Canvas is a research and engineering company building runtime environments for next-generation software.

We are currently focused on cloud-based secure enclaves and Trusted Execution Environments.

Through the first half of 2025, our focus was on peer-to-peer systems. Our technical blog posts included:

• Merklizing the key/value store for fun and profit (2023)
• Introduction to Causal Logs (2024)
• GossipLog - reliable causal broadcast for libp2p (2024)
• Serializable transactions for peer-to-peer databases (2025)