Over the last three articles, we have focused on the "main drivers": the institutions building the foundation, the assets being created and the high-speed trading engine. But what holds this entire, complex system together? A financial network is not just about the big-name participants. It is defined by the essential, "under-the-hood" infrastructure that makes it safe and functional. This final post in our series explores that critical team members: the Enablers.
Key Takeaways
- Compliance is a Core Service: A dedicated layer of analytics firms provide essential AML/CFT and transaction monitoring tools that allow institutions to meet strict regulatory demands.
- Oracles are the Data Bridges: Specialized "oracle" services act as secure messengers, bringing trusted, off-chain data onto the network for smart contracts to use.
- Data Providers Offer Institutional Context: Providers integrate their services, offering things like credit ratings and other proprietary data directly to on-chain applications.
- Security and Custody are Foundational: A range of providers offer the tools to securely hold and manage assets.
- The Backbone of the Network: Professional "Node-as-a-Service" firms provide the core infrastructure by running the network's nodes and supplying the tools that make it easy for new teams to build and deploy applications.
Welcome to the fourth and final part of our series on the Canton Network!
Having covered the institutions, the assets, and the liquidity, we now turn to the essential services that connect the network to the real world and keep it secure.
This group is the essential support structure for the entire network. For institutions to operate with confidence, they need a whole range of services. This is where the enablers come in. The trusted, specialized providers who offer these vital services - from compliance monitoring and data feeds to secure wallets and network validation.
Data, Compliance & Security
As one of the most critical groups, this section covers market data providers, blockchain analytics firms for AML/compliance, and security firms that work to keep the network safe.
Institutional-Grade Market Data & Analytics
Amberdata: Enterprise crypto market data infrastructure serving institutional clients with comprehensive digital asset intelligence across derivatives, DeFi, and stablecoins. The company maintains its own historical data covering spot, options, and futures markets across L1/L2 blockchains, with AI-powered Amberdata Intelligence platform enabling natural language analytics and custom dashboards.
Coin Metrics: Financial-grade crypto intelligence provider delivering comprehensive on-chain data and analytics across 190+ assets with institutional-quality standards. Coin Metrics operates the Canton Intelligence App on Canton Network, enabling privacy-preserving analysis of blockchain activity through its ATLAS™ data model.
Kaiko: The market-leading digital asset data and analytics provider, which has launched the first Independent Pricing application on the Canton Network. This solution delivers independent, auditable valuations and benchmark data for institutional collateral management and tokenized asset portfolios.
Moody's: The global leader in integrated risk assessment, providing core capabilities in credit ratings, research, and data for capital markets. They deliver advanced solutions for risk analysis, compliance, and valuation, leveraging innovative AI and GenAI-ready data to assess and manage risks across the digital economy.
Blockchain Analytics & Intelligence
Flipside Crypto: An AI-driven blockchain intelligence platform with FlipsideAI as its flagship product, enabling analysis across 35+ blockchains. Rather than requiring complex SQL coding, FlipsideAI democratizes blockchain analytics through natural language queries, allowing users to simply ask questions about crypto activity across the network.
Lukka Inc.: An institutional-quality data and blockchain analytics provider for traditional financial institutions entering the crypto space. The company's product suite encompasses blockchain analytics, transaction monitoring, compliance tools, screening, and forensic investigation capabilities. Lukka serves as the official Canton Coin Reference Rate and Fair Market Value pricing provider, aggregating executed spot trades across 11 global exchanges supporting 16 spot trading pairs. This integration enables audit-ready valuations for institutional Canton Coin holders and supports CIP-0079 for third-party price feed integration.
Nansen: Leading blockchain analytics platform with over 500 million labeled addresses, a foundational dataset created through heuristics, smart contract analysis, research, and algorithmic inference. The platform's core strength lies in its smart money tracking capabilities, enabling users to monitor the trading patterns, portfolio allocations, and investment timing of historically profitable crypto traders, venture capital firms, and whale investors.
The Tie: A crypto market intelligence platform that actively contributing to Canton Network governance and infrastructure. The company launched Canton Network's public dashboard, offering the first openly available real-time view into Canton's public infrastructure. This dashboard provides key insights into network activity, trends, and tokenomics, tracking real-time metrics from Canton's decentralized Global Synchronizer.
