The Good Tech Companies - Cantor8: Building The Future of Canton Network

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/cantor8-building-the-future-of-canton-network. Cantor8 is at the forefront of the surging growth of the Canton Network ecosystem. Endorsed by The Canton Foundation itself, the company is founded by a Cambrid Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #layer1, #canton-blockchain, #web3-startups, #what-is-cantor8, #self-custody-wallet-cantor8, #canton-network-ecosystem, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @cantor8. Learn more about this writer by checking @cantor8's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Cantor8 is the leading web3 startup building on Canton Network. Cantor8 is one of just four companies that is both publicly endorsed by the Canton Foundation and a leading wallet provider. Cantor 8 offers Canton's leading wallet, but also offers core infrastructure for the ecosystem.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Cantor 8 Building the Future of Canton Network by Cantor 8. Cantor 8 is fast becoming the consensus of the Canton network ecosystem, said Cantor 8 CEO and founder, Philip Caddage. Downloading C8 is like downloading Metamask in 2016, but Cantor 8 itself is much more than just a wallet. Cantor 8 is the leading Web 3 startup building on Canton Network and is one of just four companies that is both. Publicly endorsed by the Canton Foundation itself, flush with DAML-based expertise, Canton's native smart contract language. Effectively, the consensus of Canton, Cantor 8 not only offers Canton Network's leading self-custody wallet, but also offers core infrastructure for the

ecosystem, more on this below. Its mission, to make Canton Network usable for builders, enterprises, and end users through real products, not slideware. Context. Canton Network's potential. Countless attempts have been made by well-funded organizations to tokenize finance, but Canton Network is the very first to get it right. For years, institutions have flirted with blockchain in proof of concept mode. The tech was exciting, but public L-1s could never square privacy, regulation, and real-world workflows. Their core systems already cleared trillions, but they were not built for instant settlement, shared ledgers, or smart contracts regulators can live with. Canton Network is the first serious attempt to fix that problem.

A privacy-enabled, open blockchain network built for regulated finance, already wiring together tokenized assets, collateral, and repo workflows at real scale. Across the network, participants collectively support over $6 trillion in real world assets and move about $280 billion in repo activity every single day, backed by global banks. exchanges, and market infra heavyweights. What is Cantor 8? Put simply, Cantor 8 is a Web 3 startup building the infrastructure layer that makes Canton network actually usable. Think of it as the execution partner that handles all the messy work, compliance, privacy, infrastructure integration, so that both enterprises and developers can build on Canton without starting from

scratch. Publicly endorse it be the Canton Foundation, Cantor 8 is now responsible for critical pieces of the network's tooling and validator infrastructure. On the product side, Cantor 8 has shipped Canton Network's first native mobile wallet, a vault for compliant staking and yield, and swap modules that work like Defy but meet institutional standards. Essentially, Cantor 8 sits between Canton's institutional participants and the developer community, building the reusable pieces that turn Canton from merely interesting tech into something people can actually ship products on. Cantor 8's founder and team behind Cantor 8 is founder and CEO, Philip Caddage. Caddage studied mathematics at Cambridge University and Imperial College London before

pausing his PhD ambitions at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Hescheld the academic track when it became clear Canton could really be Theon chain home for institutional finance and that he wanted to become Thecosystem's dedicated partner. Caddage now focuses exclusively on building on the Cantor 8 ecosystem and works closely with the Canton Foundation to help realize its ambition of bringing traditional finance on-chain. Around Caddage is a high-caliber team consisting of DAML engineers, former consulting in VC operators, and product architects that have shipped effectively in both startups and regulated environments. Ultimately, the team is fully aligned with Canton's core engineering principle.

Build serious infrastructure that institutions can trust. What is Cantor 8 Building? One of few companies to successfully balance institutional needs with those. of everyday consumers, Cantor 8 is building, has already built multiple products to suit the growing needs of all types of Canton network participants, both institutional and retail alike. Two sides. Institutional and retail on the ecosystem side, Cantor 8 acts as an execution layer. Its engineers design and code DAML smart contracts, run validator infrastructure, and ship products like the C-8 wallet and vault. As a member of the Global Synchronizer Foundation,

which stewards Canton's neutral time-ordering layer, Cantor 8 turns institutional requirements into concrete tooling and workflows for the broader builder community. The C-8 wallet Cantor 8 is the C-8 wallet, one of the very first wallets built natively for Canton. It hides the complexity of subnets and synchronizers behind a clean interface, secure keys, a simple portfolio view, and transaction flows that respect Canton's confidentiality model by default. For most users, it is the front door to the network on iOS and Android. The vault. Staking and yield behind that, Cantor 8 has been building Canton's yield and staking layer. The vault gives users a compliant, transparent way to participate in network activity and earn rewards, something

risk teams and regulators can actually read and sign off on. The recursive vault takes it further, automating restaking and compounding within Canton's guardrails, with complex financial logic encoded AS deterministic demo workflows instead of opaque spreadsheets. Swap module to round out the stack. A native swap module lets users move between assets on Canton with a defy like Ux but infrastructure-grade behavior. Swaps honor Canton's privacy and compliance primitives while giving builders a simple primitive to plug into their own apps. Proof that Defy for institutions on Canton is already shipping as a product, not just a theory. Takeaway. The biggest opportunity since Bitcoin? Ultimately, Canton already has the institutions. What it needs now is

an adoption layer that makes the network usable day-to-day. Builders need clean tooling and opinionated templates. Institutions need deterministic workflows, real privacy, and a clear path from pilot to production. Users need interfaces that feel like modern fintech, not a command line. This is exactly what Cantor 8 delivers. Just T-H-E-beginning Cantor 8's a existing stack is just the beginning. Next up are modules for identity and KYC, institutional settlement flows, RWA issuance frameworks, compliance rails, and cross-application interoperability so Canton feels like an institutional Web3 operating system, not a set of isolated apps. Cantor aids a role is to be the primary accelerator for that future, shipping reusable building blocks, co-designing products

with ecosystem partners, and seating a university fellowship and research program that funds DAML-based projects and student-led experiments on Canton Network. Get involved if you're a builder who cares about compliant, real-world crypto. Canton is the network to watch and Cantor 8 is the team shipping on it. Grab the C-8 wallet, explore the vault, and plug into the community to see what institutional grade web 3 actually feels like in practice. Follow Cantor 8 on X and LinkedIn and be the first to hear about the company's allotist products, launches, and news. Thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by artificial intelligence. Visit hackernoon.com to read, write, learn and publish.