Proposal: Talwex DeFi Composability Stack

[arno-burnuk-talwex]

Development Fund Proposal Submission

Proposal file:
proposals/2026-08-Talwex-canton-defi-composability-standard.md

Applicant

Organization:

Talwex Inc.

Author / Primary Contact:

Arno Burnuk (arno@talwex.com)

Champion:

Akshay Sinha, Alpend

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Proposal Classification

Proposal Type:

• RFP-aligned proposal
• Individual initiative

RFP / Roadmap Area:
N/A

Label:
token-asset-standards

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Funding & Timeline

Total Funding Request:
3,600,00 CC

Project Duration:
8 months

Maximum Amount:
N/A

Maximum Duration:
N/A

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Summary

• Currently, no composable DeFi primitives exist on Canton. Any team that wants to build vaults, liquidity pools, AMMs, and other DeFi products need to build all of these from scratch, which means incompatible implementations, fragmented liquidity, increased contract vulnerabilities and wasted dev hours/funds.
• We are proposing several primitives such as modules for Vaults, Swaps, Pricing engines and oracles, which can used as building blocks to build more complex products such as RFQ desks, Securities AMMs, Money Markets, Tranched structured products and so on...
• Our stack would unlock the emergence of a robust, secure and composable financial products ecosystem. This would thereby increase liquidity and adoption of the Canton blockchain and improve smart contract security.

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Submission Checklist

• Full proposal file is included in this PR
• Organization and primary contact identified
• Champion identified or Needs Champion selected
• RFP / roadmap alignment identified, if applicable
• Total funding request provided
• Project duration provided
• Proposal is within any RFP maximum amount
• Proposal is within any RFP maximum duration
• Milestones and milestone funding are defined in the proposal
• Acceptance criteria are based on ecosystem value
• Architectural alignment is addressed

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