Digital Asset raised $355M to speed up Canton’s market infrastructure push.
Canton kept shipping. Required MainNet validator upgrades and LSU improvements rolled out on schedule with zero downtime, giving institutions the always-on reliability they need to move serious volume onto the network.
Institutions are active. Canton now tops blockchain fee rankings with $60.2M in trailing 30‑day fees (to Jun 26), ahead of Tron ($27.6M) and Ethereum ($11.3M) per DefiLlama.
CBTC transactions hit 2,188,952 in June, up ~54% MoM.
EDX: CBTC’s first centralized exchange listing is coming to EDX, the institution-only venue backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab, putting CBTC in front of major Wall Street trading desks.
Send‑it: CBTC trading is coming to Send‑it, with CantonWallet and PoolParty’s DEX integrations signed and liquidity to follow.
Walley: USDC bridge is live (Jun 10) and PartyLayer integration announced (Jun 16); making the movement of funds on Canton much smoother in the ecosystem.
Across the Canton ecosystem
Digital Asset’s $355M raise. More fuel for tokenization, always‑on settlement, and the core stack institutions care about. Read the announcement.
Quiet reliability. Validators and operators completed required upgrades on schedule, with the network evolving without fuss. See the forum announcements and the upgrade recap.
Signals from outside. Canton now leads all blockchains in trailing 30‑day fees ($60.2M to Jun 26, versus Tron at $27.6M and Ethereum at $11.3M, per DefiLlama), a useful third‑party read on real institutional usage. Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz called it the highest fees of any institutional blockchain network. Read the coverage.
DTCC tokenization goes live in July. DTCC will run its first limited production trades of tokenized real‑world assets (Russell 1000 equities, ETFs, and US Treasuries) on Canton in July, with a full launch targeted for October and 50+ firms involved including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan. One to watch next month. Read the DTCC announcement.
Mastercard taps Canton for always‑on settlement. Mastercard is adding Canton to support stablecoin settlement across intraday, weekend, and holiday windows, extending its 24/7 settlement framework to regulated institutions. Read more.
On the network
A short recurring beat on what is shipping across Canton and what is coming next.
Onchain repo settles on Canton. HIFI, DRW, and Marex completed an onchain repurchase transaction on Canton, with HIFI providing the cash leg against US Treasuries supplied by DRW and Marex acting as prime broker. A real institutional money‑market flow running on the network.
Ongoing upgrade cadence. MainNet validator updates and Logical Synchronizer upgrades continue to land smoothly, letting Canton evolve the protocol without pausing transactions.
Read: Canton quietly upgrades and the forum announcements
Decentralization Manager. BitSafe’s open‑source framework for standing up your own Decentralized Party with threshold governance. It moves into public beta soon. We are not putting a date on it just yet, but if you want to be first in line we will let you know the moment it goes live.
CBTC on Canton: June 2026
Most activity on Canton is private by design, but CBTC is one of the few places where on-chain usage is public, so here is what June looked like.
Full highlight: CBTC on Canton: Highlight Update (June 2026)
New places to use CBTC
EDX: CBTC is coming to EDX, its first listing on a centralized exchange. EDX is the institution-only venue backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab, so this puts CBTC in front of major Wall Street trading desks.
Send‑it: CBTC trading is coming to Send‑it. Integrations are signed with CantonWallet and PoolParty’s DEX, with liquidity to follow. Watch this space!
Walley: USDC bridge now live (Jun 10) and a PartyLayer integration announced (Jun 16), making the movement of funds on Canton much smoother. Not CBTC‑specific, but useful infrastructure for on‑chain flows.
The signal
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