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Story: SBI Renames Subsidiary and Bets on Canton Network’s 600-Institution Ecosystem

By Julie Binoche

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Canton Network: The $6 Trillion Bet. The Canton Network isn't a small sandbox. Over 600 institutions participate, including Goldman…

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JX Token, Ondo Finance, and the Coinhako Deal. Canton is one piece of a much bigger picture. SBI already launched the JX token on Solana, giving…

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SBI Holdings made it official on July 28. SBI Security Solutions is now SBI Digital Practice Co. Ltd., renamed effective June 22, and it's got a very different job to do.

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The new entity sits in Roppongi, Tokyo, led by Ryo Shimotsu, and SBI keeps full ownership. But the mission has shifted hard.

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The Canton Network isn't a small sandbox. Over 600 institutions participate, including Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas, and assets on the network run past $6 trillion.

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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and Digital Asset have plans to tokenize a subset of U.S.

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Worth being clear: SBI isn't walking away from Ripple. The company said explicitly that SBI Ripple Asia stays active, continuing to develop payment infrastructure and token…

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Canton is one piece of a much bigger picture. SBI already launched the JX token on Solana, giving institutional investors on-chain access to a Japanese equity strategy.

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And then there's Coinhako. SBI grabbed a majority stake in the Singapore-based exchange on July 16, after getting the green light from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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The multichain angle is probably the most interesting part of all this. A few years ago, SBI's blockchain identity was pretty much synonymous with Ripple and XRP.

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Institutional blockchain adoption has been slow globally, but the pressure to modernize settlement infrastructure is real.

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What's still murky: SBI hasn't disclosed specific customers lined up for SBI Digital Practice, and there are no revenue targets out there yet.

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The DTCC and Digital Asset's U.S. Treasury tokenization plan on Canton is probably the clearest signal of where the network is heading.

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