Canton Intelligence Framework Proposal
Development Fund Proposal Submission
Proposal file: Canton Intelligence Framework
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Executive Summary
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a core component of financial infrastructure, powering risk management, valuation, compliance, underwriting, and investment decision-making. However, the data required to build effective models remains fragmented across organizations and cannot typically be shared due to privacy, regulatory, and competitive constraints.
The Canton Intelligence Framework introduces a new ecosystem primitive: Coordinated Intelligence.
Built on federated learning and Canton’s privacy-preserving architecture, the framework enables organizations to collaboratively create, govern, and monetize machine learning models without centralizing data. Participants retain control of their information while benefiting from intelligence generated across the network.
For Canton, this expands the network from infrastructure that coordinates assets to infrastructure that coordinates both assets and intelligence. The result is a new category of applications, a new source of network activity, and a strategic position within the rapidly growing AI value chain. MPCH has already signaled its interest for this type of product.
T-RIZE is uniquely positioned to deliver this initiative. Through its Industrial Research Chair in Tokenization at ÉTS, more than CAD $3 million in research funding, multiple peer-reviewed publications, and prior deployments of decentralized federated learning infrastructure on EVM-compatible networks, T-RIZE has already developed many of the core components required for execution. This significantly reduces delivery risk and accelerates development.
The proposal requests 10,000,000 CC over 12 months to deliver open-source infrastructure, complete a production deployment, establish an incentive layer, and drive ecosystem adoption.
By investing in the Canton Intelligence Framework, the Canton Foundation can establish Canton as foundational infrastructure for the next generation of AI-enabled financial systems while creating long-term value for the broader ecosystem.
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- [ x ] Acceptance criteria included
- [ x ] Alignment with Canton priorities described
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