Canton Blog

Digital Asset, the developer of Canton Network, has been named a Gold Sponsor of DC Fintech Week 2026, taking place October 13 to 16 in Washington, D.C., where government, industry, and technology leaders discuss digital assets, payments, and policy.

HANDL has completed a 23.48 million-token burn. The program uses payment fees to set burn amounts, with treasury support accelerating the initial phase.

BitGo has closed its Canton upgrade maintenance notice and returned the service to operational status. The update follows the network’s planned move to CantonBFT.

LSEG’s hosted reward allocation is active on Canton following an October 10 network update. Its weight of 10 is hosted through MPCH, while reward releases remain tied to verified milestones and further approval.

HestiaX runs a validator on Canton MainNet alongside its work on renewable-energy finance software. Its platform is designed to prepare project data and contracted revenues for institutional financing.

BitDynamics has secured funding approval for improvements to Splice, covering grant controls, transaction-cost monitoring and tools for network operators. The work is split into two milestones with a six-month target.

Nuxaris has locked 25 million Canton Coin through Cashen for cBNB. Its separate Featured App application focuses on bringing the BNB-backed asset to more Canton trading venues.

PixelPlex’s Open Token Standard draft would give developers a consistent way to find the software and information needed to support Canton tokens. Issuers could opt in without changing existing transfer and settlement processes.

CatalyX has updated its Tokenization Explorer with shareable analyses, fit scores and suggested next steps. The tool helps businesses assess potential uses for tokenization before committing to a build.

DTCC’s Tokenization Service is due to go live at the end of October, according to Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz, with Canton as its public network. Here is what is launching, what July’s production trades proved, who is lining up, and what to watch on launch day.

Kintsu has opened its private beta to early borrowers, lenders and vault managers. The project is developing lending markets, managed vaults and staking for Canton, with its current beta environment running on testnet.

Moonsong Labs is recruiting more design partners for VaultKit, a toolkit for running investment products on Canton. Institutions keep the software in their own environment and help shape its development.

Digital Asset is seeking 1 million CC to let Super Validator operators authorise other parties to vote on their behalf. The proposed app would separate voting responsibilities from node operations while keeping one vote per Super Validator node.

A new draft would replace license fees for dedicated Canton synchronizers with CC burn and extend rewards to their apps and validators. It also proposes volume discounts, with detailed pricing to follow in a separate proposal.

Unhedged now connects with AI assistants for market research and trading. Users choose separate permissions for account access, trades and withdrawals.

BootNode has proposed canton-testkit, an open-source library to help Canton teams test transactions from setup to ledger confirmation. It is requesting 702,000 CC, with payment tied to a working release and adoption in existing test suites.

CCTools has added value history, recent activity, supported NFTs and DeFi positions to its cross-network portfolio tracker.

Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo platform averaged $359 billion in daily transactions during September. The Canton-based service now sits within the company’s wider DLX offering for tokenized markets.

Maha Wallet is partnering with Cashen to meet Canton’s Featured App locking requirement with 5 million CC. The arrangement addresses the capital requirement, which sits alongside a separate approval process.

BitSafe is seeking Featured App status for CHYPE, a planned HYPE-backed Canton asset, with Temple its first intended integration.

NVDAe and SPCXe are now trading on Cantex, expanding Edel’s Canton offering beyond its existing index-linked tokens. Access to the exchange remains invitation-only.

Nuxaris has added BNB Chain support and ten new bridge routes. Users can bridge BNB into cBNB, swap it for Canton Coin and hold or send it through the platform’s wallet.

Canton’s October 7 batch approves 18 operators, including elebank limited and Enflux, with applicants planning tokenized deposits, trading and payment tools.

FTP Tech has launched a hosted Canton wallet connector for ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. FTP holds the wallet keys, with spending capped at 5 CC per payment and 20 CC per day.

Brickken is seeking 5.85 million CC for a 15-month project to develop shared compliance controls for tokenized assets on Canton, with funding for an implementation, audit and developer tools.

Kaiko has joined the Canton Foundation’s Collateral Sub-Committee, contributing pricing data and connections to institutional systems as the group develops requirements for accepting tokenized collateral.

Canton is building a broader institutional finance ecosystem around tokenized assets, custody, bonds, yield, and onchain ownership. As Ripple Custody and Doppler Finance expand into the network, Canton is also strengthening its links to the XRPL ecosystem, while $CC becomes more central to its growth.

ForecastDesk has applied for Featured App status following its September MainNet launch. The prediction platform lets users trade event outcomes from their own Canton wallets, with payments and positions settled together.

Canton has implemented the hosted reward-weight arrangement for Marex’s approved Super Validator program. Rewards remain tied to verified milestones covering institutional activity on the network.

SoFi customers can now buy, sell and hold Canton Coin in the app. CC is one of 11 recent additions that take SoFi Crypto’s supported range to 40 digital assets.