Proposal: Korean TTA Blockchain Reliability Verification of the Canton Private Synchronizer
Development Fund Proposal Submission
Proposal file: /proposals/2026-06-Nodeinfra-korea-tta-brv.md
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Summary
This proposal funds taking the Canton private synchronizer through Korea's TTA Blockchain Reliability Verification (BRV) ahead of the Korean STO law's January 2027 effective date, establishing Canton as the first non-Korean DLT — and first privacy-preserving sub-net architecture — to hold the credential Korean financial-infrastructure operators use to evaluate a permissioned chain. The BRV result attaches to the Canton private synchronizer software itself, so every ecosystem participant inherits it; all non-NDA artifacts (submission package, NCSC-guideline compliance mapping, deployment scripts, test harness, post-mortem) are open-sourced under Apache 2.0 as a reusable blueprint for analogous APAC verification regimes. Total request: 2,200,000 CC (~$330,000 USD at the $0.15/CC reference rate) across two milestones.
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Checklist
- [x] Proposal file added under
/proposals/ - [x] Milestones and funding amounts defined
- [x] Acceptance criteria included
- [x] Alignment with Canton priorities described
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Notes for Reviewers
Eligible funding category: Security reviews, audits, and hardening (the BRV evaluation tests consensus fault tolerance, key management, and ledger integrity of the Canton private synchronizer against the NCSC guideline), plus reference implementations other builders can reuse (the Apache 2.0 artifact set — compliance mapping, deployment scripts, test/benchmark harness — as a portable blueprint for analogous APAC verification regimes).
SIG alignment:
- Primary: Regulatory Compliance
- Secondary: Canton Protocol & Multi-Synchronizer (validates the private synchronizer's BFT consensus, deterministic finality, and privacy sub-net; aligns with the multi-synchronizer roadmap)
- Optional third: Node Deployment & Operations (verification environment, deployment/key-management posture)
Champion: Teagan Buckley.
Public-good framing: The grant funds a credential that attaches to the Canton private synchronizer software — not to Nodeinfra or any single operator — and a fully open-sourced (Apache 2.0) artifact set reusable across APAC. Nodeinfra's commercial work (the STO issuance platform, securities-firm BD, and the law-firm legal-education engagement) is explicitly fenced into the proposal's Out of Scope section and funded separately; it appears in the Growth and Adoption section only as evidence the credential drives real adoption.
Acceptance criteria are objectively verifiable: Both milestone gates are independently checkable without grantee attestation — a public TTA engagement/scope acknowledgement (M1) and a publicly verifiable TTA-issued BRV result plus the published Apache 2.0 artifact set (M2). The BRV result is binary, so Milestone 2 payment is conditioned on the credential itself rather than on downstream adoption.
Adoption accountability: Adoption indicators are tracked as informational (not payment gates, since they lag issuance and sit with third parties), with a committed public adoption-tracking report in the repo at 6 and 12 months post-issuance.
Timing: The Korean STO law's January 2027 effective date is hard, and infrastructure-operator selection runs 6–12 months ahead of it. The 5-month delivery window is matched to placing Canton in the selection pool before decisions are locked.
