Confidential DLT

Canton Network
Confidential Enterprise Blockchain

Decentralized and interoperable DLT infrastructure, enabling institutions to execute complex smart contracts while ensuring absolute data privacy.

Bank-oriented platform, featuring native privacy via UTxO (Causal) and seamless interoperability through Daml smart contracts.

Privacy Model Institutional Pricing

The Canton Promise

Solving the institutional trilemma: offering the universal reconciliation of a public blockchain with the privacy of a private database.

Native Privacy
Unlike Ethereum, transaction data on Canton is only shared between explicitly designated stakeholders in the Daml smart contract.
Global Interoperability
The Global Synchronizer allows private bank networks (Subnets) to transact atomically with each other without risky bridging.
Daml Smart Contracts
A language designed specifically for finance, ensuring deterministic execution and naturally modeling legal rights and obligations.

Execution Model & Privacy Guarantees

A rigorous approach to data segmentation for financial markets.

Visibility Segmentation
Only nodes participating in a contract see its state. Other nodes, including global validators, only see cryptographic hashes.
Deterministic Finality
The Canton model mathematically guarantees immediate finality without possibility of forks, essential for high-value asset settlement.
Notary Model
A decentralized notary service ensures ordering and prevents double-spending without having access to transaction content.

Canton Architecture & Privacy Views

Strict isolation: only authorized Participant Nodes access the contract payload.

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Governance & Networks

Each institution manages its own participant node, ensuring full sovereignty over data and local compliance.

In Summary: Canton for CIOs

Canton offers the **composability** of public networks with the **privacy** of private databases. It is the ideal infrastructure for interoperability between sovereign banking sub-networks.

Institutional Ecosystem & Use Cases

The Canton Network is supported by some of the world's largest financial market participants.

Digital Asset Holdings
The founding company of Canton and Daml, backed by JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and others to create the global interbank DLT backbone.
  • Creator of the Daml protocol
Deutsche Börse (D7 Platform)
Use of the underlying Canton/Daml layer to anchor its D7 cloud platform for asset issuance and financial products.
  • National Infrastructure
DCM Digital Integration
DCM Digital consolidates auditing and risk assessment (MRM) on Canton by extracting logs from Synchronizer Nodes.
  • Governance Audit
Evaluate Canton via Risk Engine
Hashnote USYC
Institutional-grade Treasury yield strategy deployed as a primary settlement asset on the Canton Network.
  • Settlement Asset
View USYC Strategy

See also:

SWIAT (Asset Settlement Network)

*Compared to SWIAT, Canton prioritizes contractual composability rather than central bank synchronized DvP.*