Key Insights

• Canton is a public network for interoperable privacy-preserving smart contract applications, designed to support confidential multi-party financial workflows without relying on a single globally replicated state.

• Canton’s core differentiator is configurable privacy with composability, meaning each participant sees only the part of a transaction it is entitled to access, while applications can still interact atomically.

• The network has attracted institutional adoption, including production and announced deployments from Broadridge, DTCC, and J.P. Morgan across repo, collateral, tokenized Treasuries, tokenized bank deposits, and payments infrastructure.

• Canton has already delivered meaningful value through privacy-preserving deployments, used at scale by institutions. Now, its 2024-launched public mainnet serves as the foundation for over 150 live or emerging applications, creating the activity base that underpins Canton Coin’s utility and economic relevance.

• Governance is exercised by more than 50 Super Validators under a two-thirds supermajority threshold. The Super Validator set spans traditional finance, crypto-native infrastructure, and ecosystem operators, with open membership and governance coordinated by the Canton Foundation.