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Error Handling and Troubleshooting
Disconnecting and Reconnecting to a Wallet Provider If you are having trouble launching the Wallet Gateway or connecting to your wallet provider, disconnecting and reconnecting Splice Portfolio may help. • Click Disconnect in the left side navigation. • Once Splice Portfolio is disconnected from
Sep 11, 2026
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Overview
The Splice Portfolio UI is a reference dApp wallet UI for viewing and interacting with assets on Canton. It is not intended to function as a wallet or custody layer for creating parties and storing keys. Instead, it is an open source dApp that you can clone and install, connect to a wallet, and use
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Enable Pre-Approvals
Enabling pre-approvals for an asset pre-authorizes incoming transfer offers to your primary party. Once enabled, any incoming transfer of a pre-approved asset is automatically accepted into your primary party, with no signing required. Enable a Pre-Approval • Go to the Settings page and navigate
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Switch Parties
Switching parties means changing the party used to conduct transactions. These steps apply only if you are using the Wallet Gateway as your signing provider. Other CIP-103 wallets manage the primary party in their own interface. Switch Your Primary Party • Navigate to the bottom of the side nav
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Transfers
All transfers are sent and received through your primary party. To act from a different party, first switch your primary party . Send a Transfer Offer • From the Dashboard or your primary party view, click Transfer in the top right corner of the screen. • Complete the transfer form and select Ma
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Add a Registry
A registry is a Daml application that can issue, service, and govern digital assets. You will need to add at least one registry to Splice Portfolio in order to view assets and conduct transfers and allocations. You can do this in the configuration file in the deployment documentation or in the UI.
Sep 11, 2026
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Keycloak in the QuickStart
Keycloak is an open-source Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution that provides authentication, authorization, and user management for modern applications and services. It acts as a centralized authentication server that handles user logins, session management, and security token issuance. T
Sep 11, 2026
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Using the JSON Ledger API
Using the JSON Ledger API Overview You are ready to extend the CN Quickstart to interact directly with your LocalNet. You’ll learn how to programmatically create parties, upload DARs, create contracts, and integrate with Canton Coin (Amulet) using OAuth2 authentication against your running Local
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Multi-Synchronizer Application Best Practices
Multi-synchronizer applications improve scalability, tighten cost and access control, and may enable better regulatory oversight by distributing workflows across multiple Canton synchronizer instances. This architecture, however, introduces a unique set of challenges. Developers, application provide
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Decentralization
Canton supports a spectrum of decentralization. You don’t have to commit to full decentralization from day one — you can start with a simple single-validator setup and progressively decentralize as your application’s trust requirements evolve. The Decentralization Spectrum Canton’s architecture
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QuickStart FAQ
System requirements & setup Have the best technologies been selected for the CN App Quickstart? The Quickstart is designed to help teams become familiar with Canton Network (CN) application development by providing scaffolding to kickstart development. Quickstart is intended to be incrementally
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Reward Sharing
Overview When traffic-based app rewards are enabled, featured app providers receive Splice.Amulet.RewardCouponV2 contracts for each round in which their application was attributed traffic burn above the app reward threshold. Reward sharing allows the provider to distribute (part of) the minting
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1.11.1
1.11.1 — 2026-09-10 🩹 Fixes • sanitize runtime errors in api responses ( #2269 ) 🧱 Updated Dependencies • Updated @canton-network/core-signing-participant to 1.12.1 • Updated @canton-network/core-signing-store-sql to 1.13.1 • Updated @canton-network/core-signing-internal to 1.13.1 • Updat
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3.5.17
Release of Canton 3.5.17 Canton 3.5.17 has been released on September 10, 2026. Summary This is a maintenance release that brings few minor improvements and bug fixes. What’s New CantonBFT • Added the duration of the “output” stage to the performance metrics. • Reduced compute footprint
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Quickstart
Prerequisites Commercial Agreement Use of the DA Registry requires a commercial agreement with Digital Asset. The agreement governs access to DA Registry, licensing, support, and any applicable commercial terms. For licensing and pricing information, please contact Digital Asset . Set Up Canto
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DA Parties
