Amina Bank, a crypto bank regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority ( Finma ), has become the first lender to support Canton Coin ( CC ), a native token of Canton Network, offering custody and trading services to its clients.

New York City-based Canton Network is a privacy-preserving blockchain designed for regulated financial institutions.

It has gained significant institutional momentum in recent months, attracting TradFi and DeFi organizations, including DTCC, Visa, and BitGo, that are building next-generation settlement, tokenization, custody, and collateral workflows on the network.

Canton is also developing an on-chain capital markets ecosystem that encompasses repo, lending, and wrapped asset flows – all under compliance and settlement constraints designed for regulated participants.

Amina says it seeks to help reduce friction for professional investors and institutions running tokenization and settlement workflows on Canton.

Through a single Finma-regulated institution, Amina clients can hold and trade Canton Coin with the governance they expect from an institutional banking partner.

Amina chief product officer Myles Harrison comments: “Canton Network represents something we are seeing more broadly in digital assets: infrastructure that has been purpose-built for regulated institutions, not retrofitted. By making Canton Coin available for custody and trading, Amina is providing clients, whether they are super validators or investors seeking exposure to Canton Network's growth, with the regulated access they need to engage with this ecosystem.”