Canton Blog

Fairmint has proposed a shared format for unique assets on Canton, covering everything from tickets and memberships to regulated certificates. Equity certificates are its first planned production use.

IntellectEU has published a benchmark that measures how well AI agents write tests for Daml code. The public set contains 34 tasks and 159 deliberately introduced faults, with code and baseline results available for developers to examine.

Unhedged’s new XP program awards points for trading fees and pays rewards as users reach higher levels. Its October season has 10 levels, starting with a $10 reward and offering up to $3,000 in total.

An update to CIP-0127 proposes a way to change the owner of locked Canton Coin while keeping the lock in place. It would let participants move to a new custodian without first unlocking or replacing the funds.

Splice 0.9.0 is available for Canton’s development network, with two-thirds of its Super Validator nodes already upgraded. The release updates wallet deployment, reward collection and services used by applications.

Zenith has warned users about fake links, token listings and faucets appearing after its testnet launch. ZTH is a test-only token with no monetary value, and no official Zenith token is available for trading.

Utila has joined DTCC's industry working group on institutional tokenization. It brings experience in managing Canton assets, approving transfers and connecting blockchain activity with the systems financial institutions already use.

Logical Contracts has requested 1.3 million CC for a tool that would convert Ethereum smart contracts into native Canton code and test whether they still behave as intended. The six-month proposal has not been approved.

Canton Coin is available to trade against the Thai baht on Bitkub. The exchange announced the listing on October 1, with Canton sharing the news on October 6. The announcement confirms trading availability, not deposit or withdrawal support.

Nocturnal Wallet has moved from committee approval to a MainNet vote for Featured App status. Voting closes on October 13, with October 14 set as the target effective date.

Canborsa has launched Savings Season 1 for USDT, USDC and USDCx deposits. The pool has a $300,000 capacity and a $25,000 limit per wallet, with daily payouts and a one-month boost taking the advertised rate to as much as 20% APR.

Cancore’s latest update puts participation in its Genesis Points program above 50,000 users. Swaps earn points, and no snapshot had been taken when the October 6 update was published.

Canton’s latest MainNet allocation notice names 43 distinct organisations, including Kaleido, OmniStake and MZF Protocol. The awards give recipients an allocation for a validator node; they do not confirm that the nodes are already running.

BootNode’s dAppBooster write-up adds live examples and setup guides to Canton’s recent developer-tooling roundup. The open-source starter combines a local Canton environment with wallet connections and reusable interface components, giving builders a working example to adapt.

LG CNS has launched KITL, combining wallets, transaction processing, fee sponsorship and record collection for financial institutions. An MOU with the Canton Foundation covers infrastructure for Korean institutions to join Canton Network, alongside four other digital-asset partnerships.

ANDRA has launched a Canton-based platform for ETF issuers that connects onchain activity with official ownership records and existing fund infrastructure. An industry working group will examine settlement, compliance and potential pilots. The announcement does not name a live tokenized ETF.

The Canton Development Fund has paid 5,081,500 CC across four milestones for Splice Portfolio, traffic accounting, BitSafe maintenance and Daml 3 training. The receipts confirm payment for defined work, not completion of the wider grant programs.

Canton’s planned move to CantonBFT includes a 24-hour freeze on network-configuration changes, followed by a brief transaction pause on October 10. Ordinary transactions are expected to continue during the freeze, while the on-chain scheduling vote remains open.

Splice 0.8.3 is ready for MainNet deployment, while 0.8.4 has cleared the same stage on TestNet. Each October 5 notice confirms that two-thirds of Super Validator nodes had upgraded, including the Global Synchronizer Foundation’s node.

cSOL is available through Modulo, with users able to buy, sell and hold it from their wallets. The October 5 announcement adds access through another platform, following cSOL's September listing on Silvana, rather than marking the token's first appearance on Canton.

Ripple Custody 1.43 adds holding and transfer support for Canton Coin and CIP-56 tokens through its API. Customers use their own validator or a node provider's, with signing keys kept in the custody vault. The SaaS release is rolling out progressively.

A new Canton governance draft would replace manual validator onboarding and IP whitelists with automatic access after a traffic purchase. It also sets security checks and staged testing requirements, but the proposal remains an unapproved draft.

Tradecraft's October 5 update puts total value locked on Canton above $3.5 million, following its September milestone of more than $3 million. TVL measures assets held in the platform's pools, not trading volume or revenue, and the figure is a platform-provided snapshot.

Team Mandate took first place in Cantor8's August hackathon, followed by Lattice Scan, Vorem and DamnLE. The October 5 results highlight controlled AI-agent spending, private indexing and security, with further details about the Cantor8 Accelerator still to come.

Kora's October 5 update puts its 24-hour trading volume above $7 million. The dated platform snapshot follows September listings for Canton Coin, gold and silver against USDCx, and measures completed trading rather than assets held on the exchange.

Lloyds and Visa settled stablecoin payments over a weekend, Temple crossed $1 billion in volume, 908,000 parties have now transacted, and MainNet’s move to CantonBFT has a proposed date. Here is everything that moved on Canton from September 28 to October 4, one update at a time.

Rocky's planned dark pool would keep large orders out of the public order book and combine public-market midpoint pricing with Canton settlement. The feature is not open for trading, and no launch date has been announced.

Norvault has opened its Bacon Series 001 offering through CanTra, accepting euros or Canton Coin from eligible investors. Each note will be represented by a Canton token, with issuance and delivery scheduled for November 5 subject to completion conditions.

Meriq has applied for Featured App status for its Canton asset-swap venue. The platform is operating in a controlled MainNet launch, with an independent audit still planned before larger production limits.

DIA is seeking up to 8.4 million CC to build an open-source tool that checks data from several providers before Canton applications use it. Funding remains under review.