Canton Coin (CC) is the native token of the Canton Network, a privacy-preserving smart contract platform designed for institutional use. CC is used to pay for network services such as throughput, messaging, and synchronisation. It operates on a burn-mint equilibrium model, ensuring token issuance is directly tied to real service usage. The token supports infrastructure pricing, incentivisation, and public visibility of network demand.
Canton Network is a privacy-enabled smart contract network built for regulated financial institutions and enterprise applications. It introduces a modular “network of networks” architecture, allowing independent applications to operate with their own privacy, governance, and scaling rules, while retaining the ability to interoperate through synchronised infrastructure.
Unlike global ledgers where all participants share a single replicated state, Canton enables selective state sharing. Each participant node operates its own private ledger view. When coordination is needed, cross-application workflows are synchronised using encrypted messaging through independently operated sync domains.
Key technical components include:
* Daml smart contracts – enable fine-grained permissioning and data confidentiality
* Participant nodes – run per institution or application, holding only relevant ledger state
* Sync domains – provide time-ordered encrypted messaging across nodes
* Global Synchronizer – a public sync domain operated by Super Validators, allowing decentralised, time-ordered, interoperable messaging
The ledger model supports sub-transaction privacy, deterministic transaction resolution, and compliance with jurisdiction-specific requirements, making the network suitable for asset tokenisation, financial market infrastructure, and real-world data coordination.
