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MEJA Mosaic is a learning environment for understanding tokenized financial infrastructure economics, built on public Canton Network data.
We pair network analytics drawn from public Canton data — the CC price, the latest round number, and a sample of one wallet app's burn activity — with a paper-trading sandbox and reasoning tools so users can test ideas, run hypothetical scenarios, and think about real consequences before any real money moves.
The tool serves anyone who wants to understand tokenized financial infrastructure before risking real capital on it.
Consensus: Proof-of-Stakeholder. Canton doesn't use mining (like Bitcoin) or token-weighted staking (like Ethereum). Instead, it uses something Canton calls "Proof-of-Stakeholder": only the parties actually involved in a transaction validate it. If two institutions settle a trade, only those two institutions — plus the relevant Super Validators — check and confirm it. Nobody outside the transaction sees or validates it.
For ordering transactions across the network, Super Validators separately reach agreement using Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus, requiring roughly two-thirds agreement among them. This sequencing layer doesn't see transaction contents — it just keeps the network in sync.
Privacy: a segmented ledger. Most blockchains give every participant a full copy of every transaction. Canton does the opposite. Each institution only stores and sees the data for transactions it's actually party to — nothing more.
A shared coordination layer, called the Global Synchronizer, keeps everyone working from a consistent, up-to-date picture without requiring anyone to see data they're not entitled to.
What Super Validators actually see. Super Validators route and order encrypted transaction envelopes — they cannot decrypt them. Per Digital Asset's own documentation, SVs are limited to metadata such as timestamp and message ordering; the actual contents of a transaction stay visible only to the participant nodes actually party to it. The one exception is Canton Coin transfers and governance activity, which are public by design and fully visible to SVs.
In practice, Super Validators function as traffic controllers for the network — directing and sequencing messages without ever seeing what's inside them.
About the founders. Digital Asset, the company behind Canton Network, was founded in 2014. Its co-founders include Yuval Rooz (CEO), Eric Saraniecki (Head of Network Strategy), and Shaul Kfir (Head of Strategic Initiatives), according to Digital Asset's own About page.
That page says Rooz held roles at Citadel and DRW Trading, where he managed an algorithmic trading desk and helped launch DRW Venture Capital. Saraniecki built and managed a trading desk at DRW, then co-founded Cumberland Mining, which grew into one of the largest liquidity providers in the crypto market.
Kfir is a software engineer with a background in cryptography research and one of the original co-authors of libsnark, a zero-knowledge proof library.
Connecting to existing DeFi infrastructure. Canton's institutional focus doesn't mean it operates in isolation from the broader crypto ecosystem. Zenith, an EVM-compatible bridge built for Canton, is designed to let Ethereum-style smart contracts and decentralized finance tooling interoperate with Canton's own consensus and privacy layer.
In a July 2026 interview published by Canton Network's own account, Zenith co-founder Heslin Kim discussed the bridge specifically in terms of what it opens up for DeFi protocols and asset managers — suggesting part of Canton's growth path runs through connecting to established DeFi tooling, not solely onboarding new institutions from scratch.
Established players choosing to engage. Pirum Systems, a 25-year-old UK fintech that automates securities finance and collateral management for more than 150 institutions worldwide — including 25 of the world's 30 largest banks — has direct prior experience with Canton. Pirum participated in an earlier Canton Network pilot alongside DTCC, Goldman Sachs, Nomura, Northern Trust, Broadridge, and Visa, testing interoperability across the network.
A firm with a quarter-century track record and no need to chase speculative trends choosing to engage with Canton is a different kind of signal than a newer entrant's participation.
BlackRock's connection runs two layers deep. Digital Asset, the company behind Canton Network, counts BlackRock among its institutional backers, alongside Nasdaq, S&P Global, Goldman Sachs, and Citadel Securities. Separately, BlackRock is also one of the more than fifty financial institutions participating in DTCC's tokenized securities pilot running on Canton.
That's a two-layer relationship: a financial stake in the company building Canton's infrastructure, and direct participation in one of the network's highest-profile institutional use cases.
MEJA Mosaic LLC is an independently owned educational technology company. The product is currently in active development.
MEJA Mosaic reads Canton Network data from Noves's public Canton API, with a direct CoinGecko lookup as a price cross-check. Source: Noves. Detailed source documentation, computation methods, and known limitations are available on the Methodology page.