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title: Canton’s Yuval Rooz says smart contract blockchains face a reckoning over value gap
description: The network's co-founder says many blockchains pitching financial rails lack the activity to justify their valuations, and stablecoins still lack true product-market fit.
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# [Canton’s Yuval Rooz says smart contract blockchains face a reckoning over value gap](https://www.canton.network/news/cantons-yuval-rooz-says-smart-contract-blockchains-face-a-reckoning-over-value-gap)

 Written by [Canton](https://www.canton.network/news/author/canton) | Mar 8, 2026 12:00:00 PM

The network's co-founder says many blockchains pitching financial rails lack the activity to justify their valuations, and stablecoins still lack true product-market fit.

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