Add Franklin Templeton as a Super Validator (max weight 5)

Commitment Milestones

Communications Requirements

To ensure transparency and ecosystem signaling:

• A public announcement is required at the time of CIP approval outlining Franklin Templeton’s expanded integration plans with Canton.

• A public announcement or press release is required upon completion of the Treasury Management milestone.

• A public announcement or press release is required upon completion of the Create / Redeem Capability milestone.

• An additional public communication is required upon achieving $1 billion in cumulative create / redeem volume on Canton.

SV Mechanics

• An extraBeneficiary PartyID associated with the ‘escrowed’ Super Validator will be setup by the Foundation, or another SV node operator approved to provide SV rewards escrow services, with an SV Weight at the maximum earnable weight.
  • The Applicant is responsible for coordinating the process of setting up the escrowed weights with the GSF and the operator of the SV node.
  • The Applicant is responsible for all costs associated with the operation of the representative SV
  • The representative SV will NOT mint rewards on a block by block basis
  • All representative SV rewards will go to the Unclaimed Rewards pool
• Applicant is required to present proof of successful completed milestones to the Tokenomics Working Group
  • Applicant is required to present a calculation for number of Canton Coin it should earn for meeting the requirements of the milestone
• If the Tokenomics Working Group agrees the milestone has been met and agrees with the calculation, an announcement will be sent via the Tokenomics-Announce mailing List
  • ⅔ of Super Validator Operators will then assign a portion of the Unclaimed Rewards to be minted by the Applicant’s Validator
  • ⅔ of the Super Validator Operators will update their configurations to allow Applicant to takeover a portion of their SV Weight on a go-forward basis
• If any milestones and associated rewards are not achieved by the deadline
  • Applicant will be notified they have not met a deliverable by the Foundation
  • Remaining SV Weight on the representative SV will be removed from the SV Operator configs
  • The Tokenomics Working Group will make a recommendation to the SVs on what to do with the Unclaimed Rewards

Copyright

This CIP is licensed under CC0-1.0: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

Changelog

• 2026-06-10: Approved
• 2026-06-09: Proposed
• 2026-06-04: Draft