Question 1

What is Canton Network?

Accepted Answer

Canton Network is a privacy-enabled smart contract network built for regulated financial institutions and enterprise applications. It introduces a modular “network of networks” architecture, allowing independent applications to operate with their own privacy, governance, and scaling rules, while retaining the ability to interoperate through synchronised infrastructure.

Unlike global ledgers where all participants share a single replicated state, Canton enables selective state sharing. Each participant node operates its own private ledger view. When coordination is needed, cross-application workflows are synchronised using encrypted messaging through independently operated sync domains.

Key technical components include:
- **Daml smart contracts** – enable fine-grained permissioning and data confidentiality
- **Participant nodes** – run per institution or application, holding only relevant ledger state
- **Sync domains** – provide time-ordered encrypted messaging across nodes
- **Global Synchronizer** – a public sync domain operated by Super Validators, allowing decentralised, time-ordered, interoperable messaging

The ledger model supports sub-transaction privacy, deterministic transaction resolution, and compliance with jurisdiction-specific requirements, making the network suitable for asset tokenisation, financial market infrastructure, and real-world data coordination.

Question 2

What is Canton Coin (CC)?

Accepted Answer

Canton Coin (CC) is the native token of the Canton Network. It acts as a payment and coordination instrument for accessing services within public network infrastructure, primarily the Global Synchronizer and related services.

Canton Coin is a network-native payment mechanism. It supports an economic model where usage of shared services such as bandwidth or message throughput is priced in USD-equivalent terms but paid in CC.

CC is used to:
- **Pay for infrastructure usage** including messaging, data throughput, and bandwidth
- **Signal network demand** by linking fees to CC burns
- **Enable integration of decentralised applications** through public sync domains
- **Reward validators and developers** by minting CC in proportion to service value provided

Canton Coin operates under a burn-mint equilibrium model:
- **CC is burned** when used to pay for services (pegged to a USD fee schedule)
- **CC is minted** to validators and apps based on the USD-denominated value delivered
- A dynamic on-chain exchange rate between CC and USD is maintained by Super Validator oracles

The network targets approximately 2.5 billion CC burned and minted per year, balancing supply and utility over time.

Question 3

What is Canton Coin (CC) used for?

Accepted Answer

- **Transaction and sync domain fees** – users pay for infrastructure usage, such as messaging or throughput
- **Access to services** – applications that connect to the Global Synchronizer use CC to access shared functionality
- **Public signalling of utility** – burns reflect real network activity, providing insight into service demand
- **Incentive distribution** – validators, apps, and other contributors are rewarded with CC for generating ecosystem value
- **On-chain settlement** – while fees are priced in USD, all settlement on public domains occurs in CC

Canton Coin is optional for private or closed networks. It is not required for all use cases, allowing flexibility in regulatory or enterprise environments.

Question 4

Who created Canton Coin (CC)?

Accepted Answer

Canton Coin was developed by Digital Asset Holdings, LLC, a US-based technology company responsible for the development of the Daml smart contract language. The protocol is governed by the Canton Foundation, a non-profit entity supporting open development, infrastructure access, and ecosystem growth.

