Canton: Why DTCC and Goldman Sachs Are Backing the Blockchain

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Key Takeaways

Canton is a public, permissioned Layer-1 blockchain built for regulated finance.
It lets institutions keep private ledgers while settling across them atomically.
DTCC, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, and others are active participants.
Canton Coin is a burn-and-mint utility token, not a typical speculative asset.

For years, large financial institutions wanting to use blockchain faced an awkward choice. Public networks like Ethereum put every transaction in the open, which clashes with banking privacy and confidentiality rules. Private, permissioned ledgers solved the privacy problem but created isolated “walled gardens” that couldn’t easily talk to one another. Canton Network is the most serious attempt yet to escape that trade-off, and the reason names like DTCC and Goldman Sachs are paying attention.