CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Asset
Search every verified Yuval Rooz interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Yuval Rooz, co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset, appeared at several industry events in late 2026, including TOKEN2049 Singapore, The Capital Summit Korea, and a Canton Summit recap interview. He discussed the state of tokenization, describing institutional eagerness as high while actual deployment remains early-stage. He cited figures such as an estimated $130 billion annual industry cost of reconciliation and roughly $40 trillion in assets unused due to friction. Rooz also highlighted production use cases, including treasury management and repo activity, and noted that Digital Asset closed a $355 million funding round led by a16z, brought Visa on as a super validator, and saw the DTCC select Canton Network for tokenization infrastructure. In panel discussions and interviews, Rooz emphasized the importance of privacy for institutional adoption, arguing that public blockchains' default data replication is a barrier and that user-consented data sharing is a possible path forward. He also addressed 24/7 trading, saying it is already happening and requires continuous banking and settlement rails, while acknowledging operational challenges such as banks lacking weekend booking capabilities. Rooz commented on stablecoins and tokenized deposits, stating that adoption will depend on issuer creditworthiness and distribution, and he noted that retail users generally do not use crypto for daily payments. He also discussed the need for institutions to integrate blockchain rails into existing offerings rather than expecting them to build entirely new workflows.
Moderator: Michael Ippolito, Co-Founder, Blockworks Panelists: Jenny Johnson, CEO, Franklin Templeton Richard Teng, Co-CEO, Binance Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder and CEO, Canton Recorded on the OKX Main Stage at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, 8 October 2026. Learn more about TOKEN2049: https://token2049.com Follow us on X: https://x.com/token2049 #TOKEN2049 #RWA #Infrastructure
In today's episode of Talking Tokens, Jacquelyn sits down with Yuval Rooz, co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset, the team building the Canton blockchain, to discuss what it will actually take to bring global capital markets onchain and why institutional blockchain infrastructure requires a fundamentally different approach. Yuval explains why privacy is non-negotiable for institutional finance, why maximum decentralization isn't always the answer, and why many products called “tokenized equities” aren't actually tokenized equities. He also breaks down why moving just 1% of capital markets o…
THE CAPITAL SUMMIT KOREA 2026 What the West Is Watching in Asia Digital Asset Market Capital parked onchain is a different signal from capital doing useful financial work. In this session: • Digital Asset's Yuval Rooz emphasized transaction activity and asset mobility in workflows such as repo and collateral management. A large balance is not sufficient evidence of recurring economic utility. • a16z crypto's Maggie Hsu highlighted local presence and relationships when entering Asian markets. Practical services such as payroll and treasury can create demand that survives changes in market se…
Yuval Rooz sits down fresh off the Canton Summit, where the theme was production use cases rather than proof-of-concept demos. Digital Asset closed a $355 million round led by a16z, brought Visa on as a super validator, and saw the DTCC select Canton Network for its tokenization infrastructure, all while institutional excitement runs at seven to nine out of ten and real deployment sits somewhere in the first or second inning. Treasury management is the clearest near-term case, where companies sitting on billions in cash can convert holdings into tokenized money market funds and capture roughl…
My interview with Yuval Rooz , Co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset. The full interview is available on my YouTube and podcast platforms: YouTube: https://bit.ly/4gUs31s Spotify: https://bit.ly/4wY8ABH Apple: https://bit.ly/4xrpOZy
My interview with Yuval Rooz, Co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset. The full interview is available on my YouTube and podcast platforms: YouTube: https://bit.ly/4gUs31s Spotify: https://bit.ly/4wY8ABH Apple: https://bit.ly/4xrpOZy
The panel explores why 24/7 trading is becoming inevitable, with executives from Tradeweb, Nasdaq, Customers Bank, and Digital Asset/Canton Network discussing the institutional demand for round-the-clock markets and the infrastructure needed to support them. A major focus is collateral mobility, repo, digital cash, and tokenized assets, with panelists arguing that 24/7 trading cannot scale without the banking and settlement rails operating continuously alongside the markets. They also discuss perpetual futures, AI-driven trading, and the convergence of TradFi and DeFi, emphasizing that better…
