Ekiden

Ekiden presents itself as a derivatives venue built on Canton. The project combines high-performance exchange design with on-chain settlement, self-custody, and a testnet-first onboarding path for traders and developers.

• Institutional-grade digital asset derivatives trading.
• Central-limit-order-book style execution experience.
• On-chain settlement with a Canton-native architecture.
• Self-custody and developer-facing documentation.
• Public testnet access and product docs for architecture, fees, VIP, and points.

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.

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.

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.

The public site currently points users toward testnet access. The docs also expose architecture, fee, VIP, and points-program sections that suggest a broader exchange roadmap.