On-Chain Data & Network Monitoring
7Ridge: A private markets asset manager specializing invested in transformative technologies for financial services and capital markets. As a member of the Canton Network, 7Ridge contributes to network governance and infrastructure development. The company provides 7Trust, a Canton-native identity and verified credentials solution leveraged by applications and services across the network.
Chata: A self-service analytics platform that uses AI technology to allow non-technical users to access and analyze data from their databases using natural language queries. For the Canton Network, Chata provides Sync Insights application, delivering proactive analytics capabilities for network participants. Unlike traditional dashboards that require manual queries, Sync Insights automatically tracks fees, rewards, and risks 24/7, sending alerts via email or SMS when metrics spike or drop.
Maestro: An enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure for supporting institutional services. The company specializes in UTXO blockchain indexing and operates a multi-chain data platform. Maestro's infrastructure stack includes Node RPC services for querying blockchain data without running full nodes, real-time wallet activity tracking, event-driven notification services, and market price feed APIs - all designed for developers building institutional-scale applications.
Proof Group: An infrastructure developer, having launched Cantonscan, the first dedicated block explorer for Canton Network. The company partners with builders of foundational blockchain technologies and combines validator operations with infrastructure development for major networks.
Compliance, Risk & Security
Clifford Chance: A global law firm providing legal expertise on digital assets and tokenized finance to the Canton Network ecosystem. The firm maintains a dedicated Global Digital Assets and DLT working group with lawyers across APAC, EU, Middle East, UK, and US offices, covering corporate, financial markets, and litigation practices. As an active observer in Canton Network initiatives, Clifford Chance contributes legal insights on regulatory frameworks, tokenized asset structures, and how digital assets are transferred within regulated environments.
Elliptic: Blockchain analytics leader providing advanced compliance and forensic investigation solutions for the digital asset ecosystem. As a Supporting Validator on Canton Network, Elliptic delivers on-chain AML monitoring for Canton Coin and USDC, enabling compliant private transactions on the network. The company's platform supports financial institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges, and government agencies with end-to-end compliance tools including real-time risk scoring, automated AML workflows, blockchain forensics, and expert training. The company is backed by institutional investors including JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, SoftBank, and Digital Currency Group.
Hypernative: A real-time transaction security and risk monitoring platform for Web3 that identifies threats with high accuracy and enables automated response capabilities. The platform detects over 300 risk types including smart contract hacks, bridge security incidents, frontend compromises, market manipulations, and private key theft through sophisticated machine learning models, heuristics, simulations, and graph-based detection systems. On Canton, Hypernative will provide real-time monitoring of Canton Coin flows and transaction security, with future development planned to include additional monitoring and risk management capabilities tailored to the network's institutional finance requirements.
MiDAO: The leading registered agent for Web3 and crypto organizations, specializing in incorporating DAOs, crypto projects, decentralized protocols, and AI Agents. Provides DAO LLC incorporation in Marshall Islands with corporate personhood, tax benefits, anti-money laundering compliance, and legal document support.
Particula: The digital asset rating and real-time monitoring provider delivering institutional-grade risk intelligence for the tokenized finance market. The company combines independent risk ratings covering counterparties, issuance structures, and underlying assets with real-time on-chain and off-chain monitoring to reduce information asymmetry between issuers and investors. The team brings 50+ years of cross-disciplinary expertise spanning credit ratings, blockchain, auditing, legal, and compliance, providing 24/7 market monitoring tailored for continuous digital asset trading environments.
TRM Labs: Leading blockchain intelligence solutions provider trusted by financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, law enforcement, and government agencies for financial crime detection and prevention. As a Supporting Validator on Canton Network, TRM provides on-chain AML monitoring for Canton Coin and USDC. The platform supports over 200 million assets across 100+ blockchains with extensive NFT and DeFi protocol coverage, featuring cross-chain analytics for tracing cryptocurrency flows and 150+ risk categories aligned with FATF money laundering predicate offenses.
Oracle Services & Data Feeds
Pyth Network: Decentralized oracle delivering high-fidelity, real-time financial market data from 120+ major financial institutions including exchanges and trading firms. The network provides 1900+ price feeds across 100+ blockchains with updates every 400 milliseconds, using a pull-based model through Pythnet that reduces gas costs compared to traditional push oracles. Pyth's first-party data model directly aggregates from qualified financial institutions and secures over $1.8 trillion in cumulative trading volume across 500+ integrated applications.
