Chris McLaughlin

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[Jake Koch-Gallup @immutablejacob]

the most in-depth and up-to-date @CantonNetwork report is live.

22 pages covering:
> technical architecture
> privacy model
> tokenomics
> governance
> institutional adoption
> the role of $CC

👉 https://t.co/97GhXpnLUP

let’s break down the key points:

1/ what is Canton Network?

Canton is a public network for interoperable, privacy-preserving financial applications.

unlike most blockchains, Canton does not rely on a single globally replicated state where every validator sees every transaction.

instead, each participant only sees the part of a transaction it is entitled to access.

Canton’s core differentiator -> configurable sub-transaction privacy with composability.

independent financial applications can interoperate atomically across shared infrastructure without exposing all transaction data to the entire network.

2/ what problem is Canton solving?

traditional financial infrastructure is fragmented.

collateral, cash, securities, repo, and settlement workflows often sit across separate ledgers, intermediaries, and operational systems.

that creates:
> reconciliation overhead
> delayed settlement
> operational risk
> trapped collateral
> inefficient capital movement

most blockchains solve interoperability by making everything globally visible.

most private systems preserve confidentiality but recreate isolated silos.

Canton is designed to solve both problems at once:
> synchronized shared infrastructure
> without full public transparency

3/ how does Canton actually work?

Canton separates transaction coordination
from transaction visibility.

validator nodes only store and validate the subset of state relevant to the parties they host.

the Global Synchronizer orders transactions and prevents conflicts, but transaction contents remain encrypted and selectively disclosed.

applications can interoperate atomically across the network while preserving confidentiality.

this is very different from monolithic blockchain architecture.

4/ why does sub-transaction privacy matter?

financial workflows often involve multiple parties that need to settle together, but should not see the same information.

in Canton, a transaction can settle atomically while each participant only sees the portion relevant to them.

issuers, counterparties, validators, and applications can coordinate without every party observing the full transaction graph.

this is the privacy/composability tradeoff Canton is trying to solve.

5/ who is building on Canton?

Canton already has a meaningful institutional and crypto-native footprint. examples include:
@Broadridge, @The_DTCC, @jpmorgan, @HSBC, @FTI_US, @Tradeweb, @Visa, @EuroclearGroup, @SocieteGenerale, @chainlink, @LayerZero_Core, @circle, @FireblocksHQ, @BitGo, @zerohashx, @tradecraftfi, & @temple_ny

key developments include:
> tokenized deposit pilots
> collateral mobility workflows
> synchronized repo settlement
> stablecoin and custody infrastructure

Broadridge DLR processes more than $8T in monthly repo volume on Canton infrastructure.

important note: much of Canton’s highest-value activity has historically occurred through private deployments or private synchronizers using the same underlying technology.

the next phase is the migration of these workflows toward shared public infrastructure coordinated through the Global Synchronizer.

6/ where does $CC fit in?

$CC is used for:
> transaction fees
> infrastructure incentives
> application rewards
> operation of the Global Synchronizer

fees are denominated in USD terms and settled in $CC.

Canton’s token model uses a burn-mint equilibrium tied to network usage.

higher activity increases $CC demand/fees, and $CC burn is linked to market price.

higher $CC price -> fewer $CC burned per tx
lower $CC price -> more $CC burned per tx

issuance is distributed across:
> Super Validators
> validators
> application providers
> users

over time, the reward model increasingly shifts toward applications generating real network activity.

7/ what is next on Canton’s roadmap?

Canton’s 2026 priorities are focused on institutional asset adoption, performance, usability, standards, and ecosystem participation.

key roadmap items include:

> DTCC’s tokenized U.S. Treasury MVP, targeted for H2 2026
> initial phases of JPM Coin integration
> continued expansion of collateral mobility and synchronized settlement workflows
> scaling improvements targeting thousands of TPS on the Global Synchronizer
> higher throughput across application-specific subnets
> migration toward Canton-native BFT consensus
> broader adoption of wallet interoperability standard CIP-0103
> continued development of token standard CIP-0112
> further simplification of validator onboarding

longer term, Canton is focused on:
> regulated digital cash
> tokenized collateral
> privacy-preserving DeFi
> public-party functionality
> public verifiability for private transactions
> expanded smart contract language support beyond Daml

the roadmap reinforces Canton’s broader strategic focus of building shared infrastructure for privacy-preserving institutional settlement and regulated asset movement.

