Current smart contract networks face two major barriers for enterprise adoption: rigid governance and transparency models, and competition for transaction throughput. The Canton Network resolves these by allowing each application to define its own privacy, scaling, permissions, and governance while still operating within a decentralized public permissioned network.
Polyglot Canton Whitepaper
While Canton has relied on the Daml smart contract language for safety in institutional use, this whitepaper explores expanding to additional languages such as Solidity through Wasm, aiming to widen developer access, bridge DeFi with traditional finance, and support a more flexible, multi-language ecosystem.
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Canton Coin: A Responsible Approach to Digital Tokens
To enhance interoperability on the Canton Network, Digital Asset has created the technology for an optional decentralized synchronizer for the Canton Network that includes a native utility token to pay synchronizer traffic fees and that can be minted by participants that provide infrastructure or applications for the synchronizer.
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Canton Coin: A Canton-Network-native payment application
Canton Coin incentivizes application builders, users, and infrastructure providers to use the Global Synchronizer, rewarding cross-application connections to unlock the value of synchronized finance.
Canton Network Whitepaper
The Canton blockchain protocol
The Canton protocol is a blockchain protocol for linking Daml applications across participants and organizations.
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