Adam Keller

Son of God ✝️ | Husband | Girl Dad x3 | 4x National Champion | Once a Bison, Always a Bison

[Yuval Rooz @YuvalRooz]

Twelve years ago, @CantonNetwork began with a belief: the world’s financial infrastructure could move onchain without compromising privacy, control, or trust.

Today, the DTCC processed real production trades using DTC-tokenized U.S. Treasury and equity securities on Canton.

Not a proof of concept. Not a simulation. Real assets moving through real institutional workflows, with more than 30 firms participating.

This is bigger than any single transaction. It marks the shift from exploring tokenized markets to operating them, and establishes the foundation for a new generation of financial infrastructure.

It’s a defining moment for our industry, and only the beginning.

https://t.co/YP5CZnO8mP

[Yuval Rooz @YuvalRooz]

Almost 12 years ago, I left @DRWTrading with @wesarn_real to start @digitalasset. @ShaulKfir joined us shortly after. The name felt right. The idea was simple but audacious: build a global settlement system that is asset agnostic. One that doesn’t eliminate banks, exchanges, and intermediaries, but tears down the barriers keeping people from accessing assets and settling at a fraction of today’s cost. A new financial world, built for the end consumer.

We knew institutional adoption was the path. We just didn’t know how long it would take.

We failed. We made bad decisions. There are things we would have done differently. But we never let go of our North Star, even when people around us were convinced we had no idea what we were doing. That focus, conviction, and most of all, patience, led us to launching @CantonNetwork. And the results speak for themselves.

Today is a new chapter in that story.

I’m proud to announce that @a16zcrypto is leading our latest round, joined by some of the giants of the global financial system, including @ABNAMRO, ADIA, @apolloglobal, @BNPParibasCIB, @Broadridge, @citsecurities, @CMEVentures, @cbventures, Green Wolf Asset Management, @Hanwha_Official, @HSBC, @icapitalnetwork, @LCVentures, @OptiverGlobal, @polychain, @R136Ventures, @SPGlobal, @sbigroup, @smash_capital, @SoFi, @Tradeweb, and @WilliamBlair, and others we’ll be naming shortly. Twelve years ago, I could not have imagined building alongside partners of this caliber.

$CC today processes the highest fees of any institutional blockchain network. And we’re just getting started. What’s coming later this year is just as exciting.

None of this happens without the builders, the ones who show up to weekly tokenomics meetings, dial into operations subcommittees, spend nights and weekends building apps on Canton, and show up on @X to cheer this ecosystem forward. You are not just supporters. You are partners. I’m honored to be on this journey with you.

On a personal note: @a16z hits differently for me. Ben’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things was one I kept coming back to during the hard stretches. Having his firm lead this round is meaningful in a way that’s hard to put into words. So I’ll let him do it:

“The hard thing isn’t setting a big, audacious goal. The hard thing is spending sleepless nights trying to achieve it. The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare. Motivating yourself by watching YouTube shorts or Instagram reels isn’t the hard thing. The hard thing is working every day and being consistent even if you feel like shit. The hard thing isn’t boasting you could achieve anything. The hard thing is working like hell to achieve something. The hard thing isn’t believing in yourself. The hard thing is getting things done when nobody believes in you, even when you doubt yourself. The hard thing isn’t telling yourself that you must achieve the impossible. The hard thing is toiling hard every day for years despite knowing that success is too uncertain.”

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[Mountain West @MountainWest]

𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟.

Welcome to Mountain West Football, @NDSUfootball! 🦬

[Emmett | canton.network @Emmett_]

Some @CantonNetwork powder hounds @A_Kell17

[Adam Keller @A_Kell17]

@Emmett_ @CantonNetwork Quadrillions!! Great post man.

[Dom Izzo @DomIzzoWDAY]

#NDSUSeasonOpenerCountdown: #2 (x3): The most improbable 2-point conversion in Bison history.

2013 FCS Championship, off a bobbled hold, kicker Adam Keller throws it defensive end Mike Hardie in the endzone for the two-point conversion.

Play ended up on SportsCenter that night.

[Adam Keller @A_Kell17]

@CantonNetwork Selective disclosure 🙌🏻 This is why Canton is the L1 of Wall Street.

[Adam Keller @A_Kell17]

@imhmnxyz Adam_keller

[Nick Diller @_Nick_Diller]

Yesterday, I watched my best friend since middle school @A_Kell17 and his wife get baptized.

He’s not only my best friend but has been one of my biggest supporters throughout my entrepreneurial journey and was my first “client” when I wasn’t really even a coach yet.

I’ll let him share his full testimony when the time is right in the future (stay tuned 👀) but his story is one that I am inspired by daily.

He was an athlete his entire life, went to college and was a part of 4 football National Championship teams, and even got a few NFL tryouts.

When his sports career ultimately ended, he fell into the trap that almost everyone else falls into (myself included).

He settled into the work hard/party hard, weekend warrior phase of life.

And he stayed on that path for a number of years where he would eat healthy enough and move enough to not to get super overweight but he never prioritized his health.

I came down to Jax to visit him in October of 2021 and during that visit told him about wanting to quit my corporate job and go all in on being a health coach.

I told him I need a test client to prove I can help and he said yes right away.

We started out small with drinking enough water, prioritizing protein, getting more steps, lifting 3x per week - all of the stuff you read about out on here 100x a day (because it works).

But he started to feel better and more energized so he kept taking on more when it comes to his health.

While it’s been over 1.5 years since we’ve officially worked together, he has continued to make his health a top priority in his life.

He’s followed a strength training program for over a year for the first time in his life without a coach, is significantly stronger now then he was during his playing days, and looks the best he’s ever looked.

But more importantly than how he looks or his numbers in the gym, he has taken all aspects of his life to the next level over the past 2.5 years.

He’s an awesome husband, amazing dad to 2 lucky girls, incredible friend, crushes it at work, and is accountable to everyone else in his life that he cares about.

He has become a true leader of his household.

Adam is a prime example of what can happen when you want more for yourself and start to live a more intentional life.

And the best first step you can take towards a more intentional life is make your health the top priority.

[Adam Keller @A_Kell17]

@shahh

[K-State Athletics @kstatesports]

"One of the nation's premier athletic directors"

@KSTATEADGT is here to stay

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[Nick Diller @_Nick_Diller]

Today is my 30th birthday.

Last month I quit my $125k/yr job.

I’m currently sitting on a patio in Athens, Greece.

I have a one way flight booked at the end of August to go live in Argentina.

What the hell did I just do:

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

"Do you think you can win the Masters this week?"

"I do."

[Nick Diller @_Nick_Diller]

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[Nick Diller @_Nick_Diller]

You can either take the time to learn what is going on in crypto or you can get left behind.

There's a brand new financial system being built.

[Adam Keller @A_Kell17]

@_Nick_Diller LFG Dill!!!

[Do Kwon 🌕 @stablekwon]

Lunatics - speak not of how luna beat down others in market cap, but how many communities we can raise up

Everyone deserves decentralized money, and the moon shines brighter when everyone wins 🌕

[Adam Keller @A_Kell17]

@_Nick_Diller You doing this barefoot?

[Nick Diller @_Nick_Diller]

Decided on a company name

Vita Health & Nutrition

Vita is Greek for life

I’m not the guy who will promise to get you to lose 20lbs in 30 days.

Give me 6-12 months of your time & I will help you create habits that make you look/feel better than ever & stay that way, forever.

[Adam Keller @A_Kell17]

This guy right here has been my accountability partner and has helped me along the way to make incremental strides toward living my absolute best life. Love it Dill!

[Nick Diller @_Nick_Diller]

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