Canton Development Fund

Milestone grants in Canton Coin for open protocol work, SDKs, security and shared infrastructure on the Canton Network.

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Applications are reviewed as they arrive. There is no deadline to plan around.

Grant size: Size not published; No published ceiling
Paid in: Canton Coin; In milestone tranches
Funding model: Rolling; Apply any time. Reviewed as applications arrive.
Typical decision: 6 weeks; From submission to an answer

Checked Oct 1 against 1 source. Confirm amounts and dates on github.com before you apply.

About the program

The Canton Development Fund pays for open work that makes the Canton Network more useful, secure and resilient: core protocol research, developer tools and SDKs, security reviews, reference implementations and shared infrastructure. Canton has no premine or treasury, so the fund is fed by 5% of future Canton Coin emissions, set by CIP-0082.

You submit a proposal as a pull request to the canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund repository, either in answer to one of the Foundation's published Requests for Proposals or as your own initiative. Special Interest Groups and Core Contributors review it, the Tech & Ops Committee assesses it, and a five-member Voting Group makes the final call.

Grants are paid in Canton Coin after each milestone is accepted, and sizes vary widely: a community toolkit asked for 200,000 CC, while OpenZeppelin's accepted ecosystem stack proposal totals about 28.4M CC. The fund only supports work that is a common good for the ecosystem, not private or proprietary products.

What they fund

Network stability, maintainability and Super Validator monitoring
Scaling: multi-synchronizer architecture and BFT throughput
Developer experience: SDKs, token and wallet standards, documentation and training
Security auditing, hardening and resilience
DeFi liquidity seeding where needed for early utility

Who can apply

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Canton Foundation members, contributor organizations, external teams and individuals
External applicants need a Champion to sponsor the proposal
Outputs must be a shared good for the Canton ecosystem, with a plan for who maintains them
The committee reviews at most three proposals a week from one organization or champion

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How applying works

Read the roadmap
Check the 2026 to 2028 strategic roadmap and RFPs, and decide whether you are answering an RFP or proposing your own initiative.
Open a pull request
Fork the repository, add your proposal from the template with milestones, acceptance criteria and a CC funding breakdown, and title it 'Proposal: <name>'.
Community and SIG review
SIG members and Core Contributors review and help refine the proposal, with a security review where relevant.
Committee decision
The Tech & Ops Committee assesses it and the Voting Group gives final approval.
Milestone payments
Canton Coin is released only after each milestone is accepted.

Sources

Checked on Oct 1 against these pages. Programs change often, so confirm the details on github.com before you apply.

github.com/canton-foundation/canton-dev-fund

About the program

What they fund

Who can apply

How applying works

Read the roadmap

Open a pull request

Community and SIG review

Committee decision

Milestone payments

Sources

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