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Canopy serves a broad range of participants — from token-issuing protocols looking to sell large allocations privately, to institutional desks moving significant positions without market impact, to individual recipients who want to transfer or sell their vesting positions before unlock. Whether you are a treasury manager structuring a strategic deal, a developer building a secondary market for locked tokens, or a trader seeking deterministic OTC execution, Canopy provides the same trustless, fully collateralized infrastructure for every use case.

Treasury Sales

Projects can sell large token allocations directly to designated buyers without placing sell pressure on public markets. By using a private offer restricted to a specific wallet, the issuer maintains full control over who receives the allocation while the protocol handles collateralization and settlement automatically. No broker, no escrow agent, and no counterparty credit risk are required.

Strategic Investments

Negotiate a private token purchase with a project or treasury and settle it entirely onchain with transparent, trustless execution. Both parties agree on price and quantity off-chain, then the offer is posted with escrowed collateral so the buyer can execute with confidence. The smart contract enforces every term of the deal, eliminating the need to trust a third-party intermediary.

OTC Liquidity

Move significant token positions without suffering AMM slippage or fragmenting across multiple liquidity pools. You negotiate the price in advance, the seller escrows the full amount, and the trade executes atomically at exactly the agreed rate. Large block trades that would otherwise move the market complete cleanly and predictably through Canopy.

Locked Token Sales

Sell the future delivery rights of tokens that are not yet unlocked by posting a deferred offer with on-chain collateral already escrowed. Buyers receive ERC-20 claim tokens representing their right to the underlying assets at unlock time, while the seller receives payment today. The collateral remains secured in the protocol throughout the waiting period, giving buyers verifiable certainty that their claim is fully backed.

Vesting Markets

Represent upcoming token unlocks as transferable ERC-20 claim tokens so that vesting recipients can sell or reassign their positions before the vesting date arrives. Instead of waiting passively for unlock, recipients can access liquidity immediately by selling their claim tokens to any willing buyer on the open market. The new holder simply redeems at unlock time to receive the underlying tokens directly from escrow.

Institutional Trading

Execute large trades with fully deterministic outcomes — no slippage, no order-routing uncertainty, no custody risk, and no counterparty credit exposure. Every offer on Canopy is collateralized before it appears, so institutional desks can confirm that the assets are genuinely available before committing capital. Settlement is enforced by immutable smart contracts, removing the operational and counterparty risks associated with traditional OTC desks.

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Building on Canopy

Because every deferred forward position is represented as a standard ERC-20 token, your existing wallet infrastructure, portfolio trackers, lending protocols, and analytics dashboards can integrate Canopy claim tokens without any special permissions or custom adapters. Any application that supports ERC-20 transfers and balances can display, move, or accept claim tokens as collateral right out of the box. Developers building secondary markets, structured products, or yield strategies around vesting positions can compose directly on top of Canopy’s claim layer — no allowlists, no gatekeepers, and no protocol-level approval required.