Research & Insights
Long-form thinking from across the Canton ecosystem — founder perspectives, real-world case studies, and project spotlights that go beyond the headlines.
How Ekiden Referral Program Work: Earn XP & Affiliate Commissions
We designed the Referral Program to reward users who bring active traders into Ekiden. Your own trading unlocks Mainnet invite codes. Your referrals can add to your XP. Their trading activity can also generate affiliate commissions for you. Here’s how the full system works.
Building the next chapter of onchain finance with Canton
eesee is building on Canton to create a SuperDapp for the full lifecycle of onchain assets. Its vision combines launches, portfolio tracking, vaults and future tools in one place, helping users access assets, manage what they hold and put eligible assets to work without relying on multiple platforms.
Who Is Building on the Canton Network and Why It Matters
The Canton Network has accumulated one of the most impressive institutional rosters in blockchain history. With nearly 400 ecosystem participants, over 600 validator nodes, and a Canton Foundation co-chaired by DTCC and Euroclear, it has become the default answer to the question of what institutional blockchain infrastructure looks like.¹ But not all participants are equal. Some institutions are running production applications that process hundreds of billions of dollars in daily volume. Others are governance members, validators, or investors who have committed to the ecosystem without yet running live workflows on the network. Understanding that distinction matters — it is the difference between a blockchain that is being used and one that is being endorsed.
Why Perpetual Futures Belong on Canton
Canton brings privacy to perpetual futures, keeping positions and liquidation levels away from public view. Edel Markets is building perps for tokenized equities and commodities around that model.
Canton Doesn’t Need a Copy/Paste of EVM DeFi
Canton’s opportunity isn’t to recreate Ethereum DeFi, but to build an institutional asset-management layer. Vaults could allocate capital across tokenized Treasuries, repo, private credit, lending and other RWAs, while taking advantage of Canton’s privacy and permissioning.
Tokenized Deposits vs. Stablecoins
Stablecoins and tokenized deposits both enable onchain payments, but they approach foreign exchange very differently. This insight explores why FX reach, banking distribution, and settlement infrastructure may give tokenized deposits an advantage for global contractor payrolls.
Why Institutions Measure Blockchain differently.
A OneSwap blog exploring why institutions judge blockchain on more than speed and fees, with privacy, settlement certainty, interoperability and governance emerging as key priorities.
Why Send is Building on Canton Network
Send is building a consumer-focused ecosystem on Canton Network, bringing wallets, swaps, bridging, multi-signature security, dApp connectivity, and more into one connected experience. With deeper infrastructure commitments and new products ahead, Send aims to make Canton’s privacy-first financial infrastructure accessible and practical for everyday users.
The Canton Renaissance
Canton is entering a new phase, expanding from institutional finance into retail while major financial players continue adopting its infrastructure. The ecosystem is rapidly growing across DeFi, RWAs, payments, and trading.
What It Takes to Support Regulated Finance on Canton
Regulated financial markets did not avoid public blockchains because they were slow to understand the technology. It’s because the technology was not yet ready to meet their needs. A bank cannot run competitively sensitive positions and flows across a network where every participant sees every transaction. A broker-dealer cannot easily settle on infrastructure with no control over who participates and no clear answers on finality or governance. So trillions of dollars in traditional assets have been waiting in the wings to be brought onchain, but real solutions are finally emerging. One of the most promising solutions is the Canton network, paired with the institutional-grade wallet infrastructure Fireblocks provides.
Canton Network Starter Guide
How to get started on Canton Network.
The $100 Trillion Elephant Just Stepped Onchain
DTCC’s first production trades using tokenized US Treasuries on Canton Network mark a major step for institutional adoption. HANDL explores how this could lead to 24/7 markets, greater stablecoin use, faster payments and new opportunities for retail users.
Access by merit, not means.
The rule that decides who gets to invest in private companies has always been written in dollars. A bipartisan bill moving through US Congress wants to rewrite it in knowledge, and at Hecto, we think that is exactly the right direction.
Canton Network Signal: June 2026 Recap by Zenith
June reinforced Canton Network’s position as the leading public blockchain for institutional capital markets. While the broader market saw mixed narratives, Canton continued to attract real capital, major infrastructure providers, and high-caliber institutional initiatives focused on tokenization and on-chain settlement.
Daml + Nix: Reproducible Builds as a Security Primitive
Obsidian Systems has detailed nix-daml-sdk, an open-source Nix packaging of the Daml SDK that makes Daml and Canton builds independently reproducible and verifiable, addressing audit and compliance requirements that matter to institutions deploying on Canton.
The Crypto Market Did Not Fade. It Morphed into a Tokenised Asset Market.
Capital has not left crypto. It has become more selective, moving toward tokenised assets, collateral utility and credit infrastructure that can finance real economic activity.
Why Canton Changes the Economics of On-Chain Lending
On-chain lending has proven demand, but public-ledger transparency and bridge risk keep institutional capital away. Canton changes that with contract-level privacy, atomic settlement, and native tokenized collateral, creating the conditions for Alpend to become the money market layer institutions need.
What Is JPMorgan Doing on Canton, and Why Does It Matter for Wall Street?
JPMorgan will begin issuing its JPMD deposit token directly on the Canton Network in 2026, moving from testing to live blockchain-based settlement. Unlike stablecoins, JPMD represents actual bank deposits, while Canton enables private, near-instant transactions and simultaneous settlement of cash and assets. This is part of a broader push by major financial institutions to modernize traditional settlement infrastructure.
Why Financial Markets Need Agreements, Not Just Assets
Financial markets are not just networks of assets. They are networks of agreements involving rights, obligations, settlement conditions, privacy, and shared business logic. This insight explores why agreement-centric infrastructure matters and how Daml and Canton are built for this next phase of digital finance.
