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 * What Is Canto?
 * Free Public Infrastructure
    * NOTE
    * Canto Lending Market
    * Canto DEX

 * Canto Neofinance
   * Overview
   * Application Specific Dollar
 * User Guides
   * Connecting to Canto
   * Bridging Assets
      * Bridging to Canto
      * Bridging from Canto
      * Synapse Bridge
      * Celer cBridge
   
   * Providing Liquidity
   * Lending & Borrowing
   * Staking
   * Governance
 * EVM Development
   * Overview
   * Quickstart Guide
   * NOTE, DEX, and Lending Market
   * Contract Secured Revenue (CSR)
   * Verifying Contracts
   * Contract Addresses
   * Testnet
 * Running a Node
   * Validators
      * Quickstart Guide
      * Useful Commands
      * Snapshots
      * FAQ
      * Troubleshooting
      * Uptime
      * Slashing
   
   * Archive Node
   * Graph Node (Subgraphs)
 * Technical Reference
   * Application Specific Dollar
      * asdOFT
      * asdRouter
      * asdUSDC
   
   * Liquidity Coordinator
      * VotingEscrow
      * GaugeController
      * LendingLedger
      * LiquidityGauge
   
   * Architecture & Design
      * Onboarding Module
      * Gravity Bridge
      * NOTE Design
      * Canto Lending Protocol
      * IBC Token Recovery
   
   * Governance
      * Governance Module
      * GovShuttle Module
      * Lending Market Governance
   
   * Tokenomics
   * Audits

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WHAT IS CANTO?

Canto is a permissionless general-purpose blockchain running the Ethereum
Virtual Machine (EVM). It was built to deliver on the promise of DeFi – that
through a post-traditional financial movement, new systems will be made
accessible, transparent, decentralized, and free.

At launch, Canto provides an EVM execution layer via Ethermint, secured by a
Proof of Stake Cosmos SDK consensus layer, in addition to core Free Public
Infrastructure (FPI) primitives. These primitives include:

   

 * Canto DEX — a zero-fee DEX for liquidity providers

   
   

 * Canto Lending Market (CLM) — a pooled lending Compound v2 fork

   
   

 * NOTE — a fully collateralized unit of account token issued by the CLM which
   also serves the ecosystem as a USDC/USDT soft-pegged stablecoin

   

Over time we expect this stack to change significantly and new financial
primitives to be added to best fulfill the Canto mission.

CORE TENETS

Canto’s goal is to become the best execution layer for original work. Canto
accomplishes this in three ways:

Liquidity as a Free Public Good:

Zero fees for Liquidity Providers (LPs). Canto makes liquidity free for
protocols, arbitrageurs and traders.

Rent Extraction Resistant:

Canto aims to establish Free Public Infrastructure. Core DeFi primitives will
not have sovereign governance tokens, nor the capacity to extract rent in the
future.

Minimal Viable User Capture:

Where possible, Canto avoids interface-driven user ownership. Public
infrastructure DEXes will have no swapping interface, so all users must trade on
third-party aggregators. This will facilitate user acquisition for new
protocols.

APPROACH TO DECENTRALIZATION

Canto is designed to support free public infrastructure, while eliminating
centralized incentives:

   

 * There is no official foundation.

   
   

 * There was no presale.

   
   

 * There is no vesting.

   
   

 * There are no venture backers.

   

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Canto is a distributed community of DeFi advocates for a free public
infrastructure.

Though the initial Canto contributors have created the following resources for
Canto announcements and details, there are no official Canto channels or
branding assets, as any Canto community member can create resources, channels,
imagery and discussion on Canto.

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 * Core Tenets
 * Approach to Decentralization
 * Community Engagement