OKCoin Japan (OKJ) went live as a validator on Canton Network, running on Kiln's infrastructure. OKJ – the Japanese entity of OK Group and a Financial Services Agency-registered cryptocurrency exchange – now validates transactions on Canton while Kiln handles the technical operations.
This marks another institutional player entering Canton's validator ecosystem through Kiln's platform. For a regulated Japanese exchange, it's a way to participate in Canton Network's quickly growing momentum without building the stack from scratch.
How it works
As a Super Validator on Canton, Kiln runs critical network infrastructure and provides the platform for institutions to operate validator nodes. The setup removes the operational complexity that typically keeps regulated entities on the sidelines.
OKJ plugs into Kiln's platform:
- Kiln running battle-tested infrastructure, with the milestone of $16B in delegated assets across 50,000+ validator nodes reached in 2025
- Automated validator operations, yield management, and data tracking allow OKJ to simplify its own operations
"Our platform enables institutional players like OKJ to participate in Canton's ecosystem with enterprise-grade security and reliability. This is exactly the kind of institutional adoption Canton was built for and we are seeing a lot of demand for it." — Laszlo Szabo, Co-Founder and CEO at Kiln
Participating as a validator on Canton Network represents an important step for OKJ in advancing blockchain infrastructure for institutional finance in Japan. Through our partnership with Kiln, we gain access to proven institutional-grade infrastructure that enables us to participate meaningfully in this ecosystem and contribute to building robust blockchain infrastructure for Japanese investors. — Zhongyang Feng, CEO of OKJ
Canton's institutional play
Canton's the only public blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Privacy and compliance are core to the architecture, allowing individual apps to be permissionless or permissioned. The network handles real-time synchronization and settlement across asset classes, governed by the Canton Foundation alongside major financial institutions.
For institutions, that architecture allows getting the benefits of a decentralized network without compromising on the regulatory requirements they're bound by.
About OKJ
OKJ is a leading FSA-regulated cryptocurrency exchange serving the Japanese market, enabling retail and institutional traders to access digital assets through a secure, compliant platform. Since launching operations in 2020, OKJ has established itself as one of Japan's most trusted exchanges, offering spot trading for 50 cryptocurrencies, with staking services available for 12 of them.
Corporate Name：OKCoin Japan K.K.
Establishment Date：September 19th, 2017
CEO：Zhongyang Feng
Address：5th Floor, Toranomon 1-2-10, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan 105-0001
Business：Virtual Currency Exchange and Blockchain-related Services
Website：https://www.okcoin.jp/
About Kiln
Kiln is a leading institutional onchain asset and yield management platform, enabling institutions to generate yield on their digital assets and distribute yield products to their users. In 2025, Kiln crossed $18 billion in assets delegated, providing access to diverse yield sources across 30+ PoS networks – from native staking to DeFi strategies.
Trusted by industry leaders including VanEck, CoinShares, Crypto.com, Fireblocks, Ledger, Coinbase, and Binance.US, the platform offers a comprehensive suite of yield products with real-time reporting, and monetization management. Kiln enables custodians, wallets, exchanges, and asset managers to streamline onchain asset management operations across multiple providers and protocols. Kiln is SOC2 Type II compliant.
Want to run a validator on Canton or another institutional network? Talk to us about how Kiln can handle your infrastructure.
About Kiln
Kiln is the leading staking and digital asset rewards management platform, enabling institutional customers to earn rewards on their digital assets, or to whitelabel earning functionality into their products. Kiln runs validators on all major PoS blockchains, with over $11 billion in crypto assets being programmatically staked and running over 5% of the Ethereum network on a multi-client, multi-cloud, and multi-region infrastructure. Kiln also provides a validator-agnostic suite of products for fully automated deployment of validators and reporting and commission management, enabling custodians, wallets, and exchanges to streamline staking or DeFi operations across providers. Kiln is SOC2 Type 2 certified.
