Canton Foundation grants RedStone 15.8M Canton Coin for pricing standard

The size of the grant signals that Canton is treating price infrastructure as a core institutional requirement rather than a side project, and the privacy design—shared prices without leaking deal terms—targets the specific objection that keeps regulated firms off public data rails. RedStone gains a distribution foothold in an institutional network, though the value depends on whether Canton's users actually adopt a common standard over their own feeds. The open question is whether other data providers converge on the same standard or fragment the market into competing pricing silos.