AMINA Bank Becomes First Institution to Support Canton Coin Trading and Custody
AMINA Bank has become the first financial institution globally to support Canton Coin trading and custody services, according to a BusinessWire release published May 5. The move puts AMINA ahead of every other regulated bank in the Canton Network ecosystem.
Canton Coin is the native asset of the Canton Network, a privacy-enabled blockchain designed for institutional financial markets. AMINA Bank Canton Coin support marks the clearest signal yet that regulated custodians are willing to hold network-native tokens from enterprise blockchain infrastructure.
What AMINA Bank Did
AMINA Bank, a Swiss-regulated digital asset bank licensed by FINMA, added Canton Coin to its full suite of trading and custody services.
The bank said the listing reflects growing institutional demand for Canton Network exposure. AMINA has built a pattern of being first among regulated banks to list emerging institutional-grade assets.
The bank was the first institution to support Ripple USD, known as Ripple (RLUSD) trading and custody. AMINA also led on Sui (SUI) before broader institutional adoption followed.
Both listings have since attracted additional institutional interest, according to the BusinessWire release.
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What Canton Network Is
The Canton Network is a privacy-preserving, permissioned blockchain built for financial institutions. It was developed by Digital Asset and launched with backing from major banks and asset managers.
Unlike public blockchains, Canton uses smart contracts governed by the Daml programming language, which allows institutions to maintain data privacy across counterparties while still settling on a shared ledger. Canton Coin functions as the network’s utility and staking token, enabling validators to participate in consensus and governance.
The network targets use cases including derivatives settlement, repo trading, and tokenized fund transfers between institutions.
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Background
AMINA Bank’s first-mover pattern stretches back to its early institutional listings in the 2022-2024 period, when few FINMA-regulated banks were willing to custody assets beyond Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). The bank has since built a reputation as the regulated custodian most willing to list institutional blockchain infrastructure tokens before competitors move.
Its RLUSD listing preceded a wave of institutional adoption for the Ripple-issued stablecoin, a cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar, across Asian and European markets. The Canton Network itself has expanded its institutional membership base through 2025 and into 2026 as banks seek settlement alternatives to legacy infrastructure.
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What Comes Next
The AMINA announcement creates a benchmark for other FINMA-regulated and EU-regulated custodians evaluating Canton Coin. If adoption follows the RLUSD and Sui (SUI) pattern, additional institutional custody providers may list Canton Coin within the next two to three quarters.
The key variable is whether Canton Network can demonstrate settlement volume that justifies the compliance overhead for regulated banks. Institutions watching the space will focus on whether AMINA reports any custody inflows that can be disclosed in future filings.
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