Kintsu opens private beta on Canton Network for lending and staking

Kintsu has opened a private beta on Canton Network. Users can borrow, lend, manage vaults, and stake using tokenized assets. The beta went live around October 8-9, 2026. Access is invitation-only, which fits the network it is built on. What testers can actually do The beta centers on Canton Coin, or CC, the network’s native crypto asset. CC plays two roles here: it serves as collateral, and it can be staked for yield. Participants can supply USDC to lending markets. Borrowers can then take loans against CC collateral. Testers can also submit CC staking requests through the Canton testnet. The lending markets use variable-rate models. Borrowing costs therefore move with supply and demand. Not everything is switched on yet. Kintsu has said its market and vault features are expected soon. Curated vaults are among the pieces still coming. The private beta is designed as a step toward private mainnet access. Kintsu is framing the whole effort around what it calls privacy-preserving composability. How Kintsu got here Kintsu did not start life as a credit platform. It launched as a liquid staking protocol focused on yield-bearing tokens. Liquid staking lets users stake assets and still ho...