Redstone: The modular oracle infrastructure that provides reliable, gas-efficient price feeds for a wide range of assets, including DeFi assets, LSTs, BTCfi, and tokenized real-world assets (RWA). Operating on over 110 chains and rollups, RedStone secures more than $10 billion in TVL. It is the trusted data provider for over 170 projects, including major protocols like Compound, Morpho, Venus, and Pendle.
Chainlink: The institutional-grade oracle infrastructure for onchain finance, serving as the industry-standard platform securing tens of trillions in transaction value across capital markets and DeFi. Chainlink operates a unified platform delivering secure data feeds for smart contracts, cross-chain messaging (CCIP), compliance verification, privacy protection, and composable workflow tools for institutional finance.
Professional Services & Consulting
4MGroup: A strategy and integration services provider offering ecosystem development and precision capital deployment for blockchain infrastructure. The company is contributing to network security and transaction validation while supporting infrastructure development for digital asset marketplaces. 4MGroup combines technology-led solutions for financial markets with operational excellence and transparency, actively maintaining public dashboards and performance metrics for the Canton Network ecosystem.
Deloitte: Deloitte is a premier transformation partner for organizations adopting blockchain and digital assets. The firm provides specialized consulting for the Canton Network, helping clients navigate complex regulatory, technology, and operational challenges. Deloitte leverages deep technical expertise in the Daml programming language and blockchain infrastructure, offering tools like LedgerAlign and combines blockchain ecosystem knowledge with dedicated engineering teams for creating unique solutions.
EY (Ernst & Young): Multinational professional services firm offering blockchain consulting, audit, and advisory services. The company specializes in stablecoin payments, real-world asset tokenization, and enterprise cryptocurrency adoption, offering end-to-end strategies integrating all EY service lines to guide clients through digital asset implementation. EY helps organizations answer critical adoption questions and combines deep regulatory expertise with commitment to delivering real impact across the blockchain transformation journey.
KPMG: A leader in professional services for blockchain and digital assets, providing advisory services across miners, exchanges, stablecoin issuers, custodians, and crypto-native technology providers. The firm offers specialized expertise including financial statement audits, stablecoin reserve attestations, compliance services, tax structuring, regulatory advisory, and transaction due diligence tailored for digital asset clients.
Oliver Wyman: The industry-leading consultancy and founding organization supporting Canton Network with consultancy, application design, and validation services. The firm provides strategic guidance on tokenized asset strategies, stablecoin implementation, and ecosystem development.
Specialized Data Services
BeyondCentral: The developer of web3 and cybersecurity tools, including ncase.app, providing solutions for secure, opt-in transaction models and peer relationships on decentralized networks. Its architecture emphasizes complete user control over activity, supporting single-party, counterparty, and multi-party transactions with minimum complexity and flexible multisign capabilities for power users.
Quantstamp: A leading blockchain security firm offering both automated protocol-backed and manual smart contract audits for DeFi protocols, infrastructure projects, and tokenized finance applications. The firm has audited protocols securing over $200 billion in digital assets, with its audit reports now verifiable on-chain through the Trustblock infrastructure layer, removing reliance on PDFs or static dashboards.
RWA.xyz: A purpose-built data platform for tokenized real-world asset analytics, aggregating and standardizing asset tokenization data across blockchains, token standards, and asset classes. The company provides institutional-grade market intelligence used by JP Morgan, S&P Global, the IMF, Moody's, DTCC, Fidelity, and the US Treasury Department. RWA.xyz enables investors, issuers, and service providers to discover both institutional and startup activity, offering APIs and data downloads while helping issuers integrate into the platform to access the largest institutional audience.
Developer Tools & Accelerators
This group, led by Digital Asset itself, provides the tools, SDKs, and platforms that make it easier for developers to build new applications on Canton.
Alchemy
Developer platform offering blockchain APIs, wallets, and orchestration services. Provides 99.99% uptime infrastructure with node RPC APIs, rollup capabilities, gasless transactions, and DeFi integrations for scaling applications on blockchain networks.
AngelHack
AngelHack is a global developer education and innovation platform, providing learning pathways and hackathon programs designed for developers. The company hosts branded hackathons, internal innovation challenges, educational quests across a community of 300k+ developers, and offers bounty programs with clear milestones and rewards.
BCW Group
BCW Group is an enterprise solutions firm and venture studio providing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) including blockchain node services, generative AI, RPCs, cloud solutions, oracles, on-chain data pipelines, and interoperability products.
Chain Experts
Blockchain infrastructure and smart contract development firm with specialized expertise in Daml. Provides development services, infrastructure support, and knowledge for building on Canton Network.
