chain without your explicit sign-off. you can use it to Track portfolio balances across Base and any Base Account supported EVM chain. View transaction history. Send funds Swap tokens Use supported apps and protocols on Base through skill plugins Pay for x402 enabled services To test it, I connected it to BlockLottery, an on-chain lottery protocol with NFT tickets and VRF-powered draws. Two questions to the agent: → "What lotteries are open right now?" Queried the factory contract. Matched the partner dashboard exactly. → "Check this wallet's portfolio." Scanned the chain, handled RPC limits, returned a clean breakdown. Spot on. This is what crypto-native AI tooling looks like. Not hype. An actual working MCP server, launched May 26, 2026. Base MCP docs: BlockLottery: Base Build Base #blockchain #AI #Web3

Base just launched something that changes how AI agents interact with blockchain. It's called Base MCP. Here's what it actually does 🧵 Base MCP is an open-source MCP server built by Coinbase for the Base network. It connects AI clients, Claude, ChatGPT, to Base Network. You type a natural language prompt. The agent prepares the transaction. You approve it. Done. Your keys never touch the server. Nothing moves on-chain without your explicit sign-off. you can use it to Track portfolio balances across Base and any Base Account supported EVM chain. View transaction history. Send funds Swap tokens Use supported apps and protocols on Base through skill plugins Pay for x402 enabled services To test it, I connected it to BlockLottery, an on-chain lottery protocol with NFT tickets and VRF-powered draws. Two questions to the agent: → "What lotteries are open right now?" Queried the factory contract. Matched the partner dashboard exactly. → "Check this wallet's portfolio." Scanned the chain, handled RPC limits, returned a clean breakdown. Spot on. This is what crypto-native AI tooling looks like. Not hype. An actual working MCP server, launched May 26, 2026. Base MCP docs: BlockLottery: Base Build Base #blockchain #AI #Web3

BlockLottery

11,671 views • 3 months ago

"It's very much a one-size-fits-all solution. When you're building a mobile app you build it for Android and iOS, we're building it for EVM and for SVM" Rand, founder of Zama, on why core infrastructure has to be cross-chain from the start "There's a version for EVM that works with any EVM chain, Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Binance, and then there's a Solana version for SVM. The protocol is designed to be cross-chain on day one. There isn't going to be a different version on every chain, there's just going to be one encryption layer" "You've got confidential assets, shielded USDC on Ethereum, and you can move it shielded to Polygon and Solana. It solves the interoperability issues, even of transactions and bridges, just by using the layer" "Whenever you're building core infrastructure today, you have to build it cross-chain by design. Liquidity is fragmented, people have money on Solana, they have money on Ethereum. Just because you're doing it confidentially shouldn't mean you have worse access than someone using blockchain today. The baseline is what people have today, on top of which we add confidentiality. We cannot make things worse than they are, otherwise people are just not going to use it"

"It's very much a one-size-fits-all solution. When you're building a mobile app you build it for Android and iOS, we're building it for EVM and for SVM" Rand, founder of Zama, on why core infrastructure has to be cross-chain from the start "There's a version for EVM that works with any EVM chain, Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Binance, and then there's a Solana version for SVM. The protocol is designed to be cross-chain on day one. There isn't going to be a different version on every chain, there's just going to be one encryption layer" "You've got confidential assets, shielded USDC on Ethereum, and you can move it shielded to Polygon and Solana. It solves the interoperability issues, even of transactions and bridges, just by using the layer" "Whenever you're building core infrastructure today, you have to build it cross-chain by design. Liquidity is fragmented, people have money on Solana, they have money on Ethereum. Just because you're doing it confidentially shouldn't mean you have worse access than someone using blockchain today. The baseline is what people have today, on top of which we add confidentiality. We cannot make things worse than they are, otherwise people are just not going to use it"

The Wolf Of All Streets

33,692 views • 1 month ago