WalletConnect has added support for Canton Network, a blockchain built for institutional finance. The two companies first revealed the partnership at EthCC in Cannes, during a panel moderated by The Defiant's senior editor Olivia Capozzalo, before releasing the news publicly today, April 22.
The deal aims to bring Canton's privacy-focused infrastructure to WalletConnect's global ecosystem, enabling access to stablecoin payments, tokenized real-world assets, and DeFi applications. According to a press release viewed by The Defiant, the crypto infrastructure firm’s ecosystem supports 700 crypto wallets, 70,000 decentralized applications, and 55.5 million users, all of which can now connect to the protocol, which is within the top-20 chains by market cap, per CoinGecko.
Canton currently boasts over $8 trillion in tokenized assets processed monthly and more than $350 billion in U.S. Treasuries settled daily, per the release.
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