July Ecosystem Update 👀 ◽ Head of Canton Foundation @Viv_Diwakar joined a panel at Out East Summit, digging into whether trillion-dollar finance can actually run on public blockchain rails. ◽ Canton Builders Office Hours returned on July 9th with COO Amanda Martin for a deep dive into validator infrastructure. ◽ Canton Foundation entered into an MOU with NETSTARS to explore payment infrastructure balancing privacy and compliance under the StarPay-X initiative. ◽ The x402 payment standard went live on @CantonNetwork, built by the FTP Tech team. ◽ Canton Coin (CC) became available on @OKCoinJapan, marking its first order-book access in Japan. ◽ Canton Network and Canton Foundation traveled to @WebX_Asia in Tokyo for three days of sessions on tokenized fixed income and institutional infrastructure. ◽ @The_DTCC processed real production trades using DTC-tokenized U.S. Treasury and equity securities on Canton, advancing the partnership announced in December 2025. ◽ @Ekidenfi approved as a Featured App, an institutional derivatives exchange combining CLOB and RFQ execution. ◽ Canton Builders Office Hours returned again on July 22nd, featuring @FTPWhatSoEver and @ITRocket_Team demoing what they've shipped at the application and infrastructure layers. ◽ New Canton Foundation Developer Series video: Vibe Coding on Canton with CF Claude, covering the Canton Developer Hub, MCP Server, and Daml Skill for Claude Code. ◽ @BitSafe_Finance's Decentralization Manager went live in public beta, backed by a Canton Foundation Development Fund grant and audited by @Quantstamp. ◽ @Visa joined Canton Foundation as a General Member, deepening a relationship that began with Visa's Super Validator status earlier this year. The Canton Network ecosystem continues to grow, govern, and build.