Singapore, 17 April 2026 – Hydra X, a regulated market infrastructure operator for tokenised capital markets, today announced the launch of the Canton Gateway API, a REST API layer that supports financial institutions and application developers building on the Canton Network. With the Canton Gateway API, institutions and application developers can build infrastructure on Canton without requiring specialised expertise in Daml, Canton’s underlying programming language.

The API provides a straightforward integration layer that maps directly to familiar business workflows (onboarding participants, issuing and managing assets, and executing transfers), and it  is available as a hosted service or as an external deployment for clients with existing validator infrastructure. Now, institutions can go from decision to deployment without needing to build infrastructure from the ground up.

The API is built on Hydra X’s own production experience operating on Canton Network, where the firm has tokenised over US$100 million in assets for institutional clients across multiple regulatory frameworks. That operational depth informed the design of the Canton Gateway API, resulting in measurable gains for institutional deployments: an 80% acceleration in go-to-market timelines and a 50% reduction in path-to-production time.

“The Canton Gateway API was designed to advance institutional adoption on Canton.  It is built on the same infrastructure we run in production for regulated clients, and it means that banks, asset managers and exchanges no longer need to treat Canton integration as a specialist engineering project It is a business decision now, and the timelines reflect that,” said Mark Tang, VP of Client Solutions, Hydra X. 

The launch marks a broader shift in how regulated financial institutions can engage with the Canton Network. As tokenised capital markets around the world move from pilot programmes to production deployments, the ability to integrate quickly and reliably into shared network infrastructure is becoming a competitive differentiator. The Canton Gateway API is designed to meet that moment, providing institutional-grade tooling that significantly accelerates the path from deciding to build on the Canton Network to achieving a live deployment.