Canton Blog

ISLA has joined the Canton Foundation as an associate member, placing the securities finance industry's leading trade body inside Canton Network's collateral and technology working groups.

As the Canton Network continues to scale it has become a central point of conversation for institutions exploring digital assets. Because of its unique design - tailored for institutional finance - some misunderstandings regarding its architecture, governance, and openness have emerged. This article aims to address some common misconceptions, and clarify how the Canton Network functions, is governed, and delivers value to its global ecosystem.

Nano Labs has been approved to operate a validator node on Canton, joining the network’s global validator ecosystem.

The open source wallet connection layer for the Canton Network crosses a six figure adoption milestone and sets out its plan for the next twelve months.

Temple Digital Group and RedStone have partnered to bring RedStone's institutional price feeds to Temple's newly launched gold and silver commodity markets on Canton Network.

1exchange has been approved as a Canton validator and plans to use the network’s privacy-preserving infrastructure for future RWA tokenization, listings and trading.

BOOSTRY and Digital Asset are working together on a corporate multi-chain wallet scheduled for launch by the end of 2026, beginning with support for Canton.

FOMO Pay has received validator approval on Canton and plans to use the network for institutional B2B payments and settlement.

Franklin Templeton Digital Assets has announced its new role as a Super Validator on Canton Network, expanding its involvement from tokenized fund deployment into network infrastructure. Its potential Super Validator weight is tied to milestones covering treasury activity, 24/7 fund operations and production volume.

Bitrue will list Canton’s $CC token, with CC/USDT spot trading opening on August 4 and withdrawals becoming available the following day.

July brought live institutional transactions, new investment, stronger network figures, product launches and wider access to Canton Coin across the growing global Canton Network ecosystem.

Temple Digital Group has listed Ember Protocol’s eXAU and eXAG for spot trading on Canton. Each token represents one troy ounce of fully allocated LBMA Good Delivery bullion held in professional vault custody.

Chainalysis has identified Canton as the main example of sub-transaction privacy, where data is shared only with relevant parties while authorised stakeholders can receive access when needed.

Cantor8 will bring university teams, developers and founders together on August 29 for a full day of building with Daml.

Digital Asset has hired Sylvain Bigaud, formerly Regional Head of Middle East, Africa, and Turkey at Euroclear, as Senior Director of Global Business Development and Strategy, based in Dubai.

Arqitech has completed live institutional atomic swaps using Canton Token Standard V2, linking Canton Coin with assets on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and TRON without bridges or third-party custody.

SBI Holdings has renamed SBI Security Solutions as SBI Digital Practice and reorganised the wholly owned subsidiary around Canton Network. The company will develop financial infrastructure and support institutional implementation in Japan and overseas.

Canton Strategic Holdings has elected Sean Galvin, Pamela L. Carter, and Rishi Nangalia to its Board of Directors, strengthening governance as the NASDAQ-listed company continues to build its Canton Coin-focused treasury and operating strategy.

BitSafe has launched Decentralization Manager in public beta, an open-source framework for distributed trust and custody infrastructure on Canton Network, backed by a $1 million Canton Foundation grant and already deployed by Palladium Labs, Nethermind, DSRV, and Finoa Consensus Services.

Palladium Labs’ 51-page State of the Canton Network – H1 2026 report maps the network’s growth across infrastructure, applications and institutional deployments, including more than 490 ecosystem participants and $9 trillion in monthly volume.

Digital Asset has raised an additional $10 million from Shinhan Financial Group and SC Ventures, extending its funding round to $365 million at a $2 billion valuation.

Nasdaq disclosed a successful Canton Network tokenized collateral pilot through its Calypso platform during a record Q2 2026 earnings call, as the exchange operator reported $1.5 billion in net revenue, $1 trillion in index AUM, and the largest IPO in history.

Canton Strategic Holdings has sold its biotech R&D arm, Gravitas Life Sciences, to Gravitas Collective Corp. The board-approved deal closed on July 17 as the Nasdaq-listed company narrows its operating strategy around the Canton Network.

Hydra X has launched the HX Gateway API, a REST layer for institutions and developers building on Canton without specialised Daml expertise. The company says it can speed go-to-market by up to 80% and cut deployment time by 50%.

Digital Asset co-founder and CEO Yuval Rooz discusses DTCC’s first production activity, Canton mainnet extensions, network burn economics and a corporate treasury use case that could bring hundreds or thousands of businesses on-chain.

Digital Asset has added Shinhan Financial Group and SC Ventures by Standard Chartered to its previously announced oversubscribed funding round, expanding its institutional investor base.

OneSwap v2 is now live with a rebuilt swap engine, single-transaction swaps, a built-in platform wallet, and prepaid gas support for lower network fees.

Ekiden has been approved as a Featured App on the Canton Network. The project is building institutional derivatives infrastructure on Canton, with a hybrid RFQ and CLOB model for efficient on-chain market execution.

Premia has acquired Raven Market in an all-cash deal, integrating the Canton-native institutional derivatives platform into its offering for 38 institutional clients managing more than $127 million in assets under management.

Canton Network has burned 4.3 billion CC since mid-2024, worth more than $500 million, with daily burns accelerating and a CIP draft expected in September that would extend burning to every synchronizer on the network.