Edel is the margin engine for tokenised equities and commodities, across Canton and EVM.
Joined August 2025
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Jun 12
The next decade of equities runs on programmable rails.
edel.finance is built for that decade - Lending and Runway live, Vaults and Markets on the board.
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For the first time, blockchain doesn't have to win one user at a time.
It arrives top-down: the institution moves to the rails, and its users come with it.
Edel is a featured app on the one chain engineered for that.
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Jun 11
Imagine posting your to-do list with 20,000 people watching. Anyway – one item left.
Jun 6
Edel is moving beyond lending rails for tokenized stocks.
The next step is full infrastructure for onchain equities.
Vaults, listings, and more users come next week.
So does the first look at what Edel is becoming.
Andres breaks it down.
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Jun 11
Two days ago we wrote "$EDEL is infrastructure for a 100x market."
Today a16z led a round into that market's rails, alongside HSBC, Apollo, and Citadel Securities. Thesis, countersigned.
Jun 11
Almost 12 years ago, I left @DRWTrading with @wesarn_real to start @digitalasset. @ShaulKfir joined us shortly after. The name felt right. The idea was simple but audacious: build a global settlement system that is asset agnostic. One that doesn’t eliminate banks, exchanges, and intermediaries, but tears down the barriers keeping people from accessing assets and settling at a fraction of today’s cost. A new financial world, built for the end consumer.
We knew institutional adoption was the path. We just didn’t know how long it would take.
We failed. We made bad decisions. There are things we would have done differently. But we never let go of our North Star, even when people around us were convinced we had no idea what we were doing. That focus, conviction, and most of all, patience, led us to launching @CantonNetwork. And the results speak for themselves.
Today is a new chapter in that story.
I’m proud to announce that @a16zcrypto is leading our latest round, joined by some of the giants of the global financial system, including @ABNAMRO, ADIA, @apolloglobal, @BNPParibasCIB, @Broadridge, @citsecurities, @CMEVentures, @cbventures, Green Wolf Asset Management, @Hanwha_Official, @HSBC, @icapitalnetwork, @LCVentures, @OptiverGlobal, @polychain, @R136Ventures, @SPGlobal, @sbigroup, @smash_capital, @SoFi, @Tradeweb, and @WilliamBlair, and others we’ll be naming shortly. Twelve years ago, I could not have imagined building alongside partners of this caliber.
$CC today processes the highest fees of any institutional blockchain network. And we’re just getting started. What’s coming later this year is just as exciting.
None of this happens without the builders, the ones who show up to weekly tokenomics meetings, dial into operations subcommittees, spend nights and weekends building apps on Canton, and show up on @X to cheer this ecosystem forward. You are not just supporters. You are partners. I’m honored to be on this journey with you.
On a personal note: @a16z hits differently for me. Ben’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things was one I kept coming back to during the hard stretches. Having his firm lead this round is meaningful in a way that’s hard to put into words. So I’ll let him do it:
“The hard thing isn’t setting a big, audacious goal. The hard thing is spending sleepless nights trying to achieve it. The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare. Motivating yourself by watching YouTube shorts or Instagram reels isn’t the hard thing. The hard thing is working every day and being consistent even if you feel like shit. The hard thing isn’t boasting you could achieve anything. The hard thing is working like hell to achieve something. The hard thing isn’t believing in yourself. The hard thing is getting things done when nobody believes in you, even when you doubt yourself. The hard thing isn’t telling yourself that you must achieve the impossible. The hard thing is toiling hard every day for years despite knowing that success is too uncertain.”
theblock.co/post/404386/a16z…
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Jun 11
Yesterday the flywheel was warming up. Today it accelerates.
$EDELx live on @Cantex_io - self-custodied, atomically swapped, and counting.
Jun 11
Trade $EDELx - LIVE NOW on Cantex 🔥
Hold the @edeldotfinance #Canton native utility token powering #RWA tokenization with full self-custody 🔒
Earn weekly $CC rewards by voting via runway.edel.finance
Atomic swaps to/from any listed asset via our high-speed intent trading engine and intuitive user interface.
