The Blockchain Institutions Will Actually Use

Eric Saraniecki co-founded Digital Asset and has spent 11 years architecting the Canton Network with one core conviction: blockchain adoption at scale requires solving for the problems institutions actually face. From co-founding Cumberland at DRW to building Canton into the blockchain behind Goldman Sachs, DTCC, HSBC, and Deloitte, he understands what separates pragmatic infrastructure from wishful thinking.

The conversation covers why Canton's "inside out"approach works (start with institutional core requirements, expand outward), privacy as a threshold issue for any serious blockchain adoption, and why composability is the singular breakthrough innovation of blockchain technology. Eric walks through how Canton solves privacy, composability, and scale simultaneously, and the three concrete use cases generating the most institutional momentum on the Canton Network: digital demand deposits, US treasuries on-chain, and neo-banking on stablecoin infrastructure through partners like Brale.

Beyond the product, Eric cuts through the noise on why crypto media needs an educated point of view instead of agnosticism, why tokenomics models are deeply extractive, and how Canton's app rewards model aligns fees with the builders who actually generate network activity. This is infrastructure for institutions, not casino software.

Key Timestamps:

2:35 - Eric Saraniecki introduction: co-founder of Digital Asset, architect of the Canton Network
3:00 - The "inside out"approach to building Canton for institutions
6:55 - Vision plus problem-solving: catching lightning in a bottle
9:15 - The echo chamber problem in crypto tokenomics
11:20 - Privacy as a threshold issue for Canton Network adoption
12:31 - Why composability is the singular innovation of blockchain technology
15:38 - "The number one emotion we experience when we talk to an institution is relief"
17:03 - Two criteria for prioritizing use cases on Canton: executability and surface area of utility
20:42 - Three concrete use cases: digital demand deposits, US treasuries, neo-banking on Canton
25:56 - Why tokenomics models are deeply extractive and how Canton aligns fees with applications
32:26 - Aligned incentives: the lesson from DRW applied to the Canton Network
36:30 - Two-person startups and Goldman Sachs building side-by-side on Canton
38:10 - What's missing from crypto media: an educated point of view
42:59 - "Call a spade a spade and cut through some of the horse sh*t"

Whether you're a TradFi treasurer evaluating stablecoins for real use cases, a builder thinking through infrastructure partnerships, or trying to distinguish between noise and genuine blockchain innovation, this episode delivers the operational clarity that most stablecoin conversations skip.

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Guest: Eric Saraniecki, Co-Founder & Head of Network Strategy at Digital Asset / Canton Network
Host: Drew Rogers
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Learn more about Digital Asset: https://www.digitalasset.com/
Learn more about the Canton Network: https://www.canton.network/

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