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Most blockchains weren’t built for banks.
They were built for ideology.
In this episode, we sit down with Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Asset, to explain why public, fully transparent blockchains break real financial markets and why Canton Network was designed differently.
We go deep into how banks, institutions, and regulators actually think about privacy, collateral, governance, and risk. From FTX-style black boxes to verifiable on-chain finance, this conversation explains what institutional adoption really requires and why Europe and Wall Street are moving this way.
This isn’t DeFi hype.
This is how finance actually moves on-chain.
We explore:
Why banks will never use most public blockchains
The hidden problem with “trustless” finance
Privacy vs transparency (and why both matter)
How black-box systems like FTX really failed
Why zero-knowledge breaks down in finance
Canton’s approach to privacy-enabled smart contracts
How institutions like DTCC and Nasdaq participate
Tokenomics designed for real economic activity
Why RWAs need a different blockchain architecture
What institutional crypto looks like in Europe vs the US
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Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
02:40 – Yuval’s background: trading → crypto
06:30 – Bitcoin vs financial infrastructure
10:20 – The real problem with “trustless”
14:10 – Why public blockchains don’t work for banks
18:40 – Privacy ≠ secrecy (the key distinction)
23:10 – Canton explained in simple terms
27:50 – Interoperability without one global ledger
32:40 – Why zero-knowledge breaks in finance
38:20 – FTX, collateral, and verifiability
43:10 – Who runs Canton (DTCC, Nasdaq, institutions)
48:30 – Tokenomics tied to real economic activity
54:40 – Why most crypto networks misprice value
59:20 – Regulation, Europe, and institutional comfort
1:04:10 – What goes live next on Canton
1:07:30 – The future of finance on-chain
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