Educating, cultivating and accelerating the next leaders of the decentralised economy | Showing the world how to prosper by doing good | ✉️ President: @DrAdaku
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From first lines of Daml to tackling economic challenges!
Proud to have brought this together with @cantor8, @camblockchains and @iclblockchain connecting curious minds across disciplines to build on @CantonNetwork.
We also had an amazing talk by @viv_diwakar (the Head of the Canton Foundation) that got everyone inspired @CantonFdn
Thank you to @acme_markets for being the official experience partner, and @CantonArmy + @LunarStrategy for being our media partners 🚀
To everyone who took part: keep building. We can’t wait to see what you do next!
Meet some of the incredible builders that joined for Cantor8's 'Build on @CantonNetwork' Hackathon.
Every team chose one of three different tracks to attack, each of which came with its own unique challenges, from working ab initio with Daml, through to economic problems.
We hope to see you next time...
🚀 Oxford x @camblockchains x @trondao!
Join us on 16 October for the niTROn Blockchain Workshop, exploring stablecoin payments, the TRON ecosystem, and the Justin Sun Prize.
📅 16 Oct | 6–8 PM UK
📍 luma.com/f2pwni5a
Join us and connect with the TRON team! 🌐
🇬🇧 Oxford Blockchain Society is heading to Paris for @Ledger Op3n 2026! 🇫🇷
Proud to join #LedgerN3XTCollab, connecting university blockchain communities to explore AI, digital ownership, security, and the future of Web3.
Looking forward to building, learning, and representing Oxford! 🚀
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Built Leash at @Cantor8 ⚡
Shipping on @CantonNetwork today. Privacy, interoperability, and real-world utility — all in one project.
@cantonfdn @blockchainox @iclblockchain @camblockchains
#cantor8 #cantorbytes #cantonnetwork
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Just submitted Restricted Agent Wallet — a Daml wallet for software agents with owner-set caps, approved recipients and revocation on Canton. Built today at the hackathon.
@cantor8 @cantonnetwork @cantonfdn @blockchainox @iclblockchain
#cantor8 #cantorbytes #cantonnetwork
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Spent today at the Cantor8 Build on Canton hackathon and built a Drift watchdog that catches the moment an app's database quietly drifts out of sync with the real Canton ledger, then heals itself automatically.
Fun day and great people @mingthemerxiles and Dr Aduka.
Genuinely fun problem to dig into.
@cantor8 @cantonnetwork @cantonfdn @blockchainox @iclblockchain
#cantor8 #cantorbytes #cantonnetwork
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Building @cantor8’s London Hackathon today
Thanks to @CantonNetwork @CantonFdn @blockchainox @iclblockchain @camblockchains and last but not least youngnola.co shoreditch for the amazing food+drinks!
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We’re underway at 83 Rivington Street!
A huge thank you to our event partners at @acme_markets, @CantonArmy, @LunarStrategy, and our university partners from Oxford, Cambridge, and Imperial College.
Big day ahead!
The biggest in-person Canton Network hackathon of the year arrives tomorrow!
The team is hugely excited to host builders from Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London tomorrow, at our dedicated @CantonNetwork hackathon.
From 10am-10pm at 83 Rivington Street, we'll be undertaking a day of technical workshops, guest appearances, and of course, building in the Daml smart contract language.
A huge thanks to our sponsors in @acme_markets, @CantonArmy, and @LunarStrategy for their support.
We cannot wait to see everyone there.
Official Event Page: luma.com/sjkped24?tk=p61rJE
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Applications for @EASYResidency Season 4 are now open.
🇧🇹 The first global incubator to bring a founder cohort inside @gmcbhutan, Bhutan's new sovereign tech city.
→ 5 weeks online · 5 weeks in person
→ Up to $500K funding + housing, meals, and workspace covered
→ For builders in Web3 (with a focus on global payments), AI, Biotech
Apply by June 21: wkf.ms/3IA5iBk
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Existing Solidity apps can deploy on Canton through Zenith without a single line of code changed.
EVM transactions route natively through the Global Synchronizer, with the EVM leg and Canton leg committing simultaneously in the same consensus, no bridge, no separate settlement.
Canton processes $9T+ in monthly settlement volume. 600+ institutions including JPMorgan, DTCC, Goldman Sachs, Broadridge, and Visa run production operations on it. Until Zenith, the only way to access that ecosystem as a developer was to learn Daml, a powerful language purpose-built for institutional contracts and entirely unfamiliar to most of the developer community that built DeFi.
Zenith brings EVM execution to @CantonNetwork with SVM coming next. Existing Solidity applications deploy on Canton without a single line of code changed. Hardhat, Foundry, MetaMask, the full Ethereum developer toolkit works exactly as expected. Every EVM transaction routes natively through Canton's Global Synchronizer, composing atomically with Daml-native contracts, tokenized assets, and institutional workflows already live on the network.
This isn't EVM compatibility layered on top of Canton through a bridge or a separate settlement mechanism, it's native execution inside Canton's own consensus, both the EVM leg and the Canton leg of every transaction committing simultaneously, with Canton's determinism guarantees maintained and no additional trust assumptions introduced.
zenith.network/contact-us
Zth.
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A recent YC startup spent 250k on a domain. I was slightly shocked. But when I asked how much they raised after YC, the answer was 6.5m. So 1/26 of their round. This is the time we live in; one shocking number counterbalances the other.
Apply for the @Cantor8 London Hackathon happening on 29th August 2026. You don't want to miss it!
Link: luma.com/sjkped24
The biggest in-person Canton Network hackathon of 2026 is just one month away.
