Tracking Featured Transfers & Markers on the Canton Network

Developers on the Canton network are not just building apps; they are designing economic systems. Understanding their reward flow is essential for monetization, incentive sharing, and growth planning. While high-level metrics such as total rewards or transaction counts provide useful summaries, they do not explain how value moves between wallets, how app-driven activity is structured, or how that activity leads to rewards.  

The dashboards around featured transfers, featured app markers, and the network graph are designed on Sync Insights to provide those details. Together, they show what activity is happening, how rewards are generated, and how apps interact with other wallets and nodes on the network. 

Seeing Real App Usage on Canton

Featured Transfers 

Featured transfers show actual transaction activity generated by apps. The dashboards break this down by round and by time window, such as the last six hours or the last 24 hours. 

This view makes it easy to see: 

• How many featured transfers are happening per round 

• Which apps are doing the most transfers 

• What percentage of total activity each app represents 

For developers, this is one of the clearest signals of decentralized app activity. It shows who is actively using the network and how much transaction volume is being generated by each provider. 

How to use: Filter by round → compare providers → drill into a provider when it spikes.

Create a dashboard just by entering a natural language query: Number of featured transfers by provider organization by round for the last 360 min.

Featured App Markers 

In addition to transfers, apps can also earn rewards through featured app markers. These markers are issued by providers and contribute to coupon generation in a different way. 

One of the most important aspects of app markers is that they can be weighted. Instead of just counting how many markers exist, the dashboards show the weighted amount assigned to a provider and to a beneficiary. That beneficiary is the entity that ultimately receives the coupons and can mint Canton Coin from them. 

This weighted view is critical. It explains why two apps with the same number of markers may generate very different rewards. Developers can use this information to understand how rewards are being allocated and how marker strategies affect outcomes. 

A query to use: Total featured app marker weight by provider organization by round the last 360 min.

Using the Network Graph to Understand Transfer Relationships 

Let’s dive deeper into wallet-to-wallet movement with featured transfers. That’s where the network graph becomes useful. 

By opening the Network Graph for a selected set of featured transfers, the developer sees a relationship-based view of activity for that round. Wallets appear as nodes, and each featured transfer is represented as a connection between a sender and a receiver. 

The Network Graph view shows wallet-to-wallet transfers, clusters, and one-to-many relationships for a selected round/time window.

How to use: Select a specific provider from the Featured Transfers and click to drill down → Go to the Network Graph → Explore wallet relationships.

Instead of reading through rows of data, developers can see clusters of activity for a specific app and round. 

• Sender and receiver wallets 

• Transaction clusters within a round 

• One-to-many and many-to-one transfer patterns 

• The total volume and count of transfers per wallet 

For example, a single wallet might send seven transfers in one round, while another wallet might receive twelve transfers from multiple senders. The graph shows the total amount moved and the structure of those relationships, making complex activity easier to understand. 

Make Network Data Work for Your App 

The featured transfers and markers dashboards, combined with the network graph, give developers a good understanding of how their apps operate on the network and how that activity turns into rewards. This helps teams plan their apps, think about monetization, and decide how to share or structure rewards going forward.