Digital Asset raised its total funding to $365 million on July 21, 2026, after Shinhan Financial Group and Standard Chartered's venture arm SC Ventures each contributed to a fresh $10 million tranche, leaving the company's equity valuation unchanged at $2 billion.
The flat valuation is the story here. In a market that still celebrates headline marks, keeping the number steady while adding two globally regulated banks to the cap table signals something deliberate. Shinhan and SC Ventures both run active tokenization programs. They are not momentum chasers. They are buying access to infrastructure they expect to route real assets through.
What else changed on Canton
Beyond the funding headline, Canton Network's internal mechanics are shifting. Canton Improvement Proposal CIP-0105 now requires Super Validators to lock 70% of their CC rewards, a tighter constraint than before. A commercial "locking as a service" product is launching specifically to help validators comply without managing that complexity themselves.
On the builder side, Palladium Labs announced a 10 million CC Genesis Fund. At current prices that works out to roughly $1.5 million, targeted at development teams building on Canton.
A flat extension backed by two banks already elbow-deep in regulated finance is not glamorous. But the pipeline it suggests, tokenized assets moving through corridors with real compliance muscle behind them, is exactly the kind of plumbing that turns pilots into revenue.
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