what's canton network?
Canton Network is a blockchain platform focused on privacy-preserving, interoperable systems for tokenized assets, enabling secure and efficient financial transactions across institutions. Backed by major players, it facilitates 24/7 on-chain finance with scalable infrastructure. The network supports seamless integration for traditional finance, emphasizing data privacy and cross-chain connectivity.
Canton Network launched perpetual futures, added validators, and increased token burns and creator activity.
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x.com/cantonnetworkPartners with Bloomberg and Kaiko to bring licensed financial data on-chain for tokenized US Treasury and repo markets.
Generates over $2.5 million in revenue per day from institutional adoption via embedded compliance and real use cases including repo and institutional CLOB.
Listed for trading on Crypto.com App with support for USD, EUR, and over 20 fiat currencies.
Listed on Robinhood spot trading platform on February 27, 2026.
Became an official sponsor of WalletCon on March 31, 2026 in Cannes.
Processes $5.9 trillion per month in notional repo transactions.
Reached the final four in Coinage Media's Crypto Project of the Year voting series.
Partners with Zebec to bring real-time payments and card infrastructure to the Canton ecosystem through Lattice Finance integration.
Confirmed as a sponsor of EthCC[9], Europe's largest Ethereum event scheduled for 2026 in Cannes with 6,500+ expected attendees including builders, founders, and investors.
Daily transactions reached all-time high levels.
Governance is managed through the Linux Foundation with institutional co-chairs.
Implements token burns tied to transaction volume, with burns occurring when Broadridge settles $400B/day and DTCC tokenizes treasuries.
Coinbase is set to run multiple validators on the network.
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, DTCC, and Broadridge building on protocol; Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citi, Broadridge, DTCC invested in parent company Digital Asset Holdings during early funding rounds.
Google Cloud provides infrastructure for Canton Network.
Integrates with AllDeFi, which enables EVM yield assets to be represented on Canton Network through ATV tokens minted on Canton that represent claims to MPC-secured vaults deployed in EVM yield strategies, allowing EVM liquidity to become native Canton assets.
Cosimo Capital became an approved Canton validator and Canton Foundation member.
Receives positive positioning commentary from Goldman Sachs' Mathew McDermott and Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek, highlighting privacy-by-default design, neutral governance under Linux Foundation, and atomic settlement capabilities as an institutional consolidation layer.
Approved YZi Labs as a Super Validator through CIP-0081 with weight 10 designation, the highest tier, in January 2026.
Received $135M funding round in July 2025 led by Digital Asset and DRW, with participation from YZi Labs, Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, DTCC, and Tradeweb, structured as network investment.
Participates as a blockchain partner in InnovateDenver conference alongside other blockchain projects and institutions.
Frax Finance serves as a validator for Canton Network and plans to establish a strong frxUSD presence on the network.
Price targets of $0.40-$1.00 in 12 months and $1.00-$5.00+ in 18-24 months are predicted based on burn fundamentals and institutional adoption assumptions.
Morgan Stanley listed a blockchain engineer role for multi-chain integrations including Canton Network, Hyperledger, Polygon, and Ethereum.
Broadridge processes $365B in daily repo volume through Canton infrastructure.
CC/USD perpetual trading pair launched on GMX with up to 25x leverage, available on Ethereum Mainnet, Arbitrum, Base, and BNB Chain.
Utilized by Goldman Sachs, HSBC, and BNP Paribas, with Goldman Sachs' Digital Asset Platform enabling issuing and managing digital bonds.
Announced the latest batch of approved validators.
Raised $135M in June 2026 led by DRW Venture Capital with Goldman Sachs and Tradeweb, structured as investment into the network. CME Ventures is an investor.
Raised $545M for Canton DAT from investors including DRW, Liberty City Ventures, ARK Invest, Broadridge, Kraken, Polychain Capital, Tradeweb Markets, Clear Street, Digital Asset, SBI Group, Copper, Kaiko, Lukka, and Canton Foundation.
Listed on OKX spot trading with CC/USDT pair on February 12, 2026.
Partners with Chainlink for Data Streams (24/5 equities), SmartData (NAV, AUM), Proof of Reserve, and CCIP; supports CBTC, a wrapped Bitcoin asset.
