Canton Cavalry

PROTOCOL DEVELOPMENT FUND FAQ-1

Protocol Development Fund (FAQ 1/5): Who can apply? 🔍 Anyone can propose work that benefits Canton as a network. There are three common paths in: → Committee led proposals: Tech & Ops members can submit proposals directly when they already have delivery capacity and clear milestones. → Open community proposals: Builders from outside the Foundation can still apply, but need a Tech & Ops champion to guide the proposal through the process (structure, milestones, acceptance criteria, review). → RFPs: The Tech & Ops Committee may publish “RFP-style” calls for specific priorities (clear scope, desired outcomes, timelines). Key point here: proposals are evaluated on merit & alignment

Featured App Update #5: Tokenomics group has approved @Cantex_io as a Featured App on @CantonNetwork 🎊 Cantex is an institutional grade, non-custodial trading platform built natively on Canton by the team at @CaviarNine The platform combines an AMM DEX and a high throughput limit order book with atomic on-ledger settlement. Canton Coin is a core trading and quote asset across all pools and order books. Privacy is core to how Cantex works. Only the parties involved in a trade see the details, and users can set their own counterparty preferences before execution. AMM swapping is live on mainnet and the full order book and API suite are next. Excited to see them drive real trading volume and liquidity on Canton!

Excited to see the Canton ecosystem expanding in Asia. @0xthomaschou, who leads Marketing & Growth at the Canton Foundation, will be speaking at a webinar hosted by @sbivc_official, walking through Canton's ecosystem and future prospects. If you are in the region and want to understand where @CantonNetwork is heading, this is worth your time. 👇

What is the Global Synchronizer? The coordination backbone of @CantonNetwork. It lets independent, privacy preserving Canton applications interact atomically, without bridges, without a shared transparent chain, and without anyone seeing transaction data they are not supposed to see. One institution holds collateral. Another holds cash. A third holds fund shares. The Global Synchronizer is what lets them settle atomically across all three. Decentrally operated by 45+ Super Validators. Governed by the @CantonFdn. Powered by Canton Coin.

DTCC is a premier member of Canton!!!!!

Canton just made Validator Economics about real usage ⚙️ CIP-0096 is phasing out liveness rewards entirely, 70% of validator rewards were tied to pure liveness. What changed and why: → Liveness rewards were designed to incentivize infrastructure operation, but over time they could be earned without driving real network activity. → The reduction happens in four on-chain votes, stepping down from $3.33 to $2.50 to $0.60 to $0, voted through by Super Validators on DevNet, TestNet, and MainNet → Other validator reward mechanics remain unchanged. This is specifically about liveness rewards, not the full reward model The network bootstrapped with liveness incentives to get infrastructure online. Use cases are live, validators are onboarding, and those incentives are no longer needed. Active participation is now the only way to earn!

Welcoming @zenithfdn as a Super Validator on Canton (CIP-0091 | Weight 10). 🎊 Zenith is building the EVM execution layer for @CantonNetwork, letting Ethereum developers deploy Solidity apps on Canton without rewriting everything in Daml, while keeping Canton's privacy, compliance, and atomic settlement properties intact. Two angles: Zenith EVM for developers who want familiar Ethereum tooling on Canton, and Zenith Stack for institutions that want their own customizable EVM environment with full control over permissions, fees, and compliance boundaries. The key technical contribution is atomic composability, a transaction can span both a Canton-native Daml leg and an EVM leg, and either both succeed or the whole thing fails. Settlement is atomic, coordination is Canton, and there are no bridges in between. As an SV, every milestone is tied to real usage on the network. Bringing Ethereum developers into institutional finance infrastructure. Glad to have them governing the network!

Tokenized Treasuries on Canton👇👇👇

800+ Validators. 130+ Featured Apps. 40+ Super Validators. One governance framework. That is the Canton Foundation.

This is what the @CantonNetwork's ecosystem looks like today! · Custody & Wallets · Exchanges · DeFi · Tokenized Assets · OnChain Cash · Liquidity · Payments · Developer Tools · Interoperability · Forensics & Security · Data & Analysis · Node as a Service · Super Validators From custody to liquidity, every piece of the financial infrastructure stack, in one network. TradFi and crypto native firms are governing the same network, under the same governance framework, with the same rules. That is what AllFi actually looks like and @CantonFdn is just getting started.

