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Lumens is a tokenisation and asset issuance layer for bringing liquid assets from permissionless ecosystems, such as Ethereum, into the Canton Network. Instead of treating each asset as a standalone bridge, Lumens provides a common model for how external assets can be secured, verified, issued on Canton, and redeemed back to their origin environment. The first live deployment of this model is uETH, a Canton-native representation of ETH.

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Why Lumens

Canton applications need access to real, liquid assets. Public networks already hold deep liquidity, but those assets are not natively usable inside a permissioned environment without a secure issuance model. Lumens is designed to solve that problem. With Lumens:
  • users can bring liquid assets into Canton
  • applications can access external liquidity through Canton-native assets
  • assets can move through private and permissioned workflows on Canton
  • issued assets can be redeemed back to their origin chain
This makes Lumens more than a single bridge deployment. It is the foundation for a growing set of tokenised assets on Canton.

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What Lumens Enables

Lumens is built to support:
  • cross-environment asset movement between public and permissioned chains
  • Canton-native asset issuance backed by external assets
  • private application flows using liquid real-world or crypto-native assets
  • a reusable tokenisation framework that can support multiple assets over time