On August 29th, Cantor8 is hosting a major @CantonNetwork hackathon event in London, alongside partners at Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Imperial College London.
The one-day builder event, will see teams from the world’s leading universities (and beyond) expand their understanding of Canton’s Daml smart contract language, and develop Canton-native applications across institutional finance, privacy-first workflows, tokenisation, and more.
Whether you’re a seasoned Canton builder or entirely new to the ecosystem, Cantor8’s London Hackathon is an opportunity to build, learn, and enjoy.
Apply now ⬇️
luma.com/sjkped24?tk=p61rJE
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What happens behind every payment you make? 💳
Meet Michael Bernard, Co-Founder of @YativoHq, and our next #ABFLearn mentor.
With over 15 years of entrepreneurial experience in fintech and blockchain, Michael has dedicated his career to building innovative financial infrastructure and expanding financial inclusion across emerging markets. Through Yativo, he helps businesses seamlessly integrate wallets, payments, compliance, and custody solutions.
In this session, "Payments Behind the Scenes," Michael will break down how modern payment systems work and the technology powering today's financial ecosystem.
📅 Date: July 23, 2026
🕒 Time: 3:00 PM UTC
💻 Platform: Google Meet
🔗 Registration: forms.gle/Roo2xV9TxKURvTkC6
Join the session, ask your questions during the live Q&A, and continue the conversation in our Discord community: discord.gg/ejM7SmRcN.
See you there! 🚀
#ABFLearn #Fintech #Payments
Happy to be partners and co-organisers on the Cantor8 university initiatives and to be part of events like Cantor Bytes. Look out for the next one!
Thank you again to our friends at @iclblockchain for a fantastic 'Cantor Bytes' event at Imperial College London.
A valuable opportunity to introduce the London University ecosystem to @CantonNetwork and part of what makes it unique.
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Thank you to everyone who attended 'Cantor Bytes' last weekend at Imperial College London!
On Sunday, June 28th, we hosted our official ‘Cantor Bytes’ event at Imperial College London, alongside our partners at @iclblockchain.
We were overwhelmed by the turnout, calibre and number of students that got involved with our @CantonNetwork focused technical challenge, designed to introduce Canton-native and Daml development to some of the UK’s best young talent.
The event itself was a precursor to our full Canton-focused hackathon, scheduled to take place in August 2026 - an event which will also include students and researchers from both Oxford @blockchainox and Cambridge @camblockchains universities.
See you all again soon.
Introducing Cantor BYTES - £7,500 Prize Pool
Eat. Build. Get Paid.
Cantor8 is hosting an evening of food, canapés and a fast technical challenge introducing builders to @CantonNetwork and Daml. Be amongst the first 150 participants to complete the challenge and access your share of a £7,500 prize pool.
The event will take place on June 28 alongside our partners at Imperial College London and is in preparation for our full Canton Network hackathon on August 29, 2026 (save the date!)
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Part two is out now so tune in for: the social role of founders, the controversy surrounding pump.fun, automating labour, and the new aesthetics of progress.
New Anglofuturism episode: Oxford's startup monastery
We visited HomeDAO: a newly-founded, über-competitive and highly successful start-up accelerator. If there is to be a British PayPal mafia then it is quite likely that it will emerge from this hacker house in Oxford.
Part 1 is out today. Calum and I talked to Josh Lavorini, a HomeDAO co-founder, about talent identification, taste, Oxford, the Coase theorem, British unicorns, the shortcomings of Old Street, and plenty more.
Listen via anglofuturism dot c o or your usual podcast app.
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We’ve been working with NVIDIA in their HQ for the past month.
We’re going to make Local AI The Default.
BIG news to share at Local AI summit, SF, July 2nd.
Oxford Blockchain Society (University of Oxford) retweeted
Introducing Cantor BYTES - £7,500 Prize Pool
Eat. Build. Get Paid.
Cantor8 is hosting an evening of food, canapés and a fast technical challenge introducing builders to @CantonNetwork and Daml. Be amongst the first 150 participants to complete the challenge and access your share of a £7,500 prize pool.
The event will take place on June 28 alongside our partners at Imperial College London and is in preparation for our full Canton Network hackathon on August 29, 2026 (save the date!)
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Research Update: The World’s First Private AI Agent Payment Settles on Canton
Last month, we announced fresh funding to a researcher at Cambridge University to support the development of a Canton-native standard protocol for AI agents - p402.
On April 23, the world’s first fully private AI agent settled its first transaction on @CantonNetwork, as a vital first step towards the construction of p402 itself.
p402 is a direct response to an issue raised by leading VC @a16z just days ago…
“There is still no broadly adopted, interoperable way for one agent to prove to another who it represents, what it’s allowed to do, and how it gets paid.”
Read the full announcement below ⬇️
We’re hosting Jacob Steeves (Co-founder of @bittensor) at Oxford on April 28th!
There will be a formal dinner at Rewley House after the talk — fully covered
🎟️ Dinner spots will be allocated via ballot among attendees, so you must attend the presentation to be eligible
📍 Location: Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
🕕 Time: 5:00 – 6:30 PM
If you're even slightly interested in AI, crypto, or decentralized systems, this is one of the strongest speaker + incentive combos we’ve had.
🔗 Talk link:
luma.com/mqyknvar
🍽️ Dinner link:
luma.com/3xbvhv9k
🎁 BIG BONUS:
Attendees will be entered into a ballot for a fully funded trip to the WebX Conference in Tokyo 🇯🇵 this summer
⚡ At our last events, two attendees secured fully funded trips to Paris Blockchain Week just last week!