Faces competition from LayerZero's ZERO L1 for institutional tokenization partnerships, according to a market commentator comparing the two projects' positioning in the institutional tokenization space.
Integrated with Chainlink, which serves as a Super Validator.
NYSE operates a validator node on the network.
Partnered with LSEG, Euroclear, Euronext, and Societe Generale for Global Collateral Network. Demonstrated cross-border intraday repo using tokenized Gilts.
Launched private stablecoin payroll for institutions on a privacy-focused chain for tokenized equities, supporting CIP-56 standard with CBTC, USDCx, tokenized treasuries, and money market funds. Introduced CIP-56 with privacy-preserving transfers, native compliance controls, and atomic delivery-vs-payment for institutional real asset tokenization, leveraging RWA infrastructure as a privacy-first institutional rail for tokenized assets.
Referenced in documentation as a potential notarization layer option to reduce trust in domain nodes.
Passed CIP-0100, establishing formal governance for the 5% development fund with milestone-based grants in CC tokens minted directly to recipients, elected committee oversight, quarterly public reports, annual independent audits, and formal appeals process.
Tether deployed USDT0 as a Super Validator and core dollar rail on the network.
Perpetual futures trading pairs for Canton Network launched on grvt_io exchange.
Number of creators posting about the project increased by 21.7% compared to the previous week.
Approved Nasdaq as super validator via CIP-0097 in January 2026 with a milestone-based weight program, joining 39 institutional validators including Goldman, JPMorgan, and BNP Paribas.
Added LBank as super validator
Burns 15M CC tokens daily as of January 2026, up from 5M in July 2025, with a burn/mint ratio of 0.65, up from 0.15, generating $916M in annual token burns.
Burns tokens with every CIP-56 transaction, approximately 14% of market cap annually, mandatory for institutional settlement operations. Uses USD-denominated fees with self-correcting burn mechanics.
Ranked as the fourth top-performing token year-to-date with 16% gain among tokens with minimum $1B market cap.
Temple Digital Group launched as an institutional trading platform with YZi Labs investment in October 2025. Partners with Mintify to offer a +50% CC token rewards program for two months.
Sponsors ETHDenver 2026 conference, co-hosts VIP Institutional Soirée with The Graph, Halborn Security, and Blockaid on 2026-02-19.
A governance proposal to grant featured app rights to Pool Party (an AMM on Canton Network by Send) is expected to pass on 2026-01-24, having already received over 50% of votes in favor.
Executed first Canton Coin-settled OTC crypto option trade with Cumberland and Arrington Capital in December 2025, using Canton for collateral management and settlement.
Passed Canton Improvement Proposal-0098, eliminating app-reward farming, stopping low-volume extraction, and reducing emission velocity through tokenomics changes.
Merged Canton ($CC) support into Ledger Live codebase, with UI activation expected by mid-February 2026 based on typical rollout timelines.
Integrates JPM Coin, deployed by JPMorgan as its second permissionless blockchain deployment after Base.
Has 629 active validators operating on the network.
Has a circulating supply of 36.81 billion tokens as of December 31, 2025.
Underwent double inflation halving in January 2026, cutting total block issuance in half and reducing Super Validator rewards from 48% to 20%.
Launched token with 100% circulating supply, zero pre-mine, no VC or founder token allocation, and no unlock schedule. Distributes tokens to validators, users, and builders through fair launch mechanics.
Has a price target of $589 mentioned in speculative trading commentary.
Nominated for Crypto Project of the Year.
Nominated for "Best In Tokenization" award by The Rollup Co, with the winner to be announced on 2025-12-30.
Featured in a 158-page report on RWA tokenization published by Europe's largest asset manager (€2T AUM), alongside other major protocols in the tokenization space.
DTCC co-chairs Foundation, targets US Treasury tokenization on Canton Network in 2026 with SEC approval.
Featured in a podcast discussion on the Unchained podcast hosted by Laura Shin, examining Canton Network's potential to become the institutional blockchain for traditional finance alongside comparisons with Ethereum and Solana.
Canton Network features in a privacy project watchlist tied to a16z crypto's 2026 priorities, characterized for its high focus on traditional finance.
Canton representative Simon Letort participates in SEC Crypto Task Force roundtable alongside representatives from Zcash, Espresso, Aleo, Starkware, and other crypto projects.
