Canton Network Completes First Stock Trades

Canton Strategic Holdings, an investor in the Canton Network ecosystem, has completed the first trades of its tokenized common stock on TSV, a permissioned trading venue for tokenized securities. The trades took place on November 4 under the SEC’s Innovation Exemption introduced on September 17.

The transaction involved Five North, an existing shareholder of the company, DRW Cumberland, an institutional trading firm, and Flowdesk, a digital asset market-making company. Fairmint, an SEC-registered transfer agent, recorded the shares in tokenized form. The trades were executed through Tradecraft, an automated market maker protocol, and settled on the Canton Network.

The companies say the first trades demonstrate how publicly listed U.S. stocks can move onchain while remaining under existing regulatory requirements. The project also gives issuers control over how their shares are tokenized and traded.

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