#	Instrument	Exchange	Benchmark Score	Price	24h Change	24h Volume	24h Trades	24h Open	24h High
1	CC-USDT CCUSDT	bybit	A	0.1004USDT	-0,69%	22 541 194,00CC	16 798	0.1011USDT	0.1032USDT
2	CC-USD CCUSD	kraken	AA	0.1003USD	-0,90%	7 697 679,55CC	2 890	0.1012USD	0.1030USD
3	CC-USDT CC-USDT	okex	A	0.1004USDT	-0,72%	4 825 003,27CC	9 973	0.1012USDT	0.1032USDT
4	CC-USDT CC_USDT	gateio	A	0.1005USDT	-0,73%	3 180 105,00CC	4 933	0.1012USDT	0.1032USDT
5	CC-USDT CCUSDT_SPBL	bitget	BB	0.1003USDT	-0,80%	2 662 426,43CC	3 817	0.1011USDT	0.1031USDT
6	CC-USDC CCUSDC	bybit	A	0.1002USDC	-0,84%	2 652 529,40CC	1 994	0.1011USDC	0.1030USDC
7	CC-USDT CC-USDT	kucoin	BB	0.1003USDT	-0,79%	912 345,90CC	1 749	0.1011USDT	0.1031USDT
8	CC-USDC CC-USDC	okex	A	0.1003USDC	0,02%	214 552,14CC	162	0.1002USDC	0.1028USDC
9	CC-EUR CCEUR	kraken	AA	0.08989EUR	-0,38%	115 344,38CC	164	0.09023EUR	0.09165EUR
10	CC-USDC CCUSDC	kraken	AA	0.1004USDC	-0,61%	98 267,69CC	101	0.1010USDC	0.1031USDC
11	CC-USD CCUSD	hashkey	A	0.1003USD	-0,73%	87 755,83CC	287	0.1010USD	0.1030USD
12	CC-EUR CC-EUR	okex	A	0.09043EUR	1,32%	79 705,00CC	20	0.08925EUR	0.09112EUR
13	CC-USD CC_USD	cryptodotcom	AA	0.1007USD	0,01%	56 008,00CC	339	0.1007USD	0.1030USD
14	CC-USDT CCUSDT	kraken	AA	0.1007USDT	-0,24%	52 931,35CC	60	0.1009USDT	0.1028USDT
15	CC-USD ccusd	bitstamp	AA	0.1013USD	1,49%	33 713,61CC	20	0.09989USD	0.1028USD
16	CC-USDC CCUSDC	bullish	AA	0.1005USDC	-0,40%	29 241,55CC	1 327	0.1009USDC	0.1029USDC
17	CC-TRY CC-TRY	okex	A	5,10TRY	2,02%	22 682,24CC	15	4,99TRY	5,11TRY
18	CC-USDT CCUSDT	bullish	AA	0.1006USDT	-0,39%	22 314,24CC	1 039	0.1010USDT	0.1029USDT
19	CC-USD CCUSD	bullish	AA	0.1005USD	-0,30%	6 722,91CC	200	0.1008USD	0.1028USD
20	CC-EUR cceur	bitstamp	AA	0.09068EUR	-1,88%	497,66CC	1	0.09242EUR	0.09242EUR
21	CC-KRW KRW-CC	upbit	B	134,00KRW	-1,47%	7 109 317,12CC	1 356	136,00KRW	139,00KRW
22	CC-USDT CCUSDT	mexc	C	0.1004USDT	-0,80%	1 707 606,59CC	4 108	0.1012USDT	0.1032USDT
23	CC-KRW CC_KRW	bithumbkorea	-	134,00KRW	-0,74%	1 258 257,14CC	279	135,00KRW	138,00KRW
24	CC-USDT CC_USDT	coinw	-	0.1005USDT	-0,62%	1 121 357,00CC	2 036	0.1011USDT	0.1030USDT
25	CC-USDT cc_usdt	xtpub	-	0.1004USDT	-0,77%	1 113 215,00CC	2 163	0.1012USDT	0.1031USDT
26	CC-USDT CC_USDT	bitunix	C	0.1004USDT	-0,72%	1 062 680,00CC	8 644	0.1012USDT	0.1031USDT
27	CC-USDT CCUSDT	bitrue	D	0.1004USDT	-0,63%	728 780,74CC	4 925	0.1011USDT	0.1031USDT
28	CC-USDT CC_USDT	bydfi	-	0.1004USDT	-0,78%	665 204,96CC	3 177	0.1012USDT	0.1032USDT
29	CC-EUR CC-EUR	bitvavo	B	0.08966EUR	-0,63%	606 852,41CC	438	0.09023EUR	0.09191EUR
30	CC-USDC CCUSDC	mexc	C	0.1004USDC	-0,72%	520 117,60CC	2 972	0.1012USDC	0.1029USDC
31	CC-USDT ccusdt	huobipro	C	0.07460USDT	-4,36%	405 798,20CC	991	0.07800USDT	0.08500USDT
32	CC-USD CCUSD	edxmarkets	C	0.1076USD	0,00%	0CC	0	0.1076USD	0.1076USD
33	CC-USDT CC_USDT	cryptology	D	0.1004USDT	-0,70%	15 629,52CC	325	0.1011USDT	0.1027USDT
34	CC-USDC CC_USDC	cryptology	D	0.1003USDC	-0,66%	13 850,74CC	289	0.1010USDC	0.1026USDC
35	CC-BTC BTC-CC	upbit	B	0.0₅1270BTC	0,00%	0CC	0	0.0₅1270BTC	0.0₅1270BTC
36	CC-CAD CC_CAD	ndax	C	0.1428CAD	0,02%	379,00CC	2	0.1428CAD	0.1428CAD
37	CC-USDT CCUSDT	hitbtc	E	0.1270USDT	0,00%	0CC	0	0.1270USDT	0.1270USDT
38	CC-KRW cc_krw	korbit	C	135,00KRW	1,43%	71,84CC	1	133,10KRW	135,00KRW
39	CC-USDT USDT-CC	upbit	B	0.09999USDT	0,00%	0CC	0	0.09999USDT	0.09999USDT