Canton Fundraising

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Network Activity Reaches Institutional Scale

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$6 Trillion in Tokenized Assets

Canton Network Tokenomics

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Conclusion

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Canton Network (Pre-Market)

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Canton Network has evolved from an enterprise DLT pilot into a $6-trillion blockchain for regulated finance. With Basel-aligned compliance and privacy-first design, it bridges Wall Street infrastructure with on-chain settlement.

Goldman Sachs

Salesforce Ventures

Circle Ventures

Canton Network: The Blockchain Powering Wall Street

United States of America

Coinbase Ventures is the venture capital arm of Coinbase, one of the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Coinbase Ventures is focused on investing in early-stage companies and projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. It provides funding, resources, and support to startups and entrepreneurs working on innovative blockchain and crypto-related technologies and applications.

Coinbase Ventures

The CMT Group has acted as a valued collaborator to numerous exchanges, clearing firms, and trading and investment teams, generating edge by pairing market insight with early adoption and innovation of nascent technologies.

CMT Digital

India

Peak XV Partners (Formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA) is a leading venture capital and growth investing firm investing across India, South East Asia and beyond.

Peak XV Partners(ex-Sequoia India)

Circle Ventures focuses on proprietary capital investments in the technology sector.

GMO Venture Partners

January Capital

Tazapay

Ripple

United Kingdom

RTP Global

Arc180

Norinchukin Capital

edgeX

Amber Group is a one-stop crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading and asset management services 24/7.

Amber Group

Pantera Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2013 by Dan Morehead, who is a former Wall Street executive and chief financial officer (CFO) at Tiger Management. Pantera Capital is known for being one of the earliest institutional investors in the cryptocurrency space and has been actively involved in supporting the growth and development of blockchain technology and digital assets.

Pantera Capital

Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2013 by Bart Stephens and Brad Stephens, and it's headquartered in San Francisco, California. Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most well-known venture capital firms dedicated exclusively to the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

Blockchain Capital

China

Hongshan, formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, is a venture capital firm specializing in investments across various stages, from seed and mid-stage to late-stage and growth, with a particular focus on the fintech sector.

HongShan (ex-Sequoia China)

Goodwater

RedotPay

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a prominent venture capital firm recognized for its strategic investments in innovative and high-growth technology companies. Founded in 2000 by Chris Schaepe, Barry Eggers, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh, Lightspeed has played a pivotal role in shaping the success stories of numerous startups across various sectors.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and qualified individuals shape a changing economy.

Galaxy

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.

Accel

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors that manages portfolios.

Vertex Ventures

Crossmint

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

Early stage blockchain venture capital. A JV with Lightspeedvp

Faction

Big Brain Holdings Invests in Seed, Pre-Seed and Early Stage Startups

Big Brain Holdings

Franklin Templeton

Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.

Ribbit Capital

Nyca Partners is a venture capital and advisory firm that focuses on the fintech sector. The firm connects innovative companies to financial institutions and technology companies as well as expert individuals as investors and advisors. Nyca Partners was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Nyca Partners

First Round Capital

Token Bay Capital

Human Capital partners with exceptional founders, deploying capital and building teams of the highest caliber at scale.

Human Capital

XVC Tech

The Operating Group

Pharsalus Capital

Zodia Markets

Tradeweb

Virtu Financial

DRW Venture Capital, an arm of principal trading firm DRW, invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology. Many of our portfolio companies benefit from our engagement beyond capital: as a client, as a liquidity provider, through our review of new products, and through our deep industry expertise.

As a firm with no outside investors, wehave a flexible mandate to deploy capital and often tap into our core business to help companies grow. We’re powered by the people, technology and ideas of DRW, and those we invest in may leverage it all. DRW has diversified business expertise and deep networks in trading and technology, real estate investment, cryptocurrencies and product development — a unique advantage.

DRW Venture Capital

Paxos

Citadel Securities

BNP Paribas Private Equity

DTCC

Canton

Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.

IBM is an information technology and consulting firm that provides computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.

Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.

Mouro Capital

CME Ventures is the strategic investment arm of CME Group focused on managing a portfolio of external minority equity investments

CME Ventures

Accenture Ventures

J.P. Morgan

Deutsche Borse

ABN AMRO

Citi Ventures

ASX Limited

Blackstone

Samsung Ventures

Eldridge

7RIDGE

Nasdaq

iCapital

Accelerate Progress in the world. See what it’s like to be part of our company, culture and to understand the impact we make.

S&P Global

BNY Global

Digital Asset (Canton Network)

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Dragonfly Capital

Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital.

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.

Sound Ventures

Altos Ventures is a venture capital firm and registered investment advisor with more than $8 billion in regulated assets under management.

Altos Ventures

Portage is a global investment platform focused on fintech and financial services.

Portage Ventures

Commerce Ventures

Helios Investment Partners

Conduit

Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.

Jump Crypto

Gemini Frontier Fund is a strategic venture fund focused on growing the crypto ecosystem through investment in early-stage crypto projects.

Gemini Frontier Fund

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. 
The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

Asiff S. Hirji has served as a director of the Company since May 2006.

Asiff Hirji

Inovia Capital

Germany

Discovery Ventures

Core Innovation Capital is a venture capital firm investing in companies committed to empowering small businesses.

Core Innovation Capital

Nik Milanovic

Gradient Ventures helps founders build transformational AI companies.

Gradient Ventures

Fin is an asset management firm investing full lifecycle in FinTech and adjacent verticals in principally B2B enterprise SaaS companies.

