Canton Improvement Proposals (CIPs)
CIPs are the formal mechanism for proposing changes to the Canton Network. They cover governance, tokenomics, technical standards, and process. The official repository is maintained by the Canton Foundation.
Community discussion (cip-discuss)
Latest threads from the public mailing list where CIPs are debated before votes. Titles link to each topic; the list updates when this site is rebuilt.
- Amend CIP-0104 to align with Featured App Guidance 2.0b
- Öne Çıkan Uygulama Kılavuzu 2.0b ile uyumlu hale getirmek için CIP-0104'ü değiştirin
- SV Governance CIPs
- CIP-0127: FA and SV locking implementation
- CIP-0129: Universal Burn and Synchronizer Pricing
- Featured App locking after tokenomics review: a 30-day lock window before governance
- CIP-TBD: Universal Burn and Synchronizer Pricing f/back
- CIP-0056 Revision: Request for Sponsorship and Endorsement
- CIP-0128: Remove IP Whitelists from the Global Synchronizer - Martin Florian
- CIP-0127: FA ve SV kilitleme uygulaması
- CIP-TBD - Canton NFT Profile on CIP-0112 Token Standard V2
- CIP-TBD - Canton Standard Credentials and DIDs.
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Official CIP repository on GitHub ↗
CIP stats
110+ CIPs published
30+ contributors
4 categories: Governance, Tokenomics, Standards Track, Process
Key CIPs to know
| CIP | Title | Type | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIP-0000 | CIP Process | Process | Active | Defines how CIPs are submitted, reviewed, and approved. |
| CIP-0056 | Canton Token Standard | Standards | Final | UTXO-based token model — Holdings, Instruments, and standard APIs for all CIP-56 compliant tokens. |
| CIP-0042 | Stable Price per CC Transfer | Governance | Active | Mechanism for stable synchronizer fees denominated per Canton Coin transfer. |
| CIP-0078 | Canton Coin Fee Removal | Tokenomics | Final | Removed CC transfer fees to encourage adoption and usage. |
| CIP-0082 | 5% Development Fund | Governance | Approved | Establishes a Foundation-governed development fund from 5% of network rewards. |
| CIP-0086 | ERC-20 Middleware | Tokenomics | Approved | ERC-20 compatibility layer and distributed indexer for Canton Network. |
| CIP-0089 | Migration to Canton 3.4 | Standards | Approved | Synchronizer migration with downtime to Splice 0.5.0 / Canton 3.4. |
| CIP-0103 | dApp Standard | Standards | Approved | Standard for building decentralized applications on Canton. |
| CIP-0105 | SV Locking Framework | Tokenomics | Approved | Voluntary locking of SV rewards with 365-day vesting, increasing governance weight. |
| CIP-0107 | 24h Submission Delay | Standards | Final | 24-hour submission delay between prepare and execute for all CC end-user token-standard operations via ExternalPartyConfigState (final 2026-06-30; approved 2026-03-10). |
| CIP-0112 | Token Standard V2 | Standards | Approved | Canton Network Token Standard V2—privacy, performance, and traditional-accounting improvements for TradFi/DeFi interoperability; backward-compatible evolution of CIP-0056 (approved 2026-06-12). |
| CIP-0119 | Free Transfer-Preapproval Base Duration | Tokenomics | Approved | Introduces a 90-day free base duration for transfer preapprovals—creation or renewal within that window costs only traffic (including free base traffic), easing exchange onboarding after CIP-0096 removed validator liveness rewards (approved 2026-06-15). |
| CIP-0114 | Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) SV Program | Tokenomics | Approved | Time-bound SV program for purpose-built public treasury companies that hold CC long-term; quarterly reviews, high AUM bar, weight up to 20 with staged release (approved 2026-04-16). |
Super Validator onboarding CIPs
A large share of CIPs are governance proposals to add new Super Validators. Notable recent additions:
- CIP-0041 · Circle (Weight 10)
- CIP-0061 · Chainlink (Weight 7.5)
- CIP-0065 · LayerZero, Wormhole, Chainlink (Weight 3 each)
- CIP-0069 · Ledger (Weight 5)
- CIP-0081 · YZi Labs (Weight 10)
- CIP-0083 · DTCC
- CIP-0097 · Nasdaq
- CIP-0109 · Visa
- CIP-0110 · Apollo (Weight 7)
- CIP-0113 · Further Asset Mgmt (Weight 8)
- CIP-0118 · Franklin Templeton (Weight up to 5, milestone-based)