Operator Party The DA operator party is used • as a signatory on onboarding contracts (i.e. ProviderService) • as an observer on all other Registry contracts (e.g. InstrumentConfiguration, TransferPreapproval, …) The latter is required for DA to be able to run the Registry Operator backe
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Asset Lifecycle Workflows
The DA Registry Workflows provide a structured, permissioned framework for managing digital assets throughout their lifecycle. Operating on the Canton Network Token Standard, these workflows automate compliance checks and coordinate multi-party actions seamlessly. Capabilities Overview The DA Re
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Observability and Tracing
Canton Network Quickstart observability & troubleshooting overview The screenshots in this guide are taken from multiple sessions and are inconsistent with each other. This will be rectified once some of the updates are committed. It’s assumed that you have read the quickstart getting started gu
Sep 10, 2026
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Deploy Quickstart to DevNet
Overview In this guide, you’ll deploy the Quickstart app from LocalNet to DevNet. You’ll deploy the original DAR, deploy to the backend, frontend and test the workflow. You should have the Quickstart application installed and understand the Project Structure guide. DevNet validator prerequisi
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Project Structure
Canton Network quickstart project structure Overview The CN Quickstart provides a complete development environment for building Canton Network applications. It combines build tools (Gradle, Make), deployment infrastructure (Docker Compose), and a reference application to accelerate your developm
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3.5.15
Release of Canton 3.5.15 Canton 3.5.15 has been released on August 27, 2026. Summary This is a release that officially marks CantonBFT as GA for dedicated synchronizers. It contains a number of improvements for CantonBFT, traffic enforcement app and resource management. CantonBFT GA Canton
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Tokenomics of the Global Synchronizer
Canton Coin (CC) is the economic engine of the Global Synchronizer. Validators, Super Validators, and application providers earn CC by contributing infrastructure and activity to the network. Users spend CC (by burning it) to purchase synchronizer traffic . The resulting burn-mint equilibrium ties t
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1.11.0
1.11.0 — 2026-09-09 🩹 Fixes • wallet-gateway-remote: register parties/edit as a Vite build entry ( #2420 ) • refactor transaction-service ( #2393 ) • specify correct license in wallet-gateway remote ( #2389 ) 🧱 Updated Dependencies • Updated @canton-network/core-wallet-dapp-rpc-client to 1
Sep 9, 2026
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Security Practices
Security is a fundamental part of how we operate. We recognise that firms using our Registry application entrust us with sensitive information and technology supporting the issuance, management and transfer of tokenised assets. We therefore take a structured, risk-based approach to security across o
Sep 7, 2026
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Overview
Overview The DA Registry is the fastest way for asset issuers and tokenizers to issue, mobilize and monetize institutional-grade digital assets on Canton. If you are not familiar yet with the DA Registry, we recommend briefly reading the PRIMER first. Quickstart Issue compliant, interope
Sep 7, 2026
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Monitoring
Overview Digital Asset actively monitors the suite of services that support the functionality of the Registry application on Canton Network. We maintain a comprehensive observability strategy that facilitates our 24/7 Global Support Team to: • Detect : Identify infrastructure anomalies and perfor
Sep 7, 2026
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GET /v0/events/:update_id
cURL Python JavaScript PHP Go Java Ruby curl --request GET \ --url 'https://scan.sv-1.global.canton.network.sync.global/api/scan/v0/events/{update_id}' import json import requests url = "https://scan.sv-1.global.canton.network.sync.global/api/scan/v0/events/{update_id}" respo
Sep 4, 2026
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Application Architecture
Canton applications follow a layered architecture where Daml smart contracts define the shared business logic, a backend mediates access to the ledger, and a frontend presents the user interface. This page describes the roles involved and how the layers connect. Roles Three roles appear in most
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Building and Packaging
Work with dependencies The application from compose is a complete and secure model for atomic swaps of assets, but there is plenty of room for improvement. However, one can’t implement all features before going live with an application so it’s important to understand how to change already runnin
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Composition and Design Patterns
Compose choices It’s time to put everything you’ve learned so far together into a complete and secure Daml model for asset issuance, management, transfer, and trading. This application will have capabilities similar to the one in the CN Quickstart . In the process you will learn about a few more c
Sep 4, 2026
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