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Who this is for: Wallet apps that have signed the CBTC reward-share agreement and want to turn it into real revenue. This playbook covers the reward structure, the wallet-specific activation plays, and how to track your ROI. Your BitSafe account manager will walk through it with you.
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Every CBTC transaction in your wallet burns traffic fees on Canton and generates Featured App rewards. You earn a share of those rewards, paid on a simple split net of DA fees — one clean structure, no netting formulas.
Every wallet starts on the same clean baseline: 50%. Volume tiers that raise your share are introduced after your first weeks live — and because wallet transactions look very different from DEX swaps, we establish your real activity baseline first, then design the specific gates with you, calibrated to how a wallet actually transacts.
Preview of the tier shape (specific gates set with you after your baseline period):
| Tier | Reward share | Volume gate |
|---|---|---|
| T0 (baseline) | 50% | Everyone, from day one — this is the floor |
| T1 | 55% | Set together after your baseline period |
| T2 | 60% | Set together after your baseline period |
| T3 | 65% | Set together after your baseline period |
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The wallet advantage: you don't need users to be traders. Transfers, payments, and recurring activity all count — and a wallet can generate many more transactions per user than a trading venue. Your job is to build features that make transacting a habit.
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Before any individual play, get CIP-0103 compliant. CIP-0103 is Canton's vendor-neutral dApp API standard — it decouples key management from applications, so your users can access any dApp on the network through your wallet, plug-and-play (think Ethereum's EIP-1193).
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It turns your wallet into a distribution channel.
A compliant wallet can connect to every venue on the network without custom integration work per venue.
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It's your negotiating leverage.
Venues want distribution; a CIP-0103 wallet with an active user base is exactly what they're missing (most venues on Canton have liquidity plays but no users).
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Every play below gets easier.
Once you're the front door to the whole network rather than a silo, every play compounds.
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Leading Canton venues offer embeddable SDKs — integrate them and your users can trade CBTC without leaving your app.
Why this is the biggest economic play for wallets: the money flows to you. Venues need order flow more than anything, and wallets own the users. That means:
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Distribution fees
Negotiate a fee from each venue for the flow you route to them. You have more leverage than you think — user-owning apps are the scarce resource on Canton.
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Reward share on the activity
In-wallet trades still generate transaction activity you earn on.
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Best-execution routing (the compounding move)
Once you've integrated more than one venue, route each trade to the best available price. Users get better fills, you get stickier users, and every venue has to compete for your flow — which improves your distribution-fee position.
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How to run the negotiation: treat it like the venues treat market makers — terms in writing, per-venue fee schedules, volume-based escalators, no exclusivity (exclusivity kills your routing leverage).
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BitSafe will make the intros. We work with venues across the network and know who needs distribution most — ask your account manager to open the conversations, with venues and other ecosystem partners alike.
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This is the wallet's structural edge: habitual transactions that no trading venue can replicate.
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Recurring buys (DCA)
Let users schedule automatic CBTC purchases — weekly or monthly. Predictable, steady, bot-proof volume with genuine user value.
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Scheduled and P2P transfers
Payments between users, saved payees, recurring transfers.
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Payment use cases
Anywhere CBTC moves for a real purpose, you earn on activity that no one can call artificial.
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Recurring features are compounding: each activated user keeps generating transactions month after month with zero incremental acquisition cost.
Time-boxed campaigns are the fastest way to create a "transact now" moment — and BitSafe will co-fund them. The flagship format: we fund a CC pool that covers user fees on CBTC transactions for a set period (e.g. 2–4 weeks of fee-free transfers or trades), and you promote it to your users.
When to run one:
How it works: