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Ecosystem

Canton reaches 908,000 transacting parties in The Tie’s data

CantonNews (October 1, 2026): Canton has reached 908,000 distinct parties that have made a transaction, up from 20,000 a year earlier in The Tie’s latest data. That is more than 45 times the earlier count, an increase of about 888,000. The September 30 update tracks parties that have ever transacted, giving a cumulative measure of participation over the network’s history. The distinction matters when reading the chart. A party is an identifier used on Canton, so this is a count of transacting parties rather than verified individual people. It also measures participation over time, rather than how many parties were active on a particular day. On that basis, the figures show a substantial expansion in the set of parties with recorded transaction activity over the past year. See The Tie’s chart and comparison.

Markets

Canborsa adds clearer market data and trade controls

CantonNews (October 1, 2026): Canborsa has updated its trading interface with more market information and clearer controls when opening a position. The market selector now displays live prices and 24-hour changes. Markets can be viewed by 30-day trading volume, with popular markets pinned at the top by default. Users can also keep a favourites list that follows them across devices. The trade-entry process has changed too. Users can select their collateral when opening a trade and see a US dollar equivalent in the amount field. A new collateral column in the trading tables makes that information visible when reviewing positions. Together, the changes bring market selection, trade sizing and collateral information into the same trading experience. They focus on everyday tasks: finding a market, checking its recent movement and reviewing…

Governance

Console, Cantex and OneSwap receive Canton settlement recognition

CantonNews (October 1, 2026): Console, Cantex and Sats Terminal/OneSwap have received delivery-versus-payment recognition from Canton’s Tokenomics group, following recommendations from the Featured App Accountability Committee. Delivery versus payment means the assets being exchanged settle together. One side of a qualifying trade cannot complete independently of the other. The decision determines how Featured Assets can count qualifying activity for Canton rewards. Multi-asset trades covered by the approved requests can use the delivery-versus-payment classification instead of the default treatment for operational batches. The venues’ existing Featured App status remains unchanged. The approval concerns the reward treatment of eligible transactions on those venues. Read the September 30 Tokenomics decision.

Institutions

Seoul forum brings Korean institutions together around Canton plans

CantonNews (October 1, 2026): Shinhan Asset Management, Mirae Asset Securities, KB Securities, Franklin Templeton and Fidelity were among the institutions represented at a private Canton-focused forum in Seoul. Shinhan’s chief digital officer and new business team took part. In a discussion with Nodeinfra, the firm outlined a long-term Canton strategy covering Super Validator participation, tokenization of Korean assets and connections to global institutional markets. The sessions examined the practical work behind those plans. Tiger Research covered preparations for Korea’s February 2027 token-securities framework. IBM addressed security, access permissions and integration with existing financial systems. Noves CEO Ben Roy focused on turning Canton transaction data into records suitable for operations, reporting, audits and…

Technology

Kintsu previews lending and CC staking for its Canton private beta

CantonNews (October 1, 2026): Kintsu has previewed the lending and CC staking features planned for its first private beta on Canton. The opening wave will give participants hands-on access and invite feedback before wider availability. Users will be able to supply USDC to a lending market where borrowers pledge Canton Coin as collateral. Before committing funds, they can review the displayed supply rate and select an amount. Borrowers will add CC as collateral, choose how much USDC to borrow and review the effect on their position’s health before confirming. That puts the loan amount and its impact in the same decision process. The beta also includes a CC staking request flow, where participants choose an amount and submit their request. Further details on that feature are still to come. The first wave is intended to test and refine…

Markets

SBI VC Trade offers Canton Coin rebates on recurring purchases

CantonNews (October 1, 2026): SBI VC Trade has included Canton Coin in a recurring-purchase rebate campaign running from October 1 to December 15. XDC and Zipangcoin are also eligible. The campaign returns the calculated spread cost in the cryptocurrency purchased. For eligible Canton Coin purchases, the reward is paid in Canton Coin. Credits are scheduled for late December through mid-January 2027. Customers must register through their VCTRADE account, complete eligible recurring purchases during the campaign and keep the relevant purchase setting active at the end of the period. The offer applies to VCTRADE, rather than the separate BITPOINT service. SBI’s recurring-purchase service supports daily, weekly or monthly purchases starting at ¥500. The rebate arrives after purchase. Its yen value can change with the token’s price, so the…

Markets

Temple passes $1 billion in trading volume on Canton

CantonNews (October 1, 2026): Temple’s trading engine has processed more than $1 billion in volume on Canton, reaching the milestone on September 30. The figure measures the value of trades processed over time. It gives a cumulative view of activity, separate from daily trading volume or the value of assets deposited on the platform. The milestone follows Lightspeed 2.0, an upgrade released the previous week. Temple’s matching engine, which pairs buy and sell orders, now has capacity for more than 85 million orders a day and an order-matching time of 3.6 milliseconds. Its stated settlement capacity is 29 times the previous level. Those figures describe what the upgraded system can handle. The billion-dollar milestone measures trading already processed. Temple plans to use the extra capacity to bring more assets, liquidity and trading…

Technology

C7 launches a searchable directory of Canton organisations

CantonNews (October 1, 2026): C7 has launched a public Canton Network Directory, giving users a way to look up organisations and the Party IDs they use on the network. No login is required. Visitors can search by organisation name, web domain or Party ID, then narrow the results by credential status, network role or service. That makes it easier to move from an unfamiliar identifier to an organisation’s directory entry. The directory is part of 7TRUST, C7’s credential service for Canton. Its domain-verification process asks an organisation to prove control of a web domain, then links that domain to its Party ID through an on-chain credential. Entries distinguish between listed organisations and those with DNS verification. The status is important: a directory listing and a verified domain are different levels of information.…

Governance

Mirae Asset Securities among 60 approved Canton validator operators

CantonNews (October 1, 2026): Mirae Asset Securities is among 60 organisations approved to operate Canton validators in the September 30 batch. Ankr Labs and Coin Vesting, which operates as Rome Protocol, are also included. Mirae Asset Securities’ application sets out plans to participate directly in Canton infrastructure and support institutional activity on the network. Its inclusion advances the application to the approved stage. MainNet access comes next through a separate allocation process. The approval notice sets capacity at 50 validators a week, with allocations processed on Wednesdays. Projects with working builds ready to move from development or testing into production receive priority. Operators then complete network access checks and coordinate onboarding with their Super Validator sponsor. They can run their own…

Ecosystem

CantonNews analysis ties LSEG, Korea, Temple volume, and app growth into one institutional picture

CantonNews (September 30, 2026): An editorial roundup connects recent Canton milestones—LSEG deepening Super Validator and Digital Settlement House work, Shinhan Financial Group’s Korea expansion, Hong Kong tokenized-finance examples, Temple’s post–Lightspeed 2.0 trading activity, and growth across Cantex, Alpend, Edel, wallets, and trading venues—arguing that institutional rails and on-chain application usage are beginning to reinforce one another on a single network rather than as isolated pilots.