From Node Operations to Canton Network Data: Expanding the Institutional Operating Stack
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CatalyX now brings validator infrastructure, application distribution, custody connectivity and the private finance and operations data layer into one production environment for institutions on Canton Network.
A Canton validator connects you to the Global Synchronizer, hosts your parties, executes Daml contracts, and settles atomically. It is the entry requirement. Nothing happens on the Canton Network without one.
Once an institution moves from a pilot into production activity, the questions start coming from elsewhere in the business. Operations needs on-ledger activity matched against the book of record, finance needs reporting, audit needs a trail, and sooner or later someone needs to follow a single transaction across parties.
The validator executes and settles, and holds the data while it does, but turning that data into something operations, finance, and audit can work with is a separate job.
Why the Canton data layer has to stay inside your environment
On most public chains, this is a solved problem - point an explorer or a blockchain data provider at the chain and read it.
Canton does not work that way. A validator only sees data for the parties it hosts. That is the point of the network, and it is why a public block explorer cannot serve institutional reporting. Whatever reads your activity has to run inside your own environment and respect the same party boundaries the ledger does.
Introduction to Noves
Noves builds private data infrastructure for tokenized finance. Their classification engine turns raw ledger activity into reconcilable, audit-ready records, and they run it across both public chains and privacy-enabled networks like Canton.
The Noves Data Platform is the Canton piece. It is self-hosted and permission-aware - three containers deployed with Docker Compose or Kubernetes, running on your network next to your validator, indexing ledger events in real time and tagging them semantically as transfers, rewards, fees, locks and merges. Party IDs get mapped to readable labels. Users see only what their Canton account can read. It delivers an explorer and dashboard, exports for audit and accounting pipelines, webhooks and WebSockets for live events, point-in-time balance history, and OIDC login against your own identity provider.
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What finance and operations teams get
Finance teams get records structured for month-end close and audit. Balances and movements reconciled to the underlying Canton activity, historical balances, valuations, rewards and fees, point-in-time and period-specific records, and CSV or API output into the accounting and reporting systems already in use.
Operations teams get activity they can search by party, action, date, amount and counterparty, visibility into payments, transfers and token holdings, activity classified against parties and applications, and monitoring of validator availability, connectivity and indexer freshness, with alerts over webhooks and live streams.
Between them, that replaces the custom indexers, scripts, spreadsheets and disconnected reporting an institution would otherwise build and maintain around its Canton deployment.
Private by deployment
The Data Platform is deployed on-premises alongside the validator, behind the institution's own security perimeter. Private Canton data stays stored and processed locally and is never transmitted to Noves. The institution keeps control of the deployment, the data, and who can access it.
CatalyX Blockchain Manager and Noves
CatalyX Blockchain Manager adds a Noves integration to the Monitoring page. Operators open the Noves Data Platform from the same console they use to run the validator, with no separate portal and no bespoke integration per client.
The entry point is available on every Canton validator deployment supported by IntellectEU. If Noves is not deployed yet, the same section points to the installation route and CatalyX support.
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That puts the Noves Data Platform within reach of the 100+ Canton validators running on CatalyX, and connects two layers that used to be separate projects, the operational layer in CatalyX Blockchain Manager and the data layer from Noves. The Data Platform still runs inside your own environment, so the console points to your own deployment and keeps your party permissions.
One console for node management and for the data layer above it. This is the first step in the partnership, with more of Noves' data capabilities following inside CatalyX Blockchain Manager.
“IntellectEU understands that institutional adoption of Canton depends on an operating environment that supports the full path from deployment into production. CatalyX brings together the infrastructure and capabilities institutions need within a single environment, designed around their requirements for privacy, control and operational scale. Noves shares this vision, and bringing the Noves Data Platform into CatalyX Blockchain Manager is an important expansion of CatalyX and a meaningful step forward for the institutional operating stack available on Canton.”
– Ben Roy, Co-Founder and CEO, Noves
CatalyX beyond node operations
Node operations are where most people meet CatalyX by IntellectEU, and they are one layer of it. CatalyX covers the wider lifecycle of an institutional digital asset product, from the infrastructure underneath it to the operational tooling around it - package distribution, wallet and custody connectivity, fee and reward accounting, and integration with the systems the business already runs. Partner services such as Noves connect in the same place.
The integration expands CatalyX beyond validator deployment and management into a broader operating environment for Canton Network, as banks, asset managers, and capital markets infrastructure providers move from pilots into production activity.
Noves's piece from the data side is here.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Canton Network is a privacy-enabled blockchain for regulated financial markets. Applications run as separate synchronized domains and connect through the Global Synchronizer, so institutions can settle atomically with each other without exposing their transaction data to the whole network.
Because privacy is enforced at the ledger. A validator only holds data for the parties it hosts, and no public explorer can see across that boundary. To reconcile, report or investigate, you need a blockchain data platform that runs inside your own environment, reads your node's view of the ledger and keeps the same party-level permissions.
The validator is the settlement and execution layer. It hosts parties, runs Daml contracts and reaches consensus through the Global Synchronizer, but it is not a query or reporting layer. Reporting sits above it, as a separate component that indexes the node's own data. CatalyX Blockchain Manager manages the first and the Noves Data Platform covers the second. Both now run under one console.
Most blockchain data providers index a public chain centrally and serve it back through an API. That model breaks on Canton, where there is no global view to index. Providers built for privacy-enabled networks instead give the institution software it deploys itself, so the data never leaves the perimeter. Noves supports both, with a self-hosted Data Platform for private Canton activity and hosted APIs for public chains.
The Noves section appears on the Monitoring page for every Canton validator running CatalyX Blockchain Manager. The Noves Data Platform is deployed in your own environment, and the console is configured to point to it. If it is not set up yet, the console tells you how to install it or reach CatalyX support.
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