Canton Pulse

Cross-border settlement outside banking hours is slow because correspondent banks stay closed. Lloyds moved $750,000 in USDC to Visa in under an hour over a weekend, running its own node on Canton Network while Visa settled separately. Full story below.

Validator nodes on Canton host parties, store and execute Daml contracts, validate transactions they’re party to, and keep every participant synced without losing control over privacy or asset ownership. Visualization by @OneSwapcc.

Canton has surpassed 900K cumulative unique parties as of this week. Next milestone: 1M Data: @TheTieIO

New Featured App Submission Details:

Featured App Update: The Tokenomics Committee has approved @TheHub_io as a Featured App on @CantonNetwork. The Hub brings community discovery, creator interaction, and privacy-preserving on-chain identity into a single layer, building the social layer of the Canton ecosystem. Featured App status reflects that a product runs on the network, generates real usage, and is committed to long-term ecosystem contribution.

Every network is an island until something connects them. Separate networks. One connection. That's Canton: Network of Networks.

Something stuck with us from Canton Forum in Singapore. @YuvalRooz, Co-Founder & CEO of @DigitalAsset, framed the approach that shaped @CantonNetwork from the start. "We were not going to build against the financial system. We were going to build with it."

Tokenized securities need a way to be used as collateral. Kintsu is building private lending markets for borrowing against them on Canton. Private beta is open.

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On Canton, a regulator can be permissioned as an observer party on the relevant contracts. They see exactly what they've been granted visibility into, using the same observer mechanism any other party uses, with no special access path and no exception carved into the protocol.

Explore where finance flows.

Every asset on Edel gets a job. base:0xfb31f85a8367210b2e4ed2360d2da9dc2d2ccc95 gets the biggest one. Get yours ready on Canton. Bridge with @HandlPay, or trade for it on @Cantex_io.

In September, the DTCC working group welcomed new members, pushing its total past 100 firms. Six Super Validator proposals cleared for the network, and Zenith opened a public EVM testnet, with Kaiko deploying the first oracle on it two days later. ↓ Read Cashen’s full recap.

https://t.co/DEaaUDT56r

Becoming a Super Validator on Canton requires more than staking capital for proportional rewards. Commitments are milestone-weighted, tied to outcomes like TVL, fees, or how much of an ecosystem moves onchain, and the bar has risen steadily for two years. @Wesarn_real explains.

ICYMI: The Zenith EVM Testnet is live and open to the public. What makes Zenith different from every other EVM environment is what happens underneath. Every transaction routes through Canton’s consensus directly, meaning a single transaction can carry both a Canton-native leg and an EVM leg, with both committing simultaneously or neither committing at all. No exposure window, no bridge. Atomic composability with Canton-native assets and workflows built into the protocol. For the first time, DeFi primitives and institutional finance run on the same rails. A lending protocol deployed on Zenith composes atomically with tokenized Treasuries on @CantonNetwork. A collateral management system built in Solidity settles natively alongside the workflows DTCC is bringing to production this month. If you are an Ethereum developer and haven’t deployed yet, the institutional layer is being built around you. Now is the time to start: Zth.

The institutional adoption of blockchain infrastructure is already underway. Join Canton and @BlockdaemonHQ at @Money2020 in Las Vegas on October 19, for The Onchain Hour, bringing together leaders shaping the future of onchain finance. Request to join.

Collateral accepted at CCPs depends on one verifiable price every counterparty can reference, something tokenized assets moving across networks don't automatically have. @KaikoData has joined @CantonFdn's Collateral Sub-Committee to help set that standard.

Thank you all for joining us at Canton Forum. A full day at the ArtScience Museum with the institutions, infrastructure providers, and partners building on Canton, capped off with Canton Connect by Marina Bay.

Swap into Canton, privately.

One network, one economy: every production synchronizer on Canton Mainnet pays to use the network the same way. →

Head of Canton Foundation, @Viv_Diwakar, sat down at @KBWOfficial to talk through how Canton is built for global financial markets, selective privacy, institutional-grade infrastructure, and why Korea matters for the next phase of adoption. Watch below 👇

CIP-TBD: Universal Burn and Synchronizer Pricing Number: CIP-XXXX Title: Universal Burn and Synchronizer Pricing Author(s): @Bc1pxxx, @ShaulKfir Type: Tokenomics Status: Draft Created: 2026-10-07 License: CC0-1.0 →

The Universal Burn proposal aims to unify how Canton charges for usage. @ShaulKfir joined @LongViewCrypto to discuss heterogeneous pricing, institutional vs retail adoption, ecosystem health and growth, burn-mint equilibrium, and technical hurdles.

Now available on SoFi. canton-network:native

Zenith joined DTC's Industry Working Group alongside additions @EdeldotFinance, @KaikoData, @PalladiumLabs, @SwapMonster_ and @HashKeyGroup. @LloydsBank + @Visa completed a live stablecoin settlement pilot. Canton generated $48.7M in fees. Snapshot of September on the network.

Distribution, liquidity, and secondary markets are still being built out for tokenized assets beyond initial issuance. At RWA Leaders Summit on Oct 16, Aurélie Dhellemmes joins panelists from Solana, Fuse, and XDC to discuss it. Request to join.

Industry events often center on forward-looking predictions. Only companies in production were featured at the Canton Summit, speaking on why they chose the network and how it generates revenue for their business. @YuvalRooz on the thinking behind that curation with @Stabledash.

Canton Forum was closed out by @Viv_Diwakar with a point worth sitting with. "Scale only matters if there is an ecosystem to scale. Asia isn't just a regional strategy, it's part of our global strategy."

On Canton, no single participant has to build every layer of infrastructure themselves. Case in point, @ZenithFdn built their EVM execution layer, while @Catalyx_Suite and @IntellectEU operate the infrastructure underneath it.