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Deep Dive on Permissioned Blockchains - The Canton Network

1. Executive Summary What is Canton Canton is positioned as a “network of networks” for finance: a way to let institutions run privacy-preserving DLT applications while still enabling atomic, cross-application workflows via shared synchronization infrastructure. The Canton protocol is a Daml-based interoperability runtime that creates a “virtual global ledger” without a single globally replicated state. Institutions have repeatedly hit three blockers with both public chains and earlier per...