We're thrilled to announce Canto is building with
@0xPolygonLabs
to migrate to a ZK L2 on Ethereum– powered by Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK).
This ZK chain will be dedicated to Real World Assets in support of the next wave of application-layer adoption via neofinance.
Canto Testnet is now available at the following RPC settings:
Network Name: Canto Testnet
RPC URL:
Chain ID: 740
Currency Symbol: CANTO
No testnet block explorer yet.
Announcing Canto's Cyclone Stack 🌪️⚡A Parallel Execution EVM.
Innovative Upgrades = Performance Like Never Before
⚒️ Three key upgrades support Cyclone Stack...
1️⃣ The Callisto Upgrade
Already in motion! Preparing to slash block times to sub-second intervals, leveraging the…
The team is currently working on some issues that were identified on testnet. We'll announce an updated launch schedule when the issues have been addressed.
We're pleased to introduce the judges for Season 5 of
@theCOH_
👾
🛠️ Build alongside DeFi-native mentors, compete for up to 300,000 CANTO in prizes, and launch the next wave of apps, NFTs, and infrastructure.
Apply to hack:
Barring emergent blockers, two proposals will be published today to initiate the liquidity mining program.
Proposal IDs:
#13
: Reservoir Proposal to send CANTO for LM
#14
: Liquidity Mining Start Proposal
Contributors have successfully completed the Canto mainnet upgrade to version 3.0.0.
The Dragonberry patch is now implemented as a security upgrade for IBC-enabled Cosmos chains. Thank you for your patience.
We're pleased to introduce the judges for Season 7 of the Canto Online Hackathon.
▶️ Build alongside DeFi-native mentors, developers & creatives.
▶️ Launch the next wave of experimental apps, games & NFTs.
▶️ Compete to win from ⋐300,000.
Apply to hack:
With one week left to build, Canto Online Hackathon teams are on their final sprints to deliver the next wave of apps, DeFi protocols, games, NFTs, and infrastructure.
Here are some of the projects building in Season 5 of
@theCOH_
beginning with 👾 Group 1 👾
.
@B__Harvest
and Canto contributors have begun the upgrade process to Cosmos SDK v0.50, an initial step ahead of Canto's migration to a ZK L2 powered by
@0xPolygonLabs
.
The Canto Lending Market now supports $fBILL & $ifBILL as collateral for $NOTE, Canto's unit of account.
Issued by
@_Fortunafi
, these tokenized US treasury bills enable US & international access to native RWAs within Canto's neofinance infrastructure.
Synapse is coming to Canto.
Join us next week for details on the collaboration to enable bridging between Canto, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, and more.
1/ With the passing of the Canto deployment proposal, Synapse is coming to
@CantoPublic
To better educate the Synapse community about the Canto network, contributors from both projects will host a community spaces next Wednesday October 12th at 2pm EST!
Join us today for the Canto Online Hackathon judging ceremony.
Support the builders as they present new Canto projects & compete for prizes in
@theCOH_
Chapter 1: Season 1.
Voting is now live for the
@SynapseProtocol
proposal to deploy onto Canto.
If passed, teams will launch a new liquidity pool (nUSD / NOTE) to enable users to bridge assets between Canto, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, & BNB Chain.
SYN holders vote here:
We're thrilled to announce the judges for the first Canto Online Hackathon.
Join over 100 developers, creatives, and communicators to launch the next wave of apps and infrastructure on Canto.
Apply to hack:
The Canto Lending Market now supports $USYC as collateral for $NOTE, Canto's unit of account.
Managed by Hashnote, a
@CumberlandSays
-backed platform, these tokenized treasury bills are the first RWA to launch within Canto's neofinance infrastructure.
Canto interface v3 is now live.
This update features:
- support for Canto-native RWAs on the Canto Lending Market
-
@ambient_finance
incentivized LP for $cNOTE /USDC
- improved bridge UX powered by
@gravity_bridge
and
@LayerZero_Labs
It's hackathon preview time 🛠️
With the finish line in sight, teams are adding the final touches to their Canto builds – from infrastructure & DeFi protocols to the most divergent ideas.
Here are some of the projects building in Season 6 of
@theCOH_
.
Contributors have successfully completed the Canto mainnet upgrade to version 4.0.0.
The govshuttle patch is now implemented. A proposal to enable LM emissions will be resubmitted shortly.
A proposal to upgrade Canto to the v7.0.0 binary will be submitted Sept. 20 at 11:30am ET.
This upgrade introduces the x/onboarding module to streamline Canto bridging & automatically convert bridged assets (initially USDC, USDT, ETH) to the Canto EVM.
Join us on Sunday for the Canto Online Hackathon judging ceremony.
Support the builders as they present new Canto projects & compete for prizes in
@theCOH_
Chapter 1, Season 5.
Subscribe to set a reminder:
Canto design philosophy is to favor economic motivations where they are effective, and social motivations where necessary.
Public Infrastructure is built because it is in the public’s own interest. Ready to build?
A proposal to reduce minimum gas price will be submitted to governance 11am EST, Friday March 22.
This will greatly reduce the cost of transactions on Canto.
A 95% reduction. 🚢
IBC transfers can now be initiated directly on the interface.
This simplifies the bridging process for supported
@cosmos
assets – including ATOM, GRAV, OSMO & more.