Canton Powered DeFi Portfolio
This DeFi portfolio generates about $1,000 per month in passive income through lending, staking, liquidity pools, and yield farming across Canton Network protocols. Most earnings come from Alpend, OneSwap, and TradeCraft, providing diversified exposure to Canton DeFi opportunities.
Canton’s $355M Signal: Institutional RWA Is Entering Its Liquidity Era
Canton’s $355M funding round signals that institutional RWA is moving beyond issuance and into real financial usage. The next phase is about collateral, liquidity, atomic settlement and trading. Canton’s privacy-focused architecture makes it well suited for institutional workflows, while Rocky is building the trading and liquidity layer for this next phase.
What Are Isolated Lending Markets?
Isolated lending markets separate risk into distinct markets instead of sharing it across one large pool, making exposure easier to manage and understand. The article argues that this structure, combined with confidentiality, is key to building safer and more institution-friendly credit markets.
Bridge $SEND from Base to Canton Network
Learn how to bridge $SEND from Base to Canton Network using the Send App bridge, including the one-time Bridge Agreement setup, required USDC fees, and how to complete the transfer to your Canton Wallet.
We came, we tested, here's what we built & achieved so far
HandlPay has processed $50M in payment volume, onboarded 300,000+ users, and recorded 4x growth last month. With its first two roadmap phases complete, the focus now shifts to scaling social identity payments for everyday users.
Canton Signal: May 2026 Recap
May marked another month of steady institutional deepening and technical maturation for @CantonNetwork. Canton continued to attract tier-one financial institutions and deliver production-grade infrastructure. The network is progressing smoothly toward Protocol 3.5, with growing emphasis on active participation from validators who contribute real workflows rather than passive security. This recap delivers you the signals that matter most.
How Raven Uses $ONE for Canton-Native Trading and Settlement
Raven’s ONE integration brings Alpend’s dollar liquidity into Canton-native options trading, giving users cleaner settlement, payouts, and reusable liquidity across the ecosystem.
Atlas: The Missing Link Between Projects and Real Users
Atlas is an AI-powered wallet intelligence and user matching platform designed to connect projects with the users they actually want to reach. Instead of relying on random incentives, Atlas analyzes public wallet activity across multiple chains and matches users with opportunities based on real on-chain behavior, helping projects acquire higher-quality users while rewarding meaningful participation.
How to Build Solidity Apps on Canton Network
Guide to Building Enterprise-Grade Solidity Applications on Canton
The Next Phase of Send
Send’s Pool Party rewards and Canton Wallet drip program concluded on June 1st, 2026, after distributing more than 22.5M $CC to early users. The programs helped bootstrap activity across the Send ecosystem, but the next phase is shifting from temporary incentives toward deeper product utility, including Canton privacy features, digital cards, and a revamped $SEND rewards model.
Canton Network: Where Finance Flows
Canton Network is built for institutional finance, combining privacy, compliance, interoperability, and atomic settlement without forcing every participant onto one shared public ledger. Its architecture allows independent financial applications to coordinate securely while keeping sensitive data visible only to authorized parties.
Commerce moved to the DMs. Payments are catching up now.
Commerce has already shifted into DMs, comments, and chat threads, but payments have not kept up. HandlPay is building a social-first payment layer where usernames become private payment handles, removing the need for wallet addresses, chain selection, banking details, or crypto-native complexity.
Wen Airdrop?
Edel’s upcoming airdrop begins this week, starting with EDELx, a Canton-native utility asset that gives eligible users access to Runway. The rollout will progressively onboard top-ranked leaderboard users into Edel’s Canton ecosystem ahead of the full Edel Markets launch.
AllDefi Research | Tail Risk of Depeg: How Big a Deviation Wipes Out a Loop?
AllDefi analyzes how depeg events affect leveraged looping strategies. The article explains why temporary price deviations can become permanent losses once liquidation thresholds are crossed.
Pre-IPO Pricing Is Broken
Hecto argues that private-market access alone does not solve the pricing problem in pre-IPO exposure. The piece explores how scarcity premiums emerge when access products cannot scale supply with demand.
How Does ONE Staking Generate Yield?
Alpend explains how ONE staking is designed to support Canton DeFi by deploying liquidity across liquidations, curated yield strategies, and future credit infrastructure. The article frames ONE as productive liquidity rather than passive emissions.
DTCC & Repo on Canton: Rationale & Current State
This article explains why repo is one of the clearest institutional use cases for blockchain, not because it makes settlement “faster” in a generic sense, but because it can coordinate cash and collateral movement with greater precision. It frames Canton’s role around atomic settlement, privacy, compliance, and interoperability, then traces DTCC’s progression from pilots with Digital Asset to controlled production plans for tokenized DTC-custodied assets. The piece argues that Canton is still small relative to legacy repo markets, but its growing institutional activity shows blockchain moving from experimentation toward deployable financial infrastructure.
What Are OneSwap Diamonds?
OneSwap explains Diamonds, its beta activity-points system for recognizing early protocol usage. Diamonds are earned from completed swap volume, may feed future rewards or snapshots, and are not transferable tokens or guaranteed-value assets.
Nigeria is Ranked 1 for USDT and USDC Ownership in 2026
Send highlights Nigeria’s stablecoin adoption, including high preference for stablecoin payments among crypto-active users and leading USDT/USDC ownership rates. The article frames stablecoins as practical financial infrastructure for savings, remittances, freelance income, and payments.
Alpend Launches ONE - The Programmable Dollar for Canton DeFi
Alpend’s ONE introduces CC-backed, dollar-targeted liquidity for Canton DeFi, allowing users to lock CC, mint ONE, and use it across Canton-native applications for trading, yield, credit, and capital deployment.
