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), timed ahead of the Korean STO law's January 2027 effective date. Success would make Canton the first non-Korean DLT — and the first privacy-preserving sub-net architecture — to hold the credential. Korean financial-infrastructure operators rely on that credential 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 are open-sourced under Apache 2.0: the submission package, NCSC-guideline compliance mapping, deployment scripts, test harness, and post-mortem. Together they form 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: This proposal fits two categories.
- Security reviews, audits, and hardening. The BRV evaluation tests the Canton private synchronizer against the NCSC guideline — covering consensus fault tolerance, key management, and ledger integrity.
- Reference implementations other builders can reuse. The Apache 2.0 artifact set (compliance mapping, deployment scripts, test/benchmark harness) serves 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: Canton Foundation.
Public-good framing: The grant funds a credential that attaches to the Canton private synchronizer software, not to Nodeinfra or any single operator, plus a fully open-sourced (Apache 2.0) artifact set reusable across APAC. Nodeinfra's own commercial work is funded separately and fenced into the proposal's Out of Scope section. That work covers the STO issuance platform, securities-firm BD, and the law-firm legal-education engagement. It appears in the Growth and Adoption section only as evidence that the credential drives real adoption.
Acceptance criteria are objectively verifiable: Both milestone gates are independently checkable without grantee attestation. M1 is a public TTA engagement/scope acknowledgement; M2 is a publicly verifiable TTA-issued BRV result plus the published Apache 2.0 artifact set. Because the BRV result is binary, 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 that schedule, placing Canton in the selection pool before decisions are locked.
