--- title: "Canton Roundup: four trading venues record $163 million as new app votes open" description: "This edition covers the markets people could use, the tests operators need to prepare for, and where developer funding changed hands." url: "https://cantonnews.org/canton-roundup-four-trading-venues-record-163-million-as-new-app-votes-open" canonical: "https://cantonnews.org/canton-roundup-four-trading-venues-record-163-million-as-new-app-votes-open" markdown_url: "https://cantonnews.org/canton-roundup-four-trading-venues-record-163-million-as-new-app-votes-open.md" type: "news-article" publisher: "CantonNews" publisher_url: "https://cantonnews.org" author: "CantonNews" author_url: "https://cantonnews.org/author/cantonnews" author_type: "organization" date_published: "2026-11-02T01:49:04.021Z" category: ["ECOSYSTEM"] tags: ["Canton Roundup", "Canton Venues", "Grofty", "Zenith", "Development Fund"] image: "https://pnyaxwohgkgczwuvbaqg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/article-images/cantonnews/2026-11-01/1ae9d8627f2c64d1ec411dfaea11a6d827d1acd7e10702dbcabbce42c934ed80-roundup-cover.webp" read_time_minutes: 5 language: "en" --- # Canton Roundup: four trading venues record $163 million as new app votes open **By [CantonNews](https://cantonnews.org/author/cantonnews), Editorial Team** · Published 2 November 2026 · ECOSYSTEM > This edition covers the markets people could use, the tests operators need to prepare for, and where developer funding changed hands. ![Canton Roundup: four trading venues record $163 million as new app votes open](https://pnyaxwohgkgczwuvbaqg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/article-images/cantonnews/2026-11-01/1ae9d8627f2c64d1ec411dfaea11a6d827d1acd7e10702dbcabbce42c934ed80-roundup-cover.webp) _October 25–31 spot volume across the four exchanges tracked by Canton Venues. Graphic: CantonNews._ Temple accounted for $139.5 million of the [$163.0 million in spot trading measured by Canton Venues](https://cantonvenues.com/api/v1/weekly.json) for October 25–31. Rocky recorded $15.1 million, Cantex $7.35 million and Tradecraft $1.04 million. Spot volume counts trades for the assets themselves. This is the total for those four venues, rather than all trading on Canton. The mix of exchanges matters. An [earlier Canton Roundup](https://cantonnews.org/canton-roundup-nasdaq-s-validator-allocation-new-markets-and-builder-funding) reported $168.5 million across a different set that included Pool Party instead of Rocky. Subtracting the two headline figures would tell us little about whether activity on the same venues rose or fell. ![Reported spot volume for four tracked venues, October 25–31. Values are rounded.](https://pnyaxwohgkgczwuvbaqg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/article-images/cantonnews/2026-11-01/inline-signature/ec94cd939c496a21561819da8698330836097df966cfcb2116ccbe34ec16e5c7.webp) _Reported spot volume for four tracked venues, October 25–31. Values are rounded. Source:_ [_Canton Venues weekly data_](https://cantonvenues.com/api/v1/weekly.json)_._ ## What traders and app users can do **Silver on OneSwap.** The exchange [announced eXAG trading in its October 31 recap](https://x.com/Oneswapcc/status/2116634007592997066). Its [buying guide](https://www.oneswap.cc/buy/exag) describes the route for the silver token. Neither gives a measure of how much can be traded at the displayed price. **A new season on Unhedged.** [Season 2 opened on November 1](https://x.com/UnhedgedHQ/status/2116696892474077694). Seasonal experience points start again while lifetime points carry over. The season announcement does not confirm that the separately planned GPU and graded-card markets opened. **Trading fees.** MEXC’s [Canton promotion](https://www.mexc.com/events/star/Canton) offers zero fees on selected CC spot and futures pairs during a campaign running from October 30 to November 30 at 10:00 UTC. Prize offers have separate eligibility rules; a promotional futures position is different from a cash payout. ## New applications and a test-network reset Efficient Frontier [applied for Featured App status for a CC options vault](https://lists.sync.global/g/tokenomics/message/1380). The strategy earns a fee for giving someone else the right to buy CC at an agreed price, which limits the holder’s potential gain if CC rises. The applicant says it used internal funds for the first round. **Zenith developers:** the [November 2 test-network reset](https://x.com/ZenithFdn/status/2116119271881277842) is scheduled for 13:00–16:00 UTC. It will clear test balances, contracts and history. Anyone testing an app there will need fresh test funds and will have to deploy their contracts again. Stakecraft [asked for security review of Rütli](https://forum.canton.network/t/rutli-open-source-threshold-kms-frost-ed25519-for-canton-validators-request-for-sig-security-review-champion/9433), software designed to split signing authority among