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Canton Network technology news — protocol upgrades, Daml releases, Zenith bridge updates, CIP-56 implementation, network integrations, and developer infrastructure. · Page 3 of 10
Canton Development Fund approves 1.2 million CC for BitDynamics
BitDynamics has secured funding approval for improvements to Splice, covering grant controls, transaction-cost monitoring and tools for network operators. The work is split into two milestones with a six-month target.
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HestiaX operates a Canton MainNet validator
HestiaX runs a validator on Canton MainNet alongside its work on renewable-energy finance software. Its platform is designed to prepare project data and contracted revenues for institutional financing.
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Digital Asset proposes a voting app for Canton Super Validator delegates
Digital Asset is seeking 1 million CC to let Super Validator operators authorise other parties to vote on their behalf. The proposed app would separate voting responsibilities from node operations while keeping one vote per Super Validator node.
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Maha Wallet partners with Cashen for a 5 million CC lock
Maha Wallet is partnering with Cashen to meet Canton’s Featured App locking requirement with 5 million CC. The arrangement addresses the capital requirement, which sits alongside a separate approval process.
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Kintsu opens its private beta on Canton
Kintsu has opened its private beta to early borrowers, lenders and vault managers. The project is developing lending markets, managed vaults and staking for Canton, with its current beta environment running on testnet.
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CCTools expands portfolio tracking with NFTs and DeFi positions
CCTools has added value history, recent activity, supported NFTs and DeFi positions to its cross-network portfolio tracker.
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Unhedged adds trading through AI assistants
Unhedged now connects with AI assistants for market research and trading. Users choose separate permissions for account access, trades and withdrawals.
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Moonsong Labs invites institutions to help shape Canton vault platform
Moonsong Labs is recruiting more design partners for VaultKit, a toolkit for running investment products on Canton. Institutions keep the software in their own environment and help shape its development.
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Canton proposal would extend CC burn across MainNet
A new draft would replace license fees for dedicated Canton synchronizers with CC burn and extend rewards to their apps and validators. It also proposes volume discounts, with detailed pricing to follow in a separate proposal.
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BootNode seeks funding for a shared Canton app-testing toolkit
BootNode has proposed canton-testkit, an open-source library to help Canton teams test transactions from setup to ledger confirmation. It is requesting 702,000 CC, with payment tied to a working release and adoption in existing test suites.
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FTP Tech launches hosted Canton wallets for AI assistants
FTP Tech has launched a hosted Canton wallet connector for ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. FTP holds the wallet keys, with spending capped at 5 CC per payment and 20 CC per day.
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Brickken seeks Canton funding for a regulated-token standard
Brickken is seeking 5.85 million CC for a 15-month project to develop shared compliance controls for tokenized assets on Canton, with funding for an implementation, audit and developer tools.
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The Cantonalization of Finance
Canton is building a broader institutional finance ecosystem around tokenized assets, custody, bonds, yield, and onchain ownership. As Ripple Custody and Doppler Finance expand into the network, Canton is also strengthening its links to the XRPL ecosystem, while $CC becomes more central to its growth.
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Splice 0.9.0 reaches Canton’s DevNet
Splice 0.9.0 is available for Canton’s development network, with two-thirds of its Super Validator nodes already upgraded. The release updates wallet deployment, reward collection and services used by applications.
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Canton proposal adds a way to transfer locked CC
An update to CIP-0127 proposes a way to change the owner of locked Canton Coin while keeping the lock in place. It would let participants move to a new custodian without first unlocking or replacing the funds.
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Fairmint proposes a common NFT format for Canton
Fairmint has proposed a shared format for unique assets on Canton, covering everything from tickets and memberships to regulated certificates. Equity certificates are its first planned production use.
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IntellectEU releases AI test benchmark for Canton developers
IntellectEU has published a benchmark that measures how well AI agents write tests for Daml code. The public set contains 34 tasks and 159 deliberately introduced faults, with code and baseline results available for developers to examine.
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Nocturnal Wallet enters Canton Featured App vote
Nocturnal Wallet has moved from committee approval to a MainNet vote for Featured App status. Voting closes on October 13, with October 14 set as the target effective date.
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Utila joins DTCC's tokenization working group
Utila has joined DTCC's industry working group on institutional tokenization. It brings experience in managing Canton assets, approving transfers and connecting blockchain activity with the systems financial institutions already use.
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Canton awards MainNet allocations to 43 named organisations
Canton’s latest MainNet allocation notice names 43 distinct organisations, including Kaleido, OmniStake and MZF Protocol. The awards give recipients an allocation for a validator node; they do not confirm that the nodes are already running.
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Logical Contracts seeks funding to help Ethereum apps move to Canton
Logical Contracts has requested 1.3 million CC for a tool that would convert Ethereum smart contracts into native Canton code and test whether they still behave as intended. The six-month proposal has not been approved.
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Zenith warns of fake token listings and scam testnet links
Zenith has warned users about fake links, token listings and faucets appearing after its testnet launch. ZTH is a test-only token with no monetary value, and no official Zenith token is available for trading.
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Canton outlines its October 10 MainNet upgrade timetable
Canton’s planned move to CantonBFT includes a 24-hour freeze on network-configuration changes, followed by a brief transaction pause on October 10. Ordinary transactions are expected to continue during the freeze, while the on-chain scheduling vote remains open.
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Canton Development Fund pays 5.08 million CC across four milestones
The Canton Development Fund has paid 5,081,500 CC across four milestones for Splice Portfolio, traffic accounting, BitSafe maintenance and Daml 3 training. The receipts confirm payment for defined work, not completion of the wider grant programs.
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