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DAY 14 — 30 DAYS INSIDE CANTON
WHY DOES CANTON NEED A TOKEN IF IT'S BUILT FOR INSTITUTIONS?
At first, this confused me too.
If Canton is connecting banks, asset managers, payment systems and other financial applications, why introduce a crypto token?
The answer is utility.
Canton Coin (CC) is used to pay for network usage → what Canton calls traffic fees.
Think of it like paying for the infrastructure that moves your transaction.
But there's another part that makes Canton’s model interesting.
When network usage creates fees:
→ CC is burned when traffic fees are used
→ CC can be minted as rewar

DAY 13 — 30 DAYS INSIDE CANTON
WHAT IS TOKENIZATION, AND WHY DOES CANTON CARE ABOUT IT?
Tokenization sounds complicated.
But the basic idea is simple:
Take something that exists in the real world and represent its ownership or value digitally on a blockchain.
Think:
🏦 U.S. Treasury
💵 Money-market fund
📄 Bond
🏠 Real-world asset
Instead of relying entirely on traditional records to track ownership and movement, a token can represent that asset onchain.
But here's the important part:
Creating a token isn't the hard part.
The real challenge is what happens after the asset is tokenized.
Can it

DAY 10 — 30 DAYS INSIDE CANTON
What is a CANTON VALIDATOR?
If the Global Synchronizer is the coordination layer, then Validators are one of the main gateways into Canton.
Think of a Validator as a secure gateway between users/applications and the Canton Network.
A Validator node can:
→ Connect users to Canton applications
→ Host parties and manage their relevant transactions
→ Validate transactions involving the parties it hosts
→ Connect to synchronizers
→ Provide access to Canton-native assets and applications
And here's something important:
A Validator does NOT need to see every transaction

DAY 09 — 30 DAYS INSIDE CANTON
WHO ACTUALLY RUNS CANTON?
This is an important question.
Because if Canton is supposed to connect major financial institutions, who makes sure the network keeps working?
The answer isn't:
“One company.”
Canton's Global Synchronizer is operated through a group of Super Validators.
These are organizations that run the infrastructure needed to participate in the Global Synchronizer's consensus process.
And they don't simply take turns deciding what happens.
The Global Synchronizer uses Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus, meaning the network can continue reachi

DAY 09 — 30 DAYS INSIDE CANTON
Who actually runs Canton?
This is an important question.
Because if Canton is supposed to connect major financial institutions, who makes sure the network keeps working?
The answer isn't:
“One company.”
Canton's Global Synchronizer is operated through a group of Super Validators.
These are organizations that run the infrastructure needed to participate in the Global Synchronizer's consensus process.
And they don't simply take turns deciding what happens.
The Global Synchronizer uses Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus, meaning the network can continue reachi