On Canton, every transaction your app drives earns you revenue! 62% of all $CC rewards are mintable by featured apps. Traffic fees scale with usage and App rewards are tied to real on-chain activity. Builders can earn up to 170% of their application generated traffic fees back as rewards, with a cap of $1.50 per transaction. And as the @CantonNetwork matures toward burn-mint equilibrium, those rewards become more predictable. The more real usage your app drives, the more it earns. The full revenue model for builders is here 👇

Spotlight on Premier Member #1: T-RIZE 🪄 @trize_io is an end-to-end institutional tokenization platform. Across real estate, private credit, funds, and commodities, they help bring real world assets onchain: structuring them legally, issuing compliant blockchain-based tokens, and supporting them through the full lifecycle post issuance. As a Premier Member of the @CantonFdn, T-RIZE participates in governance around the Global Synchronizer and contributes to the network’s infrastructure. On @CantonNetwork, they operate as a node validator and use Canton’s privacy-preserving rails for compliant tokenization. They also announced a live real estate equity offering on Canton distributed via @joinrepublic, showing how tokenized real estate can be issued on regulated market rails. Their partner stack spans @Chainlink for oracle infrastructure, @FireblocksHQ for MPC wallet security, @texture_capital for U.S.-compliant distribution, and Canton for institutional interoperability. Building the regulated asset onboarding layer for tokenized private markets. Pleased to have them in the Foundation 🤝

Canton's DeFi ecosystem is taking shape and featured apps are being deployed across every vertical, building on the same privacy-preserving, atomic settlement rails that institutions already run on. DeFi and TradFi are converging to create AllFi on the @CantonNetwork.

Every CIP voted on @CantonNetwork is public. Every Super Validator that approves it is accountable. That is what neutral governance looks like! 🔗

Welcome to the newest Canton validator operators 🪄 → Gyld Finance → Zilo → TTT Labs → BCP Technologies Ltd → ARTEX Global Markets AG → Auranode → Arccade → Qingshan Technology Group → JMD Labs Inc. → DODOEX FOUNDATION PTE. LTD. → OKX → O-Bank → Interstice Digital → Scion Digital Group → Hacken → depinhouse → PolarisNodes → Cubist → Tecnología Solutions → Aevum Technology → TokenMinds → BCP Technologies Ltd → The Hub → wuselfabrik GmbH → GEM Data LLC → Stride OS Ltd → Onclave Labs, Inc. → Rivera Money Inc. → AZ Alpha Tech Solutions Private Limited → Virto Operations LLC → Counterparty LLC → Intractable Ventures, LLC → Protokol → CC Bot Wallet → Kaiko → CoinAegis → DeSyn → AZX Tech PTE. PTY LTD → OneNov Validators are helping strengthen the @CantonNetwork's security, resilience, and institutional-grade operations!

🔔 @Blockworks just published a full breakdown of @CantonNetwork! Here is what the report covers: → Architecture: How Canton separates execution from coordination, and why sub-transaction privacy is the core unlock for regulated institutions → Institutional adoption: @The_DTCC tokenizing DTC-custodied US Treasuries, @Broadridge running $350B in daily repo, @Nasdaq integrating collateral management via Calypso, @jpmorgan, @LBGplc and London Stock Exchange all building live workflows → Network activity: Daily transactions up from 155K to 1M+ in a year. → Tokenomics: The network is approaching the point where daily burns match daily emissions → Live applications: USDCx, USYC, Brale, Hashnote, Fairmint and others already generating real activity and rewards → What is coming next The full picture of where regulated finance is actually building. Read the full report 👇

Global Finance has found its infrastructure. 🏦 @CantonNetwork and @CantonFdn is where finance is starting to actually flow. → Canton brings the hard primitives and infrastructure like sub-transaction privacy, atomic DvP, composability that works for regulated institutions without bridges or workarounds. → The Foundation brings what makes it durable: neutral CIP governance, a fair-launched network with no pre-mine or VC allocation, and a Global Synchronizer that institutions can build on without inheriting vendor risk or platform dependency. @jpmorgan, @GoldmanSachs, @The_DTCC and others are here because the architecture holds up at their scale and under their compliance requirements. TradFi and DeFi found that the same rails work for both of them and they're building here in an AllFi world!

CIP-0106 is approved and @QCPgroup is joining @CantonNetwork as a Super Validator (weight 5.0) 🎊 Key ways they add value: → Bringing institutional collateral workflows onto Canton: collateral agreements, margin allocation, confirmation and settlement across real bilateral trading relationships. → Onboarding 10 Tokenized Money Market Funds, making RWAs issuable, bridgeable and verifiable on Canton. → Ties SV reward weight to Canton Coin burn from real application activity, swaps, minting and redemption flows, derivative vaults and settlement. Another step toward making Canton the settlement layer that institutional crypto trading actually runs on.

🔔 CIP-0105 has been approved. The SV Locking & Long-Term Commitment Framework introduces a voluntary, on-chain mechanism for Super Validators to demonstrate long-term alignment with @CantonNetwork. SVs may elect to lock a portion of their lifetime earned $CC rewards, the more they lock, the greater their forward SV Weight. Unlocks vest gradually over 365 days. The framework applies uniformly to all Super Validators! As Canton becomes increasingly visible to external markets, reputation alone is insufficient. CIP-0105 replaces reputational assurances with cryptographic proof of alignment, ensuring that governance influence accrues to those most committed to Canton's long-term success. Full proposal 👇