Canton Weekly News — A large asset manager joins the validator set

Franklin Templeton, a global asset manager that oversees more than $1.5 trillion, joined Canton this week as a Super Validator, so it now helps run and govern the network rather than only issuing products on it. Two more firms, the payments company FOMO Pay and Nasdaq-listed Nano Labs, were also approved to run validator nodes.

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Validators & Super Validators

Franklin Templeton joins as Canton's 56th Super Validator. Franklin Templeton, a global asset manager overseeing more than $1.5 trillion, took on a Super Validator role, the governance tier that helps run Canton's shared infrastructure and vote on its rules. It already issues its Benji tokenized money-market fund on Canton, so this moves it from using the network to helping operate it. FTF News

FOMO Pay wins validator approval as a private institutional payments gateway. FOMO Pay, a Singapore-based payments company, was approved to run a validator node on Canton, which it will operate as a private gateway for institutional business-to-business payments and settlement. The approval extends its multi-currency payments infrastructure onto Canton. Canton Network

Nano Labs approved to run a Canton validator node. Nano Labs (Nasdaq: NA), a Web3 infrastructure and chip company that also runs a crypto treasury, was approved to operate a validator node, joining an operator set that already includes Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon and Deutsche Börse. GlobeNewswireApps on Canton

Silvana launches private trading on Canton that keeps orders and balances hidden. Silvana is a trading platform on Canton that matches buy and sell orders off-chain at high speed, then settles the finished trade on the network, so traders keep control of their assets throughout. Because orders, balances and strategies are never posted publicly, a walkthrough from the company explains, it is aimed at institutions that want to trade without being front-run or copied. Silvana

Zenith settles a bridge-free swap between a Canton asset and an Ethereum-style token. A Canton user, identified only by a Canton network ID, and a counterparty on Zenith, identified only by an Ethereum-style account, swapped a Canton-native token for an ERC-20 token in a single all-or-nothing settlement, with no bridge and neither side needing access to the other's blockchain. Canton highlighted the swap, run through Zenith, an interoperability layer that connects Ethereum-style apps with Canton, as a cross-chain milestone. Canton Network

Spotlight

Meet Canton Army

This edition we're spotlighting Canton Army, an independent media and community platform focused only on the Canton Network. It exists to close an information gap: Canton is drawing growing interest from financial institutions, developers and everyday blockchain users, yet still gets little coverage from mainstream crypto and financial media.

To help close it, Canton Army publishes daily news, interviews and clear analysis of the ecosystem, while its editorial arm, Canton News, goes deeper as a reference source for the community.

It stays focused only on Canton rather than broader crypto narratives or short-term trends, runs independently of Digital Asset, the Canton Foundation and any single project, and keeps any paid content clearly separate from its reporting. It has grown organically to more than 18,000 followers on X.

Follow Canton Army on X: @CantonArmy · Read Canton News at cantonnews.org

Quick Hits

• Canton generated about $53.35 million in network fees over the past 30 days, ranking first among all blockchains and ahead of Hyperliquid, a rough gauge of how much real activity the network is carrying. CantonNews
• A widely shared crypto.news feature on Wall Street's move to put settlement on blockchains named Canton, built by Digital Asset, as the settlement layer Visa chose for its private stablecoin pilot, and pointed to the DTCC's tokenization service, built with more than 50 firms, heading toward a broader October launch. crypto.news
• HackCanton Season 2 wrapped with more than 360 builders from over 60 countries, with Rocky Exchange taking first place and Umbra and Tirai finishing second and third. CantonNews

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