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Canton statistics

Market cap$6.08B

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24h volume$18.21M

Circulating supply38.67B CC

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About Canton (CC)

Layer-1 blockchain

Canton (CC) is a Layer-1 blockchain — a base network with its own consensus, validators, and native coin (CC) used to pay fees and secure the chain. Developers build applications directly on it, and CC is the asset that powers the whole ecosystem.

How does Canton work?

The Canton network is maintained by a distributed set of participants who validate transactions and add them to the blockchain. CC is required to pay for transactions and, on many networks, to stake and help secure the chain in exchange for rewards.

What is CC used for?

CC pays network fees, can often be staked for yield, and serves as the core unit of value across apps built on Canton. Demand for CC tends to track activity and adoption on the network itself.

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Canton (CC) swap profile

This profile explains how Canton swaps work on SwapRocket: the network CC settles on, what an exchange costs, how long it usually takes, and which pairs are published. Rates are aggregated live from every connected provider and shown in full before you commit to anything.

CC key facts

Ticker: CC
Settlement network: Canton
Category: Layer-1 blockchain
Custody: Non-custodial — coins move from the provider straight to your wallet
Cost to you: Zero added fees; you see the provider rate
Verification: No KYC for crypto-to-crypto swaps
Typical completion: Most swaps finish in under 10 minutes
Rate options: Best rate, fastest route or fixed rate
Published pairs: 0 published CC pairs

How a CC swap works

Enter the amount you want to exchange, pick the asset on the other side, and SwapRocket queries every connected exchange partner at once. You choose an offer, paste the wallet address that should receive the funds, and send CC to the deposit address shown. The partner executes the trade and pays out to your address — SwapRocket never holds your coins, and there is no account to create before you start.

Choosing a rate for CC

Three offers are presented for every CC exchange. The best rate returns the largest amount for the size you entered. The fastest route favours the partner with the shortest expected settlement time, which matters when the market is moving. The fixed rate locks the quoted amount for the duration of the order, so what you are shown is what arrives, at the cost of a slightly smaller payout. Floating offers can move with the market between deposit and settlement.

Networks and addresses for CC

Canton settles on Canton. Always send from and to an address on that network: a deposit sent over a different chain cannot be recovered by the exchange partner. When an asset exists on several chains, pick the matching network in the widget before copying the deposit address, and send a small test amount first if you are unsure.

What is CC? · Sourced guide · Updated 2026-09-23 · 10 sources cited

Canton Coin was not sold in an ICO and is not issued by any single company — so who actually creates it, and what has to happen on the network before a new coin exists?

Canton Coin (CC) is the native utility token of the Global Synchronizer, the decentralized coordination layer of the Canton Network built by Digital Asset. It is worth being precise from the outset: Canton Coin (CC) is a distinct asset from Canto (CANTO), a separate EVM-compatible blockchain project with no corporate or technical relationship to Canton or Digital Asset. CC's own design departs from the token-launch template — no initial coin offering, no single issuer, and a supply that comes into being only as a byproduct of infrastructure operators and application providers recording documented activity on the network. Understanding how that minting works, and what remains undecided about it, is the point of this profile.

A synchronizer, not a blockchain in the usual sense

The Canton Network describes itself as 'a network of networks for smart contract applications,' designed so that individual applications keep their own privacy, scaling, and governance rules rather than inheriting them wholesale from a shared public chain. That framing comes from Digital Asset's January 2024 Canton Network white paper, which sets out the motivating problem: existing smart-contract networks force every application to share data publicly and to compete for the same throughput, which the paper argues rules out most enterprise use cases.

Canton Coin exists to solve a narrower problem inside that architecture: how participants pay for using a shared coordination service, the Global Synchronizer, without a central operator collecting the fee. Digital Asset's July 2024 paper, 'Canton Coin: A Canton-Network-native payment application,' describes the Global Synchronizer as infrastructure 'decentrally run by a group of Super Validators,' with Canton Coin launched alongside it to move value, provide incentives, and pay the infrastructure's own costs.^{[1], [2]}

Amulet: the same coin, a different name in the code

Canton Coin is not a separate technology bolted onto Canton after the fact — it is implemented through Splice, the open-source infrastructure Digital Asset made available through the Hyperledger Foundation, and at the level of the underlying Daml smart contracts it is referred to as 'Amulet.' Canton Network's own technical reference documentation states this directly: CC 'is implemented through the Splice open-source infrastructure, where it is referred to as "Amulet" at the Daml contract level.' A user or validator operator interacting with the token at the application layer sees 'Canton Coin'; a developer reading the contract code sees 'Amulet' — the same asset under two names at two layers of the same system.