➡️Cantex.io
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Jun 10
The only idle thing on Edel for the next ten days is the fee switch. $EDELx live on @Oneswapcc - trade there, or swap without leaving the Runway Desk.
Jun 10
$EDELx is now live on @Oneswapcc. @edeldotfinance has also embedded OneSwap's swap infrastructure directly into its platform. Trade at oneswap.cc or swap inside Edel. Zero fees for 10 days.
Read the full story on CantonNews ↓
cantonnews.org/edelx-lists-o…
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EDELx live, swaps native, fees at 0%.
The @CantonNetwork flywheel is warming up.
Jun 10
.$EDELx is live on OneSwap.
@edeldotfinance the margin engine for tokenized equities has also integrated the OneSwap SDK, embedding permissionless swaps natively into their product.
Two-way win for Canton:
• Trade $EDELx ⇄ CC at oneswap.cc
• Swap inside Edel, powered by OneSwap
🎁 Launch promo: 0% fees for 10 days.
Zero KYC. Privacy-preserving. Day-1 liquidity.
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Jun 10
Runway rewards have landed.
Check your app - submit your votes and shape our community-driven asset discovery.
runway.edel.finance
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Jun 8
$USDC yield should be underwritten, not believed.
14.35% APY on Edel, powered by @merkl_xyz: transparent onchain lending, audited contracts, no black box.
Just risk/reward you can see 🤝
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Jun 8
The benchmark keeps winning because simple mechanisms often beat expensive intermediation.
EDEL takes that logic into brokerage.
Strategy logic moves into automated vaults.
Collateral becomes programmable.
Carry and leverage become direct.
Structural costs compress.
That is how better infrastructure can create more efficient rates for investors.
Jun 8
100% of active Treasury fixed-income managers underperformed their benchmark over the last decade.
The implication is hard to ignore.
Investors are moving beyond manager selection.
The next edge in yield will come from better mechanisms.
ALT Source: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/
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Jun 8
100% of active Treasury fixed-income managers underperformed their benchmark over the last decade.
The implication is hard to ignore.
Investors are moving beyond manager selection.
The next edge in yield will come from better mechanisms.
ALT Source: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/
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Jun 7
Presenting the recovery portfolio.
For everyone rebuilding after the cycle taught them risk.
Familiar names. Onchain rails. Yield while you hold.
15% APY on selected @xStocksFi, powered by @merkl_xyz
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Jun 6
Edel is moving beyond lending rails for tokenized stocks.
The next step is full infrastructure for onchain equities.
Vaults, listings, and more users come next week.
So does the first look at what Edel is becoming.
Andres breaks it down.
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Jun 5
Cantex welcomes @edeldotfinance! $EDELx can now be held in your self custodial Cantex wallet.
Be amongst the first to hold Edel's Canton native utility token and participate in voting, influence future markets and earn rewards 🔥
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Jun 4
Runway went live while our leadership represented Edel at @proofoftalk in Paris.
Within two days, the 2,500-user cap was full.
Edel is now among the fastest-growing apps on @CantonNetwork.
More lined up for the coming weeks.
The pace is picking up - and we’re built for it.
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Jun 4
Exactly.
Borrowing against a portfolio is step one.
The real question is what happens to the liquidity after.
Stocks and ETFs are liquid, transparent collateral surfaces.
Vaults are built for the second step:
access liquidity, put it to work, and keep the portfolio moving.
The best way to explain borrowing against stocks to someone who's never owned one?
A remortgage.
You pull $50k out of your house. The house keeps going up. You still only owe $50k.
That's it.
The appreciation isn't theirs to take.
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Jun 4
The deeper look is here.
Brad is a core part of Edel’s move from crypto-native StockFi into institution-investable equity finance infrastructure.
Read below.
Jun 3
Brad’s role at Edel deserves more context.
Not because advisory boards matter on paper.
Because tokenized equity finance will be won by the infrastructure institutions can actually understand and trust.
A deeper look is coming.
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