◇ 행사명: Next Global Digital Asset Summit ◇ 주제: 글로벌 주도권 확보를 위한 RWA 토큰화 인사이트 ◇ 일시: 2026년 6월 19일(금), 09:30 ~ 15:30 ◇ 장소: 웨스틴 서울 파르나스, 아틀라스홀(LL) ◇ 주최: 이투데이, 이투데이넥스블록 ◇ 주관: 이투데이넥스블록, 이투데이피엔씨, 타이거리서치 ◇ 강연 II From Fragmented Markets to Coordinated Financial Infrastructure 유발 루즈(Yuval Rooz) Digital Asset(Canton Network 개발사), Co-Founder & CEO ◇ 대담 [진행] 김규진 타이거리서치 대표 [대담] 유발 루즈 Digital Asset, Co-Founder & CEO
Yuval Rooz, co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset, explains why some of Wall Street’s biggest institutions are building on Canton Network and why he believes most “tokenized” assets are not truly onchain. From privacy and issuer sovereignty to real-time collateral, tokenized deposits and 24/7 money markets, Yuval breaks down the infrastructure needed to move capital markets onchain for real. We also dig into Canton’s governance model, its lack of a pre-mine or VC token allocations, the role of its native token, and whether institutional crypto adoption is finally becoming more than just a mark…
One of the most insightful shows EVER! Web3 is not about siloed, slow, monolithic databases. It’s about open, interoperable, innovative platforms available to all. And Canton Network promises to be the missing link to connect the world’s global financial system with Blockchain. Canton only recently announced its whitepaper and vision, but has already made quite an impact. With tech companies and financial giants like Goldman Sachs, Deloitte and Microsoft as founding members, there’s some serious scale and value already accessible to the network. I’m joined by Yuval Rooz, CEO of Digital Asset,…
The CC burn mechanism on private subnets has never been explained like this. Yuval Rooz — CEO of Digital Asset and Co-Founder of the Canton Network — sits down with LongView Compute to go on record about exactly how CC gets burned when institutions transact on private subnets. No PR spin. No vague roadmap language. Just the mechanics, straight from the source. In this segment, Yuval breaks down: ⚡ How fee burns are triggered on private subnet transactions ⚡ Why institutional volume on private rails directly drives CC deflation ⚡ What the burn cadence looks like as adoption scales ⚡ What's c…
Most crypto tokenomics fail. Not eventually — by design. The promise was always the same: use the network, the token wins. Ethereum said it. Solana said it. XRP said it. The market has spent a decade proving that promise wrong. So I took that directly to Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz. I asked him the most honest version of the question I could: how do I actually invest in Digital Asset right now? His answer — you can't. Digital Asset is a private company. But what you can do is buy Canton Network's CC token. Because Canton is the company. CC is the share. That's not a metaphor. That's the arc…
“My view is that at the end of the day whether you call it a stable coin or tokenized deposit, at the end of the day money on chain will have multiple characteristics that will drive its adoption which is the creditworthiness of the issuer. Do you believe the issuer has safe money on chain? But I actually think the second part is even more important is the distribution of said money. I mean I can ask how many people h”
“Just to put in perspective in terms of the numbers that Jenny talked about, this cost of reconciliation is estimated right now to the industry at about $130 billion a year of just cost. When you think about the friction of movement of assets, it's estimated that there are roughly $40 trillion worth of assets globally that could be used for lending, collateral, securities that are not being used as a result of frictio”
“From a willingness and eagerness of clients where it's 7 to 9. From a state of play of tokenization we're maybe at the bottom of the first inning. Super early. But I think the first part, the willingness is just such a critical thing. And I think we have all the foundations actually to go up in usage. So if in Canton today we do move hundreds of billions of dollars of collateral on chain every day, is that real? Abso”
“I think that Bitcoin is decentralized and it's an inherent property of the asset to work, right? You have no issuer. You want to have no control. You want it to be decentralized because decentralization is what protect the asset. Right? If it was centralized, one single entity can fork it, can do a double spend, and you put the asset at risk. Cool. That's why having decentralization to the extreme is a good thing fro”
“The most important signal is getting the large conservative organizations doing something in production. Because although what Maggie says is true, at the end of the day I think that even in Japan they had regulatory clarity many years ago and there was no pickup. So it's a very early indicator but it's not necessarily an indicator of something real happening with it. So for me the biggest sign from Japan was when we”
“I agree with you. A lot of times people ask me what do I think is the state of tokenization and I break it down into two things. I say from an eagerness and willingness we are at roughly 7 to 9 out of 10 but from a stage perspective we're roughly at 0.5 to 1 out of 10 which is in my opinion actually very exciting because for the last few years from a willingness and eagerness we were at a much lower score. So the fac”
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