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Cantor8 is expanding its university initiatives to Korea. As part of @FourPillarsFP's University Research Challenge in South Korea, Cantor8 is hosting its own dedicated @CantonNetwork research track in 'Canton One'. The event begins in just one week's time, with a prize pool of some $8,000. After partnering with blockchain societies at Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Imperial College London, working with leading academic institutions in South Korea is a natural next step...

Never a dull week in the @CantonNetwork ecosystem... (1) Canton developer @digitalasset raises an additional $10 million extension round, after raising some $355 million at a $2 billion valuation earlier this year. (2) The @CantonFdn Development Fund has now allocated 46.6M $CC across 12 funded teams. (3) The Canton Network itself has now burned a cumulative total of 4.38B $CC per data from @cantonnews_org. (4) Cantor8 announces the Canton ecosystem's biggest IRL hackathon of 2026, taking place in London on August 29. (5) @Cashen_cc establishes itself as the network's leading $CC locking marketplace, with more than 285 million $CC locked across 50+ platforms. (6) Canton-based trading platform @Rocky_exchange partners with @Send, promising to integrate Send’s stablecoin infrastructure into its product.

The biggest in-person Canton hackathon of 2026 is coming to London on August 29th, hosted by @Cantor8 alongside partners at Cambridge, Oxford, and Imperial College London. A full day of building on Daml, across institutional finance, privacy-first workflows, and tokenization. Whether you're a Canton veteran or brand new to the ecosystem, this is the place to be.

The DTCC is production testing tokenized Russell 1000 stocks, ETFs and Treasuries this month. 50+ firms in the pilot, including @BlackRock, @GoldmanSachs and @jpmorgan. Full launch October. The biggest tokenization story of 2026 is being run by Wall Street's own back office. The rails are getting replaced from the inside.

The biggest in-person Canton Network hackathon of 2026 is just one month away. On August 29th, Cantor8 is hosting a major @CantonNetwork hackathon event in London, alongside partners at Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Imperial College London. The one-day builder event, will see teams from the world’s leading universities (and beyond) expand their understanding of Canton’s Daml smart contract language, and develop Canton-native applications across institutional finance, privacy-first workflows, tokenisation, and more. ​Whether you’re a seasoned Canton builder or entirely new to the ecosystem, Cantor8’s London Hackathon is an opportunity to build, learn, and enjoy. Apply now ⬇️

Featured Apps are the beating heart of the Canton ecosystem... But what makes them so important to @CantonNetwork's ongoing growth? Put bluntly, Featured Applications (FAs) are top-tier enterprise workflows and apps driving real utility for both institutional participants and Canton’s growing consumer demographic. How do applications reach this status and what has changed after the approval of CIP-0116? (1) Gaining FA Status: To gain FA status, applications must submit a proposal through the @CantonFdn’s robust governance framework. Apps are evaluated and approved by one of the ecosystem’s most important committees based on their ability to deliver genuine institutional utility and onchain activity. (2) Skin in the Game [CIP-0116]: Approval alone is no longer enough to guarantee FA status. Following the approval of CIP-0116 in May of this year, FAs must back their status by locking significant sums of $CC (for standard FAs, this is currently 5M $CC). (3) Maintenance: Falling below the locked threshold results in status revocation, ensuring that FA status remains exclusive to committed builders actively sustaining the network. By adding clear market-backed requirements, Featured Apps now make sure that Canton’s core infrastructure remains secure, active, and populated with applications bringing tangible utility to the ecosystem.

We're working on something big… Cantor8's development team is currently in the process of building a toolkit to allow programs written in the Rust programming language to communicate with @CantonNetwork's Daml ledgers. The smart contracts running on Canton are written in Daml (the language developed by @DigitalAsset) and its official tooling is built around Daml and the JVM. While Daml provides many of the advantages that make Canton so successful, it remains niche for now. Rust, meanwhile, boasts an estimated 5+ million developers worldwide and is used by several major blockchain networks, including @Solana, @StellarOrg, and @NearProtocol. This new toolkit will provide the translation layer for programs written in Rust, handling all the low-level plumbing so developers can work with Daml contracts through Rust tooling that is familiar to them.

Since February, the @CantonFdn's Protocol Development Fund has allocated 45.5M $CC. CIP-0082 allocates 5% of future Canton Coin emissions to the Development Fund. The fund supports work such as: Protocol research + development Dev tools + SDKs Reference implementations + more

We're working on something big… Cantor8's development team is currently in the process of building a toolkit to allow programs written in the Rust programming language to communicate with @CantonNetwork's Daml ledgers. The smart contracts running on Canton are written in Daml (the language developed by @DigitalAsset) and its official tooling is built around Daml and the JVM. While Daml provides many of the advantages that make Canton so successful, it remains niche for now. Rust, meanwhile, boasts an estimated 5+ million developers worldwide and is used by several major blockchain networks, including @Solana, @StellarOrg, and @NearProtocol. This new toolkit will provide the translation layer for programs written in Rust, handling all the low-level plumbing so developers can work with Daml contracts through Rust tooling that is familiar to them.

What a week for the @CantonNetwork ecosystem. Never a slow day on Canton... (1) @The_DTCC makes history, using Canton Network to settle real production trades using DTC-tokenized US Treasury and equity securities. (2) @CantonStrategic releases Q2 ecosystem report, detailing how Canton has positioned itself as "the definitive infrastructure layer for institutional capital markets". (3) The @CantonFdn's Development Fund hits 45.5M $CC allocated across 9 different teams, driving development in the ecosystem. (4) @TIME covers Cantor8's 'Cancordia' - a collaborative initiative alongside partner @Edenaofficial to bring Africa's trillion-dollar mobile money system onto Canton rails. (5) $CC delegation marketplace @Cashen_cc hits 50 platforms onboarded, cementing itself as a cornerstone of the Canton ecosystem in the wake of CIP-0116. (6) Canton generated $13.74M in network fees in the past week, and $55.21M in the past month, per DefiLlama data.

In case you missed it... @Grayscale's Head of Research, @LowBeta, recently published an article explaining how @CantonNetwork $CC is among the blockchains "best positioned to capitalize on the growth in tokenization". It's getting hard NOT to have conviction ⬇️

The Protocol Development Fund is one of the most impactful additions to the Canton Network ecosystem this year. Unveiled by The @CantonFdn in February, the Development Fund is purpose-built to drive utility and value for the network at large, and foster @CantonNetwork's burgeoning ecosystem. The fund's launch was approved officially as part of Canton's robust governance process and it has already allocated some 45.5M $CC across 9 different teams - But this is just 22% of the fund's committed capital, leaving plenty left to deploy. Even the fund's allocation process is democratic in nature, with funding proposals evaluated by an official Tech & Ops Committee, made up of member companies from across the ecosystem. [Data: @cantonnews_org]

Thank you to @TIME for the follow-up coverage of Concordia. "A major step toward Africa’s digital financial transformation... designed to connect fragmented financial systems across the continent while preserving national control over financial assets." Just the beginning. Read Now:

Thank you to @TIME for the follow-up coverage of Concordia. "A major step toward Africa’s digital financial transformation... designed to connect fragmented financial systems across the continent while preserving national control over financial assets." Just the beginning. Read Now: