NEW YORK - Marylandian -- Fairmint, the leader in onchain equity infrastructure and registered SEC Transfer Agent, today announced that CEO and Co-Founder Joris Delanoue has been elected General Director of the Canton Foundation by its General Members. Delanoue now sits on the Foundation's Board of Directors alongside leaders from DTCC, Euroclear, HSBC, Digital Asset, Broadridge, and other major financial institutions.

As General Director, Delanoue represents the builders and operators driving real-world adoption within the Canton ecosystem, the privacy-enabled interoperability layer connecting regulated financial markets.

"Being elected by my peers in such a forward-thinking community is deeply meaningful," said Delanoue. "Canton is one of the most ambitious onchain projects of our time — a network where institutions and builders collaborate without sacrificing privacy or compliance. My focus is to help turn that shared vision into tangible onchain outcomes."

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"Joris's election represents the continued maturity of the Foundation's governance and its commitment to balance between innovation and institutional adoption," said Jorgen Ouakhine, Chair of the Board and Global Head of Innovation & Digital Assets at Euroclear. "He brings both the technical conviction of a builder and the operational discipline of a repeat entrepreneur, exactly the mindset needed to bridge onchain innovation with real-world adoption."

Fairmint has processed more than $1 billion of equity value through production-ready Daml smart contracts on the Canton Network, making it one of the most active builders in the ecosystem and among the top applications in the network. Fairmint has contributed to open-sourcing the first Canton SDK, supported cap tables standardization on Canton, and Delanoue advocated for builder representation in decentralized governance.

About Fairmint

Fairmint pioneers regulated DeFi infrastructure, bringing equity securities onchain. Fairmint makes it easy to issue, manage, and transfer equity while maintaining full regulatory compliance. Founded in 2019 by Joris Delanoue and Thibauld Favre, Fairmint operates as an SEC-registered Transfer Agent and created the Open Cap Table Protocol (OCP), enabling programmable equity and the foundation for compliant DeFi in equity markets. Learn more at fairmint.com