January 2026 CIP Update: It was a dense month for Canton governance.🛡️ A full set of Canton Improvement Proposals (CIPs) moved tokenomics, builder standards, and validator participation forward. ◽ CIP-0095: Onboarded Mesh as a Super Validator with outcome-linked weight (up to 10), ensuring validator influence and rewards scale only with delivered network impact. ◽ CIP-0096: Removed validator liveness rewards, shifting incentives away from passive uptime and toward real, value-adding network participation. ◽ CIP-0097: Approved @Nasdaq as a Super Validator under a milestone-based, escrowed weight model, bringing institutional market infrastructure directly into @CantonNetwork's governance. ◽ CIP-0098: Capped per-transaction application rewards at $1.50, eliminating app-level reward farming and aligning incentives with genuine economic activity. ◽ CIP-0099: Refined @zerohashx's adoption incentive structure to better align rewards with measurable network growth and usage. ◽ CIP-0100: Established formal governance for the 5% Development Fund, including committee oversight, quarterly transparency reports, and annual audits. ◽ CIP-0102: Added @TharimmuneInc as a Super Validator (Weight 4) with milestone-based rewards tied to ecosystem research and community engagement. ◽ CIP-0103: Approved the Canton dApp Standard, enabling wallet-agnostic, interoperable dApps and reducing developer friction across the network. This is Canton governance in practice: incremental, accountable upgrades that align incentives with real usage, builders, and long-term network health.