A Rough Month for Crypto Security
April was a bad month for crypto security, and not in one specific way. Bridges broke. Admin keys got compromised. Malware kept evolving. Fake apps still worked. Social engineering got more aggressive. Insider risk stayed real. At the same time, the industry also started reacting with new frameworks, new regulatory steps, and even early discussion around quantum protection. What stands out is not just the number of incidents. It is how many different security surfaces failed at once.
The Case for Institutional Adoption — For the Sake of the Retail Investor
Most crypto networks are driven by speculation rather than real-world utility, making them more like high-stakes casinos than true financial infrastructure. A better model is tying token value directly to actual network usage and institutional adoption instead of hype.
What Are Canton Network Super Validators?
Canton Network uses invite-only Super Validators to run and govern its blockchain infrastructure. Around 55 institutions, including Visa, Nasdaq, and Circle, help validate transactions and vote on network changes. The system is built for regulated finance, allowing firms to share infrastructure while keeping transaction data private.
41% of U.S. Crypto Holders Use Crypto to Send Money
New consumer data shows crypto adoption is moving beyond price speculation. According to the 2026 State of Crypto Holders Report, 41% of U.S. crypto holders use crypto to send money to friends and family.
The Canton Credit Layer Requires Equilibrium
Canton’s asset economy needs more than issuance, transfer, and trading. It needs credit. In a new X blog, EQ Market outlines why a Daml-native lending market could become foundational for Canton: turning idle assets into productive balance sheet instruments.
The Canton dApp Stack: How You Read Data and Connect Wallets
A practical comparison of how Canton dApps differ from EVM dApps, covering party-scoped data, Ledger API reads, private indexing through PQS, wallet connection standards, and what EVM builders need to redesign when building on Canton.
Canton Network is quietly becoming institutional market infrastructure in Europe
Canton Network is gaining traction with European banks, FMIs, custodians, and digital asset teams as infrastructure for regulated tokenized finance. Its privacy model offers a middle path between public-chain transparency and private-chain fragmentation.
Canton 101: A Crypto-Native Builder's PoV
Canton is often discussed through institutional announcements, but for crypto-native users the network can feel difficult to understand. This insight breaks down how Canton differs from shared-chain models like Ethereum and why its architecture matters.
Understanding Canton Network: A Comprehensive Overview
Canton is a privacy-focused blockchain for financial institutions that enables secure and interoperable transactions. Developed by Digital Asset and powered by Canton Coin, it is used by major institutions like J.P. Morgan and DTCC for tokenized assets, payments, and settlement.
Uphold Insights - Canton Network $CC
Uphold’s integration of Canton Network and $CC positions it as an early gateway to the institutional blockchain infrastructure being adopted by major financial institutions, strengthening its regulatory credibility and giving it strategic exposure to the fast-growing market for tokenized real-world assets.
Deconstructing Tokenized RWAs: From Asset Layer to Market Infrastructure
Tokenization is evolving from a digital asset narrative into a market infrastructure challenge. While most attention remains on the asset layer, long-term institutional adoption will depend on legal structuring, operational integration, and scalable infrastructure.
CIP-56 Support Is Live In Vala. Here's How Canton's Token Standard Works.
Vala’s CIP-56 support gives Canton users a standardized way to view balances, transfer assets, and interact with issued assets across privacy-preserving sub-ledgers. The standard reduces custom integration work while preserving Canton’s registry-level controls and institutional privacy model.
The Case for an Institutional AMM on Canton
An institutional AMM needs more than liquidity. It needs privacy, deterministic settlement, and a rail where order flow cannot be observed before execution. Canton’s entitlement-based privacy, atomic execution, and live institutional deployments make the case for AMM liquidity moving into regulated market infrastructure.
How Canton Timed the Market Right
Canton did not launch into crypto’s loudest speculative cycle. It arrived as the market began looking for blockchain infrastructure that can support institutions, retail users, developers, DeFi, and the wider digital asset economy. This opinion piece argues that Canton’s timing may prove to be one of its biggest advantages.
Liquidity 101: The Bedrock of Every Market and How OneSwap Uses It
Liquidity is what turns DeFi from theory into a functioning market. This blog explains how AMMs work, why liquidity providers matter, and how OneSwap is bringing that model to Canton Network through CC / USDCx and CC / cBTC pools.
The $30 Trillion That Won't Tokenize on Public Chains
A sharp breakdown of why highly sensitive institutional assets, from repo and OTC derivatives to private credit and active balance sheet positions, are unlikely to tokenize on transparent public chains, and why privacy-native infrastructure like Canton is better suited for regulated finance.
The Onboarding Lifecycle for a Registry Token on Canton
Noves breaks down how registry tokens such as USDCx and CBTC become usable on Canton, from installing Utility DARs and signing transfer pre-approvals to issuer recognition and transfer observability. The guide explains why registry tokens require extra onboarding compared with Canton Coin, and how the read layer scales once setup is complete.
The Global Synchronizer: Canton's Decentralized Backbone
The Global Synchronizer is the infrastructure layer that makes Canton a “network of networks.” It enables atomic settlement across applications without requiring every participant to see everyone else’s data.
What Is Confidential Credit?
Cenote argues that institutional onchain lending needs privacy, controlled access and segmented risk. Built on Canton, it is positioning confidential credit as the next step beyond public DeFi lending.
Not all atomic swaps are created equal
Zenith allows EVM applications to atomically compose with Canton-native assets and applications, and for this it relies on true, consensus-based atomicity: Zenith EVM uses Canton's consensus mechanism to coordinate and settle transactions as a single, indivisible operation. In contrast, Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs), the mechanism behind many cross-chain "atomic” swaps, deliver something fundamentally different. HTLCs provide economic atomicity enforced at the smart contract layer, with settlement still dependent on distinct consensus mechanisms. In this article, we break down the differences and bring clarity to what "atomic" actually means in these different contexts.
The Quiet Rewiring of Financial Infrastructure: Why Settlement, Not Tokens, Is the Real Shift
OneSwap argues that the real shift in crypto is not happening at the token layer, but in the settlement, visibility and execution systems that connect regulated finance with permissionless markets.
