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Canton Foundation backs RedStone to build pricing standard
29 October 2026 Switzerland
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson
The Canton Foundation has approved funding for RedStone to develop an open-source pricing framework designed to allow pricing of transactions on Canton without revealing underlying positions or agreed settlement values, says the firms
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Simon Keefe
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Guilhem Chaumont
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Axiology
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zerohash
Stephen Gardner
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OpenPayd
Iana Dimitrova
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FIS
Julia Demidova
Julia Demidova, head of CBDC and digital currencies product and strategy at FIS, sits down with Karl Loomes to examine how regulatory certainty is enabling production-scale services, discuss the evolving roles of stablecoins and tokenised deposits, and explore why the next phase of adoption will be driven by operational readiness
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