Market Intelligence & Research

Perspectives on institutional digital asset infrastructure, regulatory developments, and the evolution of compliant blockchain operations.

- Company -

What Is Interstice Digital?

Most conversations about blockchain in institutional finance start with the technology and work backward to the use case. Interstice Digital starts with the use case and works forward to the infrastructure.

March 2026

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- Canton Network -

What is atomic settlement, and why does everyone in finance suddenly care?

Two sides of a trade have always settled separately, leaving a window where one party pays and waits for the other to deliver. Atomic settlement closes that window, and the biggest names in finance are starting to build around it.

July 2026

- Canton Network -

What We Know About DTCC's Upcoming Canton Pilot

DTCC is the post-trade backbone of the U.S. capital markets, and its subsidiaries processed $4.7 quadrillion in securities transactions in 2025, so its commitment to tokenizing assets on Canton Network is worth close attention. As a Super Validator and Canton Foundation co-chair, DTCC will mint custodied U.S. Treasuries on-chain, with limited production trades planned for July ahead of a wider rollout. Its recent Stellar partnership is not a pivot away from Canton but part of a multi-chain strategy where each network serves a distinct institutional role.

June 2026

- Canton Network -

Visa on the Canton Network — What It Means

Visa processes payments for more than 4 billion cardholders across 200 countries, so its decision to join Canton Network as a Super Validator is an infrastructure commitment by one of the world's most operationally rigorous institutions. On March 23, 2026, Visa became an SV at the highest weight level, and a month later added Canton to its global stablecoin settlement pilot. It is the clearest signal yet that Canton's build phase is giving way to its production phase.

June 2026

- Canton Network -

How Canton Coin's Burn-Mint Mechanism Works

Most token models have a problem they don't talk about: tokens get created, and the people who receive them have an incentive to sell, so the network's success and the token's value point in opposite directions. Canton Coin was designed around a different premise, that supply should respond automatically to how much the network is actually being used. Usage fees are burned and new coins are minted for measurable contribution, targeting roughly 2.5 billion coins burned and issued per year in a self-correcting equilibrium.

June 2026

- Canton Network -

How Canton Network Reinvented the Institutional Airdrop

Most blockchain networks treat their token launch as a marketing event: release tokens, generate buzz, watch the price move. Canton Network took the opposite approach, tying every Canton Coin reward to a specific act of institutional commitment, first through milestone-based escrow and now through on-chain locking via CIP-105. The result is a validator set whose economic interests are structurally aligned with the network's long-term health.

June 2026

- Canton Network -

How Canton Subnets Relate to the Canton Network and Canton Coin

Most blockchains put everything on one shared ledger visible to every participant, which is a non-starter for institutions that need to keep counterparty relationships and transaction data private. Canton's answer is a design it calls a network of networks: private, sovereign subnets where institutions run their applications, tied together by the Global Synchronizer, a public coordination layer that enables atomic cross-subnet settlement without forcing anyone to expose their full ledger state.

June 2026

- Canton Network -

Validators and Super Validators on the Canton Network: What They Do and Why They Matter

Most discussions of the Canton Network focus on the applications running on top of it. Less discussed, but equally foundational, is the infrastructure layer that makes all of it work: the validators and super validators that secure and synchronize the network underneath those applications.

May 2026

- Venezuela -

How to Pay Vendors and Contractors in Venezuela in 2026: A Complete Guide to Compliant Crypto Payments

March 2026 update covering OFAC General Licenses, USDC and USDT settlement, and how US companies are paying Venezuelan partners legally without touching the traditional banking system.

May 2026

- Venezuela -

How to Use Crypto to Make Compliant Payments in Venezuela

How U.S. companies use stablecoins to make compliant cross-border payments to Venezuela, including OFAC general license requirements, SDN screening, and KYB/KYC verification.

May 2026