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Ecosystem

Tradecraft reports more than $3 million in Canton TVL

CantonNews (September 4, 2026): Tradecraft has reported that total value locked across its Canton liquidity pools has passed $3 million, covering combined value held across pools without a pool-by-pool breakdown in the announcement. Tradecraft is a live exchange on Canton where users trade supported assets or provide liquidity supplying assets needed for swaps. Liquidity providers add asset pairs to pools, receive tokens representing their share, and can earn a portion of fees from trading activity. The platform uses Pool Addresses to direct wallet requests to the correct action—users send asset transfer offers to relevant addresses and Tradecraft handles the operation and return transfer together; if the process cannot complete, the original offer remains until expiry. TVL measures value sitting in pools at a given moment as a snapshot of liquidity available to support trading, while volume tracks completed trades over time. Passing $3 million marks a new company-reported milestone for one of Canton's live trading applications.

Ecosystem

Rocky Wallet plans support for Hecto assets on Canton

CantonNews (September 4, 2026): Rocky has announced plans to connect its Canton browser wallet with Hecto in two parts: Rocky Wallet will support assets from across the Hecto ecosystem, while Hecto's products will add Rocky Wallet as a supported connection. Users would manage supported Hecto assets through Rocky Wallet and use the same wallet when accessing compatible Hecto products, shortening the path between holding an asset and using services built around it. Rocky Wallet is a non-custodial Chrome extension for Canton letting users view assets, send and receive transfers, review incoming offers, and approve requests from compatible applications—all approvals remain inside the wallet. Hecto is a Canton asset issuer focused on the pre-IPO economy with Predictions, PMX, and Vaults covering market signals, tokenized private-market exposure, and access for eligible participants. Rocky plans to share further technical details and launch timing later.

Technology

Five North launches paid plans for Lighthouse API

CantonNews (September 4, 2026): Five North has launched paid plans for the Lighthouse API alongside its continuing free tier, offering five levels of API access from a free plan for smaller projects to a custom enterprise tier; the explorer remains included with every plan. The free plan supports up to two requests per second and 3,000 API calls daily. Starter costs $49/month for up to 10 requests per second and 50,000 daily calls; Growth costs $399/month for up to 25 requests per second and 300,000 daily calls; Scale costs $999/month for up to 50 requests per second and 1.5 million daily calls; Enterprise pricing and capacity are arranged separately. Teams compare plans and manage subscriptions by logging in with a Loop wallet. New rates take effect September 15, 2026; existing users default to the free tier—free-plan users must generate a Free-plan API key while paid-plan teams can continue using existing keys with new limits applied.

Technology

Alpend completes major protocol upgrade on Canton

CantonNews (September 4, 2026): Alpend has completed a major upgrade to its Canton-based money market combining multiparty hosting from Canton Loop, distributed protocol controls via BitSafe's Decentralization Manager across independent Canton nodes, and a Halborn-audited smart contract codebase. Supply limits that had prevented additional deposits in some markets have been raised, though deposits still depend on available capacity in each market. Users must migrate positions to the upgraded contracts; completing migration starts Ascent 2 rewards with a 4% bonus APY for CC and 8% bonus APY for USDCx on top of underlying lending yield. Alpend closed Ascent 1 and took a snapshot of all CC incentives earned during the first phase, with claims expected to open within a week of the September 3 upgrade. Alpend continues gated access as it expands the protocol.

Tokenization

eesee outlines plans for a connected financial hub on Canton

CantonNews (September 4, 2026): eesee has outlined plans to build a connected financial hub on Canton bringing launchpad access, portfolio tracking, and vaults into one experience—what the company calls a SuperDapp. The roadmap builds on an existing launchpad that has supported 91 launches and helped projects raise more than $10.9 million. Under the plan, the launchpad remains the entry point for new assets; portfolio tracking would give users a single view of holdings while vaults would provide ways to use eligible assets through the platform—all intended to work as one connected experience where someone receiving an asset through a launch can follow it and explore opportunities without moving between separate products. Canton's privacy and permissioning model allows applications to connect while limiting transaction details to parties that need to see them. Portfolio tracking and vaults remain on the roadmap with release timing still to be announced.

Governance

Canton Development Fund pays 9.37 million CC across eight milestones

CantonNews (September 4, 2026): The Canton Development Fund has paid 9,368,809 CC across eight completed milestones covering application rewards, token support, wallet infrastructure, testing, developer tools, and governance. Each milestone record was closed after an official payment link was posted; the 9.37 million CC covers payment stages within grants that had already been approved, showing listed work progressed from funding decisions to completed milestones. Together, the payments span several parts of Canton's development stack from application rewards to wallets, testing tools, and network governance.