The Canton Network, From First Principles
There's been a lot of chatter, debate, and media interest around @cantonnetwork lately. Most of it misses the point — not because Canton is complicated, but because people keep trying to understand it through the wrong mental model.
Are NFTs Really Dead?
Arkena argues that NFTs never disappeared, but the first wave lacked the infrastructure to support lasting digital ownership. Built on Canton, its marketplace, wallet and swap experience point to a more practical foundation for NFTs beyond speculation.
The Six-Week Build: How Canton Assembled a Complete Institutional Finance Stack While No One Was Watching
StakeCraft frames Canton’s recent run of integrations as the early shape of an institutional finance stack, with small-business credit, custody-native lending, cross-chain access and audit tooling starting to connect around shared infrastructure. The key idea is that Canton is not just adding isolated apps, but building the rails for privacy-preserving, composable institutional finance.
Canton Signal: April 2026 Recap
April was a major month for Canton, with institutional adoption accelerating across banks, asset managers, stablecoin settlement, custody, collateral mobility, and tokenized deposit pilots. At the same time, builder activity expanded through Zenith’s EVM layer, new Featured Apps, stronger wallet/app connectivity, and broader $CC exchange access. Overall, the recap positions Canton as moving from narrative to real production usage, with regulated institutions, developers, validators, and economic activity growing together.
Meet Stan Havryliuk: The Founder Behind OneSwap, Building the First Native Canton Network DEX
Canton Army spoke with Stan Havryliuk, CEO of OneSwap, to learn more about the story behind OneSwap, why the team chose Canton, and what it takes to build the first native DEX on Canton Network.
Canton Foundation’s Protocol Development Fund, Explained
The Canton Foundation’s Protocol Development Fund gives builders, researchers, and contributors a formal path to seek funding for common-good work that strengthens Canton’s shared technical foundation. Here’s what the fund supports, how proposals are reviewed, and who can apply.
What is Enterprise Blockchain? A Practical Guide
Enterprise blockchain explained - what it is, what enterprises require, and how CatalyX helps you meet those requirements on any supported network.
Temple Lightspeed: Sub-10ms Orderbook on Canton
Temple's Lightspeed upgrade brings a real-time orderbook, sub-10ms matching, instant order actions, and Canton-native settlement to private, compliant trading. Temple says it processes over $1.5M in daily CC volume, while v2 supports over 250,000 trades per day with more pairs coming soon.
Canton’s $377M “Inflationary Loss” Is the Wrong Frame
Canton’s current mint-minus-burn spread is being framed as a loss, but that misses how the network’s burn-mint equilibrium works. Fees burned are a signal of paid network usage, while minted rewards are designed to bootstrap and reward productive activity; recent changes like CIP-0096 and CIP-0105 shift incentives further toward real utility and long-term alignment.
Canton Network Explained: The Public Blockchain for Global Finance
Most blockchains are built for speculation. Canton is built for the financial system. Here is what you need to know about the network merging traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized finance (DeFi) to create AllFi (All Finance).
Five years of Digital Asset's adoption (did you know?) is now trickling down to consumers.
Five years of Digital Asset's adoption (did you know?) is now trickling down to consumers.
Bringing Our SDK and Payment Solution to Canton Network
When we first launched on Canton Network, our goal was to explore its privacy infrastructure and make sure our users could send money from point A to point B without exposing sensitive details like transaction amounts.
AllDeFi Research | Looping: Leverage That Amplifies the Spread
Looping is spread arbitrage, not directional leverage. Leverage is determined by LTV. Stablecoin pairs can reach 10x or higher.
The Crypto Wallet That Solves What Research Says Has Been Broken All Along
Research from Carnegie Mellon shows the cracks clearly. People misunderstand seed phrases, store them in unsafe ways, fall for scams, have no inheritance plan, and are often forced to choose between security and usability. In this article we walk through those failures, and show how Bron approaches them differently.
The Three Tiers of DeFi Interest Rates: Paving the Way for Next-Gen Looping
By AllDefi Research Looking solely at the $USDC pool on the Aave homepage might lead one to believe that DeFi lending is becoming stagnant—with deposit APYs hovering around 3%, lower than the idle
How a Swap Actually Works on Canton
HelvetSwap walks through a recorded MainNet CBTC/CC swap on Canton, explaining atomic execution, settlement flow, and why the model matters for institutional liquidity.
World's First Private AI Agent Payment Settles on Canton Network
On April 23, the world's first private blockchain transaction executed by an AI agent settled on Canton Network, marking a major milestone in the development of p402; a Canton-native standard protocol
Why We Chose Canton for On-Chain Real-Estate Indexes
As the thesis around real-estate indexes on-chain became clearer, one point followed quickly: The infrastructure choice could not be treated as an afterthought. If the goal is to bring real-estate
Tokenized Deposits Are Becoming the Institutional Standard for On-Chain Cash
As HSBC, Lloyds, and JPMorgan all commit to tokenized deposits on the Canton Network, Digital Asset Chief Product Officer Bernhard Elsner explains why the instrument is structurally distinct from stablecoins and how Canton’s architecture eliminates bridge risk rather than simply managing it.
Introducing YUCE: The Infrastructure Layer for Decision Market
Crypto has built powerful infrastructure for price. Spot markets tell you what an asset is worth today. Perpetual markets tell you where that price might go tomorrow. Options allow you to trade the
CBTC on Canton: Highlight Update (Apr 15-21, 2026)
Participation up, volume up, six new integrations: two weeks of CBTC activity on Canton
Canton Was Built for Institutions. Here Is How Retail Gets In.
By early 2026, Canton Network had stopped looking like a new blockchain and started looking like financial infrastructure. Broadridge, DTCC, and J.P. Morgan were already building on it. The more interesting question was what that meant for everyone else.
