AMINA Bank, regulated by Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority, has become the first banking institution to offer custody and trading services for Canton Coin, the native token of the Canton Network, according to the company.
The addition gives professional investors, Super Validators, and institutions operating on Canton a regulated entry point through a single licensed bank. For clients running tokenization and settlement workflows on the network, they can now hold and trade Canton Coin with the governance expected from an institutional banking partner.
Canton has drawn a significant institutional presence, with the DTCC, Visa, and BitGo among those building settlement, custody, and collateral applications on the network. The infrastructure also spans repo, lending, and wrapped asset flows — all structured around the compliance and settlement requirements that regulated participants operate under.
"Canton Network represents something we are seeing more broadly in digital assets: infrastructure that has been purpose-built for regulated institutions, not retrofitted," said Myles Harrison, Chief Product Officer at AMINA. "By making Canton Coin available for custody and trading, AMINA is providing clients — whether they are Super Validators or investors seeking exposure to Canton Network's growth — with the regulated access they need to engage with this ecosystem. Making Canton Coin available is a deliberate step to ensure our clients have regulated access to the infrastructure underpinning institutional finance's next chapter."
Viv Diwakar, Head of the Canton Foundation, pointed to the alignment between the two organisations. "Canton Network was designed to meet the needs of regulated financial institutions — privacy, compliance, and settlement finality built into the architecture," he said. "For Canton Network participants who need a compliant, supervised home for their Canton Coin holdings, AMINA provides that."
The move is consistent with how AMINA has approached product development. The bank was the first globally to support Ripple USD and the first to offer SUI custody and trading, according to the company. Its regulatory footprint extends beyond Switzerland to Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and Austria, where it holds a license under the EU's MiCA framework.
Canton Coin underpins the network's governance and application development. AMINA said it intends to deepen its participation in the Canton Network as the ecosystem develops.
