Zenith

Zenith is the EVM and SVM execution layer for Canton Network, advancing real-world capital markets initiatives on-chain.

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

They told us it was impossible. We did it anyways. Today we announce Zenith.

POV: You wake up H2 2026 and Ethereum‘s application layer has fully teleported into Wall Street’s blockchain of choice. We are that protocol, now opening a direct on-ramp between the world’s largest programmable and institutional blockchain ecosystems.

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@Shakespeare_Red gZenith! 🚀

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

DeFi spent a decade building the financial primitives that institutional finance has been watching closely: lending protocols, AMMs, collateral management, yield mechanics.

At the same time, institutional finance was building the infrastructure DeFi lacked - privacy, compliance, settlement at scale - on rails that most DeFi developers couldn't reach.

Zenith is the connection between them. As Canton's official EVM (and soon SVM) execution layer, Zenith gives every DeFi protocol built on Ethereum direct atomic composability with Canton's institutional ecosystem. In a single transaction, a Canton-native asset can move to Zenith, be used as collateral in a lending protocol, generate yield, swap to another asset, and settle back on @CantonNetwork, all within the same consensus mechanism, with no bridge risk and no window of exposure between steps.

@GArentoft breaks down what that looks like from the inside in EDAS Payments Day in Miami.

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[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@cantonnews_org @Vocal_Creators Great to see the deep dive live! One RPC change and Solidity devs get native access to Canton’s institutional rails with full atomic composability. This is the onramp we’ve been building 👏

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

For years, building on @CantonNetwork meant learning Daml, a powerful language purpose-built for institutional financial contracts and entirely unfamiliar to most of the Ethereum developer ecosystem.

That changed with Zenith. The access point for 31,800+ Solidity developers to Canton's institutional infrastructure is now one RPC endpoint change.

This independent piece by Matthew Haws via @Vocal_Creators on @cantonnews_org covers what that looks like in practice: the developer experience, the tooling, and what becomes possible when Solidity applications run natively on the rails where Goldman Sachs, DTCC, and Broadridge already operate.

Worth a read: https://t.co/jiqoQkZwG2
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[CantonNews @cantonnews_org]

Solidity developers can build on Canton Network through Zenith, an EVM compatibility layer bringing Ethereum tooling to institutional blockchain infrastructure.

A deep dive by Matthew Haws via @Vocal_Creators.
Read it on CantonNews ↓
https://t.co/OJhTTzMyca

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@Veeekthorr Helping AllFi moving forward 🫡
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[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@Cashen_cc @CantonFdn Welcome! Looking forward to seeing bilateral credit infrastructure scale on the network 👏

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@Tokenoya Institutions have the capital and the compliance needs. Builders have the innovation and tooling.

Zenith brings the missing EVM (and soon SVM) piece directly into that architecture, so the composability flywheel can finally include real capital.

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[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@Rocky_exchange Let’s keep building the AllFi future together 🫡
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[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@waynefong In most ecosystems validators are just service providers, on Canton they’re expected to be co-architects. That shift changes everything about how seriously you take your role

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@CantonNetwork One RPC change and every Solidity builder gets native, atomic access to the same infrastructure powering real TradFi workflows 🫡

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@SuontamaJulia @CantonNetwork 👏👏👏

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

While retail DeFi DEX volumes are down roughly 70-75% from 2025 peaks, institutional activity on Canton is moving in the opposite direction and the divergence is becoming hard to ignore:

> First U.S. ETF with direct $CC exposure
> Société Générale joins as a new Super Validator and will deploy its EURCV and USDCV stablecoins on Canton
> Grayscale naming Canton a top CLARITY Act beneficiary alongside Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain.

The regulatory and institutional momentum building around @CantonNetwork in May is covered in full in this recap. Zenith is what opens it to the whole EVM (and soon SVM) developer ecosystem by bringing DeFi's composable primitives onto the rails where that capital actually lives.

Worth reading if you want to understand where this is heading in H2 2026.

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[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

https://t.co/uDin088J9D

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@CantonFdn @CantonNetwork Grateful to be part of building sustainable economics for the network!

Zenith team has been actively participating in the Tokenomics Committee for months, making sure value flows to real usage alongside the rest of the group.

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[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@Veeekthorr 🫡

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

https://t.co/uDin088J9D

[Heslin Kim @HeslinKim]

The @CantonNetwork crew has assemble!

Globally synchronized.

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[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@CoinMarketCap AllFi

[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@CantonNetwork This is what makes the difference for builders: bring your Solidity apps, deploy with one RPC change, and every single transaction becomes native Canton activity with full atomic composability.

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[Zenith @ZenithFdn]

@LeilaniFarms @CantonNetwork ETH/SOL devs finally getting frictionless access to institutional rails is going to be something to watch 🤌

[Canton Network @CantonNetwork]

Every EVM transaction on Zenith routes through Canton's Global Synchronizer as a native Canton transaction.

@ZenithFdn on what that means for the network's execution architecture.