Fin Capital

Diagram co-founds companies that pursue big ideas in the financial and insurance sectors

Diagram Ventures

Simon Taylor

Mark Britto

Gary Marino

Rex Salisbury

Andreessen Horowitz, often referred to as "a16z," is a prominent venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, both of whom are well-known figures in the tech industry. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and has gained a reputation for its investments in technology companies, particularly in the areas of software, internet, and more recently, blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

CoinFund is a blockchain-focused investment firm and cryptocurrency research company that specializes in supporting and investing in early-stage blockchain and crypto projects. Founded by Jake Brukhman and Alex Felix in 2015, CoinFund has been active in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space for several years

CoinFund

Pillar VC partners with unstoppable founders from the moment of inception, providing the first capital in.

Pillar VC

Breyer Capital is a premier global venture capital and private equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the United States and China. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, Breyer Capital makes long-term, idea-driven strategic investments in its chosen core areas: social media, entertainment/media, digital health, andfinancial technologies.
Breyer Capital actively partners with a diverse set of companies including early-stage startups building breakthrough technologies, fast growing companies, and established worldwide leading corporations. Its team enjoys helping to frame strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders and owner/operator teams, the insights of its network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

Breyer Capital

Ted Breyer

Jim Breyer

Catena Labs

Cumberland provides financial institutions and high-net-worth individuals with the access they need to capitalize on the crypto asset space.

Cumberland

Wintermute is a truly value adding investor dedicated to supporting the innovation in the blockchain ecosystem.

Wintermute

Selini is a global trading firm focused on systematic trading, liquidity provision, efficient execution, and venture investing—all within the digital assets space.

Selini Capital

Codex

NEAR Foundation

Times Internet

Abound

Framework Ventures is a cutting-edge venture capital firm deeply immersed in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology. Founded by Michael Anderson and Vance Spencer, Framework Ventures stands out as a key player in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital assets and blockchain-based financial innovations.

Framework Ventures

Arrington Capital is a thesis-focused digital asset and Web3 investing firm. Since 2017, Arrington Capital has invested in over 200 early-stage companies in the crypto ecosystem. Arrington Capital's crypto-native team of seasoned entrepreneurs, founders, and executives is committed to doubling down on efforts to ensure our partners' success.

Arrington Capital

OKX Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality and promising projects, with an initial capital of $100 million.

OKX Ventures

Hivemind Capital Partners

Empowering entrepreneurs with capital, customer connections, and unparalleled access to Microsoft

F-Prime Capital

Alumni Ventures

Space and Time

Hong Kong

HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

BitScale Capital invests in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world through cutting-edge technology.

BitScale Capital

Samsung NEXT is the innovation arm of the Samsung Group, a global conglomerate. Samsung NEXT is known for its role in identifying, investing in, and developing cutting-edge technologies and startups. The primary focus of Samsung NEXT is to explore and invest in emerging technology trends that align with Samsung's broader business strategies.

Samsung NEXT

IOSG Venture is an early-stage fund for decentralized protocols and companies. Early-stage algorithm-based ventures.

IOSG Ventures

SNZ Holding is a crypto fund founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists and entrepreneurs passionate about disruptive blockchain technologies.

SNZ Holding

Singapore

SevenX Ventures provides insights and operational expertise to help blockchain startups in growing.

SevenX Ventures

P2 Ventures is dedicated to supporting visionary teams across the multichain ecosystem. We invest at the earliest stages across all categories in web3.

P2 Ventures

Canada

3Commas provides a platform for cryptocurrency investors to trade with minimal risks, limit losses, and increase profits.

3Commas

Foresight Ventures is an investment institution focusing on blockchain technology and crypto industry established in 2020, whose predecessor was an international private equity venture capital with more than ten years of investment experience.  We take solid research on market and technology as investment orientation when investing in both primary and secondary markets of equity and token, with nearly 80 million dollars asset under management.

			Stage	Investors
Tazapay	$36.00 M	~$360.00 M	Extended Series B	+3	--	Blockchain Service	Mar 26, 2026
EDGE edgeX	--	--	Strategic Round			DEX	Feb 10, 2026
RedotPay	$107.00 M	~$1.07 B	Series B	+2		Neobank	Dec 16, 2025
Crossmint	--	--	Strategic Round			Blockchain Service	Sep 24, 2025
Tazapay	--	--	Series B	+5	--	Blockchain Service	Aug 27, 2025
Zodia Markets	$18.25 M	~$182.50 M	Series A	+3		Finance	Jul 28, 2025
CC Canton	$135.00 M	~$1.35 B	Strategic Round	+5		Blockchain	Jun 24, 2025
Digital Asset (Canton Network)	$135.00 M	~$1.35 B	Strategic Round	+5	--	Blockchain Service	Jun 24, 2025
Conduit	$36.00 M	~$360.00 M	Series A	+5		Blockchain Service	May 28, 2025
Catena Labs	$18.00 M	~$180.00 M	Seed Round	+5		Blockchain Service	May 20, 2025
Codex	$15.80 M	~$158.00 M	Seed Round	+3		Infrastructure	Apr 4, 2025
Abound	$14.00 M	~$140.00 M	Funding Round		--	Blockchain Service	Mar 27, 2025
SXT Space and Time	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A	+7	--	Blockchain Service	Aug 27, 2024
Rhinestone	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+2		Blockchain Service	Aug 14, 2024
Arbelos Markets	$28.00 M	~$280.00 M	Seed Round	+3		Finance	May 8, 2024
Playtron	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Funding Round	+1		Gaming	Apr 10, 2024
Kravata	$3.60 M	~$36.00 M	Seed Round	+2		Infrastructure	Mar 7, 2024
SEI Sei	--	--	Funding Round			Blockchain	Nov 15, 2023
Noble	$3.30 M	~$33.00 M	Seed Round	+10		Blockchain Service	Oct 24, 2023
Blackbird	$11.00 M	~$110.00 M	Seed Round	+3	--	Social	Oct 6, 2023

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