Canton is a next-generation Daml ledger interoperability protocol that implements Daml's built-in models of authorization and privacy faithfully.

• By partitioning the global state it solves both the privacy problems and the scaling bottlenecks of platforms such as

• It allows developers to balance auditability requirements with the right to forget, making it well-suited for building

• Canton handles authentication and data transport through our so-called synchronizers.

• Synchronizers can be deployed at will to address scalability, operational or trust concerns.

• Synchronizers are permissioned but can be federated at no interoperability cost, yielding a virtual global ledger that

Refer to the Canton Whitepaper for further details.

Documentation

Please refer to the Documentation for for instructions on how to operate a participant node or a synchronizer.

Development

Please read our CONTRIBUTING guidelines.