Temple Lightspeed: A New Era For Trading On Canton
Temple Lightspeed: A New Era For Trading On Canton
USDCx Bridging on HIFI: Moving USDC Between Ethereum and Canton
How to Bridge USDC to Canton Network with One API Call
The CCTools Playbook
The features most users never discover — tax exports, compare, community dispatches, referral economy — and why power users rely on them.
Mastering CCTools
A hands-on onboarding walkthrough — from signup to a fully configured portfolio, governance alerts, and your first Academy read.
Tokenised Collateral Goes Global: Insights from Live Cross-Border Repo Trades (Canton Network)
This report, developed in partnership with Digital Asset, examines how tokenised collateral and live cross-border repo trades are beginning to address these challenges through real-time, atomic settlement and broader collateral mobility.
Why Fractit Is Building Real-Estate Indexes On-Chain
The more real-estate tokenisation is studied, the clearer one conclusion becomes: putting an asset on-chain is not the same as making a market investable. That distinction matters because access to a
CantonNews Project Spotlight: OneSwap
OneSwap is a decentralized token swap and liquidity protocol built on the Canton Network, focused on exchanging tokens and putting liquidity to work.
What is Canton Network? The Complete 2026 Guide
Canton Network is the institutional blockchain processing $4T+ annually. Here's everything you need to know about how it works, who's on it, and where DeFi fits.
Sendtags on Send
A Sendtag is your unique username on Send. It looks like this: /alex /anna /you It replaces the need for wallet addresses when sending and receiving on the Send app, and it's uniquely yours. How
Interview with Heslin Kim, Co-Founder and CBO of Zenith Network
Canton Network (@CantonNetwork) has proven itself as the backbone for institutional onchain finance, processing $9T+ in monthly transaction volume while preserving k for its massive transaction volume
Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc. Presents Quarterly Canton Network Ecosystem Update
Comprehensive Report Outlines Adoption Milestones, Onchain Transaction Growth, and Key Infrastructure Developments Across the Canton Network in Q1 2026
Why Tokenising Individual Properties Is Only Step One
Access to one asset matters. Access to a market matters more. Single-property tokenisation is an important starting point for real-estate markets on-chain. It can lower entry barriers, make ownership
Why Serious Builders are Choosing Canton?
@CantonNetwork is one of the few places where developers can build privacy-first financial applications and plug into live institutional capital markets from day one. You get interoperable app
Establishing the Retail Gateway to Canton Network
Executive Summary Q1 marked a foundational phase for retail participation within the Canton ecosystem, with Send playing a central role in enabling both access and activity. The launch of the Send
Canton Network: The Definitive Blockchain for Institutional Tokenisation
Key Takeaways Institutional adoption of tokenisation has witnessed rapid growth with market size expected to reach $16 trillion by 2030. Adoption is being driven by four converging forces: global
$286 Million Gone in 12 Minutes: The Drift Protocol Hack That Should Keep Every Crypto User Awake
April 1, 2026. 1:30 PM Eastern Time. Most crypto users are asleep. On-chain monitors start screaming. Wallets are draining fast. Community alerts fire across Telegram and X. Something is
YUCE: This is why we build on Canton.
This is why we build on Canton.
FractIt: We studied real-estate tokenisation.
We studied real-estate tokenisation. Our biggest takeaway: single-asset tokenisation is not the same as real market access. Fractit is building the next layer of access.
The $140 Billion Graveyard
Over half a billion people own cryptocurrency worldwide. The vast majority have no plan for what happens to it when they die, and the industry is quietly haemorrhaging generational wealth into
Canton Network Coin Price: Live Data, History & Outlook
Canton coin price sits near $0.14 with a ~$5.5B market cap as of March 2026. Here's the live data, tokenomics, and what drives CC's value.
Rewards Report: February & March 2026
While much of the industry talks about incentives, Send has been consistently delivering them. Here's a recap $SEND Rewards 1M distributed in March 80M+ $SEND given back overall (since October
How to Set Up Your Vala Wallet in 60 Seconds
Setting up a crypto wallet used to be a high-stress chore. You had to write down 24 words. You had to hide them in a safe. You lived in constant fear of losing a piece of paper. For years, this "seed
Burn Mint Equilibrium On Canton: Fees, Burns, And Rewards
The simple mechanism behind predictable fees, supply dynamics, and builder incentives on Canton
Meet DecParty: Decentralization Tooling for Canton
A practical framework for modular, production-ready governance on Canton
Alpend Beta Is Live. Lend. Borrow. Privately.
Building financial infrastructure requires controlled iteration. After months of development, testing, and refinement on the Canton Network, Alpend is entering its next phase. Today, Alpend Beta goes
Crypto's 12-Word Legacy: Why Seed Phrases Are Holding Wallets Back
When BIP39 seed phrases were introduced in 2013, they were a genuine improvement. Before them, backing up a wallet meant copying a sprawling file full of private keys. Twelve human-readable words felt
Send Links: A New Way to Send
Sending money should be as easy as sending a text. Then crypto came along and decided to complicate things with long strings of characters that assume both sides know exactly what they are doing, on
What is stablecoin infrastructure
Stablecoin infrastructure is the set of systems that enable businesses to send, receive, hold, and convert stablecoins at scale: APIs, wallets, blockchain networks, fiat rails, and compliance tooling.
Canton Network Transaction Fees Explained
A clear breakdown of how Canton Network fees work - synchronizer traffic fees, holding fees, the free base-rate tier, burn mechanics, and the new CIP-0104 traffic-based app rewards.