Tradeweb invested in Digital Asset and Canton Network; the company operates one of the world's leading electronic marketplaces with $3 trillion average daily volume and serves 3,000+ institutional clients across 85 countries.
Canton schedules a talk on the future of institutional markets for December 16. Attendees at Solana Conference and Binance Blockchain Week express strong interest in the project but report difficulty understanding its technical operations.
RedStone becomes primary oracle, bridging $6T in regulated RWAs and processing more real-world asset volume.
Canton ranks #8 on today's LunarCrush AltRankâ„¢, a metric combining social momentum and market performance.
Token price declines over 25% in 7 days as investors sell following recent strategic investments from Goldman Sachs and Nasdaq.
Received investments from BNY, iCapital, Nasdaq, and S&P Global, positioning as RWA tokenization infrastructure with Broadridge, DTCC, Goldman Sachs, DRW, and JPMorgan, focusing on privacy and regulatory compliance for financial market infrastructure.
Completes $50 million Strategic funding round.
CertiK conducts comprehensive security assessment of the USDCx bridge, including audit of onchain Daml smart contracts and penetration testing of offchain infrastructure.
Launches USDCx on Canton Network via Circle's xReserve system and Fireblocks integration, providing 1:1 USDC-backed stablecoin with cross-chain interoperability for atomic settlement of tokenized assets and institutional Treasury financing.
Current fully diluted valuation stands at $2.64B, ranking #5 among top 10 tokens by FDV launched this autumn.
Runs CC Puzzle Hunt promotional campaign in partnership with Bybit featuring 2,000,000 CC prize pool, with 7 days remaining to participate.
Hosts AMA on X Spaces in partnership with Bybit Official scheduled for November 10, 2025 at 10AM UTC, featuring a promotional giveaway of 250 USDT shared among 20 winners.
DTCC holds a stake, processes $6T+ in tokenized real-world assets, and settles $400B+ in daily repo trades through Broadridge with 400 participants including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, BNP Paribas, Citadel, DRW, Virtu, and Nasdaq.
Canton Network announces $CUSD stablecoin backed by frxUSD's GENIUS stablecoin issuance system in partnership with Send team.
Current FDV reaches $8B despite blockchain described as having minimal activity ("ghost town"). (Tweet ID: 1992981030324899954)
Ranks #1 on CoinMarketCap's top daily crypto gainers list on November 24, 2025.
FDV reported at $2.5B in market comparisons with other blockchain projects.
Current FDV falls to below $5bn from $18bn pre-market valuation, with trader warnings about potential price squeezes. (Tweet ID: 1992279011678912736)
Blockworks founders shill Canton Network as the only token they directly promoted over the past month. (Tweet IDs: 1991942387946643774)
Price drops over 30% this week as market liquidations trigger investor and whale sell-offs.
Price drops over 15% this week, reaching an all-time low amid technical weakness and liquidity concerns.
SolvProtocol expands to Canton Network as part of recent developments to capture institutional interest.
The CANTN ETP trades on Euronext Amsterdam and Paris with BitGo serving as custodian.
Circle's Reserve launches with Canton Network as early adopter, enabling creation of custom stablecoins backed 1:1 by USDC for privacy-focused institutional RWA applications.
21Shares files Canton Coin ETF.
Circle selects Canton Network as one of two blockchains to integrate with xReserve, its new USDC-backed stablecoin interoperability infrastructure, with integration scheduled for the coming weeks.
CANTN launches as the first Canton Network ETP, providing direct investment access to the blockchain.
21shares files for a Canton Network ETF.
Infrastructure provider ChainSafe adds Canton Network to its supported chains for infrastructure and staking services.
$CC listed as #3 weekly crypto loser on CoinMarketCap for the week of 11/17/25.
Platform generates $1.27M in daily fees with $CC operating on a burn-and-mint mechanism. Broadridge's daily tokenized repo volume tripled from $100B to $300B in six months, and Tharimmune completes $540M private placement for DAT using the network.
Cointelegraph Magazine highlights Canton Network as a major player in 2026 privacy technology adoption in crypto alongside Zcash and Ethereum Foundation.
Canton Network joins Lombard Finance as part of institutional onboardings for the $LBTC ecosystem.
Over 700 institutions participate in the ecosystem.