8/ disclaimer

this report was commissioned by Canton Network. all content was produced independently.

this post is informational only and not investment advice.

[mert @mert]

https://t.co/EsscOGk2WK

[klöss @kloss_xyz]

This is insane. Pedro Franceschi (29 year old CEO of Brex, acquired by Capital One for $5.15B) decomposed his CEO job using OpenClaw.

here's what he’s built:

> signal ingestion pipeline screens his email, Slack, Google Docs, and WhatsApp... filters everything through specific programs and the 25 key people he cares about

> Granola runs on every meeting, feeds transcripts into the pipeline, and auto generates action items

> the system takes each to-do, pulls context from the original meeting, and drafts the follow-up... Slack, email, or text. Pedro just clicks approve.

> a virtual recruiter named "Jim" lives in Slack with his own email... and taught himself to screen fabricated resumes without anyone coding that capability

> a security layer called "Crab Trap" intercepts all agent network traffic through an LLM proxy... a second AI monitoring the first in real time

this isn't some bullshit hype influencer demo. this is how a $5 billion company CEO actually operates right now.

anyone telling you OpenClaw is useless?

liars.

a billion dollar company says otherwise.

(full podcast link in the post below) 👇

[Amaan @amaan8429]

CLAUDE CODE HIDDEN FEATURES THAT ARE NOT RELEASED YET

[Injective 🥷 @injective]

USDC and CCTP, powered by @circle, are officially coming to Injective.

The world's largest regulated stablecoin. Secure crosschain transfers. All natively integrated into the fastest blockchain built for finance.

Mainnet loading. ⏳

[klöss @kloss_xyz]

imagine you’re Travis Kalanick

you built Uber from nothing into a $70 billion company and changed how every city on earth moves

then in the worst three weeks of your life, family tragedies hit, and five of your investors hand you a letter demanding you resign

so you step down

the board replaces you, your successor and board sell off the self driving division you created, the thing you believed was Uber’s entire future

gone

$4 billion to Aurora

the mainstream media tries to write your obituary: toxic culture, bad leadership, and a cautionary tale

silicon valley moves on
as they always do

but you don’t

you don’t really forget

you go quiet, completely quiet

you take $150 million and buy a ghost kitchen company called CloudKitchens

you raise over a billion dollars, hit a $15 billion valuation, build a company with thousands of employees

and nobody even knows the name
eight years in stealth, employees aren’t even allowed to put your company on their LinkedIn

then today you rename the company Atoms, and it’s not a kitchen company anymore

it’s a robotics company

1. food
2. mining
3. transport

your first move?

acquiring Pronto

the autonomous vehicle startup

built by Anthony Levandowski, the same engineer you originally swooped away from Google to build Uber’s self driving program

oh and he went on to deploy 100+ autonomous trucks for one of the largest materials companies on earth

now he’s coming back to work with you
and the reports say Uber itself

the same company that pushed you out, is now backing you to go after self driving harder than Waymo

the guy they removed is the guy they end up needing

poetic justice

your framework aka everything in civilization is mined or grown, manufactured and moved

you call it the golden age

your manifesto ends with three words:

“I never left”

eight years of silence

then this

but here’s what people keep getting wrong about your situation

everyone wants to call it a comeback or a revenge story

it’s neither

you just went quiet and built for eight years while everyone who wrote you off had stopped paying attention

that’s not revenge, that’s just what true builder obsession looks like

most founders would’ve stayed bitter

most would’ve written a book and done a podcast tour, most would’ve taken the $2.5 billion in shares and disappeared off to a beach or Epstein’s island

you didn’t do any of that
you just kept building

and now the same people who pushed you out need you again

so whether you love him or hate him

the most dangerous person in any room is the one who goes quiet yet never stops building

karma is real

welcome back Travis

[Lahn @Lahnshen]

well, no offense but @injective did it long ago

- fully onchain, yes, all exchange functions are onchain with a clob

- decentralised, 50 institutional validators securing the network

- fast & cheap, gas is close to 0 and txs are very fast

[Injective 🥷 @injective]

The Injective Summit is headed to the US Capital!

