Canton Weekly News — Interstice Digital partners with FalconX

Interstice Digital this week announces its collaboration with FalconX, connecting Solana, Robinhood Chain and Ethereum to the Canton Network through its Cross-Chain Swap Engine. In the wider ecosystem, Japan's largest bank, MUFG, began testing real-time settlement of government-bond trades on Canton.

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Partnership

Interstice Digital announces its collaboration with FalconX.

FalconX, the institutional digital asset prime brokerage, is powering Interstice Digital's Cross-Chain Swap Engine: a non-custodial swap connecting Solana, Robinhood Chain and Ethereum to the Canton Network. It opens a direct path between Canton's institutional-grade market infrastructure and liquidity in digital assets.

"As institutional demand for digital assets grows, the firms that win will be the ones who can move capital across ecosystems without friction. The cross-chain swap engine we've developed with Interstice Digital is exactly the kind of infrastructure this market needs," said Hassan Bassiri, Head of Trading Strategy at FalconX.

The engine ships with an institutional compliance stack: identity verification by Trulioo, transaction monitoring by TRM Labs, smart contract audit by CertiK, and institutional key management by MPCH.

Get started at https://www.intersticedigital.io/cross-chain-swap

Funding & Deals

Japan's largest bank, MUFG, tests real-time settlement of government-bond trades on Canton. MUFG announced a proof-of-concept to settle Japanese government bond repo trades in real time on Canton, cutting settlement from about three days today to around-the-clock, all-or-nothing settlement. Built with Digital Asset, Progmat and Switzerland's Secured Finance AG under Japan's financial regulator's Payment Innovation Project, the pilot targets completion by the end of 2026, with a commercial rollout planned for 2027 through 2029. CoinDesk

Canton Strategic Holdings posts its first operating revenue. Canton Strategic Holdings (Nasdaq: CNTN) reported $1.5 million in second-quarter revenue, most of it from a service that locks up Canton Coin on behalf of clients for a fee, alongside a $19.26 million net loss. The company began actively minting rewards as a Super Validator and won approval for a total governance weight of 15, unlocking through the first quarter of 2028. StockTitan

Digital asset custody firm Copper gains US Qualified Custodian status for Canton Coin. Copper, among the first custodians to hold Canton Coin for institutions, obtained FINRA membership and, through its broker-dealer registration, Qualified Custodian status in the United States. That adds a regulated place for institutions to hold CC, a quiet but important rail for adoption. Canton Network

Apps on Canton

OpenZeppelin brings its security tooling to Canton through a development-fund grant. OpenZeppelin, a widely used blockchain security firm, published a code library for Canton's token and settlement standard plus four reference apps: a private exchange, a lending protocol, a confidential auction and a cross-chain stablecoin, funded by a Canton Development Fund grant. The code is live and open for community feedback, a sign of maturing developer tooling on the network. Canton Foundation

Ember Treasury, a tokenized US Treasury bill, goes live on Canton. Ember Treasury (USTY), a new tokenized US Treasury bill product, launched on Canton, with trading opening on its first venue on August 11 and more venues following in the days after. It adds to Canton's growing set of tokenized Treasuries. Canton Network

Spotlight

Meet Canton Army.

This edition we're spotlighting Canton Army, an independent media and community platform focused only on the Canton Network. It exists to close an information gap: Canton is drawing growing interest from financial institutions, developers and everyday blockchain users, yet still gets little coverage from mainstream crypto and financial media. To help close it, Canton Army publishes daily news, interviews and clear analysis of the ecosystem, while its editorial arm, Canton News, goes deeper as a reference source for the community. Canton Army runs independently of Digital Asset, the Canton Foundation and any single project, and keeps any paid content clearly separate from its reporting. It has grown organically to more than 18,000 followers on X.

Follow Canton Army on X: @CantonArmy · Read Canton News at cantonnews.org

Quick Hits

• Canton Coin began trading on the SolCex exchange on August 12. Canton Network
• Canton Coin issuance is moving toward balance with burns: in June about 0.65 billion CC were created against about 0.5 billion removed, as post-halving issuance falls and network-fee burns rise, per a Palladium Labs report. Palladium Labs
• Franklin Templeton cleared its first Canton treasury-management milestone, approved by the network's tokenomics working group, following its move to Super Validator earlier this month. cantonnews.org
• HackCanton Season 3 opened registration, a five-week online builder competition. cantonnews.org

About Interstice Digital

Interstice Digital is a U.S.-based digital asset infrastructure company building compliant payment and settlement solutions for institutional participants.

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