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Primus Labs and HashCloak seek Canton Development Fund backing for private-data proofs

CantonNews (October 2, 2026): Primus Labs and HashCloak have requested 1,303,500 CC from the Canton Development Fund for a 14-week project to verify facts drawn from private web data without exposing the underlying information. A Canton application would check a cryptographic proof instead of receiving raw data—supporting financial or identity checks where confidentiality must hold. HashCloak would build verification tooling; Primus would connect it to its existing proof-generation stack, with an example showing developers how to consume results on Canton. The teams previously collaborated on private-data verification for Aztec; this submission is a separate Canton funding request with its own milestones and open-source deliverables. The proposal remains open and is not yet approved; nothing is live on MainNet.

Technology

Canal applies for Featured App status after controlled iSOL MainNet pilot

CantonNews (October 2, 2026): Canal has applied for Canton Featured App status with iSOL—a SOL-backed asset—as its first working product. ICE Labs is building cross-network asset bridges; the application describes at least 14 days of controlled MainNet pilot covering SOL deposits, iSOL issuance, and redemption, with redemption complete only when underlying SOL reaches the destination wallet on Solana. Rocky wallet connectivity and related flows are listed as supported; broader commercial use is targeted for mid-to-late October 2026 subject to Featured App activation and partner readiness. Canal’s site still labels iSOL in development with demo reserve figures; approval and reward-integration testing remain outstanding. Future roadmap items such as cBNB and yield-bearing SOL products are separate and not established as available.

Markets

CanTra seeks Featured App status for art-linked digital securities on Canton

CantonNews (October 2, 2026): CanTra has applied for Featured App status ahead of a digital security linked to Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer (1963), with a planned minimum investment of €100 for eligible retail, professional, and qualified investors after KYC and eligibility review. CanTra operates as a tied agent of BaFin-regulated Black Manta Capital Partners within the ARTEX ecosystem covering origination, issuance, and secondary infrastructure. Canton is intended to host wallets, subscriptions, allocations, transfers, and settlement with private holdings and authorized oversight; future plans include CC-denominated purchases. The offering page lists October 8 as a tentative close while the Featured App application schedules security creation and transfer for October 29—dates remain plans, not confirmation of issuance. C7 and 7RIDGE support the request; approval is not confirmed.

Ecosystem

HackCanton Season 3 reaches 85 teams as six projects enter judging

CantonNews (October 2, 2026): AppsFactory’s update recorded 85 teams, 44 projects, six submitted for judging, and 67 build diaries as HackCanton Season 3 approaches the October 9 submission deadline—completed submissions rose from four to six between October 1 and 2. Fourteen projects uploaded materials, but upload alone does not finalize entry. A cross-track 10,000 CC Grofty wallet bounty rewards end-to-end MainNet onboarding experiences, with judging October 10–18, finalists October 19, and the Grand Final October 21.

Institutions

Viv Diwakar brings Canton connected-market case to Korea STO Summit

CantonNews (October 2, 2026): Canton Foundation president Viv Diwakar presented at the Edaily Global STO Summit at the Korea Exchange in Seoul on moving collateral and settling transactions around the clock while institutions retain risk, privacy, and data controls—using atomic settlement where either both legs complete or neither does. A hypothetical Korean money market fund collateral example illustrated cross-network utility without redeeming first; it was illustrative rather than an announced product. The talk followed Diwakar’s September 30 Korea Blockchain Week keynote on connected markets.

Institutions

Zenith hosts Seoul Table lunch with Korean banks and securities firms

CantonNews (October 2, 2026): Zenith co-hosted Seoul Table during Korea Blockchain Week with Kaiko, Utila, and Happyblock, convening Woori Bank, Mirae Asset Securities, Kyobo Life and Securities, Meritz, LS Securities, iM Bank, Shin & Kim, Deloitte Korea, Bithumb, and others to discuss tokenization, digital assets, and regulated-market infrastructure. Zenith operates as a Canton Super Validator building EVM tooling atop Canton financial rails. The recap described institutional dialogue rather than signed partnerships or new deployments.

Markets

Ekiden passes $5 million cumulative MainNet volume on Canton

CantonNews (October 2, 2026): Ekiden reported $5,865,560 cumulative MainNet trading volume while access remains invite-only following a controlled rollout from testnet leaderboard participants. Volume measures completed trades, not deposits. October 1 gold (XAU/USDCx) and silver (XAG/USDCx) markets trade on a New York-hours schedule with a 2× XP multiplier during the closed phase; further asset classes are planned without announced dates.

Institutions

Lloyds and Visa settle $750,000 in live USDC cross-border pilot using Canton node

The Block (October 1, 2026): Lloyds Banking Group and Visa completed a seven-day live pilot settling $750,000 of payment obligations with USDC—the first stablecoin settlement trial between Visa and a major UK banking group, Lloyds said. Lloyds purchased USDC through UK-regulated exchange Archax, booked the volume through its Corporate Markets branch in Jersey, and transferred settlement funds to Visa in the United States. Funds reached Visa in under an hour, including over a weekend, while traditional cross-border settlement can take a day or more outside banking hours. The test covered inter-institution settlement rather than retail customer payments. Lloyds operated its own node on Canton Network, using configurable privacy features, while Visa supported settlement on a separate public blockchain—highlighting cross-network interoperability alongside Visa’s broader multi-chain stablecoin settlement program.

Institutions

SBI DigiTrust, NICE and DSRV test Japan–Korea stablecoin QR travel payments

DigitalToday / SBI Group (October 1, 2026): SBI DigiTrust signed a tripartite MOU with South Korea’s NICE Information & Telecommunication and blockchain infrastructure firm DSRV on September 30 to verify stablecoin-based remittances and QR retail payments between Japan and South Korea, targeting completion by end-December 2026. The scenario focuses on Japanese tourists paying at NICE-affiliated merchants in Korea via QR codes, with work covering fund flows from Japanese users to Korean merchants, payment instructions, and system integration. NICE brings a merchant network spanning roughly 1.2 million outlets; DSRV leads technical design including node and RPC infrastructure. Partners have not named a stablecoin, blockchain, or commercial launch date—the exercise is feasibility testing, distinct from SBI’s separate Canton-based Project Musubi institutional settlement work with Nodeinfra announced in August.

Ecosystem

CCView publishes September 2026 Canton Pulse network and tokenomics recap

Canton Network Forum (October 2, 2026): CCView shared September’s Canton Pulse—a monthly recap of network activity, Canton Coin economics, and governance developments, with underlying metrics also available on CCView’s operational dashboard (traffic usage, burn-mint equilibrium, and related market data). The September 2026 report highlights roughly 35.0 million transactions, multiple CIP activations including CIP-0056 and CIP-0105 implementations, and several proposals moving through vote during the month. The forum post links the full written report at ccview.io/reports/september-2026 for readers who want month-over-month context on validators, featured apps, and tokenomics trends rather than day-by-day headlines alone.