A proposal to upgrade the Canto Lending Market (CLM) comptroller implementation will be submitted Thursday, Oct 12 at ~11:30am ET.
This upgrade prepares the CLM for Real World Asset (RWA) support.
Free Public Infrastructure should be scalable, and upgrade to the best sets of technologies available.
Big updates coming to the canto growth story, keep watch. 🧙♂️
𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠. . .
It's
@theCOH_
project preview time 🛠️
With <1 week left to build, teams are racing to deliver the next wave of Canto apps, infrastructure, DeFi protocols, NFTs, games, and more.
Here are some of the projects building in Season 7 of the Canto Online Hackathon.
Verifying my identity for
@viamirror
sig:0xf59dad9ce15f838195bb3527e19bd7cc815cfbdb8cc10a771c5a06720339e7a95aeffa87dca4a106f3df12d50dbb17872097e33850d68c8b8f377257c7dec1061b
A proposal to support and configure Hashnote’s USYC as collateral in the Canto Lending Market will be submitted on Monday, Oct 16 at ~3:30pm UTC / ~11:30am ET.
On Wednesday, Dec 13 at ~10:30am ET four proposals will be submitted to initiate incentives for the Neofinance Coordinator, reduce security emissions by 10%, reduce liquidity mining incentives by 10%, and remove USDT & USDC incentives.
The proposal to fund an engagement with B-Harvest to maintain and further develop Canto’s SDK will be published in 24 hours.
Stakers can expect a detailed scope to be available on
👋 We’re Plex! We met in school studying CS. We all went into traditional finance after graduating, but after a few years, realized we want to build defi instead. We formed Plex to explore new forms of social coordination and reward mechanisms and contribute to
@CantoPublic
.
Increased throughput and lower block speeds are coming to Canto thanks to an optimistic parallel execution engine...
⚡️ Cyclone EVM ⚡️
Here's what you need to know about Canto's most significant performance improvement👇
🌐 The EVM is Ethereum's computational engine. A…
Proposals to support and configure
@_Fortunafi
's fBILL and ifBILL as collateral in the Canto Lending Market will be submitted on Tuesday, Nov 28 at ~3:30pm UTC / ~10:30am ET.
On Monday, Jan 8 at ~10:30am ET three proposals will be submitted: to fund the
@code4rena
audit for
@1155tech
, to whitelist tokens from the
@cosmos
hub to be auto-converted to the Canto EVM, and to reopen the IBC client between Canto and
@Injective_
.
On October 10th, a majority of the voting power on Canto Network successfully patched their nodes to mitigate and protect against a security vulnerability recently found for IBC-enabled chains.
Contributors will continue to monitor and update as needed.
A software upgrade proposal will be submitted shortly to patch a bug in the govshuttle module. This bug caused issues with CLM governance, not allowing proposals to be written to the governance contract on the Canto EVM.
A proposal to fund liquidity mining rewards for the cNOTE/USDC pair on
@ambient_finance
will be submitted on Thursday, Oct 19 at ~3:30pm UTC / ~11:30am ET.
The beta Canto interface () now supports the bridging of $cNOTE native tokens to Ethereum, powered by
@LayerZero_Labs
.
An integral part of neofinance, $cNOTE is a tokenized deposit of $NOTE, a unit of account backed by Canto-native T-Bills.
.
@CantoPublic
has integrated with the LayerZero Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard to make cNOTE an OFT.
Native cNOTE can now be transferred seamlessly between Canto and Ethereum.
Join us for season 8 of
@theCOH_
.
▶️ Build alongside DeFi-native mentors, developers & creatives.
▶️ Compete to win prize shares from a ⋐300,000 rewards pool.
Apply to hack:
Canto is taking developer experience to the next level with
@Subsquid
Canto's recent hackathon saw an increase in high-quality projects, and revealed the need for a robust indexing solution 🌟
➡️ Enter Subsquid ⬅️
Subsquid's decentralized, multichain data lake replaces the…
👾 We're pleased to introduce the judges for Season 4 of
@theCOH_
👾
🛠️ Build alongside DeFi-native mentors, compete for up to 300,000 CANTO in prizes, and launch the next wave of apps, NFTs, and infrastructure.
Apply to hack:
A proposal to increase Canto gas fees from their current levels and to enable Contract Secured Revenue (CSR) will be submitted Thursday, Jan 26 at ~11am EST.
Tomorrow, join Canto contributor
@abovethebias
on the
@gravity_bridge
Twitter space to discuss the future of DeFi infrastructure and public goods.
Set a reminder:
Canto's dev community is active, engaged, and growing fast 🔥
76+ active developers 🏗️
18 full-time developers 🚢
600+ repos with Canto code ⌨️
A decentralized network of devs from around the world are building on Canto for RWA, defi primitives and Free Pubic Infrastructure.🌪…
Roadmap Update: Canto's Cyclone Stack 🌪️
@b__harvest
and other contributors have been working hard to make Canto faster and more resilient 👨💻
Faster Performance → Better Experience → Wider Adoption
Here's an update on Cyclone's Upgrades:
The Callisto Upgrade - Coming…
Proposals to add support for cosmos-ecosystem assets, and a proposal to fund a relayer feegrant multisig to improve performance of IBC transfers, will be submitted to Canto governance on Friday, March 31 at 11am ET.