Overview of Transaction

• On July 21, 2026, Digital Asset announced the strategic additions of Shinhan Financial Group and SC Ventures by Standard Chartered to its previously announced oversubscribed Series F financing
• The funding will support Digital Asset’s next phase of growth as more institutions bring assets, applications and regulated workflows onto Canton
• Digital Asset has designed the Canton Network to address one of the central barriers to blockchain adoption in financial markets: enabling institutions to use shared infrastructure while preserving the privacy, compliance, control and interoperability required in regulated finance
• The invested capital will be used to expand offerings across the Canton ecosystem, deepen engagement with developers and financial institutions and support continued network growth

Significance of Transaction

• The Series F cements Digital Asset as critical infrastructure for institutional tokenization, providing the Company with the resources to support accelerating institutional adoption and expand use cases where shared, privacy-enabled infrastructure can reduce friction and improve capital efficiency – including tokenization, collateral mobility, settlement, payments and other regulated financial workflows
• The additions of Shinhan Financial Group and SC Ventures further strengthen Digital Asset’s global reach by expanding its institutional network, supporting adoption across global markets and reinforcing the Canton Network’s role as the infrastructure for regulated capital markets

FT Partners' Role

• Financial Technology Partners (FT Partners) served as the exclusive strategic and financial advisor to Digital Asset
• This transaction highlights FT Partners’ deep domain expertise across digital assets, as well as its successful track record generating highly favorable outcomes for leading companies around the world