The Canton Opportunity: Why Canton Is Crypto's Trojan Horse Into the Financial System
In recent weeks, the @CantonNetwork has sparked intense discussion across the crypto & institutional finance communities. Amidst a wave of strong opinions & technical critiques, I felt compelled to
From Usage to Revenue. Building on Canton with Zenith EVM
A harsh fact has been known throughout the history of blockchain and that is that most on-chain applications do not generate sustainable revenue. In fact, 80% of decentralized applications have fewer than 1000 users.On public blockchains, the relationship between usage and revenu
Alpend Becomes a Featured App on Canton Network
Alpend is a Featured App on the @CantonNetwork. This reflects our participation in a system where applications are measured by the activity they generate — transactions, fees, and sustained usage. On
CantonNews Project Spotlight: Visa
Now the dust has settled… what actually happened here, and more importantly, why did Visa join Canton as a Super Validator?
The Drift Hack: $285M Gone in 60 Minutes — And Why DeFi Keeps Breaking at the Same Spot
April 1, 2026. Solana's top perps DEX just got drained. This is how it happened, and what it tells us about a problem crypto still hasn't solved. On the afternoon of April 1st, blockchain sleuths
AUTOPSY OF A PUBLIC TRADE
There is a fundamental design flaw in how legacy public blockchains process transactions: they force you to show your hand before you play it. When you submit a large trade on a public network, it
CantonNews Project Spotlight: Cancore
Cancore is a settlement layer built on Canton Network, meaning it’s responsible for finalising transactions between Canton and public blockchains like Ethereum.
Oops you just burnt that crypto payment.
*Georgey watching you burn your money cause you were too lazy to send a test amount before sending the whole thing* Oh the sheer anxiety of sending a crypto payment to a new address. We all feel it.
Canton Signal: Mar 2026 Recap
by Zenith team, April 2, 2026 March highlighted how Canton Network is scaling in lockstep with the broader shift toward the Canton 3.5 release. Institutions are wiring real capital, governance weight
Two Attempts Left Before 7,002 BTC Is Lost Forever
In the early years of Bitcoin, long before institutions, ETFs, and multi-billion dollar treasuries entered the market, the cryptocurrency ecosystem was a small and experimental community of
CantonNews Project Spotlight: Send
Moving money today is still more complex than it should be. Send changes that.
Why 'Broadcast Everything' will Never Work for Onchain Finance
Canton Network wasn't designed to recreate legacy banking systems onchain. It was built to upgrade the entire financial stack.
Canton Strategic Holdings Reports Full Year 2025 Financial and Operational Results
First Annual Report Since Establishing Canton Network Digital Asset Strategy Highlights Accelerating Network Momentum and Strengthened Capital Position
Maximize Your $CC Yield – Provide $wCC Liquidity on PancakeSwap
Whether you are a whale or retail $CC holder, converting your $CC holdings into $wCC facilitates mature yield opportunities on BSC. If you are looking to earn a higher APY on your $wCC, you might
Why Bron Relies on Qrypt as Its Trusted Third Party
Your Seed Phrase: A "Time-Locked" Secret with an Expiration Date Right now, your 12-word seed phrase is a mathematical fortress. To a traditional computer, guessing your key would take trillions of
The Hecto Allocator: Feature Update
It's been two weeks since the Allocator went live, and we've already pushed our first round of feature updates. Read on below to find out what's new on Hecto, and what's coming up next. Updates 📦
When Money Becomes Social, Etiquette Matters
For most of history, money didn't carry meaning beyond the transaction. It moved quietly, between two parties, without an audience. That's changed. Onchain, money is visible with Send, it becomes
Institutions do not rely on seed phrases. Why you do?
"Not your keys, not your crypto." This phrase is as old as the crypto industry itself and has been repeated so often that it has almost lost its meaning. Yet time and again, history proves how
Canton, Meet Ethereum: ERC-20/CIP-56 Middleware is here
ChainSafe's ERC-20/CIP-56 Middleware is a high-fidelity translation layer that lets you deploy to Canton using your existing EVM workflows, MetaMask signatures, and infrastructure.
The Hecto Incentive Program Explained
Most emission systems distribute emissions without meaningful contribution or skill. Hecto takes a different approach. Our emissions are distributed every epoch through the Hecto Incentive Program.
The Market Doesn't Care About Your Position
Five decades of geopolitical shocks, energy crises, technological revolutions, and great-power rivalry have produced one unambiguous lesson: volatility doesn't send a calendar invite. A case for
Silvana: Canton's Agentic DeFi Hub
Canton Network was designed for one thing most blockchains were not - real financial infrastructure. Privacy by default. Atomic settlement. Institutional-grade governance. Multiple apps and service
Ethereum and Canton: Unifying Public Innovation with Institutional Scale
As blockchain infrastructure matures, the question is no longer which chain will win, but how different ecosystems can converge to deliver real-world utility at global scale.
Cantor8 Awards $200k to Cambridge Student Researching Agentic AI on Canton
Cambridge University postgraduate student, Yash Bharti, has been awarded $200,000 by Cantor8, to fund and support cutting edge research into standardising agentic AI systems in the Canton Network
CatalyX: One Product Suite for Operating and Building on Institutional Blockchain Networks
Meet CatalyX Product Suite - complete institutional blockchain orchestration.
Beyond Staking: Why Institutions Need Operational Node Management
Staking generates yield, but node management ensures settlement. Learn why banks need robust blockchain node infrastructure for operational finality.
CantonNews Project Spotlight: ACME Markets
ACME Markets is a money market built on the Canton Network, focused on lending, borrowing, and earning yield on digital assets.
CantonNews Project Spotlight: BRON
Owning crypto shouldn’t feel like a risk.
