The post DRW Holdings and Liberty City Reportedly In Talks For $500M Canton Fund appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Trading firm DRW Holdings and venture capital firm Liberty City Ventures are reportedly seeking to raise around $500 million for a publicly listed digital asset treasury that will hold the Canton Network’s native token, Canton Coin. According to a report from Bloomberg that cited unnamed sources, DRW Holdings and Liberty City Ventures will contribute the majority of the funds using Canton Coin (CC), while external investors are expected to contribute between $100 million and $200 million.  The specifics could change, however, as the sources suggested that the deal hasn’t closed yet.  Source: Canton Network DRW Holdings is a Chicago-based trading firm that is diversified across a wide range of asset classes, while the New York-based Liberty City Ventures is more heavily focused on the crypto market, Web3 and AI. Both are backers of the Canton Network.     The news follows another Canton-related development this week, after digital asset tech company BitGo and the Canton Network announced a partnership that will see BitGo integrate custody support for CC.  Related: Crypto Biz: From memes to mandates, institutions recast crypto in 2025 The move will provide banks and asset managers with a regulatory-compliant way to access the network and the CC token, while it also introduces cold-storage custody, insurance-backed security and potential for ecosystem growth via stablecoins and other onchain assets. Elsewhere, the project also recently onboarded two significant validators in P2P.org and Chainlink, with the latter joining as a “super validator” and integrating its data services and crosschain interoperability protocol.   The Canton Network is a blockchain designed for compliant trading by institutions, enabling interoperability between financial apps and tokenized assets. In addition to DRW Holdings and Liberty City Ventures, it is backed by a long list of heavy-hitting banks, tech companies and exchanges, such as Digital Asset, HSBC, BNP Paribas, the CBOE, Goldman… The post DRW Holdings and Liberty City Reportedly In Talks For $500M Canton Fund appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Trading firm DRW Holdings and venture capital firm Liberty City Ventures are reportedly seeking to raise around $500 million for a publicly listed digital asset treasury that will hold the Canton Network’s native token, Canton Coin. According to a report from Bloomberg that cited unnamed sources, DRW Holdings and Liberty City Ventures will contribute the majority of the funds using Canton Coin (CC), while external investors are expected to contribute between $100 million and $200 million.  The specifics could change, however, as the sources suggested that the deal hasn’t closed yet.  Source: Canton Network DRW Holdings is a Chicago-based trading firm that is diversified across a wide range of asset classes, while the New York-based Liberty City Ventures is more heavily focused on the crypto market, Web3 and AI. Both are backers of the Canton Network.     The news follows another Canton-related development this week, after digital asset tech company BitGo and the Canton Network announced a partnership that will see BitGo integrate custody support for CC.  Related: Crypto Biz: From memes to mandates, institutions recast crypto in 2025 The move will provide banks and asset managers with a regulatory-compliant way to access the network and the CC token, while it also introduces cold-storage custody, insurance-backed security and potential for ecosystem growth via stablecoins and other onchain assets. Elsewhere, the project also recently onboarded two significant validators in P2P.org and Chainlink, with the latter joining as a “super validator” and integrating its data services and crosschain interoperability protocol.   The Canton Network is a blockchain designed for compliant trading by institutions, enabling interoperability between financial apps and tokenized assets. In addition to DRW Holdings and Liberty City Ventures, it is backed by a long list of heavy-hitting banks, tech companies and exchanges, such as Digital Asset, HSBC, BNP Paribas, the CBOE, Goldman…