Governance of the network that produces CC is meant to sit outside Digital Asset itself. The company's 'A Responsible Approach to Digital Tokens' document states that the Global Synchronizer 'is not controlled by Digital Asset or by any of the market participants anchoring' it, and that coordination is intended to run through a separate nonprofit body, the Global Synchronizer Foundation, organized under the Linux Foundation. The same document states that each anchoring participant runs its own instance of the synchronizer software, and that the consensus mechanism treats a result as official once at least two-thirds of those participants agree on it — a specific documented threshold, not a claim about who is permitted to run a node, which this profile does not characterize beyond what these sources state.^{[3], [4]}

Minting as a byproduct of recorded activity, not a schedule of blocks

CC does not come into existence the way mined proof-of-work coins do, on a fixed per-block subsidy. Canton Network's tokenomics documentation describes an 'Activity Record' model: a party that performs an action providing value to the network — operating validator infrastructure, running a Super Validator, or providing an application — is assigned a weighted record, and minting the CC tied to that record is a distinct second step from creating the record itself. Both steps happen inside a repeating cycle called a 'round,' which the documentation describes as having five phases, without specifying every phase's internal mechanics in the passages reviewed for this profile.

The separate 'Tokenomics of the Global Synchronizer' reference describes the resulting supply mechanism as a 'burn-mint equilibrium': users pay for network usage — synchronizer 'traffic' — by burning CC, denominated against a USD-referenced amount, while validators, Super Validators, and application providers mint new CC for documented contributions, bounded by what the documentation calls 'a predetermined maximum minting curve.' The stated intent is that heavier network usage burns more CC and raises the conversion rate, while lighter usage lets minting rebuild supply — a designed feedback loop, though this profile treats its long-run behavior as an outcome still being observed rather than a settled result.^{[3], [5]}

What a validator actually spends CC on

Day to day, CC's most concrete use is paying for 'traffic' — Canton's term for the transaction-submission capacity a validator needs to interact with the Global Synchronizer. The Canton Network documentation on 'Canton Coin and the Global Synchronizer' lays out a two-step process: a validator converts CC into traffic credits added to its budget, then those credits are deducted as it submits transactions, with cost scaling to transaction size and computational complexity. Traffic credits are explicitly described as non-transferable once converted — they can only be spent down, not sent to another party or converted back.

The same tokenomics reference notes that traffic credits are consumed even when a submission fails due to contention, for instance when two transfers race to consume the same underlying coin contract, and that validators can enable an 'auto-top-up' automation to keep their traffic budget from running out. A separate reference describes an earlier fee proposal, CIP-0078, under which transfer fees and lock fees were eliminated, leaving traffic fees and holding fees as the two fee mechanisms the documentation currently describes as active.^{[6], [3]}

What is documented, and what this profile does not claim

Digital Asset's own materials describe the Global Synchronizer's governance as running through consensus among the market participants that anchor it, coordinated by the Global Synchronizer Foundation under the Linux Foundation, with an official result requiring agreement from at least two-thirds of those anchoring participants. Beyond that stated threshold, the public documentation reviewed for this profile does not spell out the full detail of who may operate a Super Validator, how new anchoring participants are admitted, or how disputes among them are resolved in practice — those specifics are UNKNOWN from the sources checked here, and this profile does not assert permissioning rules the official documentation itself does not state.

The burn-mint equilibrium is also, by the network's own description, a mechanism whose long-run balance depends on real usage meeting a 'predetermined maximum minting curve' over time, rather than a static formula with a result that can be read off in advance. The MiCA white paper Digital Asset filed for Canton Coin under EU Regulation 2023/1114 exists specifically to disclose token risks to regulators and the public, which is itself a signal that the project treats the token's classification and long-term behavior as matters still subject to ongoing regulatory and market scrutiny rather than fully settled questions.^{[7], [4]}

What this means when you hold or swap CC

The most important practical distinction is the naming collision this profile opened with: Canton Coin (CC) is not Canto (CANTO). They are unrelated projects — one a synchronizer token inside Digital Asset's Canton Network, the other an independent EVM-compatible chain — and mixing them up when sending, receiving, or searching for either asset is a real, documented risk of confusion given the similarity of the names, not a hypothetical one.

