Interstice Digital has launched a new cross-chain swap infrastructure in partnership with digital asset prime brokerage FalconX, targeting a key challenge in institutional crypto markets: moving liquidity between separate blockchain ecosystems without giving up custody of assets. Announced on August 18, 2026, the Cross-Chain Swap Engine connects Canton, Ethereum, Solana, and Robinhood Chain, creating a direct route for crypto liquidity to move across the four networks.

The product has also been named a Featured App on the Canton Network, positioning it as a bridge between Canton's institutional market infrastructure and liquidity on major public blockchains. Interstice announced the collaboration on X:

Interstice Digital and @FalconXGlobal partner to bring compliant cross-chain swaps that connect Canton, Ethereum, Solana, and Robinhood Chain through the Cross-Chain Swap Engine. Every swap settles against a known counterparty instead of an anonymous pool. Every settlement is… pic.twitter.com/c2SNoE0t5x

— Interstice Digital (@Interstice_Dig), August 18, 2026 (post)

Known counterparties and atomic settlement

Unlike conventional decentralized exchange models that rely on anonymous liquidity pools, the system settles every swap against a known counterparty. Interstice also noted that each transaction is atomic, meaning both sides of a transaction must go through successfully or fail simultaneously. In practice, a swap either completes on both chains or does not complete at all, removing scenarios in which one leg of a transfer settles while the other fails. The infrastructure aims to minimize counterparty and settlement risk, considerations that can gain in importance when institutions engage in inter-blockchain asset transfers.

That design emphasis speaks to a well-documented pain point in crypto: cross-chain bridges have repeatedly ranked among the most-exploited corners of the industry, with incidents such as the Ronin and Wormhole bridge hacks of 2022 each resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Approaches that keep counterparty identities explicit and guarantee all-or-nothing settlement are part of a broader institutional shift toward infrastructure with clearer risk controls.

The product is non-custodial. Interstice does not hold users' assets or perform trades on their behalf; quotes are provided independently by the parties, while the infrastructure is responsible for the cross-chain swap process itself. FalconX supplies institutional-grade liquidity through its digital asset trading infrastructure. The collaboration provides an additional pathway for institutions to link tokenized assets on Canton with activity on public chains such as Ethereum and Solana. Together, known-counterparty settlement, atomic execution, and a non-custodial design form the engine's core proposition for institutional users.

Why Canton is central to the launch

Canton has increasingly shifted toward institutional blockchain financial settlement and tokenized financial assets. Canton, developed by enterprise blockchain firm Digital Asset, is built for privacy-enabled interoperability among financial institutions and counts major banks among the participants in its network. According to Interstice, Canton now processes in excess of $9 trillion in real-world asset flow each month. Interstice CEO Janine Yorio said the swap engine was designed to provide connectivity to liquidity on the public chains for the growing ecosystem that leverages Interstice's platform to process over $9 trillion of tokenized real-world asset flows each month.

Interstice also cited figures for the other connected networks. According to the company, Robinhood Chain — the network the brokerage announced in 2025 to bring tokenized stocks to European customers — has been able to process 100 million transactions faster than any EVM network, and hosts 28 million funded accounts holding $369 billion on the platform. Solana recorded 167 million monthly active addresses in April 2026, while its blockchain processed $650 billion in stablecoin transaction volume in February, according to figures cited by Interstice. The launch is part of a wider set of interoperability efforts aimed at linking permissioned institutional networks with public-chain liquidity.