Tetra Digital Group Completes First Smart Contract Deployment and Initial Partner Testing for CADD Ahead of Q1 Launch

Tetra Digital Group, parent company of Tetra Unity and Tetra Trust, Canada’s first fully regulated digital asset custodian, today announced that CAD Digital successfully conducted a series of test transactions within its testnet environment for its fiat backed token, CADD. This marks a major step toward CADD’s expected Q1 2026 launch and demonstrates real-world progress in building a safe, compliant, and fully transparent form of digital money for Canadians that can be utilized for payments and transactions.

CADD is designed to be the first fully regulated Canadian stablecoin issued by a financial institution. It will be backed 1:1 by Canadian dollars held domestically under Canadian law and built on institutional-grade custody, settlement, and compliance infrastructure through Tetra.

CADD Successfully Tested Between Canadian Financial Institutions

Tetra has completed testing of CADD with initial partners within its controlled, proof-of-concept environment, marking a major Canadian milestone: the first time a Canadian-dollar stablecoin has moved between two financial institutions, including a major bank. During the tests, Wealthsimple and National Bank successfully transferred CADD to one another, demonstrating how digital Canadian dollars can move securely and efficiently across institutions.

The testing also included transaction flows between CAD Digital and Wealthsimple, Purpose, ATB Financial, and National Bank, helping underscore how CADD can operate across Canada’s existing banking and fintech ecosystem. Together, these test transactions provided an early look at how a Canadian-backed stablecoin could be used as a safe, efficient payments and settlement instrument in day-to-day operations.

“These tests highlight the potential for CADD to streamline payments and settlement while preserving the safeguards that underpin Canada’s financial system,” said Didier Lavallée, Founder and CEO of Tetra Digital Group. “It’s a meaningful step towards bringing digital efficiency to an environment built on trust and Canadian sovereignty.” 

New Design Partners

In addition to the original investors in the project, Tetra is further expanding the CADD design partner program with new participants. These design partners will help Tetra and CAD Digital continue to build and evaluate various use cases around CADD. They include:

• Aquanow
• Capco
• Cybrid
• Float Financial
• KOHO
• Sling Money
• Tempo
• WealthONE

“As a design partner, we’re focused on how a regulated CAD stablecoin like CADD could strengthen liquidity operations across the Canadian market. The ability to move value with certainty, reduce intraday funding gaps, and simplify reconciliation has clear potential to enhance institutional workflows,” said Adrian Seto, Head of Trading at Aquanow.

“CADD represents the next wave of stablecoin innovation, giving businesses a new and important option for moving value fast and efficiently. We’re proud to be a design partner because Cybrid is built for a multi-stablecoin world where interoperability and seamless settlement matter most. Our infrastructure is agnostic by design, allowing enterprises to move and settle value across traditional finance and digital assets quickly, securely, and at scale,” said Avinash Chidambaram, Co-Founder & CEO of Cybrid.

“Canadian businesses deserve to move money as fast as they operate. A CAD-backed stablecoin is an important step toward that future, enabling real time, programmable movement of Canadian dollars and modernizing how businesses move funds. We’re proud to be a design partner to Tetra as they build it,” said Rob Khazzam, CEO of Float.

CAD Digital is also pleased to welcome Liam Horne as an advisor to the project. Liam is an experienced technologist, having spent most of his career building, scaling and advising various projects on Ethereum. Liam recently joined Tempo to focus on payments-first infrastructure for blockchains.

“Stablecoins are no longer limited to cryptocurrency use cases. They are quickly becoming critical infrastructure for payments, treasury management, and financial applications globally. Tetra is leading the way in integrating fintechs that rely on the Canadian dollar onto stablecoin rails, meaningfully improving capital efficiency, lowering money movement costs, and helping onboard their customers into the global stablecoin ecosystem,” said Liam Horne. 

Strengthening Canada’s Digital Infrastructure and Digital Sovereignty

This milestone follows Tetra’s recent $10 million raise to expand its infrastructure, powered by Unity and built to support CAD Digital and Tetra Trust. Backed by leading Canadian financial institutions and fintech innovators including Urbana Corporation, Canadian Securities Exchange, Wealthsimple, Purpose Unlimited, Shakepay, ATB Financial, National Bank of Canada, Coinbase Ventures, Horizon Kinetics, and Shopify, Unity is designed to ensure proper governance and orchestration across the digital asset ecosystem.

“The successful first deployment and testing of CADD’s smart contract confirms that a regulated, fiat-backed stablecoin can integrate with the existing financial ecosystem. ATB Financial is proud to be a foundational partner in this exciting initiative. This collaboration is crucial for building the transparent infrastructure that will support the future of digital payments and transactions in Canada,” said Daniel Ordibehesht, Head of Strategy, Corporate Development, & Ventures of ATB Financial.

Together with its expanding group of partners, Tetra is laying the groundwork for regulated stablecoins to bridge traditional and digital finance, helping Canada build a faster, safer, and more self-reliant digital financial infrastructure at home and abroad.