Canton has reached 908,000 distinct parties that have made a transaction, up from 20,000 a year earlier in The Tie’s latest data . That is more than 45 times the earlier count, an increase of about 888,000. The September 30 update tracks parties that have ever transacted, giving a cumulative measure of participation over the network’s history. The distinction matters when reading the chart. A party is an identifier used on Canton, so this is a count of transacting parties rather than verified individual people. It also measures participation over time, rather than how many parties were active on a particular day. On that basis, the figures show a substantial expansion in the set of parties with recorded transaction activity over the past year. See The Tie’s chart and comparison .