Canto is a permissionless Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible Layer 1 blockchain built to deliver decentralized finance infrastructure without venture backing, presales, or vesting. Canto's Twitter Score is 134 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #4,508 (top 1%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Canto runs an EVM execution layer via Ethermint, secured by a Proof of Stake Cosmos SDK consensus layer. Its core Free Public Infrastructure primitives include Canto DEX, Canto Lending Market, and NOTE, a fully collateralized unit of account token that functions as a USDC/USDT soft-pegged stablecoin. Per its own documentation, the network launched with no official foundation, no presale, no vesting schedule, and no venture backers.
Canto's native token, CANTO, is used to pay gas fees and can be staked with validators to help secure the network. At genesis, CANTO had an initial total supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens and an initial circulating supply of 150,000,000 tokens. CoinGecko classifies CANTO under Smart Contract Platform, Layer 1, Real World Assets, and Parallelized EVM categories. Canto has been mentioned by 316 accounts a total of 812 times, with 1,409 posts published on the account.
Who follows Canto on X?
The accounts that follow Canto include 456 founders, 133 angel investors, 305 influencers and 7 VCs. Among them are Chris Burniske, Andrew Kang, CL, Tarun Chitra, Polygon and Foobar.