ChainSafe
Open-source infrastructure and tools provider building protocol-agnostic systems and developer resources. Offers RPC endpoints, testnets, observability tools, and co-development services supporting protocol implementation and blockchain acceleration.
Digital Asset
The company behind the Canton Network and core enterprise solutions provider for Canton Network offering validator nodes, Daml SDK versions, pre-built composable applications, and token standards for asset tokenization. Provides advisory and build services to accelerate time-to-market for Canton applications.
DSRV
DSRV is a blockchain infrastructure company providing powerful and easy-to-use tools supporting 70+ major blockchain networks. The company specializes in validator services, custody solutions and multi-chain payment infrastructure.
Global Blockchain Business Council
The largest industry association for blockchain technology with 500+ institutional members and 284 ambassadors across 124 jurisdictions. The organization facilitates working groups, events, and research engaging public and private sector stakeholders to advance blockchain adoption for secure, equitable, and functional societies.
IntellectEU
IntellectEU is an international technology company specializing in capital markets innovation and payment modernization. The company provides Catalyst Blockchain Manager, used by Canton Network participants to support validator operations. IntellectEU combines capital markets knowledge, AI expertise, scalable delivery, and product development to deliver enterprise-scale solutions for cross-border payments, market infrastructure, and sustainable finance.
Kaleido
Kaleido is an enterprise-grade blockchain and digital asset platform offering over 500 pre-built services and APIs that enable enterprises to stand up production-ready blockchain solutions in minutes rather than months. The platform operates on a click-button deployment model, eliminating the technical complexity traditionally associated with blockchain implementation. The platform streamlines cross-system operations and fast-tracks digital asset initiatives with unmatched security, privacy, and scale for enterprise deployments.
Kiln
Kiln is institutional-grade infrastructure with a mission to simplify blockchain for investors and developers across multiple PoS protocols. The company provides whitelabeled solutions, DeFi yield products, and comprehensive yield management. Kiln offers wallet and node services to Canton Network users with institutional-grade compliance standards.
Ownera
Ownera provides interoperability infrastructure for tokenized asset distribution and trading across financial services platforms, enabling connectivity for and across assets on Canton Network. The company interconnects the financial services industry through interoperability routers to facilitate seamless asset distribution and settlement.
Wallets & Key Management
The solutions for securely storing and managing digital assets on the network, ranging from hardware wallets to institutional-grade custody platforms.
MPCH
MPCH is a founding infrastructure provider, that offers cryptographic key storage and security solutions. The company specializes in secure digital key management and air-gapped disaster recovery for enterprises protecting sensitive digital assets. MPCH enables organizationally neutral infrastructure supporting new connections and liquidity across networks with regulatory compliance and enhanced security for institutional clients.
Akua Finance
Akua Finance is a secure cryptocurrency wallet and trading platform targeting the blue-collar workforce. The platform features world-class security encryption with dynamic private keys, multi-factor authentication and 24/7 dedicated support. Akua offers real-time trading capabilities enabling users to swap, sell, and buy all cryptocurrencies with the lowest fees, alongside trading charts for market analysis and multi-token wallet management.
Dfns
Dfns is a Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform providing institutional-grade custody infrastructure. The platform enables secure user onboarding with passkeys, biometrics, PINs, and Yubikeys, Wallet Entitlement Management (WEM) for business governance, Key Deployment Service (KDS) for regulatory compliance, and unified APIs for all blockchain actions. Dfns delivers NIST-compliant, bank-grade security and serves major enterprise clients.
Five North
Five North provides CantonLoop, a self-custodial wallet for Canton Coin and other assets on Canton. The company is focusing on building foundational systems for next-generation, decentralized financial networks tailored for institutional scale. Five North demonstrates a strong commitment to developer enablement by publishing tools and SDKs, APIs, and detailed documentation.
Moonshot
Moonshot is a wallet provider operating as a validator on the Canton Network. Listed as an official ecosystem participant, the platform combines wallet functionality with an integrated trading interface for memecoin transactions.
Send
Send is a privacy-first financial platform offering mobile payments and a dedicated Canton Wallet with biometric authentication (passkeys instead of seed phrases). The platform operates on Base for mainstream speed, while the Canton Wallet settles transactions privately on the Canton Network. Send is listed as an official participant in the Canton Network ecosystem.
WalletConnect
WalletConnect is the connectivity layer for Web3, connecting 700+ wallets and 70,000+ apps through a single encrypted protocol, avoiding the need for one-to-one wallet-to-app connections. The protocol uses TLS-grade encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, and push notifications for transaction approval while supporting 150+ blockchains with 99% less technical overhead for developers.
Ledger
Ledger is a leading hardware wallet provider, securing digital assets through self-custody solutions trusted by institutions and individuals. The company offers Ledger hardware signer with unified wallet app, enabling users to trade across chains, stake securely, and access 50+ software wallets from a single secure interface.
Node-as-a-Service & Staking
This collection of projects offer infrastructure, so others can participate in securing the network without running the complex hardware themselves.
Blockdaemon
Blockdaemon serves as the institutional gateway to Web3, securing over $110 billion in digital assets for 400+ institutions including exchanges, custodians, and financial enterprises. The platform provides comprehensive institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure encompassing nodes, APIs, staking solutions, MPC wallets, and vaults across 70+ PoS networks. Their staking solutions range from traditional asset staking to liquid staking and restaking, with flexible APIs and comprehensive reporting tools designed specifically for institutional-scale operations.
Edgevana
Edgevana is a platform specializing in highly performant decentralized infrastructure with deep expertise in node operations and staking reward optimization across 200 protocols. The platform delivers institutional-grade solutions through white-label validators with non-custodial infrastructure, enabling rapid deployment, best-in-class monitoring, and maximum uptime with minimal operational complexity.
Everstake
Everstake operates as a global, non-custodial staking infrastructure provider across 80+ blockchain networks. Beyond core staking, the company provides specialized services including bridge infrastructure, oracles, development, and validator-as-a-service offerings for institutions managing large positions.
Lab6174
Multi-protocol blockchain infrastructure provider specializing in validation services, staking solutions, and node setup. Offers continuous support, consulting, real-time monitoring, and multi-chain deployment optimization with over a decade of Web3 experience.
Figment
Figment provides the complete institutional staking solution serving over 700 institutional clients including exchanges, wallets, foundations, custodians, and large token holders. The platform institutional infrastructure includes API integrations, rewards reporting tools, and tailored staking strategies designed for diverse use cases including asset manager funds, marketplace integrations, custodian wallet solutions, and protocol foundation treasury management.
Finoa Consensus Services
Finoa Consensus Services is positioned to deliver market-leading, institutional-grade infrastructure with a solid foundation in regulatory compliance and excellence, offering both in-custody and delegated staking solutions across multiple blockchain protocols. The platform service offerings include dedicated support for institutional investors, crypto-native organizations, and established enterprises, along with white-label node deployment options for partners seeking branded staking solutions.
GatewayFM
GatewayFM operates as an enterprise-grade Web3 infrastructure provider delivering scalable, high-performance staking services, and node infrastructure across multiple blockchains with battle-tested reliability. The platform offers services including RPC endpoints, staking infrastructure, validator services, and specialized tools like DeFi price feeds and layer-2 chain deployment solutions. GatewayFM maintains enterprise-level compliance, access controls, and integrations with major blockchain networks and ecosystem partners to support scalable business operations.
GlobalStake
GlobalStake specializes in institutional staking, offering validation services for all major PoS networks. The platform provides diverse product solutions including whitelabel staking, DApp-based staking solutions, and custom dedicated node deployments, enabling institutions, custodians, and exchanges to offer staking to their clients with zero infrastructure lift. Beyond core staking, GlobalStake delivers Web3 infrastructure support, Shariah-compliant staking, Bitcoin yield products, and AI-powered data analysis tools, positioning itself as a comprehensive solution for institutional yield generation.
HashKey Cloud
HashKey Cloud is a blockchain staking service provider supporting over 80 public chains with enterprise-grade staking services, including dedicated staking, institutional-grade staking, VIP staking, and pooled staking options through its KaiaPotter and NexaToken products. Beyond staking, HashKey Cloud offers STO Infrastructure with compliant technology solutions and professional consultants, and AppChain Infrastructure services, delivering safe and convenient application chain staking services for customers building on dedicated blockchains.
Komonode
Komonode provides professional validator services with advanced node validation, monitoring, protocol compliance, and network stability for decentralized platforms. The company offers validator and strategic consulting services to support the growth and optimization of the platforms it serves, bringing global business expertise to every project.
