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title: "Alpend Launches ONE - The Programmable Dollar for Canton DeFi"
description: "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."
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author: "Alpend"
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date_published: "2026-05-24T15:43:10.342Z"
tags: ["Alpend", "ONE", "Canton DeFi", "Canton Network", "CC", "DeFi", "Money Markets", "Credit", "Dollar Liquidity"]
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# Alpend Launches ONE - The Programmable Dollar for Canton DeFi

**By Alpend, Author** · Published 24 May 2026 · Blog

_Originally published on x.com: https://x.com/alpendhq/status/2056753952025194511?s=20. Republished by CantonNews._

> 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.

![Alpend Launches ONE - The Programmable Dollar for Canton DeFi](https://pnyaxwohgkgczwuvbaqg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/article-images/insights/cover-1779637323481.jpeg)

Alpend started with a simple premise:

Credit markets need privacy, precision, and settlement certainty.

Alpend introduced privacy-aware money markets to [@CantonNetwork](https://x.com/@CantonNetwork).

Now, [Alpend-1](https://one.alpend.com/) extends that foundation into programmable dollar liquidity for Canton DeFi.

## The ONE thesis

Canton DeFi needs a native dollar asset.

CC needs a productive collateral utility.

ONE connects both.

It turns CC into dollar liquidity, gives users new ways to borrow and deploy capital, and gives Canton applications a credit asset to build around.

This is the next step for Alpend.

From private money markets to programmable credit.

From CC collateral to Canton-native dollar liquidity.

From isolated applications to a connected DeFi credit layer.

**ONE is the programmable dollar for Canton DeFi.**

## Meet ONE

ONE is a CC-backed debt instrument economically designed to be geared toward $1 and bring native-dollar liquidity to the Canton DeFi.

Users will be able to lock Canton Coin as collateral and mint ONE by opening an overcollateralized debt position on Alpend-1.

The result is a dollar-targeted credit asset backed by Canton’s native economic base, built to move across DeFi as a liquidity, settlement, trading, and yield primitive.

At its simplest:

> **Lock CC. Mint ONE. Use ONE across Canton DeFi.**

## Use ONE across Canton DeFi

ONE is launching with utility from day one.

While access to the Alpend-1 protocol is being enabled for everyone, users can already acquire ONE through our [DVP](https://one.alpend.com/explore) and start using it across Canton-native applications.

- Use ONE to trade defined-risk digital options on [@RavenMarkets](https://x.com/@RavenMarkets).
- Use ONE to access tokenized real estate index markets through [@FractItLabs](https://x.com/@FractItLabs).
- Stake ONE on [@AlpendHQ](https://x.com/@AlpendHQ) Vault to earn yield through curated strategies.
- Use ONE to acquire more CC and build predictable CC exposure without relying on perpetual funding rates.

Experience ONE now at [one.alpend.com](https://one.alpend.com/).

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