Institutions

Canton approves 15 validator operators as 25 more enter review

CantonNews (September 3, 2026): Canton approved 15 organizations from its latest validator review—3ERA Limited, Aurelis, BOOSTRY Co., Ltd., Coil Labs, Cumberland Applications LLC, Diviko AG, Estora Capital, Obsidian Labs, Ones, OneSource, Radius Research Inc., RigSec Technology Limited, Techmonk, Tinkerrer Apps LLP, and Vstrike Bonds Ventures—allowing them to begin preparing validator infrastructure across development and testing environments. Applications span Japanese financial-institution wallet solutions (BOOSTRY), securities lending with DTC-tokenized assets (Cumberland Applications), payments, custody, tokenized gold and real estate, trading, enterprise software, and blockchain infrastructure. Approval does not place operators directly on MainNet; each requires a separate allocation, with up to 50 validators processed weekly on Wednesdays and priority for projects with functioning DevNet or TestNet products. A new group of 25 applications from Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Poland, the UK, and the US—including BLOSAFE, BTCS, InfraDAO, and OpenReserve—entered public review until September 9; absent concerns, they will be treated as implicitly approved. Prive Market from the prior 16-applicant batch was not included in this approval notice.

Ecosystem

Temple Digital Group and HIFI partner to enable direct bank-to-Canton funding and settlement

CantonNews (September 3, 2026): Temple Digital Group has partnered with HIFI to enable direct US dollar funding and withdrawal from bank accounts into Canton Network wallets, allowing clients to deposit dollars, trade on Temple, and settle on Canton without leaving the platform. Starting the week after the announcement, Temple users can open a USD account inside the platform, deposit from their bank, and have dollars automatically converted to USDCx and delivered to their Canton wallet through HIFI's infrastructure; withdrawals reverse the flow with USDCx converting back to US dollars in a supported bank account, operating 24/7. HIFI processes more than $6 billion in annualised volume across 150 countries, serving clients from Fortune 100 companies to fintech startups. Temple approaches $250 million in total trading volume and accounts for more than 40% of all Canton Network traffic burned; the integration removes a friction point that previously required users to handle stablecoin conversion separately before trading. Evan Varsamis, CEO of Temple Digital Group, called dollar-to-stablecoin infrastructure critical for growing institutional solutions on Canton; HIFI CEO Zach Walsh said moving dollars from bank accounts to onchain and back should be effortless.

Technology

DSRV deploys Canton for ITCEN Group café payments linked to corporate ERP

Asia Business Daily / DSRV (September 3, 2026): DSRV has implemented Canton Network for payments at ITCEN Group's in-house Café de CEN, connecting the CafedeCEN mobile ordering app—operating since January 2025—with the company's Enterprise Resource Planning system so order, payment, and settlement data flows in real time. DSRV described the deployment as the first case in Korea of Canton applied to an actual corporate operating system rather than verification or testing alone. DSRV built and operates the Canton-based stack, providing implementation consulting, node operation, Node-as-a-Service, custom enterprise applications, corporate wallets, and custody integration. An ITCEN Group representative said linking blockchain payments with ERP makes the model usable in real work rather than simple payments alone; DSRV co-CEO Byungyun Seo said the project validates every step from building to operating Canton in live payment workflows and that DSRV will provide infrastructure so companies considering Canton adoption can proceed from business planning to commercialization. DSRV plans to expand beyond B2B payments into tokenized securities and real-world assets based on the operational experience.

Institutions

HashKey joins DTCC tokenization working group as first Asian digital asset provider

CantonNews (September 2, 2026): HashKey Group has joined DTCC's Digital Assets Advisory Services Industry Working Group as its first Asian digital asset service provider, bringing Asia-Pacific regulatory and operational experience to global tokenization standards discussions ahead of DTCC's planned October 2026 commercial launch. The Hong Kong-based firm joins more than 100 financial institutions, asset managers, and digital asset companies—including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, and the New York Stock Exchange—across digital asset trading, asset management, and on-chain infrastructure spanning Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Bermuda. HashKey has supported tokenized money market ETFs, bonds, and notes in Hong Kong since 2023, including participation in the HKMA's Project Ensemble Architecture Community and the Tokenised Bond Expert Group. The working group focuses on how tokenized securities can be issued, transferred, settled, and safeguarded within existing global capital markets infrastructure; DTCC's approach creates tokenized representations of eligible securities already held at DTC rather than moving underlying assets outside established custody. DTCC completed its first production-environment transactions on July 15 across private Hyperledger Besu and Canton Network, involving Microsoft and Circle shares, Invesco QQQ, SPDR S&P 500 ETF, and a BlackRock Treasury ETF; DTC held more than $114 trillion in securities assets as of 2025. HashKey's participation does not represent regulatory approval, DTC membership, or a commercial agreement with DTCC.