Controlled rails for tokenised markets
Canvas Connect gives institutions a permissioned environment for tokenised assets, digital money settlement, and the controls wholesale markets expect.
Built for markets that cannot run in the open
Wholesale finance needs known participants, controlled data, reliable records, and settlement flows that connect asset movement with money movement.
Public infrastructure was not built for every market
Trading intentions, positions, and counterparties often need to stay private
Only eligible institutions should be able to participate in a workflow
The asset leg and money leg need to move together, with clear records
Market operators need evidence they can review, export, and explain
A network layer for controlled workflows
Privacy patterns for sensitive commercial activity
Network permissions for participants, roles, and administrators
Workflows that coordinate tokenised assets with digital money
Ethereum-compatible tooling for teams already building on-chain
Controls for institutional workflows
Canvas Connect keeps the useful parts of Ethereum development while adding the boundaries institutions need before real market workflows can scale.
Known Participants
Define who can join a workflow, what role they hold, and which actions they can perform.
Controlled Visibility
Keep sensitive activity away from the open market while preserving the ability to review it when required.
Ethereum Tooling
Use Solidity and familiar developer workflows without forcing every market process onto public rails.
Market Records
Carry the records needed for operations, audit, reporting, and dispute resolution alongside the transaction flow.
Settlement Coordination
Connect asset movement, money movement, custody updates, and lifecycle events in one workflow.
Acacia Research Scope
Canvas Connect was used in Project Acacia use cases involving tokenised bonds, private credit, and pilot wholesale CBDC settlement.
From asset design to settlement record
Canvas Connect is designed around the actual shape of a market workflow: parties, assets, money, and evidence.
Define the market
Set the participants, roles, and permissions before the workflow goes live
Model the asset
Represent the instrument, ownership rules, and lifecycle events in contract logic
Connect the money leg
Coordinate tokenised assets with the settlement asset used by the workflow
Keep the record
Maintain the evidence needed for operations, review, and market reporting
Case Studies
Proven results from real institutional implementations with central banks and regulators
Where Canvas Connect fits
The common thread is not “blockchain for everything.” It is controlled tokenised-market activity where settlement, permissions, and records matter.
Tokenised Securities
Issue, transfer, service, and settle tokenised instruments with participant controls built into the workflow.
Wholesale Digital Money
Connect tokenised assets to the form of digital money required for the transaction model.
Collateral and Repo
Project Acacia included Canvas work on tokenised Australian Government bond workflows, including lending, repo, secondary trading, and coupon payments.
Private Credit Funds
Project Acacia also included a Canvas use case for tokenised shares in a vehicle investing in a real estate credit fund.
Seen in Project Acacia
In the RBA and DFCRC research program, Canvas led two use cases on Canvas Connect: one for tokenised government bond workflows and one for a private credit vehicle.
The program covered tokenised-market workflows across assets, money forms, and settlement models.
The final report names Canvas Government Bond and Canvas Private Credit Fund.
The Canvas use cases used Canvas Connect as the permissioned, EVM-compatible Layer 2.
The Canvas use cases settled tokenised instruments using pilot wholesale CBDC.
Ecosystem
Leading institutions and infrastructure providers powering the future of institutional finance
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Sanlam Private Wealth
Private wealth and investment management services
Alceon
Alternative investment solutions and asset management
Fireblocks
Enterprise-grade digital asset custody and wallet infrastructure
DFCRC
Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre
Controls where the market needs them
A tokenised market still needs the basics of finance: accountable participants, reliable records, and controlled access to sensitive information.
Disclosure by design
Share sensitive transaction information with the right internal teams, counterparties, or approved observers.
Records mapped to obligations
Keep transaction evidence aligned with the operational and reporting needs of the workflow.
Participant permissions
Use identity, role, and allowlist controls to define who can transact, view, and administer.
Operational audit trail
Maintain a structured activity record for review, reconciliation, and market operations.
Privacy without losing the record
Canvas Connect is designed for markets where commercial information cannot be exposed to everyone, but cannot disappear into a black box either.
Sensitive transaction data can be kept out of the open market.
Approved reviewers can receive the information they need for oversight and operations.
Developers can separate public state from workflow data that needs tighter control.
That balance is what makes tokenised-market infrastructure usable for institutions, not just technically interesting.
Build with familiar tools
Canvas Connect keeps Ethereum-compatible development patterns while adding the network assumptions institutional workflows need: permissions, records, and controlled access.
Write Solidity contracts with familiar Ethereum patterns
Add permissions and records to the workflow itself
Connect applications through standard RPC-style interfaces
Work with Canvas on documentation and network access
Canvas Connect integration model Network Permissioned EVM Access Approved institutions Workflows Issuance, transfer, settlement Controls Permissions and visibility Settlement Digital money with asset movement Evidence Project Acacia public use cases
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