CIP-0104 is live now!🪄
It is a clean upgrade to Canton’s app incentives: get rewarded for real network usage replacing Activity Markers
It replaces FeaturedApp Activity Markers with traffic-based rewards measured directly from sequencer mediator data, so app rewards track the actual burn your transactions generate.
Two big unlocks for builders & operators on
@CantonNetwork:
◽ Less overhead and more throughput: No more marker plumbing, and no more DSO-party sub-transactions just to record activity. Transactions stay smaller and SV validation load drops.
◽ Better economics and decentralization: Protocol-conformant confirmation responses become effectively free, so validators mostly pay for user submissions they choose to accept (and can gate or price), not routine confirmation traffic.
The result is a more objective, scalable reward model that pays apps for state changing traffic and makes the application layer easier to build, run, and standardize.