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🧵 Canton Network: Wall Street’s Hidden Global Financial Operating System Over the past few days, I’ve seen more people talking about @CantonNetwork, so I dug in myself. At first, I thought it might be another overhyped RWA narrative — but the deeper I looked, the more it blew my mind. 👇 💰 1️⃣ The Funding Story — $390M in Real Money Canton raised $135M in its latest round, led by DRW Venture Capital and Tradeweb Markets. Participants include BNP Paribas, Circle Ventures, Citadel Securities, DTCC, Virtu Financial, Paxos, and more. Behind it all is Digital Asset, Canton’s parent company, with $390M+ total funding from J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, BNP Paribas, Binance YZi Labs, Polychain, etc. This isn’t “crypto hype money.” It’s Wall Street’s trust fund for the next financial backbone. 🧠 2️⃣ What Is Canton Network? Think of it as the “Global Financial Operating System.” If Windows lets multiple programs run together, Canton lets banks, exchanges, and asset managers operate on one interoperable network. TradFi systems are isolated city-states — Goldman has its own ledger, JPMorgan its own stack, BNP its own infrastructure. Canton makes them speak the same language. 💵 3️⃣ Real Adoption, Not Slides $6 trillion+ in tokenized assets already on-chain $4 trillion+ processed monthly $10 billion+ in U.S. Treasury repo trades every single day This isn’t testnet vapor — it’s live, regulated finance happening on-chain. ⚙️ 4️⃣ Key Tech Features Proof-of-Stakeholder consensus → fair institutional governance Daml smart contracts → privacy-preserving, auditable logic Selective transparency → regulators can see; competitors can’t Interoperability by design → built for real-world compliance 🔒 5️⃣ Compliance Meets Privacy Canton is a regulator-friendly L1 with privacy guarantees. It satisfies SEC, EU, and APAC requirements simultaneously — allowing permissioned data access while maintaining confidentiality. Unlike Zcash (focused on private transactions), Canton is privacy infrastructure — built for financial institutions, not anonymity seekers. 🏦 6️⃣ Why Institutions Trust It Because it balances decentralization with structured trust. As @trize_io put it: “Institutional tokenization can’t scale in public chaos — only within structured trust.” Every smart contract runs under strict governance, and every block strengthens verifiable, compliant trust. 🚀 7️⃣ How to Join Early The native $CC Token isn’t public yet, but early users can earn through ecosystem programs: @CantonWallet @AngelHack @send_app Simple on-chain tasks = early rewards. 📈 8️⃣ The Bigger Picture Canton bridges TradFi ↔ DeFi for real. It’s used by Goldman Sachs, HSBC, BNP Paribas, NASDAQ, DTCC, and even the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Synapse). This is the first blockchain that Wall Street and Hong Kong both bet on. 🧩 9️⃣ Final Thoughts Canton isn’t another “Web3 dream.” It’s the financial internet quietly forming behind the scenes. If Ethereum connected developers, Canton connects institutions. The future of RWA and tokenized finance is already here — you just haven’t been looking in the right place. 👀 #Farcaster #Cantonnetwork

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