Founder @Kintsu - Building systems around credit, yield, staking, execution & capital formation for institutional finance on @CantonNetwork @Monad
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Almost three and a half years ago we started @Kintsu with a pretty simple belief: moving finance onchain shouldn’t mean giving up privacy.
Your brokerage account isn’t public today. There’s no reason it should become public just because stocks, treasuries, and other assets become programmable smart contracts.
We started with liquid staking. Since then, the vision for Kintsu has grown into something much broader: composable privacy-preserving lending, curated vaults, staking, spanning both crypto and capital markets.
That’s what makes @CantonNetwork so interesting to me. For the first time, major asset issuers across equities, treasuries, stablecoins, and crypto are beginning to coalesce onchain, with privacy built into the architecture.
We put together this visual to show how it all fits together in Kintsu. Composability, visualized.
Any asset, its own market. Any strategy, its own vault.
Probably the clearest look yet at what we’ve spent much of 2026 building. Soon we'll open up a private beta, couldn't be a better time to get involved.
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Equities. Crypto. Stablecoins. Treasuries. Pricing, 24/7.
@chainlink just keeps on building the infra that makes more of finance possible onchain.
The exciting part is what you can build on top. lending, collateral management & vaults for markets that never sleep.
Meet Price. Price never sleeps.
Now markets don’t have to either.
Chainlink 24/7 is officially live.
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Kintsu founder @StovenLabs will be at The Bridge by @TheTieIO in NYC tomorrow.
He’ll join Canton Foundation and Dragonfly for “As AI Advances Can Blockchains and Protocols Build Moats?”
Oct 27 · 3:30pm ET · Mainstage 2
Come say hello.
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Canton Weekly Review, Oct 26. So much happened, where to start? 🔥
Universal Burn approved. The first OTC swap on Canton. Temple RFQ goes live. Tradecraft ATS announced. Circle + S&P Global approved as Super Validators. Japan moves to test tokenized JGB repo.
Time for a 🧵
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7/ On Nasdaq's (@Nasdaq) Q3 earnings call, CEO Adena Friedman named collateral mobility a leading near-term use of tokenization, citing a Canton proof of concept with Vanguard (@Vanguard_Group) and Wellington that moved collateral between pools.
On their quarterly earnings call, @Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman highlighted collateral mobility as a leading near-term opportunity for tokenization, citing a Canton proof of concept with Vanguard and Wellington that moved collateral between pools “instantly” and “perfectly.”
Tokenizing assets was the first step. Making them move is the real opportunity.
That’s the financial market utility Canton is built for.
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Where @Kintsu fits: lend and borrow against tokenized equities and Treasuries, in curated, overcollateralized markets on Canton.
Kintsu is the gold lining. Composable, private, compliant.
Register: kintsu.xyz
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StovenLabs retweeted
Tokenized real-world assets: $36.07B, up 135% (@chainalysis, period ending Q2 2026).
By category:
• Corporate credit: +3,156%
• Private equity: +1,340%
• US Treasuries: +125%, and the biggest dollar gain (+$8.56B to $15.42B)
DTCC's tokenization service is set to go live later this month.
The takeaway for allocators: tokenization isn't replacing the bond market. It's rebuilding the plumbing around it, starting with Treasuries.
Bookmark this. I'll update the numbers once DTCC is live.
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The GREATEST verbal beatdown in cinema history. PERIOD.
A smug college punk decides to embarrass the wrong guy in front of two girls.
He has absolutely NO IDEA what’s coming.
Is this the most satisfying scene Hollywood’s EVER produced?
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StovenLabs retweeted
Curated credit is coming to Canton.
The New York Stock Exchange (@NYSE) says it's "leading the industry toward fully on-chain solutions."
Onchain is step one. The real unlock is borrowing against it.
Isolated markets. Curated vaults. Private by default on @CantonNetwork.
Curated credit is coming to Canton.
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When @NYSE says they’re leading the industry towards a fully chain world, people listen.
@Kintsu is building the curated credit rails to catalyze institutional grade DeFi on @CantonNetwork with an integrated, decentralized prime brokerage & securities lending stack
The New York Stock Exchange (@NYSE) says it's "leading the industry toward fully on-chain solutions."
Onchain is step one. The real unlock is borrowing against it.
Isolated markets. Curated vaults. Private by default on @CantonNetwork.
Curated credit is coming to Canton.
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StovenLabs retweeted
A CIP draft proposing Universal Burn across all production synchronizers has been released.
@TradeCraftFi passed $3.5M TVL.
@Temple_NY’s daily spot volume grew to more than $21M.
@Kintsu opened its private beta.
↓ @StovenLabs breaks down what's moved in the Canton ecosystem.
Canton week in review (Oct 3–9)
The headline this week is tokenomics. @ShaulKfir and @FiveNorthHQ dropped the Universal Burn CIP draft.
Today only Global Synchronizer traffic burns $CC, at $60/MB (about $1 a tx). Dedicated synchronizers, aka the private ones, paid Digital Asset license fees instead. This proposal makes every production synchronizer burn CC at the same list price, with bulk/volume discounts for scaling “dSyncs.”
This means that the existing institutional workloads running on their own private synchronizers today would start feeding into the ecosystem’s broader Cantonomics. This is certain to significantly ramp up burn 🔥
Here what else went down:
→ @The_DTCC is launching its Tokenization Service on @CantonNetwork this month, starting with DTC-custodied Treasuries. This is where collateral, repo and financing demand comes from. Big milestone for @YuvalRooz, @wesarn_real and the @digitalasset team
→ @temple_ny daily spot volume went from ~$2M in May to ~$21M+, per @KaikoData. That's real orderflow on Canton-native rails. Congrats @evanvar @DanSimerman
→ @tradecraftfi passed $3.5M TVL, and Canton Venues now ranks it #1 on price for $50K CC trades. Liquidity is getting deeper, compounding, and turning heads.
→ @SoFi listed $CC and Ripple Custody added Canton support for @Ripple clients. Distribution is reaching retail and custodians at the same time
→ @ZenithFdn is targeting November for its EVM layer, with @catalyx_suite and @IntellectEU running the infra. Solidity teams get a door into Canton's regulated assets. Kaiko participated in testnet as an initial oracle IP data provider.
→ @Noves_fi took Canton to Seoul and Tokyo, hosting institutions like Shinhan, Mirae Asset, KB, Franklin Templeton and Fidelity. That lines up with @CantonFdn's new LG CNS partnership in Korea. APAC is clearly a priority for the whole team and newly appointed CF CEO @viv_diwakar is keen to make some big moves.
→ We opened the @Kintsu private beta this week. Tokenized assets need financing to be useful. So to catalyze the canton DeFi eco, we’re bringing our new isolated lending markets, curated vaults and staking into production coming soon to a dSync near you lol. Borrowers, lenders and curators can apply.
Tokenization brings the assets. Burn ties usage to $CC. Institutional grade composable credit is what takes this to the next level. We envision a future where you can stake and use all of your bags. Buy. Borrow. Die.
That's my read on the week. Canton fam, what did I miss? Drop anything I should've included below and I’ll make sure I don’t miss it next time 👇
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StovenLabs retweeted
NYC friends 🗽 Let’s celebrate the launch of my book Digital Assets and Crypto for Investors (Wiley)!
Join me Nov 18 in Nolita for drinks, bites & a book signing ✍️🍷
RSVP 👇
luma.com/v63s4ult
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StovenLabs retweeted
Tokenized securities need a way to be used as collateral.
Kintsu is building private lending markets for borrowing against them on Canton.
Private beta is open.
Kintsu's private beta is officially open on @CantonNetwork.
Everything is getting tokenized. But the assets won't move until the financing does.
We're building the infrastructure to catalyze this new paradigm: private lending markets, curated vaults, and staking.
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Canton week in review (Oct 3–9)
The headline this week is tokenomics. @ShaulKfir and @FiveNorthHQ dropped the Universal Burn CIP draft.
Today only Global Synchronizer traffic burns $CC, at $60/MB (about $1 a tx). Dedicated synchronizers, aka the private ones, paid Digital Asset license fees instead. This proposal makes every production synchronizer burn CC at the same list price, with bulk/volume discounts for scaling “dSyncs.”
This means that the existing institutional workloads running on their own private synchronizers today would start feeding into the ecosystem’s broader Cantonomics. This is certain to significantly ramp up burn 🔥
Here what else went down:
→ @The_DTCC is launching its Tokenization Service on @CantonNetwork this month, starting with DTC-custodied Treasuries. This is where collateral, repo and financing demand comes from. Big milestone for @YuvalRooz, @wesarn_real and the @digitalasset team
→ @temple_ny daily spot volume went from ~$2M in May to ~$21M+, per @KaikoData. That's real orderflow on Canton-native rails. Congrats @evanvar @DanSimerman
→ @tradecraftfi passed $3.5M TVL, and Canton Venues now ranks it #1 on price for $50K CC trades. Liquidity is getting deeper, compounding, and turning heads.
→ @SoFi listed $CC and Ripple Custody added Canton support for @Ripple clients. Distribution is reaching retail and custodians at the same time
→ @ZenithFdn is targeting November for its EVM layer, with @catalyx_suite and @IntellectEU running the infra. Solidity teams get a door into Canton's regulated assets. Kaiko participated in testnet as an initial oracle IP data provider.
→ @Noves_fi took Canton to Seoul and Tokyo, hosting institutions like Shinhan, Mirae Asset, KB, Franklin Templeton and Fidelity. That lines up with @CantonFdn's new LG CNS partnership in Korea. APAC is clearly a priority for the whole team and newly appointed CF CEO @viv_diwakar is keen to make some big moves.
→ We opened the @Kintsu private beta this week. Tokenized assets need financing to be useful. So to catalyze the canton DeFi eco, we’re bringing our new isolated lending markets, curated vaults and staking into production coming soon to a dSync near you lol. Borrowers, lenders and curators can apply.
Tokenization brings the assets. Burn ties usage to $CC. Institutional grade composable credit is what takes this to the next level. We envision a future where you can stake and use all of your bags. Buy. Borrow. Die.
That's my read on the week. Canton fam, what did I miss? Drop anything I should've included below and I’ll make sure I don’t miss it next time 👇
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