Ekiden

Perpetual futures with Canton settlement and API access.

Ekiden is a derivatives venue on Canton combining off-chain order matching with deferred on-chain settlement. It provides perpetual futures, account and position management, and programmable access for traders and market makers.

Background

Ekiden develops tokenized derivatives infrastructure on Canton. Its current offering is a mainnet venue with documented order-book trading and settlement workflows, rather than a testnet-only onboarding project.

Key Benefits

Perpetual-futures trading
Off-chain central limit order book
Deferred Canton settlement
API and real-time WebSocket resources
Published trading, fee and account guides

Why Canton

Ekiden is explicitly built on Canton, using the network as the settlement layer for a derivatives venue where privacy, controlled data sharing, and synchronized settlement are useful primitives.

What Makes It Unique

Ekiden pairs the familiar structure of an institutional trading venue with Canton-native settlement. That makes it less of a simple swap app and more of an exchange-style project for professional derivatives workflows.

What's Included

Trading architecture

Orders match through a central limit order book. Batched updates settle on Canton, with cryptographic commitments supporting verification of order and position data.

Fees and integrations

The published documentation covers maker/taker fees, a VIP programme, API access and real-time WebSocket feeds. Use the current market specifications for collateral, funding and margin requirements.

Access

Complete the application’s current onboarding process before trading. Mainnet availability does not mean every account, market or jurisdiction has unrestricted access.

Official Resources

Impact

Ekiden adds derivatives-market infrastructure to the Canton application layer, expanding the ecosystem beyond wallets, lending, and basic swaps into higher-performance trading use cases.