Question 1

What is Canton Coin (CC)?

Accepted Answer

Canton Coin (CC) is the native, fungible utility token of the Canton Network's Global Synchronizer. It is used for value transfer, to incentivize participants that provide network utility, and to pay costs of this synchronization infrastructure; CC is not a collective term for all tokenized assets on the Canton Network, nor does it represent ownership of any underlying financial asset.

Question 2

What is the relationship between CC and the Canton Network?

Accepted Answer

CC serves the Global Synchronizer, which is infrastructure that connects Canton subnets and supports cross-subnet reachability and interoperability, operated in a decentralized manner by super validators. Canton allows application providers to set their own applications' privacy, permissions, scaling, and governance; CC is therefore the native instrument for this public synchronization service, rather than the sole asset that all applications are required to use.

Question 3

What are CC's main uses?

Accepted Answer

CC has three interrelated uses: incentivizing network contributors, serving as an optional native payment method for purchasing Global Synchronizer transaction traffic, and serving as an optional payment method for application service fees. Super validators provide a small amount of free transaction traffic, while traffic above that allowance must be prepaid; application providers may choose CC- or U.S.-dollar-denominated service fees and process CC payments through the Global Synchronizer. Whether CC is used depends on the configuration of the specific service and application.

Question 4

Which participants may receive CC incentives?

Accepted Answer

Participants that may receive CC minting rewards are those that provide measurable utility to the network, rather than those receiving rewards merely for holding early. Officially listed roles include validators that provide network access to their hosts and validate transactions, super validators participating in the Global Synchronizer, and application providers that give users access and submit some transactions to the Global Synchronizer. Users also form part of network activity when using and transferring CC, but not all user actions automatically generate minting rewards.

Question 5

Does CC have a premine or presale?

Accepted Answer

Official materials state that CC has no premine or venture-capital allocation, and CC in circulation should be obtained by providing network utility. It is important here to distinguish between “mintable capacity” and “tokens already in circulation”: the supply curve opens minting capacity that participants may claim over time, but new tokens are minted and enter circulation only after participants make rule-compliant network contributions.

Question 6

What is CC's burn-mint mechanism?

Accepted Answer

CC's burn-mint equilibrium places use and issuance in the same economic cycle: when users use public infrastructure for transactions, settlement, data synchronization, or asset transfers, fees paid in CC are permanently burned; meanwhile, validators, super validators, and application providers may mint rewards when providing measurable utility. Increased activity may increase both fee burning and contribution rewards, while the net change in circulating supply depends on their relative scale, rather than being determined by “burning” or “minting” alone.

Question 7

How does CC supply enter circulation?

Accepted Answer

CC's mintable capacity is released according to a preset curve. The official whitepaper states that up to 100 billion tokens may be minted during the first ten years of Global Synchronizer operation, with 50% each for infrastructure providers and application providers; after ten years, up to 2.5 billion tokens may be minted annually, with approximately 75% for application providers and 25% for infrastructure providers. This curve describes the timing of available capacity, not that capacity automatically becomes circulating supply; actual minting remains conditional on contributing network utility.

Question 8

How does CC differ from other assets on Canton?

Accepted Answer

CC is the fungible native utility token of the Global Synchronizer and mainly serves fee, value-transfer, and incentive functions; other assets on Canton may be issued or managed by different applications and may have their own privacy, permissions, and economic rights. Holding CC does not automatically grant rights in those other assets; conversely, using a Canton application does not necessarily mean its asset is CC.

Question 9

How can participants contribute to CC-related network utility?

Accepted Answer

The path to participating in CC-related network utility depends on the role. Validators provide network access for their hosts and validate transactions on Canton participant nodes running the CC application; super validators, in addition to validator functions, participate in the Global Synchronizer and validate every CC transfer through two-thirds-majority BFT consensus; application providers operate Canton applications that allow users and their nodes to access the network and route at least some transactions through the Global Synchronizer. Node eligibility and specific configuration must follow the applicable network rules.

Question 10

Is CC controlled by a single institution?

Accepted Answer

CC is not pre-issued by a single issuer; node participants connected to the Global Synchronizer can directly mint CC under the protocol for infrastructure or application utility. However, Global Synchronizer operations, CC application configuration, and transactions are subject to two-thirds-majority action by all super validators; this threshold covers the active super-validator set, the minting curve, entitlement allocation, fees, and protocol improvements. Decentralized governance does not mean that any individual token holder can change these parameters alone.

Question 11

Can CC fee and reward information be viewed?

Accepted Answer

Most Canton assets and transactions can remain private by default, visible only to issuers, owners, and permitted parties; CC is designed to provide public visibility related to network use. Official materials state that CC positions and transfers can be publicly viewed, and reward allocations and CC fees are also published; when a CC transfer and a private transaction form an atomic transaction, the private sub-transaction retains its privacy characteristics.

Question 12

Where can I obtain official information about CC?

Accepted Answer

CC's token role and the fee and incentive logic of the Global Synchronizer are available in the official Canton Network FAQ; more specific role definitions, the minting curve, governance thresholds, privacy, and payment mechanisms are available in the Canton Coin MiCA Whitepaper. When operating a node, accessing an application, or assessing a configuration, the technical and governance rules then applicable to the relevant service should also be checked, because some parameters may be adjusted through prescribed super-validator governance procedures.

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