Turnkey brings secure key management to Canton Network

Turnkey now supports Canton Network, giving developers secure key management and signing on the network powering institutional finance.

The Canton Network is a chain built for regulated finance. It gives banks, asset managers, and market infrastructure providers the privacy, control, and interoperability they need to move real financial activity onchain.

To operate on Canton, institutions need a key management layer underneath that’s secure and easy to integrate. Teams need a reliable way to create keys, register Canton Parties, and sign transactions without building custom signing infrastructure themselves.

With Turnkey, Canton builders can now do all of that through one API. Developers can generate and protect Canton-compatible keys, register Parties, and sign Canton transactions using the same secure infrastructure Turnkey already provides across other networks.

That means teams can focus on building Canton applications instead of managing raw keys, custom signing flows, and security-critical infrastructure from scratch.

Why institutional finance is building on Canton

Canton Network is a layer-1 blockchain built for institutional finance. Its privacy model lets participants decide who can see each transaction, so counterparties, regulators, and network participants only see the information they need.

That makes Canton a strong fit for regulated financial use cases like tokenized assets, private markets, settlement, and multi-party workflows.

Major financial institutions are already building on the network, including DTCC, JPMorgan, HSBC, Broadridge, and Citadel Securities. As more institutional value moves onchain, teams need secure infrastructure that can support Canton’s requirements without adding unnecessary complexity.

The challenge for Canton builders

Most wallet infrastructure is built around major networks like EVM chains and Solana. Canton works differently. It has its own identity model, Party structure, and signing requirements, which can make the path to production more complex for teams building Canton applications.

For Canton builders, the challenge is not just connecting to the network. It is creating a secure signing layer that fits Canton’s architecture from the start.

Without native support, developers may need to handle custom key generation, Party registration, and transaction signing themselves. That adds extra infrastructure work, more security responsibility, and more room for implementation risk.

How Turnkey secures Canton keys and transactions

Turnkey handles the key management and signing layer for Canton, so teams can focus on building their application.

With Turnkey, developers can:

• Generate and secure Canton-compatible keys
• Register Canton Parties using keys created by Turnkey
• Sign Canton transactions through Turnkey’s API
• Use a reference implementation for Party registration

Keys stay protected inside Turnkey’s enclave-backed infrastructure. Developers get a simpler path to production without managing raw private keys themselves.

Turnkey’s Canton support works with a local Canton sandbox or a live Canton node, so teams can use the same signing flow across development and production.

Built for the security demands of regulated finance

Canton was built for regulated finance, and the infrastructure around it needs to meet the same standard.

Turnkey gives teams secure key generation, protected signing, auditability in one platform. 

Turnkey is non-custodial by design, so teams can give users control over their keys while still meeting the security requirements of institutional applications.

For teams building on Canton, securing the keys behind every action shouldn’t be the hard part. With Turnkey, teams can move faster, reduce security risk, and keep their engineering focus on the financial workflows they are building, not the key infrastructure required to support them.

Turnkey x Canton: Secure signing for institutional finance onchain

Canton is becoming a key network for regulated finance because it gives institutions the privacy, control, and interoperability they need to move real financial activity onchain. But building on Canton comes with infrastructure requirements that most wallet tooling was not designed to support.

Turnkey makes that path simpler. Developers can generate and protect Canton-compatible keys, register Canton Parties, and sign Canton transactions through one secure API. Keys stay protected inside Turnkey’s enclave-backed infrastructure, and teams can apply the same security, and auditability, they rely on across other networks.

For teams building tokenized asset platforms, settlement systems, private financial workflows, or other Canton applications, Turnkey removes the need to build custom key infrastructure from scratch. You can focus on the product and financial logic while Turnkey handles the signing layer underneath.

Explore the Canton  docs to see how Turnkey supports Party registration, transaction signing, and end-to-end Canton workflows. Then start building with Turnkey today.