Hacken is now an auditing provider of the Canton Network ecosystem.
Canton Network is a privacy-enabled blockchain built for institutional finance, designed to preserve privacy, control, and interoperability across shared financial infrastructure. Canton is quickly gaining momentum across TradFi and DeFi, bringing together global financial institutions, on-chain leaders, and real-world asset use cases that require privacy, compliance, and crypto-speed settlement.
As an ecosystem auditing provider, Hacken will support financial institutions, tokenized asset issuers, payment providers, and ecosystem builders in securing their Canton-based applications and infrastructure. This includes security reviews of Daml smart contracts, application workflows, integration logic, and operational infrastructure.
Hacken brings over 8 years of blockchain security expertise, with experience securing institutional capital across 30+ blockchain ecosystems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, Avalanche, Polygon, Stellar, Hedera, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
Dedicated Canton and Daml Security Capability
To support the Canton ecosystem, Hacken has invested in dedicated Daml expertise. Team members have completed Digital Asset certifications, including the Daml Contract Developer and Daml Philosophy exams, strengthening Hacken’s ability to review Daml smart contracts, workflows, and Canton implementations.
These certifications complement Hacken’s broader security research and practical auditing experience. Hacken has also released a dedicated security analysis of core Daml design patterns to help teams understand what secure Daml development requires on Canton.
The research covers key areas including:
- Propose-accept workflows
- Multi-party agreement models
- Delegation mechanics
- Explicit authorization patterns
- Asset locking logic
- UTXO-based authority and selective disclosure
The analysis also outlines verification priorities, implementation risks, and security considerations for Daml SDK 3.4.11 deployments on Canton Network.
Read the full research article here: Daml Design Patterns and Security Analysis
Supporting Institutional Adoption of Canton
For institutional blockchain infrastructure, security cannot be limited to generic smart contract review. Canton-based applications often require advanced permissions, privacy-preserving workflows, multi-party coordination, asset control logic, and integration with regulated financial systems.
Hacken’s role within the ecosystem is to help Canton participants identify implementation challenges early, strengthen application security, and build with the level of assurance expected by financial institutions and regulated market participants.
Through this partnership, Hacken will support the Canton ecosystem with specialized audit capabilities, Daml-focused security research, and practical experience securing blockchain infrastructure for institutional use cases.
