Edel Finance launches Markets: Private Execution of Programmable Markets (July 9)

New York, New York, July 9, 2026

As Runway verifies market demand on the Canton network, Edel Finance is preparing its most ambitious product to date: a Canton-based native perpetual contract trading platform that features position status remaining private and settlements completed on-chain.

Edel Finance has expanded its product line with the launch of Edel Markets. Edel Markets is a Canton-based native perpetual contract trading platform designed for tokenized stocks, commodities and future multi-asset markets. The announcement follows Runway\'s release on the Canton Network and marks the company\'s latest step in building a tokenized capital market infrastructure.

The release comes at a time when tokenized stocks continue to gain attention among financial institutions exploring the infrastructure of the blockchain market. Edel Markets is expected to launch later this quarter, and the waiting list is open.

Edel Markets is built around four pillars: private position status, Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) execution, native Canton clearing, and API-first infrastructure. Each order follows a clear institutional path: from the trader or API to the order book, through matching engine, risk and margin checks, and finally settled on Canton. The position status remains private throughout the process. This is the market structure that professionals already trust, rebuilt to accommodate programmable assets, and solves the problem that has kept large amounts of money on the sidelines of chain derivatives: on a fully open trading platform, anyone can see your positions.

\"Tokenized assets require more than just issuance and settlement,\" said Andres Soltermann, author of Edel\'s vision.\"They require a complete market structure around themselves: liquidity, hedging, leverage, and private execution. Edel Markets is built for the next phase of real-world asset infrastructure.\"

Strategic basis for selecting Canton Network

The choice of network is a strategy in itself. Canton is specifically designed for regulated financial markets and institutional settlement workflows and is structured so that transaction data is visible only to those parties with the right to view it. Stocks and commodities exist in complex disclosure, compliance, and information barrier environments that crypto-native derivatives trading platforms have never been designed to handle. For these markets, confidentiality is not a preference, but an operational requirement. Edel Markets has expanded Canton\'s foundation from settlement and tokenization to an active trading infrastructure, adding hedging, leverage and directional exposure, thereby transforming tokenized assets into an active market.

The momentum that has been accumulated

Edel did not launch this product unprepared.

Runway, the company\'s participating platform on Canton, quietly accumulated nearly 5000 users during the private testing phase and did not carry out any public marketing promotion. Its core partnership with Cantex, one of the most active trading platforms on the Canton network, has resulted in peak daily trading volume approaching $100,000, proving that true liquidity can flow through compliant enterprise-level infrastructure.

The community has also paid off in the process. Edel has awarded Canton Coin (CC) rewards to early users through three separate distributions. As Runway\'s public launch opens the door to a wider audience, early appeal will become a springboard for the next step. The message from Runway is simple: there is a strong demand for organization-level tools on Canton. Edel Markets is the answer to this need.

Full-stack solution for tokenized markets

Through Edel Markets, Edel\'s architecture is clearly presented as an open source financial infrastructure for tokenized stocks, built as an interconnected whole. Edel Lending provides a collateral layer that allows tokenized assets to operate efficiently. Runway provides a participation layer. Edel Vaults increases structured exposure, while Edel Markets builds the entire stack through private execution, covering the holding, operation and trading of tokenized assets. Ecosystem synergy is also deepening: cooperation with related applications allows Edel tokens to be traded, expands holders \'liquidity options, and suggests that Edel intends to become a foundation layer on Canton rather than a single product player.

A larger picture

Edel Finance is building more than just an exchange. It is a proof of concept on the future possibilities of the Canton Network: a place where institutional participants, retail users and infrastructure partners can coexist on a shared compliance track, allowing the complete market structure of traditional finance-from lending to derivatives-to run on the chain without having to broadcast every position to the world. Runway demonstrates the need, and Edel Markets aims to meet that need. The waiting list is now open.