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Ecosystem

Canborsa exits beta with expanded RWA perps, 30× leverage, and restructured points

CantonNews (June 30, 2026): Canborsa—the perpetual RWA exchange on Canton—launched out of beta with Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, and AMD tokenized equities alongside gold, Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, real estate, and crypto. Max leverage rose to 30× (max position $10,000); beta drew 6,000+ users and 10,000+ trades (~$1M volume). Points now scale with volume (1.2×–2.5× tiers) and a 3× first-deposit bonus runs through July 10. Access: app.canborsa.com.

Technology

IntellectEU releases CatalyX Package Manager 2.1 for Canton Daml distribution

CantonNews (June 29, 2026): IntellectEU shipped CatalyX Package Manager 2.1—a free web registry for discovering, publishing, and distributing Daml packages (DAR files) on Canton with private distribution, access control, version history, and audit records. Host packages on-platform or link to an institution’s own artifactory; v2.1 adds email subscriptions for package updates and simplified node onboarding without storing credentials.

Network

Canton leads all blockchains in DefiLlama 30-day revenue at $59.91M

CantonNews analysis (June 28, 2026): DefiLlama data shows Canton Network generated $59.91 million in trailing-30-day revenue—ranking first among tracked protocols and ahead of Tron ($27.1M) and Ethereum on a net revenue basis. Canton’s full-fee-burn model (traffic purchases, preapproval burns, setup burns, dust expiry, holding fees, and sender change fees) flows entirely to holders with no protocol retention. Seven-day revenue was $12.92M with $1.82M in the latest 24-hour window at publication. Metrics fluctuate with usage—verify live dashboards at defillama.com; not investment advice.

Community

Canton Foundation named platinum sponsor of WebX2026 in Tokyo

CantonNews (July 2, 2026): the Canton Foundation will sponsor WebX2026—Asia’s largest Web3 conference—at platinum level on July 13–14 at The Prince Park Tower Tokyo. The event brings together institutions, projects, investors, government officials, and media; Head of APAC Operations Thomas Chou cited ensuring Canton remains a reliable platform for institutional blockchain applications. WebX is organized annually by CoinPost since 2023.

Ecosystem

Temple Digital Group profile: $250M volume, Lightspeed engine, and Kaiko data feed

CantonNews ecosystem profile (July 2, 2026): Temple—Canton’s native exchange for CC, USDCx, and CBTC—reported $250M cumulative volume and 15M+ transactions by July 1, ranking first among 109 Featured Apps (34% of Featured App burn in the snapshot). Lightspeed (April 2026) delivers sub-second matching at 100K+ orders/sec; Virtual Orderbooks let banks and issuers configure private markets. Kaiko added Temple to institutional data feeds (May 2026); Chainlink Data Streams integrated for pricing; HIFI partnership enables bank-account funding.

Ecosystem

Nexode prediction market goes live on Canton with USDCx trader rewards

CantonNews (July 2, 2026): Nexode—an on-chain prediction market for real-world event outcomes with private positions and Canton settlement—launched on MainNet with USDCx incentives. New users earn a one-time $5 USDCx welcome reward after five trades (one per wallet, next daily payout). A weekly leaderboard splits $100 USDCx among the top five traders by notional volume (40/25/15/12/8%); wash and self-trades excluded; rewards distributed Mondays 00:00 UTC.

Ecosystem

Walley wallet adds USDCx bridge and in-app token swaps

CantonNews (July 2, 2026): Walley—the K2F Labs self-custody Canton wallet—now integrates the USDCx Bridge and supported token swaps in one interface, so users can bridge assets into Canton and swap without leaving the app. Walley supports passkey registration, existing passkeys, and recovery-phrase imports; K2F Labs says further ecosystem integrations are planned. Supported swap pairs, fees, and limits were not specified in the announcement.

Institutional

Canton blog: HIFI production payments on Canton (Quadrillions Episode 5)

Official Canton Network blog (June 30, 2026): HIFI’s payments APIs now route USDCx settlement through Canton with the same integration surface as other rails—private interbank settlement, market-maker flows, tokenized cash, and treasury movements without custom Daml or validator ops. Canton supplies subtransaction privacy; HIFI supplies fiat connectivity and compliance. Sumitomo Corporation of America cited confidential permissioned settlement; episode ties to Blockworks × Canton Quadrillions miniseries on stablecoin stack fragmentation.

Protocol

Canton blog: Logical Synchronizer Upgrades live on Mainnet (Canton 3.5)

Official Canton Network blog (June 29, 2026): Logical Synchronizer Upgrades (LSUs) are now live on Mainnet with Canton 3.5—successor synchronizer nodes run in parallel, validators switch automatically via onchain governance, and applications keep the same logical synchronizer identity without export/import cycles or coordinated outages. Canton cites four prior protocol upgrades since 2024 MainNet launch; LSUs underpin upcoming token-standard, BFT, and scaling work under CIP-0117. Legacy synchronizers remain 30 days before decommission.

Institutional

Zenith joins Progmat Tokenized JGB / on-chain repo working group

GlobeNewswire (June 24, 2026): Zenith—the EVM execution layer on Canton—joined Progmat’s Tokenized JGB / On-chain Repo Working Group under Japan’s Digital Asset Co-Creation Consortium. Members include MUFG, Mizuho, SMBC, State Street Trust, SBI Securities, Japan Exchange Group, and BlackRock Japan, studying tokenized Japanese Government Bond collateral with stablecoin cash legs for T+0, 24/7 repo. Working group kicked off May 2026; report due October 2026 with potential TJGB pilots later in 2026—targeting Japan’s ~$1.6T JGB repo market.