several operators so one person need not hold the whole key. The team reports tests on DevNet, a development network. An external audit is still ahead. A [November 1 configuration change](https://github.com/canton-foundation/configs/pull/411) removes DFNS’s extra 0.6 reward weight and reduces Taurus’s active MainNet weight from 3 to 1.8. These weights help determine allocations. The change records a later step in an [earlier recommendation](https://cantonnews.org/canton-roundup-new-funding-approvals-wallet-access-and-governance-votes); it is not a receipt for a payout. ## Where developer funding stands PixelPlex filed three requests: [2.4 million CC for asset servicing](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/pull/944), [1.69 million for selective disclosure](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/pull/945) and [1.12 million for testing whether changes break privacy protections](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/pull/946). The combined 5.21 million CC is requested funding. OpenZeppelin [submitted evidence for its first milestone](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/issues/564#issuecomment-6525798816), including token transfer and authorization work. ChainSafe’s five middleware milestones moved to [separate votes](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/issues/920) after a combined vote attracted no binding votes. Neither the submission nor the opening of those votes releases funding. Two projects went further. The fund [reported payment of 1.59 million CC](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/issues/282#issuecomment-6531856628) for Digital Asset’s party-scalability milestone. Its two-million-party target concerns test identities, rather than two million people using MainNet. NodeInfra [acknowledged its 330,000 CC payment](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/issues/814) for a reliability-project milestone. That advances the work toward Korean certification; certification itself is a separate step. ## Catch-up: October 29 developments The [previous edition](https://cantonnews.org/canton-today-market-tools-and-builder-progress) was published October 30 with an earlier reporting cutoff. These October 29 developments did not appear in it. **Android market data and daily Spotlight.** Grofty [announced its Lens app for Android](https://x.com/grofty_labs/status/2115799497603215696). The [Lens store listing](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.groftylab.lens) is for checking markets; Grofty’s wallet is a separate download. The Hub also [introduced a daily Spotlight competition](https://x.com/Thehub_io/status/2115757587740135836): The Hub buys the winner’s ticket and gives the post 24 hours in the spotlight. The winner also earns 100 experience points. **App rewards.** New [implementation votes](https://lists.sync.global/g/supervalidator-announce/message/646) cover three networks ahead of the November 5 effective date for [Featured App Guidance 2.0b](https://cantonnews.org/canton-approves-featured-app-guidance-2-0b-with-traffic-rewards-still-ahead). The change to how traffic earns rewards has a separate timetable. CHYPE and Pinnaccle cleared committee review, and a [MainNet vote opened for CHYPE](https://lists.sync.global/g/supervalidator-announce/message/649). The [same committee notice](https://lists.sync.global/g/tokenomics-announce/message/399) recommends pausing Helios’s status over a coin-locking requirement. These decisions concern eligibility for rewards. **Bitcoin on Canton.** OnRails [filed an application for BTC0](https://lists.sync.global/g/tokenomics/message/1378), a proposed Bitcoin-backed token. The filing describes plans for a reserve feed. It does not demonstrate that such a feed is live or that a BTC0 audit has been completed. **Checks for holders.** Rocky [requested 3 million CC](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/pull/941) for a tool that would let someone check whether their holding appears in a published total. That check alone cannot show whether another holding was left out or whether off-network reserves exist. **Two builder milestones.** [DamlForge’s first milestone entered review](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/issues/850), while the [Daml Deployment Toolkit’s second milestone](https://github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund/issues/808) cleared its 50,000 CC acceptance vote. The latter records approval of the work; the record cited does not show payment. **Next on the operator calendar:** a [vote was created for a November 7 MainNet upgrade](https://lists.sync.global/g/supervalidator-announce/message/644). The plan targets protocol version 36. Operators can track the [Foundation schedule](https://sv-cal.canton.foundation/schedule.json) for the coordinated change. Reporting cutoff: November 1, 2026 at 03:01 UTC. 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