Investment Secured: $135M Strategic Funding Round Headed by DRW Venture Capital and Tradeweb in Canton Network
Digital Asset Holdings, a leading blockchain technology company, is aggressively expanding its Canton Network, a privacy-focused blockchain designed specifically for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. In June 2025, the company raised $135 million in a strategic funding round led by DRW Venture Capital and Tradeweb Markets, attracting significant investment from top financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, BNP Paribas, Circle Ventures, BNY Mellon, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Virtu Financial, and Paxos among others.
The raised capital is earmarked to accelerate the onboarding and integration of real-world assets onto the Canton Network. The platform already supports a diverse array of asset classes, including bonds, money market funds, commodities, repurchase agreements, mortgages, insurance products, and alternative funds. With this expansion, Digital Asset aims to enhance the network’s capacity to handle billions of dollars in RWAs efficiently, while addressing critical industry challenges related to privacy and regulatory compliance.
Financial giants like Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon are actively testing RWAs on the network, demonstrating strong institutional interest and validation of the technology’s potential to transform regulated markets. The Canton Network offers configurable privacy, allowing institutions to balance transparency with confidentiality as needed—an important feature for banks and traditional financial entities wary of blockchain’s transparency trade-offs.
Moreover, the ecosystem is growing beyond just asset tokenization. Firms like Fairmint are integrating equity ownership solutions onto Canton by porting the Open CapTable Protocol (OCP), aiming to solve critical issues around equity cap table management with on-chain programmable compliance and institutional control, supported by the network’s privacy-first architecture. This move brings a new asset class to Canton’s institutional blockchain infrastructure alongside bonds and real estate tokenization.
In summary, Digital Asset Holdings, backed by major financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, and others, is expanding the Canton Blockchain as a leading platform for tokenizing a broad spectrum of real-world assets, pushing forward blockchain adoption in regulated finance with a focus on privacy, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
[1] Digital Asset Holdings Press Release, 2025. [2] CoinDesk, "Digital Asset Raises $135M for Canton Network, a Privacy-Focused Blockchain for Real-World Asset Tokenization," June 2025. [3] Fairmint Press Release, 2025. [4] The Block, "Canton Network: A Privacy-Focused Blockchain for Real-World Asset Tokenization," June 2025.
The raised capital from strategic funding rounds is used by Digital Asset Holdings to enhance the capacity of the Canton Network, supporting a diverse range of asset classes such as bonds, money market funds, commodities, and insurance products in the realm of finance and investing. With the expansion, the platform aims to address critical industry challenges related to privacy and regulatory compliance.
As the ecosystem grows, equity ownership solutions are being integrated onto Canton by firms like Fairmint, porting the Open CapTable Protocol (OCP), targeting solutions for equity cap table management with on-chain programmable compliance and institutional control, thereby bringing a new asset class to Canton's institutional blockchain infrastructure alongside bonds and real estate tokenization.