Launchnodes
Launchnodes provides non-custodial staking infrastructure that enables institutions, hedge funds, and individuals to stake while maintaining full ownership and control of their infrastructure. The company also provides white-label staking services, RPC node infrastructure, pre-synced nodes for rapid synchronization, and backend orchestration layers for staking providers and businesses building custom staking products.
Meria
Meria is a French AMF-regulated cryptocurrency platform that manages €350 million in assets and operates as an institutional-grade infrastructure provider. The company offers wide-ranging investment services including staking, professional portfolio management, and managed investment bundles. Beyond this, Meria provides white-label staking solutions and on-chain staking infrastructure, enabling financial advisors and other professional partners to offer staking to their customers while maintaining institutional-grade security.
Node.Monster
Node.Monster is a staking infrastructure provider, specializing in offering reliable, scalable, and secure node operations. The platform offers a wide range of node services, liquid re-staking support for protocols, white-label services for partners, and strategic advisory to blockchain ecosystems, while maintaining maximum uptime through multiple availability zones and best-in-class monitoring systems with 24/7 support.
Obsidian Systems
Obsidian Systems is a node hosting and blockchain infrastructure company, providing enterprise-grade node deployment, management, and validator infrastructure services across multiple PoS blockchains. The company delivers node-related services including network deployment support, infrastructure tools for blockchain ecosystems, complete validator tooling, monitoring dashboards, and consensus-building solutions.
P2P
P2P.org is an institutional-grade staking platform providing enterprise-grade staking infrastructure. The platform offers staking solutions including Staking API for multi-network integration, Staking Data API & Dashboards, and supports integration pathways for custodians, funds, CEX/DEX platforms. The platform emphasizes 24/7 expert support, flexible reporting for tax and regulatory requirements, latest market innovations (MEV relays, DVT staking, re-staking), and special rates for large stakers holding over $500K+ in digital assets.
Sekoya Labs
Sekoya Labs provides professional validator services across multiple blockchains, offering strategic consulting to support platform growth and optimization. The company emphasizes world-class security using state-of-the-art protection products, real-time monitoring enabling immediate issue identification and response, and resilient infrastructure with backup systems and redundant services ensuring maximum uptime.
Venture Capital & Investors
Finally, this group includes the strategic backers and venture capital firms that have invested in the ecosystem, providing capital and governance support to help it grow.
Arrington Capital
A thesis-driven investment firm specializing in digital assets and Web3 technology since 2017. Arrington Capital has invested in over 200 early-stage companies within the crypto ecosystem and operates with a crypto-native team composed of seasoned entrepreneurs, founders, and executives. The firm is committed to supporting partner success and actively collaborates with leading founders in the blockchain space.
Castle Island
A venture capital firm focused on backing founders who are building infrastructure and applications for public blockchains. Castle Island's investment thesis centers on enabling public blockchains to reach their full potential by supporting projects at the protocol and application layers.
Founders Fund
A San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests in companies building revolutionary technologies. Founders Fund maintains a track record of identifying and supporting transformative technology ventures across multiple sectors.
Liberty City Ventures
A venture capital firm that was one of the 30 strategic partners in launching the Canton Network. Liberty City Ventures holds governance and validator roles within the ecosystem, reflecting its foundational commitment to the platform. Based in New York, the firm actively participates in the network's strategic direction and operations.
Polychain
Polychain Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. It has become a key player in the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology space by managing a diverse portfolio that includes both early-stage ventures and later-stage companies.
SBI Digital Asset Holdings
SBI Digital Asset Holdings (SBI DAH) oversees and operates digital asset-related businesses under the umbrella of SBI Holdings, a major Japanese financial conglomerate. As a founding partner of the Canton Network, SBI DAH holds multiple roles including governance responsibilities, financial institutions designation, and validator status.
Witan Group
A private investment firm that creates, develops, and supports world-class businesses across various sectors. Within the Canton Network, Witan Group serves as a validator, demonstrating its commitment to the network's growth and operations.
Conclusion
This final post in our series has detailed the "Ecosystem Enablers". While they may seem like background support, this group is, in many ways, the most critical component for building institutional trust. A financial network's value is defined not just by its participants, but by its guarantees. These projects and companies provide the practical, provable answers to the hardest institutional questions - from development and node setup to risk management and regulatory compliance.
This group provides all the vital services the ecosystem needs to run smoothly, grow, and stay secure. Across this four-part series, we have now seen how these distinct layers combine to form a complete, functioning, and trustworthy Canton Network ecosystem.
