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Edel Finance plans to launch Edel Markets in the third quarter, a perpetual futures exchange for equities and commodities built on the Canton blockchain, the company said Tuesday. The platform is designed for markets where position confidentiality and compliance-aware infrastructure are central requirements, not secondary features.
"Tokenized assets need more than issuance and settlement. They need the full market structure around them, including liquidity, hedging, leverage, and privacy-preserving execution," a spokesperson for Edel Finance said. "Edel Markets is being built for that next phase of real-world asset infrastructure."
The exchange will combine an on-chain orderbook with privacy-preserving execution and settlement logic, addressing a structural problem that has emerged in transparent on-chain derivatives venues. When every position is publicly visible, large traders face liquidation targeting, social speculation, and reputational risk around market-moving events — dynamics that are incompatible with equity-linked and commodity-linked markets that operate within compliance frameworks and information-barrier requirements.
Canton was selected for its privacy-enabled architecture designed for regulated financial markets and institutional settlement workflows. The network has drawn participation from Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Börse, Microsoft, Moody's, S&P Global, Cboe Global Markets, and Deloitte. Canton's native CC token traded around $0.16 on Tuesday with a market capitalization of about $6.3 billion, according to CoinGecko data. Bitwise listed a Canton ETP on Deutsche Börse Xetra on Tuesday under the ticker BWCC with a 0.85 percent expense ratio, following the first US Canton ETF launched by 21Shares earlier this month.
Edel Markets extends the company's existing infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets. Edel Lending is already live on Ethereum, focused on tokenized equities, and the company has brought on Brad Klaas, former Global Head of Securities Lending at BlackRock, where he oversaw tens of billions in lendable assets. Through a partnership with Merkl, the on-chain distribution infrastructure used by Aave, Morpho, and Euler, Edel is currently offering up to 20 percent APR for lenders supplying USDC on the Edel protocol on Ethereum, with 17.16 percent coming directly from Merkl incentive rewards.
The launch positions Edel Markets as a derivatives layer for tokenized equities and commodities, connecting to a broader thesis that financial primitives around real-world assets need to be rebuilt with the right privacy, settlement, and risk assumptions from the start. Additional product and access details are expected as the Q3 launch window approaches.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
