Alchemy brings Validator-as-a-Service to the Canton Network

Institutional finance has stopped experimenting with Canton and started settling on it. Tokenized Treasuries, deposit tokens, and repo are live in production, moving real value between real institutions every day. For most firms, the question is no longer whether to join the network. It is how to run on it without building a blockchain operations team to do it.

Alchemy Validator-as-a-Service (VaaS) for Canton is live. VaaS is a fully managed Canton node service: we provision and operate your participant and validator nodes across DevNet, TestNet, and MainNet, keep them upgraded in lockstep with the network, and pay Canton network fees on your behalf. Your team can build and transact from day one without staffing a node operations practice or holding a native token.

New to Canton? Start with our primer on how the network works and why institutional finance is moving onto it: Alchemy brings institutional-grade infrastructure to the Canton Network. This post is about what you can put into production with us today.

The operational tax of running Canton yourself

Joining Canton means standing up two distinct node roles, keeping them in lockstep with mandatory network upgrades, and holding a volatile native token to pay network fees. Each of those is a specialized, full-time job. Together they are the single biggest thing standing between an institution and the network.

Alchemy's VaaS makes that work disappear.

What you get

Validator-as-a-Service is a fully managed Canton deployment across DevNet, TestNet, and MainNet. You own your keys. We own the infrastructure. That includes both node roles every Canton participant needs: a participant node that holds your contracts and runs your application logic, and a validator node that connects you to the shared network so you can transact with other institutions.

Around those nodes, we handle the operational work that normally consumes a specialized team:

• Provisioning and onboarding onto the live network.
• Software upgrades in lockstep with the network, so you never fall out of compatibility.
• Package deployment for your application logic.
• Monitoring and support against a 99.9% uptime SLA, with your node mirrored across three availability zones so a single data-center failure never takes you offline.

You keep custody of your keys throughout. We never hold them.

What makes it different

Operating nodes is table stakes, plenty of providers will do it. Three things set Alchemy VaaS apart, and each one removes a barrier that usually stalls institutional projects for months.

You pay in dollars, not crypto. Canton charges network fees in Canton Coin, its native token. We buy and manage that token on your behalf using the same gas abstraction infrastructure that lets institutions transact without holding crypto, so you settle a normal invoice and never carry a native token on your balance sheet. For a regulated institution, that clears one of the hardest internal approvals in the entire project.

Tokenization tools come built in. Our Utilities API gives you managed access to Canton's asset standard for issuing and managing tokenized assets, registries, and verifiable credentials, plus atomic delivery-versus-payment. You spend your time building financial products, not rebuilding tokenization plumbing.

Canton lives where you manage everything else. It runs inside the same Alchemy platform and dashboard your team may already use for Ethereum, Solana, Base, and 100+ other chains. Most Canton providers are single-chain shops. We are not. One vendor, one dashboard, one relationship across your entire onchain footprint.

Reading and writing to the ledger

Your applications connect through our managed Ledger API. They join as Daml parties, submit commands, query the current set of active contracts, and stream ledger updates over gRPC or JSON. Access is scoped by party, so you only ever see the data you are entitled to see. That privacy-by-party model is core to how Canton keeps institutional data confidential on a shared network, and we cover the mechanics in the primer.

Why it matters

The institutions moving onto Canton are not running pilots. They are settling billions in real assets. The teams that win the next phase will be the ones that spend their engineering time on products, not on node operations and token management. Collapsing that operational complexity into a single managed relationship is the entire point of VaaS.

Frequently asked questions

What is Alchemy Validator-as-a-Service for Canton?

Validator-as-a-Service (VaaS) is a fully managed Canton node offering. Alchemy provisions and operates the participant and validator nodes an institution needs to join the Canton Network, handles upgrades and monitoring, and pays network fees, so teams can build and transact without running node infrastructure themselves.

Do I keep custody of my own keys?

Yes. VaaS is bring-your-own-key: you own and control your keys at all times, and Alchemy never holds them. Alchemy operates the infrastructure; you retain custody.

Can I pay Canton network fees in fiat instead of Canton Coin?

Yes. Canton charges fees in Canton Coin, its native token. Alchemy buys and manages that token on your behalf, so you settle a standard invoice in dollars and never hold crypto on your balance sheet.

What uptime does Alchemy guarantee for Canton nodes?

VaaS carries a 99.9% uptime SLA, with each node mirrored across three availability zones so a single data-center failure does not take you offline.

Which networks can I manage alongside Canton?

Canton runs inside the same Alchemy platform and dashboard used for Ethereum, Solana, Base, and 100+ other chains, one vendor and one dashboard across your entire onchain footprint.

Who is VaaS for?

Existing Canton participants that want managed node services, financial institutions evaluating Canton for the first time, and builders exploring Canton's application layer.

Get started

Whether you are an existing Canton participant looking for managed node services, a financial institution evaluating Canton for the first time, or a builder exploring its application layer, we are ready to help.

Contact our team to get provisioned and added to the Canton ecosystem.