The CIP's reasoning is the plain argument for the whole NaaS layer — a validator's uptime matters because it is part of the confirmation protocol, the network upgrades regularly, and most institutions have no wish to build that operational capability in-house.
Figment now appears on the Canton Foundation's list of approved Node-as-a-Service providers and describes itself as one of the largest and earliest of them for Canton. Its Canton offering is managed validator operations: non-custodial, custodian-agnostic, with disaster recovery it says was developed with the Digital Asset team and always-on operations under SLAs.
Figment is a node-operations business — it runs validators for institutional clients across proof-of-stake networks — and on Canton it does both halves of the job: it operates a Super Validator and it runs ordinary validators for other firms.
Figment's listing type on Canton is validator.
Figment belongs to the Validators & node operators segment of Canton.
Figment, listed on Canton as validator, operates in the Validators & node operators niche.
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