Digital Asset, the company behind the Canton Network blockchain for tokenised real-world assets, has secured $135 million in fresh funding from a powerhouse group of Wall Street institutions and crypto-native firms. The round was co-led by DRW Venture Capital and Tradeweb Markets, with participation from Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, BNP Paribas, Circle Ventures, DTCC, Paxos, Polychain Capital, and others.
This investment marks a significant milestone for the firm, signaling deep institutional confidence in Canton Network’s role as a blockchain infrastructure tailored for capital markets. Many investors were already involved in Canton’s ecosystem—such as Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas—and have been working on governance, infrastructure, and app development on the platform.
Canton Network has expanded rapidly over the last year, now encompassing nearly 400 participants and supporting real-world asset classes including bonds, repos, money market funds, alternative investments, and even insurance products. The network boasts hundreds of billions of dollars in tokenized assets, making it one of the most advanced institutional blockchain ecosystems currently in deployment.
Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz stated, “This funding milestone validates the inevitability of what we envisioned years ago: a privacy-enabled public blockchain designed specifically for institutional adoption. Canton is already actively supporting numerous asset classes—and this raise will accelerate onboarding even more real-world assets, finally making blockchain’s transformative promise an institutional-scale reality.”
With this capital, Digital Asset aims to further scale the Canton Network and cement its role in bringing institutional-grade infrastructure to tokenized financial markets.