Bringing Trillions Onchain 

Canton Coin (CC), the network’s native utility token, was designed to reward real network usage over speculation. It aligns the success of the network with the participants who make it work, fairly rewarding app builders and app users, as well as those operating decentralized infrastructure. The result is a fundamentally different model where rewards flow to those creating value through real activity, not only miners or early investors.

Canton’s tokenomics aim to sidestep the pitfalls seen in earlier networks:

No pre-mine, no VC allocations: Every token in circulation has been earned by delivering utility.

Burn-and-Mint equilibrium: Usage fees are burned, and new coins are minted based on participation. This keeps supply responsive to demand and ties value to network usage.

Enterprise-grade transparency: Even though transactions on Canton are private by default, reward distributions and Canton Coin fees are published, providing insight into what’s driving value without compromising privacy. 

You can learn more about Canton Coin here.

Every Canton Coin in supply is earned. It’s continuously distributed based on apps, users and infrastructure providers’ contributions to network utility. Canton Coin is also supported by a growing list of wallets, custodians and exchanges. See the official list of those services and venues. 

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The Canton wallet and custody ecosystem offers users and app providers the freedom to choose how they manage their assets or support their users - from self-custodial to fully custodial options, enterprise-grade to retail wallets, and hot or cold key storage. Every participant from the most regulated institution, to HNWI investors, and retail users, can connect and transact securely in a way that best suits their needs. App providers and new wallet, custody and exchange providers can also easily integrate through the wallet SDK. 

See the full list of wallet providers, or how to bring your solutions to Canton here.

As interest in the Canton Network grows we see common questions being asked. How does Canton stack up against networks like Solana or Avalanche? How does its approach to privacy and scalability compare? These comparisons are great opportunities to clarify what sets Canton apart. 

Let’s break it down.

 

Privacy: beyond “all or nothing”

Privacy remains one of the thorniest challenges for institutional blockchain—especially in regulated markets. The private side-chain approach (like Avalanche) or L2s force a binary choice. You are either in that subnet and see everything, or you are not and see nothing. FHE and ZKP approaches come closer, but are limited in applicability and have serious security drawbacks today that make these techniques untenable for regulated finance at scale. ZKPs make it possible to hide certain aspects of transactions such as balances on fungible tokens, but vulnerabilities continue to be exposed with high-profile bugs.

Canton introduces a more nuanced model reflecting how financial privacy actually works. Think in simple banking terms: your bank needs to see the accounts of all the customers at the bank. You need to see all your accounts across all the banks you use. That native configurability of privacy rules at scale is not possible with private sidechains. Canton enables selective visibility and the ability to program privacy at the smart contract level, ensuring parties only see what they need to see, while ensuring synchronization of state across the entire L1 and all its subnetworks. 

Interoperability: atomic by design

The real promise of blockchain isn’t just connecting chains—it’s enabling atomic transaction composition: combining actions across multiple assets and applications in one indivisible operation. Think of an atomic swap between a stablecoin and a tokenized asset via an app like a DEX or lending pool. This works on all Layer 1s with transparent, native tokens, albeit with the sacrifice of privacy. Canton does this across the entire Layer 1 network too, but with the configurable privacy mentioned before. As soon as you enter the world of regulated assets or money, other public chains point users to their subnets or privacy-focused L2s to implement privacy but sacrifice this core atomicity value in the process and relying instead on messaging bridges or custom protocols that don’t guarantee synchronous settlement, and re-introduce counterparty risk.

Scalability: monolithic vs. modular

Solana has set a high bar for performance, albeit within a monolithic architecture. Its ability to optimize for throughput on a single chain is impressive. But that monolithic model does come with trade-offs: all participants compete for the same global bandwidth, and there's an upper limit to scale.

Canton by design took a different path. It’s a modular network-of-networks, where applications and bandwidth scale horizontally. Capacity is increased with every new participant or operator that chooses to spin up a subnetwork, isolating resources while still benefiting from shared trust and interoperability. Scalability is paired with the ability for institutions to control their own destiny.

It’s the interplay that matters

Canton wasn’t created to solve a single blockchain challenge in isolation like other networks. It was purpose-built for institutions, where privacy, composability and scalability must work together—without compromise. It’s this integrated design, aligned with the operational realities of financial markets and global payments, that sets Canton apart.

How you get started as a Canton builder depends on your goals. Whether you’re a dev looking to learn the Daml smart contract language, a provider looking to bring digital assets onto the network or create your own tokenization solutions, or an experienced architect looking to build Canton applications, there’s a pathway for you. Discover different developer pathways here.

Discover different developer pathways here.

Canton Coin uses a burn–mint equilibrium model that keeps the tokenomics aligned with real network activity and long-term value creation.

The total supply of Canton Coin follows a steady, pre-defined supply curve, which means the network makes coins available to claim by participants over time in a predictable way. Network contributors are then able to continuously mint rewards for their activity, sustainably bringing Canton Coin into circulation.

New coins in circulation are not created automatically. Coins are only earned and minted by participants when they add measurable utility to the network, such as operating validator infrastructure, building and running applications, or running the decentralized Global Synchronizer software. 

When users use the network’s public infrastructure to trade, settle transactions, synchronize data, or transfer assets, fees are paid in Canton Coin. Fees are burned, permanently removing these coins from circulation. This helps offset new coins coming into circulation and maintains a healthy balance between supply and demand. 

The result is a self-regulating economic system. Minted rewards are earned in proportion to contribution, while burning reduces circulating supply as network usage increases. When activity grows quickly, more fees are burned and the system becomes slightly deflationary. When additional participation is needed, minting provides incentives that create a mild inflationary effect to support growth.

This creates a dynamic yet disciplined economy where the value of Canton Coin is aligned with real adoption. As more institutions build, transact, and settle on Canton, demand for Canton Coin increases while issuance remains linked to productive activity rather than speculation.

In short:

Canton Coin’s value is not based on artificial scarcity. It is governed by real network utility, with a steady supply curve that adjusts through minting and burning to support sustainable growth and long-term value as global finance moves on Canton.