Build real-world finance, onchain

Ship production-ready decentralized applications on institutional-grade infrastructure.

Explore the docs, connect with the community or start coding with the Daml compiler (dpm). 

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Deploy your Canton dApp in minutes

Quickstart accelerates your Canton Network development journey - guiding you from setting up your local environment to executing your first transaction.

Install Quickstart
git clone @canton-network-quickstart

Initialize project
make setup && make build && make start

Explore demo
canton deploy -- localnet.canton

Install Quickstart
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Developer Tools

Discover a wide range of powerful tools created by builders in the Canton ecosystem to help you build, test, and launch faster. 

Protocol Development Fund

The Canton Protocol Development Fund supports high-impact, community-driven contributions to the Canton Network. Designed to accelerate ecosystem growth, the fund backs core research and development, developer tooling, security enhancements, and critical infrastructure that deliver long-term value to the network. 

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Join thousands of builders

Connect with developers, contribute to the ecosystem, and help shape the future of privacy-preserving DeFi

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Insights and resources

Stay up-to-date with the latest news, updates, and resources from Canton.

There has never been a better time to build on Canton. Whilst other networks distribute all rewards to...


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The historical TradFi vs DeFi narrative represents a false choice between the controls and guardrails of...


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Canton Network is the public L1 blockchain purpose-built for institutions, uniquely providing privacy-preserving...


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On Canton, asset issuers and application providers directly participate in the network’s reward model. Monetize with a built-in continuous transaction-based revenue model at the L1 protocol level on Canton.     


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[next event] @ Apr. 25, 2026

Join developers worldwide in our biggest hackathon yet. Create groundbreaking dApps, win prizes, and shape the next era of decentralized technology. Prizes include but not limited to prize money, mentorship , incubation, featured application on the network, and so much more.

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Start your Canton journey

Access Canton through a growing ecosystem of wallets, exchanges, and custodians - or participate directly by running a validator node. Start your Canton journey today.

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Accelerate Canton apps with modular utilities

Discover Digital Asset’s Canton Network Utilities to accelerate tokenization solutions on Canton - no need to build from scratch. Build and compose real-world financial applications and launch on-chain assets combining core asset registry with pre-built workflows for collateral management, trading, settlement financing, and more. All underpinned by the Canton Token Standard.

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