dAppBooster Starter Kit for Canton Apps Ships as Two Hackathons Wrap Up
An open-source, wallet-agnostic toolkit backed by the Development Fund lands as Cantor8 names its London winners and HackCanton Season 3 reaches its closing ceremony.
An open-source, wallet-agnostic toolkit backed by the Development Fund lands as Cantor8 names its London winners and HackCanton Season 3 reaches its closing ceremony.
Digital Asset's Yuval Rooz opens and Foundation head Viv Diwakar closes an afternoon on institutional tokenization in Asia, a week after Canton's first forum in Seoul.
The Seoul IT group says it will work with the Foundation on institutional deals, Canton implementations and a technical partner ecosystem in Korea, alongside agreements with Circle, Securitize, Chainalysis and Chainlink.
The developer relations team's third-quarter recap lists new tools for builders, several funded by the Development Fund, while the online hackathon passes 80 teams ahead of its 9 October deadline.
Zenith says its EVM runs as an extension of Canton's core protocol, so Solidity and Daml contracts can call each other in one transaction. Kaiko's Data On-Ramp oracle is live on the testnet.
The wallet becomes Loop Wallet and the Lighthouse explorer becomes Loop Data, while Five North keeps its fund and Super Validator operations. The company says balances are untouched.
Wallets and exchanges can expose a Transfer Object that users check in a compatible explorer, showing whether a transfer succeeded without revealing its confidential details.
The OneSwap Bridge, powered by Squid Router, moves USDC, USDT, ETH and other assets from Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and five more networks into Canton Coin and back.
Five approvals in September 2026 follow the same model: a maximum weight held in escrow and earned only as each firm delivers milestones on Canton.
Left Lane Capital led the Series A. HIFI, which converts US dollars into USDCx for Canton wallets, says it handles more than $7 billion a year in volume across 87 countries.
Institutions can run their own spot, prediction or perpetual markets on a private instance of Temple's matching engine, while setting their own fees, access and compliance rules.
In a paid press release, Ekiden calls itself the first order-book-based derivatives exchange on Canton and cites testnet figures, market makers and a $2 million seed round. The claims are the company's own.