Because CC's traffic credits are non-transferable once converted, the coin that moves between wallets or exchanges is CC itself, before it is spent down on synchronizer traffic — so a swap or transfer of CC behaves like moving any other token on the network, while traffic budgets are a separate, validator-side accounting concept that does not travel with the coin. Anyone relying on CC for a specific purpose, such as funding a validator's traffic budget, should confirm current mechanics against Canton Network's own technical reference documentation, since minting rounds, fee structures, and named proposals such as CIP-0078 have already changed the fee model once and are described in the documentation as an active area of ongoing specification.

Sources and evidence (10)

[1] The Canton Network white paper describes Canton as a 'network of networks for smart contract applications' that lets each application define its own privacy, scaling, and governance rather than inheriting them from a shared public chain. Digital Asset — Canton Network White Paper (Jan 2024) · 2024-01-01 · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[2] Canton Coin was launched alongside the Global Synchronizer, described as infrastructure decentrally run by a group of Super Validators, to move value, provide incentives, and pay for infrastructure costs. Digital Asset — Canton Coin: A Canton-Network-native payment application · 2024-07-01 · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[3] Canton Coin is implemented through the Splice open-source infrastructure and is referred to as 'Amulet' at the Daml contract level, and CC minting follows an Activity Record model processed in five-phase rounds, with traffic and holding fees as the two currently active fee types after CIP-0078 eliminated transfer and lock fees. Canton Network Docs — Canton Coin Tokenomics · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[4] Canton Coin is not sold in an ICO and is not issued by Digital Asset or any anchoring market participant; the Global Synchronizer is decentrally operated, with an official result requiring agreement from at least two-thirds of anchoring participants, coordinated by the Global Synchronizer Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Digital Asset — Canton Coin: A Responsible Approach to Digital Tokens · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[5] Canton Coin's economics run on a burn-mint equilibrium: users burn CC to purchase synchronizer traffic while validators, Super Validators, and application providers mint new CC for documented contributions, bounded by a predetermined maximum minting curve. Canton Network Docs — Tokenomics of the Global Synchronizer · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[6] Using the Global Synchronizer requires converting Canton Coin into non-transferable traffic credits added to a validator's traffic budget, which are then deducted per transaction based on size and computational complexity. Canton Network Docs — Canton Coin and the Global Synchronizer · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[7] Digital Asset filed a formal Canton Coin white paper under Title II of EU Regulation 2023/1114 (MiCA), disclosing the token's characteristics and risk factors to regulators and prospective holders. Canton Network — Canton Coin MiCA Whitepaper · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[8] CC tokenomics operate on roughly 10-minute mining rounds in which stakeholders receive coupons redeemable for minting Canton Coin according to the value they contributed, and unredeemed coupons are lost. Digital Asset Holdings — Tokenomics and Rewards (archived platform docs) · verified 2026-09-23 Reported
[9] Canton Coin is minted by participants who provide network utility, including Super Validators operating decentralized infrastructure, Application Providers deploying Global Synchronizer applications, and Validators enabling others to connect. Digital Asset Holdings — Service Monetization via Paid Credentials (archived platform docs) · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed
[10] Canton Network publishes its Canton Coin and related whitepapers, including the MiCA filing and the Polyglot Canton whitepaper, on its own whitepapers index page. Canton Network — Whitepapers index · verified 2026-09-23 Confirmed

Profile last reviewed 2026-09-23. Historical background only — not investment advice.

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CC swap FAQ

How do I swap Canton (CC) instantly on SwapRocket?

Pick CC as the asset you want to receive, choose what you're paying with, paste your wallet address, and confirm. SwapRocket hands your order to the provider whose quote pays out the most at that moment, and most swaps complete in under 10 minutes — no SwapRocket account needed.

Can I swap CC with no KYC?

No SwapRocket account or identity documents are needed to start a crypto-to-crypto swap of CC. The provider that executes the swap may still request identity verification or hold a swap for review under its own AML and sanctions policy, regardless of amount. Selling to a bank account goes through a regulated payment partner that verifies the payer; card purchases on SwapRocket are coming soon.

Is swapping Canton on SwapRocket non-custodial?

Yes. SwapRocket never holds your funds. The provider that executes the swap receives your deposit, holds it only for the duration of the swap, and sends CC to the wallet address you provide.

Which network does CC use here?

SwapRocket supports Canton on the Canton network. Always double-check that your receiving wallet supports this network before confirming.

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