Canton Blog

Slay Money plans to share 6,000 CC among 20 early users before its first weekly rewards distribution. Activity in the app begins counting this week, with the first weekly payout planned for next week.

Canton's Super Validator operators have approved a16z crypto's participation. The arrangement links rewards and a maximum earnable weight of 10 to verified milestones.

cSOL, QQQe and SPYe are now available to trade on Silvana, adding three more assets to the platform's private trading markets on Canton.

The Slay Money team's Float service has applied for Featured App status. It compares quotes from exchange partners to swap more than 2,000 supported crypto assets into Canton Coin and back out again.

Swap Monster has announced a partnership with Edel focused on EDELx, its Canton-side token. The update builds on earlier availability of a CBTC/EDELx market on the trading platform.

Fairmint has applied for funding to connect Privy-based apps to Canton. The proposed developer toolkit would help those apps authorize transactions, with most of the requested funding tied to independent MainNet adoption and maintenance.

Console users can now fund their own Canton traffic fees with CC or top up another participant's balance. The feature gives each account a separate way to cover its network usage.

Kora users can now trade eXAU and eXAG against USDCx. The new gold and silver pairs follow a funding option that lets users move USDC from Ethereum directly into a Kora account.

Cancore MCP lets users turn a plain-language request into a proposed trade. The wallet supplies the live quote, and the user reviews and signs before any funds move.

Ekiden's invite-only MainNet has passed $1 million in trading volume across 15,978 trades. A temporary fee offer and new leverage limits accompany the milestone.

Loop's Fee Balance is live on Canton MainNet, giving users a separate prepaid balance for transaction costs. The rollout also brings an update for applications that submit transactions from their own servers.

Alpend has partnered with BitSafe to reward CBTC deposits with Canton Coin on top of the interest earned from lending. Deposits remain subject to the pool's available capacity.

The September 17 release improves catch-up, corrects misleading warnings and includes a security fix for node operators.

An approved change removes a cap that disadvantaged applications settling several trades together. The broader reward framework remains under review.

TreasurySpring has been approved as a Canton Network Super Validator, with the first milestone focused on recording Fixed-Term Fund Share ownership on Canton's ledger as the authoritative ownership register, with no change to the existing client experience.

LYNC has introduced canton-deploy, a tool that combines several steps needed to deploy an application’s Daml packages and set up users. Developers can also check deployments, inspect contracts and manage network configurations from the same tool.

CC/USDCx is now live for trading on Kora's permissionless orderbook, bringing together Canton Coin and Circle's USDCx stablecoin on Canton Network, with the pair available via xReserve.

Intercepta has integrated its Compliance Engine with Canton Network, enabling real-time sanctions screening, AML checks, and fund flow traceability through designated observer roles within Canton's privacy-preserving architecture, without altering the network's underlying privacy model.

Twenty-one organisations have submitted Canton Network validator applications ahead of a September 23 deadline, including interest rate swap infrastructure, undercollateralised credit markets, trade finance, yield routing, tokenised gold, and a broad range of Southeast Asian and emerging market builders.

Kyobo Life and SBI have completed a Canton Network pilot testing direct yen-won stablecoin exchange without a dollar intermediate leg, modelling cross-border institutional settlement in what Kyobo Life describes as South Korea's first such test by an insurer.

South Korean asset managers are launching digital asset ETFs abroad and building blockchain partnerships at home, including Shinhan Asset Management's agreement with the Canton Foundation, as they prepare for an expected opening of the domestic digital asset product market.

Temple Digital Group has opened up its Lightspeed trading engine to select institutions through Virtual Orderbooks, a primitive that lets operators deploy private, compliant spot, prediction, and perpetual markets on Canton Network.

Edel Finance is deepening its role in institutional tokenization through its involvement in the DTC Digital Assets Solutions Industry Working Group and its growing presence in the Canton ecosystem. As traditional assets move onchain, $EDEL is positioning itself around the infrastructure, liquidity, collateral, and settlement systems that could shape the next phase of tokenized finance.

Japan's FSA has named on-chain finance its top 2026 policy priority, with MUFG's JGB repo testing on Canton Network already selected for the FSA's Payment Innovation Project as the regulator builds out the legal, institutional, and collaborative infrastructure for blockchain-based financial markets.

Cashen, Canton Network's CC locking marketplace, has joined the Canton Foundation's Collateral Subcommittee chaired by DTCC, contributing to the Cross-Application Collateral Mobility workstream alongside BNY, Euroclear, and Broadridge.

Edel has joined the industry working group helping shape the DTCC Tokenization Service. The Canton builder will contribute feedback alongside major financial institutions ahead of the service’s planned launch later this year.

P2P Company has applied for Featured App status for its live Canton escrow service. The platform supports peer-to-peer trades of CC, CBTC and cETH, with buyers paying sellers directly in stablecoins or local currency.

Utila’s new guide explores how banks can use blockchains while keeping sensitive financial information private. Canton features alongside Aleo and Zama, with a focus on controlling who can see transaction details.

Digital Asset Holdings (Canton) is listed among respondents to the UK’s consultation on tokenisation in wholesale markets. The FCA and Bank of England will use the feedback to develop a joint roadmap later this year, with collateral movement a leading priority.

S&P Global has led a $110 million Series B expansion for Kaiko, with the Canton Foundation joining a new Strategic Industry Working Group on tokenised market data infrastructure, as Kaiko deepens its existing work with Canton Network on the iBoxx Treasury index and CC pricing benchmarks.