📄 The DecParty Whitepaper is live. DecParty provides a generalized governance layer for the Canton Network: a way to distribute trust and decision-making across independent parties without sacrificing privacy, finality, or operational efficiency. 🧩 Read and download 👇 blog.bitsafe.finance/p/meet-… 🔗

On June 9 we co-hosted Canton Café with the @CantonFdn & @Noves_fi in New York, a private coffee reception for the operators and institutions building on Canton. The ecosystem grows in rooms like this. More to come.

🚨 DIGITAL ASSET FINALIZES A $355M SERIES F 🚨 @DigitalAsset, the company developing the @CantonNetwork, has raised $355 million in a new funding round led by @a16zcrypto.  The round was supported by a range of institutions across TradFi and DeFi, including an Abu Dhabi Investment Authority subsidiary, Apollo Funds, BNP Paribas, Broadridge, Citadel Securities, CME Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Greenwulf Asset Management, Hanwha Investment & Securities, HSBC, Liberty City Ventures, Optiver, Polychain, S&P Global, SBI Group, SoFi, Tradeweb, and William Blair, among others.  Zth.

Almost 12 years ago, I left @DRWTrading with @wesarn_real to start @digitalasset. @ShaulKfir joined us shortly after. The name felt right. The idea was simple but audacious: build a global settlement system that is asset agnostic. One that doesn’t eliminate banks, exchanges, and intermediaries, but tears down the barriers keeping people from accessing assets and settling at a fraction of today’s cost. A new financial world, built for the end consumer. We knew institutional adoption was the path. We just didn’t know how long it would take. We failed. We made bad decisions. There are things we would have done differently. But we never let go of our North Star, even when people around us were convinced we had no idea what we were doing. That focus, conviction, and most of all, patience, led us to launching @CantonNetwork. And the results speak for themselves. Today is a new chapter in that story. I’m proud to announce that @a16zcrypto is leading our latest round, joined by some of the giants of the global financial system, including @ABNAMRO, ADIA, @apolloglobal, @BNPParibasCIB, @Broadridge, @citsecurities, @CMEVentures, @cbventures, Green Wolf Asset Management, @Hanwha_Official, @HSBC, @icapitalnetwork, @LCVentures, @OptiverGlobal, @polychain, @R136Ventures, @SPGlobal, @sbigroup, @smash_capital, @SoFi, @Tradeweb, and @WilliamBlair, and others we’ll be naming shortly. Twelve years ago, I could not have imagined building alongside partners of this caliber. $CC today processes the highest fees of any institutional blockchain network. And we’re just getting started. What’s coming later this year is just as exciting. None of this happens without the builders, the ones who show up to weekly tokenomics meetings, dial into operations subcommittees, spend nights and weekends building apps on Canton, and show up on @X to cheer this ecosystem forward. You are not just supporters. You are partners. I’m honored to be on this journey with you. On a personal note: @a16z hits differently for me. Ben’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things was one I kept coming back to during the hard stretches. Having his firm lead this round is meaningful in a way that’s hard to put into words. So I’ll let him do it: “The hard thing isn’t setting a big, audacious goal. The hard thing is spending sleepless nights trying to achieve it. The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare. Motivating yourself by watching YouTube shorts or Instagram reels isn’t the hard thing. The hard thing is working every day and being consistent even if you feel like shit. The hard thing isn’t boasting you could achieve anything. The hard thing is working like hell to achieve something. The hard thing isn’t believing in yourself. The hard thing is getting things done when nobody believes in you, even when you doubt yourself. The hard thing isn’t telling yourself that you must achieve the impossible. The hard thing is toiling hard every day for years despite knowing that success is too uncertain.” theblock.co/post/404386/a16z…

The start date has now been moved to July 3 The pre-launch period is being extended to give builders more time to prepare

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We've already seen some great examples of $CBTC trading tools built on Cantex via our SDK. This one's for you builders, earn 50,000 $CC and show the #Canton ecosystem what you've got during HackCanton Season 2 🔥

Canton Café is coming to @ethconf. If you're in NYC this week, join us for a private coffee reception for operators and institutions on Canton Network — curated for discussions around privacy-enabled digital asset operations. Reception partners: @CantonNetwork The only public blockchain with privacy that works @BitSafe_Finance Decentralized infrastructure for institutional finance @Noves_fi Private data infrastructure for Canton Network Note: This is a private reception with limited capacity; registrations are reviewed and subject to approval. Non-business emails will not be accepted. Registration below.

NYC, June 9: we're co-hosting Canton Café, a private reception for the operators and institutions building on @CantonNetwork. ☕️ running real assets on Canton with privacy built in, and the people actually shipping them. If that's you, request an invite and come find the BitSafe team. Co-hosted with @CantonNetwork and @Noves_fi. RSVP (approval required): luma.com/h5rq751l

Bitcoin digital options with defined risk, fixed payouts, and privacy-enabled execution are now live on Canton. @RavenMarkets and @BitSafe_Finance have partnered to bring CBTC markets to the network. ↓ Learn more.

wBTC is old tech A safer, self-custodied wrapped Bitcoin is live Swap now ⭐️curve.fi/#/arbitrum/pools/fa…

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CBTC is now live on @RavenMarkets 🤝 Bitcoin liquidity arrives in a new Canton-native venue, sitting on privacy-enabled infrastructure with custody distributed across independent FROST signers 🔥

🙏 to the @catalyx_suite team. @Crypto_Clarke and @bohdaoo on first multi-signature infrastructure on Canton, first non-native asset on the network, first plug-in to Chainlink Labs' full data standard, and what is coming next with Decentralization Manager. Hit play 👇

CBTC is now live on OneSwap. The first non-native asset on @CantonNetwork is now trading on @Oneswapcc, the permissionless AMM built by @SatsTerminal. Swap into CBTC or LP the CC/CBTC pool at oneswap.cc 🔥

The first Canton-themed track hosted outside a Canton event. Louvre Palace, June 2 and 3. The operators building institutional infrastructure on the @CantonNetwork, in one building, for two days 🔥

Bitcoin holders, have you tried dlcBTC one-click deposit yet? 💼 Check dlcBTC vault on @beefyfinance to simplify DeFi for you: ⚡️ No IL pool upto 10.1% APY 📈On @arbitrum for lower fees ⚙️Auto-compounding yields with Beefy Put your BTC to work: app.beefy.com/vault/curve-ar…

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Bitcoin trading lands on @Kora_Protocol 🔥 Private RFQ venue on @CantonNetwork, CBTC now live 🤝 Custody held across independent FROST signers; trading that sits inside privacy-enabled infrastructure.