Tokenized Treasuries are the next form of financial infrastructure. 🏦
Every repo trade, every margin call, every collateral pledge; Treasuries are the collateral that keeps global finance moving. But they are slow, settlement is T+1 or T+2, and they cannot move on
Send Safe: How Organizations Manage Treasury Onchain
Every organization that holds digital assets eventually runs into the same question: Who controls the money, and how do you keep it secure? In traditional finance, this is solved through layers of
HandlPay Product Update
TL;DR Base is live $HANDL is now on 3 chains External wallets have been phased out 1. Base is now live You can now receive payments to your username and have it deposited as $USDC on Base. This means
Zenith demonstrates atomic transactions linking Ethereum applications to Canton's institutional blockchain
Zenith has successfully completed its first technical milestone by demonstrating atomic transactions between the Canton Network and the Zenith EVM in a controlled test environment.
Official Guide: Bridge $USDC Between Ethereum and Canton Network
To ensure our users can efficiently navigate between chains, we have released a comprehensive guide on utilizing The Portal. Whether you are bridging into mint $USDCx or withdrawing back to Ethereum,
Hecto Allocator Rules
The Hecto Allocator is the first live product within the Hecto ecosystem. Mint $HECTO, allocate it across companies, rebalance positions, and participate in daily rounds based on market performance.
Alpend Joins Canton Foundation to Help Build Institutional DeFi
Alpend is now a General Member of the Canton Foundation. The foundation brings together institutions, infrastructure providers, and builders working to advance the Canton Network as a coordination
Automate Canton Network Development with Daml Autopilot
ChainSafe's DAML Autopilot features 3,600+ compiler-validated patterns, built-in safety checks, and CI automation to streamline DAML smart contract development.
Beyond Seed Phrases: How Bron Reinvents Self-Custody with MPC
In the world of digital assets, the mantra "not your keys, not your coins" has long forced a difficult choice: accept the technical burden of managing a seed phrase or trust a central exchange. Bron
Maximizing $CC Yields – The Official Guide to Canton DeFi with Loop Wallet
Holding $CC is just the beginning. To maximize capital efficiency within the EA Finance ecosystem, users must understand how to move assets across chains and deploy them into yield-bearing vaults.
CantonNews Project Spotlight: Hecto
Hecto is a protocol built on the Canton Network focused on coordinating participation around private market companies. This is an area that has traditionally been difficult for most people to access.
Your Sendtag Is Your Onchain Identity
Crypto started with addresses. Long strings of characters that represent where assets live on a specific blockchain. Every new chain introduced another address, another wallet, another place users had
Earn with every transaction: Continuous transaction-based revenue for apps and assets on Canton
On Canton, asset issuers and application providers directly participate in the network's reward model. Monetize with a built-in continuous transaction-based revenue model at the L1 protocol level on Canton. Learn more.
CantonNews Project Spotlight: Console Wallet
Console Wallet is a self custodial wallet built specifically for the Canton Network.
CantonNews Project Spotlight: HANDL
HANDL is a payment platform where social media usernames act as payment addresses.
CantonNews Project Spotlight: AllDeFi
AllDeFi | Canton's Native Yield Layer
A POA you do not recall issuing
Crypto is evolving at a remarkable pace. Some of the most talented developers in the world are building new financial products that challenge decades-old assumptions about how money, ownership, and
Announcing Zenith: Ethereum applications on Canton
Zenith brings Ethereum applications to Canton, extending Canton Network with an EVM environment, allowing application developers to tap into trillions of institutional dollar volume.
$350B Settles Daily on Canton. None of It Reaches Public Chains. Yet.
Right now, two financial systems are running in parallel. They don't talk to each other... Institutional finance is tokenizing at scale. Public chains have deep, permissionless liquidity. But
CantonNews Project Spotlight: Temple
Temple is the first native trading platform on Canton Network, bringing real capital markets trading directly onto the network.
Protocol Development Fund: Funding Utility Through Accountability
A new governance-backed fund is live on Canton, built to keep core protocol & shared infra scaling with adoption. @CantonNetwork's adoption is accelerating, and so is the demand for the essential work
Why We're Open Sourcing Bron
A key principle in software security is to avoid "security through obscurity": even if an attacker understands how a system is protected, they still shouldn't be able to break it. It's like a thief
Surveillance Pricing: The cost of being known
"I have nothing to hide" you say. You use Venmo with a public feed, you pay for everything with a card, and your crypto transactions sit on a public blockchain for anyone to see. So what? Here's the
Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc. Chairman and CEO Mark Wendland Elected to Canton Foundation Board
Appointment Underscores Canton Strategic Holdings' Leadership Role in Accelerating Institutional Adoption of the Canton Network
Every year, hundreds of thousands of crypto wallets go silent forever
In the US alone, around 3 million people die each year. About 14% of adults own crypto, yet only 37% of US crypto holders have a plan to share wallet information in case they die. That means that
The Age of Disorder: Crypto, the AI Revolution and War
Where the World Changed For the past seventy years, the world has operated under a framework known as the legacy of the Bretton Woods system. After World War II, the United States built a global
Canton Signal: Feb 2026 Recap
by Zenith team, March 2, 2026 February 2026 saw Canton Network accelerate as the privacy-enabled backbone for institutional finance, marked by production breakthroughs, developer tools, and ecosystem
Unlocking Agentic Trading on Canton
Most trading infrastructure was built with manual trading first in mind. Not Silvana. It's an orderbook built with a view to sub-second private execution by autonomous agents on the Canton Network. In
The Correct Way to Utilize EA Finance Vaults
To fully utilize the EA Finance ecosystem, users must transition from simply holding assets to actively deploying them. This guide outlines the precise operational steps to navigate the application,
Scaling Canton Apps with a Standard for Wallet and App Interoperability
Learn more about how Canton's Standard for Apps and Wallets unlocks interoperability on the network.
