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The Canton Network has approved Canton Improvement Proposal (CIP)-0100, formalizing the governance and management of its ecosystem development fund. Approved on January 14 and now live as of February 9, 2026, the proposal builds on CIP-0082, which originally allocated 5% of network rewards to development. CIP-0100 now answers the question every holder should be asking: who controls the money, and how do they account for it?
What Does CIP-0100 Actually Change?
CIP-0082 set aside the funds. CIP-0100 sets the rules for spending them.
The Canton Foundation's Tech & Ops Committee now administers the fund. This committee elects five voting members on a quarterly basis. Any Foundation member can attend meetings, and decisions require a quorum. If 20% of committee members disagree with a decision, they can appeal it.
Proposals for funding can come from three directions: strategic projects launched through formal RFPs, contributor-generated ideas, or external submissions. External proposals need a committee champion to move forward. Every proposal must include clear objectives, milestones capped at one quarter, funding denominated in Canton Coin (CC), and defined delivery methods.
Grants are paid in CC and tied to milestones. When a milestone is verified, the CC gets minted straight to the recipient. It never passes through the Foundation's hands. Recipients assume short-term price risk because CC can vary across milestones, though multi-quarter projects may have price adjustments built in. The Foundation board sets a fresh budget each quarter.
How Is Accountability Built In?
This is where CIP-0100 earns its weight.
Milestones are reviewed by the committee with input from Core Contributors who advise on technical quality. Continuation gets voted on. Delays can lead to halts or renegotiations. There are no blank checks here.
On the transparency side, the Foundation publishes quarterly reports covering proposals, milestones, funds emitted, balances, and outcomes. An independent audit or attestation happens annually. The fund's 5% reward rate faces annual review, and changing it requires an entirely new CIP.
A dedicated Security Subcommittee handles sensitive proposals, and open-source software maintainers are involved to ensure technical alignment across the ecosystem.
What Is the Canton Network?
For those catching up: Canton is a privacy-enabled, open Layer 1 blockchain built for institutional finance. It supports over $6 trillion in onchain value and processes roughly $4 trillion monthly in repos, including more than $300 billion in daily repo activity. The network runs 600+ validators with 30 super validators.
$CC trades at approximately $0.169 as of February 9, 2026, with a market cap placing it in the top 20 cryptocurrencies. Total minable supply over the first decade sits around 100 billion CC, with approximately 37.7 billion currently in circulation.
The ecosystem reads like a Wall Street directory: Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas, Circle, Paxos, Binance US, and Kraken all participate. Recent activity includes Broadridge processing $8 trillion in monthly repos transactions and Hashnote running a tokenized money market fund on the network.
What Else Happened in January?
Canton stayed busy. CIP-0097 welcomed Nasdaq as a super validator, earning up to 10 SV weight through milestones. CIP-0081 added YZi Labs as a super validator to attract builders and institutional flows. CIP-0103 approved the Canton dApp Standard for wallet integrations.
Recent 24-hour network snapshots show 743,000 transactions, 11.5 million CC burned, $1.73 million in fees, and 38,000 active users. Approximately 85-90% of that activity comes from live production deployments.
Ecosystem expansions include crypto derivatives margining with QCP and energy supply-chain tokenization with Fiùtur.
Why Should You Care?
Most crypto development funds operate with minimal structure. CIP-0100 locks in milestone-based accountability, quarterly public reporting, independent audits, and clear governance procedures before a single CC gets minted as a grant.
For a network processing trillions in institutional value, that kind of structure is not optional. It is the baseline for earning long-term trust from the banks and financial institutions already building on Canton.
For more on Canton, visitcanton.network or follow@CantonNetwork on X.
Sources:
- Canton Network — Official Canton Network website with ecosystem details and documentation
- CoinGecko - Canton — Live Canton Coin (CC) price data, market cap, and trading volume
- CoinMarketCap - Canton — CC circulating supply, market ranking, and historical price data
- Canton Foundation CIPs Repository — Full text of Canton Improvement Proposals including governance and validator CIPs
- Global Synchronizer Foundation CIPs — CIP-0082 (5% development fund) and related tokenomics proposals
- BitGo - Canton — Institutional custody and network participation reference
