Yuval Rooz on miner extracted value
From Canton: The World's Most Ambitious Blockchain Network Feat. Yuval Rooz (CEO, Digital Asset) · · Blockchain Won't Save The World
“The other thing, this idea that you need to have third-party infrastructure provider that get to see everything, they get to validate your transaction, from my perspective, is another another concept that just doesn't doesn't really make sense. And we're just seeing kind of the the outcomes of that. Uh you know, there's this nice term I like people uh know how to use words to make something look like what it's not. So, minor extracted value. Sounds very sophisticated. Sounds complicated. But, if I came to you and I said, 'You know what? NASDAQ has a prop trading desk.' And that prop trading desk uh proprietary I I won't use uh shortcuts, but proprietary trading desk um can look at all the market activity that comes into their matching engine. And before they submit these packets into the matching engine, they can put their orders ahead of time. I mean, someone would sit in jail for that.”
On , Yuval Rooz, CEO & Co-Founder at Digital Asset, spoke about miner extracted value during Canton: The World's Most Ambitious Blockchain Network Feat. Yuval Rooz (CEO, Digital Asset) on Blockchain Won't Save The World.
About Yuval Rooz
Yuval Rooz, CEO and co-founder of Digital Asset, has been discussing the Canton Network's design and tokenomics in several interviews. In an August 2023 appearance, Rooz described Canton as a network that allows applications with different privacy models to compose transactions, contrasting it with public chains where all participants see the same data. He stated that Canton does not believe in a model where validators must charge gas fees, and he argued that networks without real-world utility will eventually fail. In April 2026, Rooz explained that the Canton Network is researching multiple burn models for its CC token on private subnets, stating that charging the same rate as the global synchronizer would make certain use cases uneconomical. He said the goal is to incentivize users to put as much activity on the ledger as possible. Rooz also described CC tokenomics as resembling a "decentralized company" where network revenue is used to buy back and burn tokens. He stated that most blockchain tokenomics derive value from speculation, and he argued that the Canton Network's focus is on generating activity rather than promising price appreciation. In a debate, Rooz defended Canton's permissioned features, stating that public verifiability is coming but that issuers of real-world assets will retain control over their data. He also noted that Morgan Stanley began offering crypto exposure in late 2025.