🎬 Meeting Recording

https://youtu.be/9vN03wI8jxM

📝 Executive Summary

1️⃣ New Official Docs Launch

• docs.canton.network is the new unified home for Canton documentation.
• Built with MCP & AI-assistant support baked in - major pain point of the old Daml docs experience is now solved.
• Single source of truth going forward - old fragmented docs deprecated.
• "Canton for Ethereum developers" section: dedicated mental-model comparison for devs transitioning from EVM (privacy model, parties vs addresses, no global state, etc.).
• New content being added continuously. Start at App Development section.

2️⃣ Canton Network Architecture Refresher

• Network of networks - no single blockchain, no single global state.
• Global Synchronizer - looked after by the Foundation; the connective tissue between independent validators.
• Splice protocol - name reflects the fact that each validator runs their own "splice" of the ledger (subnet).
• Validators host parties - every validator gets its own sharded ledger view.
• No wallet addresses - identities on the ledger are parties (UTXO-style). To send funds you send to a party, not an address.
• Canton metaphor - Swiss cantons: independently governed states, but networked together. That's why the protocol is called "Canton."
• Institutional appeal - independent governance per validator + automatic interoperability via Global Synchronizer (e.g., DTC, Visa, Mastercard could each run validators yet still transact together).

3️⃣ Privacy Model

• Stakeholders see their own data on their own infra.