About Canton Network
About Canton Network
Canton Network is a privacy-enabled Layer-1 blockchain built for regulated finance, developed by Digital Asset using the Daml smart contract language — major institutions like Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, and Deloitte are building on it for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), repo settlement, and institutional DeFi. Canton does not use traditional Proof-of-Stake — there is no "stake to earn" delegation model where token holders can delegate CC to validators for proportional rewards. Instead, the network runs on a Super Validator model where ~13 institutional-grade node operators (approved by the Global Synchronizer Foundation) secure the network and earn CC through liveness rewards, transaction fees, and application activity. The tokenomics follow a burn-mint equilibrium: usage fees are burned while new CC is minted for utility contributions, making effective yield dependent on network activity rather than a fixed APY. There is no slashing and no unbonding period for CC holders because there is no staking lockup.
How to Earn CC Rewards
- CC rewards flow to three groups only: Super Validators (~20% of rewards, running Global Synchronizer), Validators (running full nodes for liveness + transaction fees), and Application Providers (62% of reward pool in 2026).
- As a regular holder, you cannot directly stake CC — to earn, either run a validator node (institutional-grade setup required) or use CC within applications that share rewards with active users.
- For institutional participation, provision a validator through providers like Kiln, Figment, P2P.org, Stakin, or FP Validated (Node as a Service) who handle node operations on your behalf.
- Alternatively, some CEXs (Gate.io, etc.) offer CC "staking" products at ~0.2–0.5% APR, but these are custodial yield products rather than true protocol staking.
💡 Tip: Canton's "staking" is fundamentally different — there is no delegation, no slashing, and no unbonding. Be aware of holding fees: CC balances continuously decrease over time if not offset by rewards or activity, unlike static PoS tokens. Retail holders typically access CC through custody (BitGo, exchanges) rather than staking — true rewards require running validator infrastructure.
FP Validated's Address:
fpvalidated-validator-1::12206aa72ed7f421129c2e67cef0df28166342c502bec2e55093dc49aa72bf3761fb
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