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Institutions

BOOSTRY partners with Digital Asset on corporate multi-chain wallet, Canton-first

CantonNews (August 4, 2026): Japanese digital securities firm BOOSTRY and Digital Asset announced a partnership to launch a corporate multi-chain wallet service by end-2026, with initial development focused on Canton. The wallet targets financial institutions and businesses managing digital assets across networks while connecting to existing financial systems—covering security tokens, stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies under varying regulatory requirements. BOOSTRY plans later expansion to additional chains and key-management methods and to integrate with its E-Wallet, E-Prime security-token platform, and ibet for Fin blockchain network.

Ecosystem

Temple Digital Group and RedStone bring oracle feeds to Canton commodity markets

CantonNews (August 4, 2026): Temple Digital Group partnered with RedStone to supply institutional-grade price feeds for Temple's newly launched gold and silver markets on Canton—pairing RedStone oracles (used by BUIDL, ACRED, SCOPE, and $B+ on-chain value across 110+ networks) with Temple's central limit order book. The integration supports pricing, reference data, and risk functions so commodity trading on Canton matches traditional exchange-grade market data.

Technology

IntellectEU ships CatalyX Daml Coding Assistant on VS Code Marketplace

Canton Network Forum / IntellectEU (August 4, 2026): First milestone from a Canton Foundation Development grant—CatalyX Daml Coding Assistant is live on the VS Code Marketplace, offering Daml autocompletion from a 7B model fine-tuned on real Daml code. Benchmarks and weights are published (github.com/IntellectEU/daml-fim-benchmark; huggingface.co/intellecteu/daml-fim-7b) so inference can run inside your own network without sending proprietary Daml to third-party APIs. Next grant milestones cover Daml code generation and test generation.

Institutions

1exchange approved as Canton Network validator for RWA tokenization

PR Newswire / 1exchange (August 4, 2026): Singapore-regulated real-world asset exchange 1exchange received validator approval on Canton—the privacy-enabled public blockchain built for capital markets. 1exchange will use Canton's privacy-preserving infrastructure for future tokenization, listing, and trading of RWAs with enhanced confidentiality and regulatory oversight. Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz said the move expands Canton's Asia presence and meets growing regional demand for secure, interoperable digital-asset infrastructure.

Institutions

FOMO Pay joins Canton as validator for institutional B2B payments

PR Newswire / FOMO Pay (August 4, 2026): FOMO Pay—a Singapore Major Payment Institution and the country's first Digital Payment Token licensee—received validator approval on Canton alongside a growing roster of global financial institutions. Through its validator role FOMO Pay will operate a dedicated node, gaining a private institutional gateway to transact with authorized counterparties and exploring B2B payment and settlement use cases across its multi-chain, multi-rail, multi-currency network serving Southeast Asia, Greater Bay Area, and MENA clients.

Governance

Franklin Templeton becomes largest asset manager Canton Super Validator

CantonNews / Franklin Templeton Digital Assets (August 3–4, 2026): Franklin Templeton ($1.79T AUM) announced Super Validator status on Canton—making it the largest asset manager in the role and expanding beyond Benji Technology Platform integration (November 2025) into network governance and infrastructure. CIP-0118 (approved June 10, 2026) defines milestone-based SV weight up to 5: production treasury transactions, 24/7 tokenized-fund create/redeem with on-chain cash delivery, plus volume-based weight for eligible fund flows. Franklin Templeton joins Visa and other institutions operating critical Canton consensus infrastructure.

Ecosystem

Quantstamp proposes open-source DamlCov and DamlFuzz via Canton dev fund

Canton Network Forum / Quantstamp (August 3, 2026): Quantstamp—which audits Daml/Canton applications—posted two Canton Foundation Development Fund proposals for open-source tooling gaps: DamlCov (line/branch test coverage) and DamlFuzz (property-based fuzzing for Daml contracts). The team seeks ecosystem comments on PRs canton-dev-fund#323 and #52 to demonstrate demand from projects that would use coverage in CI or fuzzing on contracts before security reviews.

Markets

Bitrue lists CC/USDT spot trading with Canton Network deposits

Bitrue / CantonNews (August 3–4, 2026): Bitrue announced CC/USDT spot trading opening August 4 at 09:00 UTC, with CC deposits enabled via Canton Network and withdrawals scheduled from August 5 at 09:00 UTC. The listing expands centralized exchange access to Canton Coin alongside venues such as OKX, Bybit, and Bitget—bridging institutional network utility with retail spot liquidity. Users need a verified Bitrue account and USDT or other base assets in the spot wallet to trade.

Technology

CC Space API adds x402 micropayments for AI agents on Canton

Canton Network Forum / ITRocket & FTP team (August 3, 2026): CC Space—the Canton explorer and production API at cc.itrocket.space—now supports x402 pay-per-request settlement in CC, brought to Canton by the FTP team. AI agents can call the API without signup or API keys, with user-set spend caps; setup via MCP wallet at ftptech.xyz/mcp, agent context at cc.itrocket.space/llms.txt, and API docs at cc.itrocket.space/api-reference.

Technology

Noders releases go-daml, open-source Go SDK for Canton Ledger API

Canton Network Forum / Noders (August 1, 2026): Noders published go-daml—an open-source Go SDK for Canton Network’s Ledger API enabling command submission, ledger queries, event streaming, and more without building a custom client. The team uses it in production for AppFactory and other Canton tooling; the repo includes documentation and unit tests, with a demo video on YouTube.