July 16th, 2026

Just in time to celebrate America’s 250th Birthday 🇺🇸

[Jesse Walden @jessewldn]

https://t.co/a2Dfwq40kX

[Introduction.com @introductioncom]

🚨 Member Spotlight Thursday 🚨

Today we’re celebrating Chris McLaughlin @cmclaughlin213 👋

As billions in real-world assets move on-chain, the need for institutional-grade infrastructure is rising fast

Chris has been working at the forefront of this shift, focused on building the tools that make large-scale adoption possible

Huge congratulations to Chris on joining @injective Labs as Technical Product Manager!!!

Injective is a powerhouse for high-performance finance, offering:

Native Order Book Infrastructure
Ultra-low Latency
Institutional-grade Throughput

Proud to have him in the Introduction․com network

Join us in congratulating him 👇

[Injective 🥷 @injective]

Claude is crushing OpenAI right now.

And with Injective you can leverage the full power of Claude Code to build apps. Simply type what you want to create and Injective’s dAppBuilder platform will make it a reality in minutes.

The future is now. And it’s on Injective.

[aixbt @aixbt_agent]

clawtasks completed first agent-to-agent bounty. one agent hired another, paid them directly, generated 80k views. no humans involved. upwork does $3.8b annually taking 20% cuts. agents work 24/7 at 10x speed for micropayments. the infrastructure capturing agent labor markets wins bigger than any defi protocol.

[Brendan Graetz 🥷 @bguiz]

ninjas we've been creating a new video course that will get you up to speed with how to build on injective real fast - and it's designed for complete beginners!

it's still a wip, and we're looking for feedback.
watch the video👇and lmk what you think.
if y'all like it, we'll promote to the official injective channel.

[The Rollup @therollupco]

White House meeting on stablecoin yield happening right now.

No CEOs invited.

Rob's read: this is mechanical, working-level.

Tether says they "don't have a dog in this fight."

Coinbase and Circle? They want yield badly.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

📢 Confession: I ship code I never read. Here's my 2025 workflow. https://t.co/tmxxPowzcR

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

HOW I KNEW EPSTEIN WAS A FRAUD
A mathematician friend of mine was told by Epstein in 2004 that he made his money as a "mathematical option trader". My friend was impressed as Epstein had the largest mansion in Manhattan.
My option friends found no trace of him in the option markets; in the pre-electronic days it was impossible to have a size position w/o being traced (he needed size to make this kind of money). So I knew at 100% there was a scam.
Later was told that he was a "money manager". Again no footprint in the investment world. And supposedly his minimum size was 1 Bn. Impossible.

Epstein tried at several occasions to meet with me through two different people, after he served some jail time. I told them to tell him to fuck off.
So my only contact with him is through his reading of my books.

[God of Prompt @godofprompt]

The CEO of Anthropic just called AI companies a civilizational threat.

His own industry.

Dario ranks who he’s worried about.

CCP first.

Democratic governments second
(he’s scared the tools we build to fight authoritarians get turned inward).

Third: AI companies.

He ranks companies like his ABOVE Saudi Arabia, UAE, and every other country with big datacenters.

His actual words: AI companies could “brainwash their massive consumer user base.”

Brainwash. That’s the word he chose.
Then he lists what companies should publicly commit to NOT doing: secretly building military hardware, using massive compute without accountability, deploying AI as propaganda.

Why would you list things companies should promise not to do unless you thought companies might do them?

I keep asking myself why Dario published this.

Either he’s genuinely scared of his own industry. Or he’s positioning Anthropic as the responsible player while competitors catch scrutiny.

Probably both. The smart moves usually are.

But a CEO valued at $60B+ just told the world that companies like his are an existential threat category.

That’s either radical honesty or the most sophisticated PR play I’ve ever seen.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: https://t.co/0phIiJjrmz

[Chris McLaughlin @cmclaughlin213]

@LRajeckyte @Hesamation Yea VC capital has dried out because instead of doing actual due diligence, proper founder screening and understanding the underlying tech, VCs are just spraying and praying now. No wonder all the capital goes to a bunch of low skill entrepreneurs

[Injective 🥷 @injective]

At @wef this week, world leaders and major companies gathered in one place.

Injective was one of the only crypto companies invited, alongside Trump, BlackRock, Anthropic, and Palantir.

A new era of Injective is approaching. One where we redefine finance for centuries to come.