The Alpend Thesis on Decentralized Credit Infrastructure
Structured Disclosure, Deterministic Execution. Money Markets Engineered for Stress Conditions. Money markets are long-lived systems. They don’t exist to optimize yield cycles. They exist to allocate
EDENA To Bring $100B onto Canton Network via Cantor8
HONG KONG — February 18, 2026 — At the DAT Summit Hong Kong, EDENA Capital Partners officially launched the 'Autonomic Financial OS,' the world's first AI-driven master rail designed to automate the
Roots Chain-based Interbanking Messaging System (CIMS)
The global money system is getting a major upgrade by mixing regular banks with the technology used for digital currencies. You can think of the Roots SDK as a bridge that connects old school banking
CIP-56: The Standard Interface for Tokens on Canton Network
CIP-56 is Canton's token standard, think ERC-20, but built for institutional assets and regulated workflows. What is CIP-56? CIP-56 is a token interface standard that defines how on-chain assets are
A perpetual exchange unlocks institutional trading volume by launching with Zenith Stack
ChallengeA decentralized perpetual exchange aiming to serve institutional counterparties such as asset managers, banks, and professional trading firms faces a structural constraint. These participants require high-throughput execution, predictable fees, and settlement within a re
Tharimmune, Inc. Announces Corporate Rebrand to Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc., Marking Milestone in Canton Network Digital Asset Treasury Strategy
New NASDAQ Ticker Symbol "CNTN" to Begin Trading February 18, 2026; Company Positioned to Support Institutional Adoption of First Privacy-Enabled Public Blockchain Processing $9 Trillion in Monthly Transaction Volume
The weekend revolution: collateral is finally working overtime
Find out how onchain collateral and stablecoins enable 24/7 financing on Canton, with insights from the institutions doing the trades.
Introducing Lightspeed: The First Sub-Second Orderbook On Canton
Introducing Lightspeed: The First Sub-Second Orderbook On Canton
2026's Top Crypto IPOs are Helping Bring Stablecoin Payments Mainstream
There is a strong momentum of blockchain rails entering the mainstream financial system this year. The following IPOs are worth watching as they will significantly influence the future of how money
A tokenized money market fund reaches institutional distribution through Zenith EVM
ChallengeA global asset manager operates a $1.5B tokenized money market fund backed by short-term U.S. Treasuries and cash equivalents. The fund is issued on an Ethereum Layer-2 network, enabling programmable compliance, KYC/AML gating, and integration with DeFi venues such as Un
The Final Piece for Institutional Web3: Canton Network
"Web3 will reinvent finance." That was the pitch sold to us for years. And for years, institutions basically watched from the sidelines. Not because they weren't interested. The infrastructure just
Designing Money Markets That Hold Under Stress
Money markets are not built to be exciting. They are built to be predictable under stress. At a small scale, yield and openness dominate design decisions. At real scale, those stop mattering. What
Under the Hood: How AllDefi Bridges EVM Yields with Canton Liquidity
A deep dive into the architecture that secures your assets on Ethereum while unlocking tradability on the Canton Network. Here is a look "under the hood" at how AllDefi's asset architecture works —
Tharimmune, Inc. Appoints Mark Wendland Chairman of the Board and Names Angela Radkowski Chief Operating Officer
Tharimmune, Inc. (NASDAQ: THAR) ("Tharimmune" or the "Company"), the first publicly traded company to leverage Canton Coin ("CC") to support the...
Canton Signal: Jan 2026 Recap
by Zenith team, February 2, 2026 As we enter 2026, the Canton Network has quietly crossed an important threshold. With Mainnet live in production for over 1.5 years, Canton entered a new phase in
Payment Privacy is Not Just a Feature
Wanna "onboard the next billion Web2 users"? Yawn. Everyone has been using this as a tagline for years. No one understands what this actually requires. The majority of people Web2 users are not
Tharimmune Announces Expanded Role as Super Validator on Canton Network
Tharimmune, Inc. (NASDAQ: THAR) ("Tharimmune" or the "Company"), the first publicly traded company to leverage Canton Coin ("CC") to support the...
Bridging $CC between Canton Network and BSC on EA Finance
Canton Coin holders, are you ready to bring your $CC to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) for yield farming? This article guides you to convert $CC into $wCC via a CEX account and vice versa. The EA Finance
The Limits of Radical Transparency in DeFi
Public blockchains changed finance by making markets programmable and open by default. They also made something else unavoidable: radical transparency. At small scale, that transparency looked like
The Numbers are Brutal
While regulators debated and banks ran pilots, suddenly, stablecoins became the world's dominant payment rail. The revolution is complete. You're probably already using stablecoins and do not even
Treasuries on-chain: An industry case for change, Value Exchange (Canton Network)
Explore what happens when the promise of bringing the highest quality liquid assets in the world onchain, meets real-world practice.
Treasuries on-chain: An industry case for change, Value Exchange (Digital Asset)
Explore what happens when the promise of bringing the highest quality liquid assets in the world onchain, meets real-world practice.
Why Pure NaaS is Dead: The Shift to Compliant Blockchain Infrastructure
The "Nodes-as-a-Service" model falls short for institutions like DTCC and Societe Generale. Discover why DORA compliance and infrastructure ownership are the ne
Introducing Bridge By Temple
Introducing Bridge By Temple
Hecto: Under The Hood
How do you actually turn late stage private shares into something you can hold as an on-chain index token? Here's we're going to do it, step by step. Step 1: Source the allocations Hecto starts by
Temple Trading Is Live
Temple Trading Is Live
Temple Raises $5M To Build Privacy Focused Technical Stack For Capital Markets
Temple Raises $5M To Build Privacy Focused Technical Stack For Capital Markets
Temple Partners With Loop
Temple Partners With Loop
The Canton Network: A Technical Primer
The aims of this article are two-fold. First, it's to provide a not-too-technical overview of the Canton Network that can be understood by more business-focused readers. Second, it's to give more
Canton Case Study
Problem The Canton Network, a decentralized network designed to securely connect regulated financial institutions, needed a trusted partner to launch stablecoin support within its ecosystem. For Canton to fulfill its
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