Canton Blog

Canton Network saw movement across USD funding, exchange access, RWA infrastructure, wallets, $CC locking, liquidity, builder funding and app upgrades.

OneSwap Wallet brings self-custody, local signing, Google-backed recovery, token transfers, swaps, incoming offers, and balance tools to Canton users.

SK Securities has signed an MOU with Edena Korea to expand its digital asset finance business, with the collaboration set to leverage Cantor8 and Canton Network infrastructure for RWA tokenization and STO-focused initiatives.

T-RIZE has integrated Chainlink into its Kairos Digital Loan Notes programme, giving authorized participants a way to verify insurance coverage data for tokenized private-credit assets on Canton Network.

Zenith has joined Progmat’s Tokenized JGB / On-chain Repo Working Group, a DCC initiative studying tokenized Japanese Government Bonds, stablecoin cash legs, and on-chain repo settlement.

Temple Digital Group is partnering with HIFI to let eligible customers fund Canton wallets from bank accounts, convert USD into USDCx, trade on Temple, and withdraw through HIFI-supported banks.

Moonsong Labs has joined the Canton Network ecosystem as a Service Provider and released a free Canton Readiness Guide. Its Canton practice supports institutions with Daml development, node setup, compliant asset workflows, and Global Synchronizer integration.

Canton Strategic Holdings is introducing a locking-as-a-service offering for Canton Network app builders and Super Validators. The service follows CIP-0105 and CIP-0116, helping participants meet Canton Coin commitment requirements while managing capital more efficiently.

Palladium Labs has launched the Genesis Fund, a 10 million CC grant program worth approximately $1.5 million, to support builders developing financial applications, infrastructure, and tooling on the Canton Network.

HECTO, the utility token of Hecto Finance, is now live for trading on Cantex, expanding access to a Canton-native asset focused on prediction markets, tokenized private equity exposure and compliance-first private market infrastructure.

Bithumb has listed Canton Coin ($CC) on its KRW market, expanding the token’s presence in one of the world’s most active crypto markets.

Rapid Chain is building an EVM-compatible execution layer on Canton Network, pairing familiar wallets, Solidity tooling and cross-chain liquidity with Canton’s validation and settlement infrastructure.

Canton’s week brought movement across institutional markets, protocol upgrades, wallets, DeFi, Featured App economics and consumer-facing applications. The biggest updates covered onchain repo, new token standards, $CC lockups, embedded swaps, bridge activity and growing institutional interest.

At NGDA 2026 in Seoul, Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz said tokenization must move beyond asset issuance toward coordinated financial infrastructure, with Canton positioned as a network-of-networks model for institutional markets.

Grayscale has named Canton Network among four blockchains most likely to attract institutional capital if the CLARITY Act passes, citing regulatory certainty as the key unlock for institutional digital asset activity.

T-RIZE Group Corporation has named Omar C. Bermudez as Product Director, tasking the former McKinsey digital product lead with building out the company's product function across its tokenization and decentralized risk modelling infrastructure.

Canton Strategic Holdings said it is expected to be added to the Russell 3000 and Russell 2000 indexes after the latest Russell reconstitution, effective after market close on June 26, 2026.

HIFI, DRW and Marex completed an onchain repo transaction on the Canton Network using familiar institutional plumbing: Tradeweb RFQ execution, prime brokerage intermediation and U.S. Treasuries as collateral. The significance is not that repo touched blockchain. It is that blockchain was used without abandoning the market structure institutions already rely on.

Hecto’s Allocator has become one of Canton’s most active consumer apps, with 17,000+ daily users, 2.74M+ $CC distributed, and 18,000+ $HECTO holders. Built natively on Canton, the Allocator gives users a daily, non-liquidating way to engage with major private companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, ByteDance, Stripe, and Databricks. It is the first live stage of Hecto’s wider plan to bring signal, access, and settlement to the pre-IPO economy.

Canton Strategic Holdings said its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program allowing the company to repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock.

HANDL is now live on OneSwap and HandlPay has integrated the OneSwap SDK, making it the first payments application on Canton Network to embed native swap functionality.

HandlPay has added USDC support to its in-app bridge, allowing users to move stablecoins between Base, Polygon, and Canton Network directly inside the HandlPay app

Andreessen Horowitz has opened a Seoul office and named South Korea its Asian strategic base, with crypto as the first priority, following its $100 million participation in the Digital Asset Holdings round backing Canton Network.

Ekiden has launched on Canton Network's testnet as the first CLOB-based derivatives exchange on the network, with several trading firms already integrated and mainnet to follow.

OneSwap is now live inside Loop Wallet, marking the first wallet integration of the OneSwap SDK and allowing Loop users to swap Canton assets natively without leaving the wallet.

Canton Network has welcomed 20 new validator operators, with Citadel LLC and Taishin Bank among the most prominent names joining the network's growing institutional infrastructure base.

Temple Digital Group's order book generated 31.5% of Canton Network's total daily fee burn on June 11, 2026, making it the largest single contributor to network fee activity on that date.

Kraken has enabled USDCx deposits and withdrawals on Canton Network, with spot trading to follow once liquidity thresholds are reached, as the exchange signals broader Canton ecosystem support ahead.

Canborsa has launched in beta as the first perpetual RWA DEX on Canton Network, offering trading in tokenized stocks, gold, oil, and crypto with up to 20x leverage through a non-custodial interface.

Digital Asset has closed a $355 million round led by a16z crypto, with backing from more than a dozen financial institutions across TradFi and DeFi, as the Canton Network continues to build institutional momentum across tokenized asset markets.