Canton’s Decentralized App Layer Launches, Backed by $1M+ Foundation Grant

[PRESS RELEASE – New York, United States, July 28th, 2026] BitSafe has released infrastructure for builders launching decentralized financial applications on Canton Network. Backed by a Canton Foundation Development Fund grant of over $1 million (8,500,000 $CC), BitSafe today opened the public beta of Decentralization Manager, an open-source framework allowing apps and institutions to build resilient products that distribute control across multiple independent operators. Canton Network has become critical infrastructure for institutions bringing real capital and operations on-chain. Meeting institutional application standards requires audit trails and distributed trust, but until now every team building on Canton has had to build threshold custody, governance, and audit infrastructure from scratch. Decentralization Manager makes those reusable, so teams build the application, not the infrastructure. Independently audited by Quantstamp, Decentralization Manager marks an exciting expansion of on-chain use cases and allows institutions to continue leveraging the network’s privacy-native architecture while mitigating risk by distributing their operations. Decentralization Manager ships...