Digital Asset just secured $355M led by a16z crypto for Canton Network—the only public layer-1 blockchain with institutional-grade privacy[prnewswire]
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$355M funding round
35+ institutions: BNP Paribas, HSBC, Coinbase, Citadel, S&P Global[prnewswire]
700+ ecosystem
Five North
80 posts
Not Participants. Builders. Validators. Backbone.
- Five North repostedAlmost 12 years ago, I left @DRWTrading with @wesarn_real to start @digitalasset. @ShaulKfir joined us shortly after. The name felt right. The idea was simple but audacious: build a global settlement system that is asset agnostic. One that doesn’t eliminate banks, exchanges, and
- If you're interested in building on Canton, the Canton Foundation has published a great tutorial video explaining how Seaport works and how developers can build and deploy Daml applications. A big thank you to the FiveNorth engineering team whose hard work went into building
- 5N was in Paris for @proofoftalk, contributing to @CantonNetwork discussions across panels, Proof of Pitch, and ecosystem meetings. Our CEO, @bc1pxxx, moderated “How Regulated Institutions Deploy on Canton,” covering what it takes for institutions to move from exploration to
- In this video, Canton's new unified developer documentation shows you how to write your first Daml Smart Contract from scratch using the DPM (Daml Package Manager). By the end, you'll have a working contract, know how to build it into a DAR file, and run your first tests, all
- .@Visa and @brale_xyz are exploring stablecoin-based settlement using SBC on Canton. The proof of concept evaluates how privacy-enabled infrastructure can support institutional payment flows while maintaining control over sensitive transaction data. → investor.visa.com/news/news-deta…
- Five North repostedThe Canton Foundation has four membership tiers, each with different levels of governance participation. Super Validators (55): Operate Global Synchronizer infrastructure, vote on CIPs, carry governance weight. Admission requires a CIP proposal and two-thirds supermajority vote.
00:00 - Citi's projection of a $5.5T tokenized securities market by 2030 is a wake-up call. Demand is no longer the question. The bottleneck is infrastructure: privacy, compliance, governance, and interoperability. That is where @CantonNetwork Network matters. Regulated assets need
- Sui Mainnet is currently experiencing a network stall. The Sui Core team is actively working on a solution. Be aware that transactions may be paused at this time. Updates will be shared as soon as they are available.
- Wholesale cross-border payments are broken at the architecture level. BIS Project Agorá is fixing that — with tokenized money on shared programmable rails. Here's why it matters. 🧵👇 The model: tokenize central bank reserves + commercial bank deposits. Settle atomically.
- Five North repostedGateio 🤝 Canton Network USDCx After Bybit, Gateio opens USDCx deposits & withdrawals — delivering real USDC liquidity straight to Canton $CC 1:1 backed by Circle + privacy features The privacy stablecoin revolution on Canton has begun!
- Payments and capital markets cannot be solved separately. Canton is built around composability across the full stack, with data permissioning and controls at every layer. The shift required is from messaging and reconciliation to shared state with lower latency to finality.
00:00 - -Non-issuer apps: 5,000,000 CC locked per PartyId. -Asset issuer apps: 25,000,000 CC locked per PartyId Why this matters: The Featured App status previously relied solely on Foundation governance. CIP-0116 shifts the process toward objective, on-chain criteria. ApplicationsCIP-0116 has been approved: Featured App Locking. Featured Applications on @CantonNetwork now require CC locking to qualify for and maintain their designation. Non-issuer apps: 5,000,000 CC locked per PartyId Asset issuer apps: 25,000,000 CC locked per PartyId Why this















