> ## Documentation Index
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# Introduction

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.

## 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.

## 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