Canton's Featured App program adds cross-chain entrants, pauses others for review
Tokenomics advanced five new Featured Apps — mostly bridges and cross-chain swap tools — for onchain approval while pausing two apps and revoking a partyID pending review.
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In its June 10 outcomes, Tokenomics cleared five applications for Featured App status and submitted them for Super Validator onchain approval: PixelPlex's CCBridge, ACME Lend, a Trade.Fast bridge, Interstice Digital's Cross-Chain Swap Engine and Squid Intents. The slate is heavy on cross-chain infrastructure, reflecting demand to move assets and liquidity into Canton. Hecto Finance was separately approved for reinstatement after an earlier pause.
At the same time, the group has been policing the program. It voted to pause Palladium's "Alpend" app on June 6 and ANGELHACK's "Kairo" app on June 2, citing on-chain activity that requires further review, and revoked an additional partyID linked to CoinAegis.
Featured App status confers eligibility for network rewards, and Tokenomics reiterated that featured applications may not claim activity tied to wallets, venues or counterparties affiliated with the app itself — internal activity it does not count as ecosystem-expanding.
The mix of approvals, a reinstatement, pauses and a revocation in a single fortnight illustrates how Canton is tuning the incentive program that rewards real ecosystem usage while guarding against gaming.
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