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Proposal: Canton Algorithmic Trading Toolkit (RFP 13, Payments and DeFi)

olevasyliev09-09-2026Last activity 1d ago
rfp-13:payments-defi

Development Fund Proposal Submission

Proposal file: rfps/financial-markets-standards-verification/2026-09-Vasyliev-algo-trading-toolkit.md

This supersedes #636. That PR carried the same proposal under proposals/ and was closed by the champion check at open. Per the rfps/ README, RFP-aligned proposals are submitted under their roadmap category, which is where this file now lives. Two things changed in the text since #636: 30% of the request (360,000 CC) is now payable only per verified independent operator under a new Milestone 5, and the development base is 840,000 CC across the four engineering milestones.

Applicant

Organization: Individual

Author / Primary Contact: Oleksii Vasiliev, independent developer, @olevasyliev

Champion: Needs Champion

Proposal Classification

Proposal Type:

  • RFP-aligned proposal
  • Individual initiative

RFP / Roadmap Area: RFP 13, Payments and DeFi, under Financial Markets, Standards & Verification in the 2026-2028 Strategic Roadmap.

Label: defi-liquidity

Funding & Timeline

Total Funding Request: 1,200,000 CC, approximately $120,000 at the CC price measured on 2026-08-12. Development base 840,000 CC over four milestones, including a 50,000 CC infrastructure line; adoption tranche 360,000 CC, paid 120,000 CC per verified independent operator, up to three.

Project Duration: 5 months of development, plus an adoption window of up to 26 weeks after Milestone 4 acceptance

Maximum Amount: N/A, RFP 13 publishes no maximum amount

Maximum Duration: N/A, RFP 13 publishes no maximum duration

Summary

Canton has trading venues but no open trading layer: liquidity and activity reach them only through manual interfaces or private in-house tooling, and nothing lets software quote, execute, and risk-manage across venues. This proposal generalizes, open-sources, and maintains an algorithmic trading toolkit that already runs against four Canton venues covering three market structures, adding a reference liquidity-bot engine and an agent execution interface with enforced risk caps. The value is a reusable component rather than a one-off integration: the same client serves every venue on the network, which is what RFP 13 asks for, and the Foundation has already verified another grant's milestone by running this toolkit's own integration report.

Submission Checklist

  • Full proposal file is included in this PR
  • Organization and primary contact identified
  • Champion identified or Needs Champion selected
  • RFP / roadmap alignment identified, if applicable
  • Total funding request provided
  • Project duration provided
  • Proposal is within any RFP maximum amount
  • Proposal is within any RFP maximum duration
  • Milestones and milestone funding are defined in the proposal
  • Acceptance criteria are based on ecosystem value
  • Architectural alignment is addressed

Toolkit: https://github.com/olevasyliev/canton-trading-toolkit

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