{"id":73878,"date":"2026-06-11T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/institutional-giants-back-355m-canton-network-round-as-dtcc-treasury-deal-nears-bitcoin-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:15:12","slug":"institutional-giants-back-355m-canton-network-round-as-dtcc-treasury-deal-nears-bitcoin-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/institutional-giants-back-355m-canton-network-round-as-dtcc-treasury-deal-nears-bitcoin-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Giants Back $355M Canton Network Round as DTCC Treasury Deal Nears \u2013 Bitcoin News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Digital Asset closed a $355M equity round led by A16z Crypto, which contributed $100M to the raise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Canton Network processes more than $4T in monthly volume with DTCC Treasury tokenization targeted for 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">CEO Yuval Rooz confirmed the funds will support M&amp;A activity and expanded onchain partnerships.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Who Wrote the Check<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.digitalasset.com\/press-release\/digital-asset-355m-funding-canton-capital-markets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The round<\/a> drew participation from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Apollo Funds, Citadel Securities, BNP Paribas, HSBC, CME Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Tradeweb, S&amp;P Global, SBI Group, Polychain, Optiver, SoFi, and roughly a dozen additional strategic backers.<\/p>\n<p>Financial Technology Partners served as the exclusive financial advisor. While the company did not disclose an official valuation, Bloomberg and other outlets previously <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/report-canton-network-developer-digital-asset-seeks-300m-from-a16z-crypto\/\">reported<\/a> that Digital Asset was targeting a raise of approximately $2 billion.<\/p>\n<h2>What Canton Network Actually Does<\/h2>\n<p>Canton is not a retail chain. It is a public, permissionless Layer-1 <span>blockchain<\/span> built specifically for regulated capital markets, offering sub-transaction privacy that lets counterparties see only the portions of a deal relevant to them.<\/p>\n<p>That architecture solves a problem that has stalled institutional <span>blockchain<\/span> adoption for years: major financial firms cannot operate on standard public chains where every transaction is visible to every <span>node<\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/bitwise-launches-canton-etp-on-deutsche-borse\/\">Canton<\/a> uses the Daml <span>smart contract<\/span> language and routes complex multi-party workflows, from repo settlement to collateral mobility, through a decentralized Global Synchronizer.<\/p>\n<h2>The Numbers Behind the Pitch<\/h2>\n<p>The company\u2019s current metrics carry weight:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">More than $6 trillion in tokenized real-world assets are supported or issued on the network<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">More than $4 trillion in monthly transaction <span>volume<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">More than $12 billion in digitally native securities issued<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Settlement times compressed from T+5 to T+0 in under 60 seconds<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">More than 700 ecosystem participants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those figures are not projections. They reflect live workflows running through partners including <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/jpmorgan-strategy-1-7-billion-dividends-bitcoin-sales\/\">JPMorgan<\/a>, Broadridge, Visa (a Canton Super Validator integrated into <span>stablecoin<\/span> settlement pilots), and DTCC, which has a partnership to tokenize U.S. Treasury securities targeted for completion in 2026.<\/p>\n<h2>What the CEO and Lead Investor Are Saying<\/h2>\n<p>Co-founder and CEO Yuval Rooz said the investment gives the company freedom to pursue M&amp;A and accelerate the migration of financial workflows onchain. \u201cCanton was purpose-built for this, and Digital Asset is working with more than 700 ecosystem participants to make Canton the core infrastructure for global finance,\u201d Rooz said.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Yahya, General Partner at A16z <span>Crypto<\/span>, called Digital Asset one of the clearest examples of <span>blockchain<\/span> product-market fit in regulated finance. \u201cReal-world assets and institutional workflows move onchain,\u201d Yahya said, describing the opportunity as no longer theoretical.<\/p>\n<h2>A Profitable Company With Capital to Spend<\/h2>\n<p>Digital Asset reported it is already profitable, a distinction that separates it from most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-a-blockchain\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blockchain<\/a> infrastructure companies still burning toward scale. Rooz indicated the fresh capital will fund ecosystem expansion, strategic partnerships, and targeted M&amp;A rather than a survival runway.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s prior rounds include a $135 million raise in June 2025 co-led by Tradeweb and DRW Venture Capital, and a roughly $50 million raise in December 2025 with BNY Mellon, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/nasdaq-listed-fold-sells-45m-in-bitcoin-clears-20m-debt-and-frees-cash-for-expansion\/\">Nasdaq<\/a>, S&amp;P Global, and Icapital. The June 2026 round significantly exceeds both in size and the breadth of institutional participation.<\/p>\n<h2>What It Means for <span>Crypto<\/span> Markets<\/h2>\n<p>The round signals that the convergence of traditional finance and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-a-blockchain\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blockchain<\/a> infrastructure is no longer speculative. With <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/dtcc-and-stellar-target-2027-launch-for-tokenized-dtc-securities\/\">DTCC<\/a> tokenizing Treasuries on Canton later this year and institutions like HSBC and Apollo already in the ecosystem, the institutional adoption narrative now has both live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-trading-volume\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">volume<\/a> and fresh capital to back it up.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/institutional-giants-back-355m-canton-network-round-as-dtcc-treasury-deal-nears\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways Digital Asset closed a $355M equity round led by A16z Crypto, which contributed $100M to the raise. Canton Network processes more than $4T in monthly volume with DTCC Treasury tokenization targeted for 2026. CEO Yuval Rooz confirmed the funds will support M&amp;A activity and expanded onchain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":73879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}