Proposal: Daml Package Registry (damlpkg)#317
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Hosted package registry for the Canton Network with on-chain provenance, anchored on Canton via PackageRecord Daml contracts. Signed-off-by: Tolga Yaycı <40897846+tolgayayci@users.noreply.github.com>
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Development Fund Proposal Submission
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Proposal file: /proposals/damlpkg.md
Summary
damlpkg is a hosted package registry for the Canton Network — the npm, crates.io, or PyPI of the Daml ecosystem. Every published (name, version) is anchored on Canton through an immutable PackageRecord Daml contract, letting any consumer verify provenance directly from the ledger without trusting the registry server. A working reference implementation is already deployed at damlpkg.dev (source, demo); this proposal funds the production build across four milestones.
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/proposals/Notes for Reviewers
The ecosystem has explicitly asked for this. Canton's 2026 Developer Experience Survey lists "Daml Dependency & Package Manager" among the top tooling opportunities and places "Package Manager & Operational Dashboards (Cargo)" on its Magic Wand Wishlist. Survey respondents describe the current Daml dependency workflow in their own words as "a manual, file-based process" of "manually downloading files, moving them between folders, and struggling to resolve version mismatches." The proposal directly addresses a developer-stated gap.
Working reference implementation already deployed. The MVP is live at damlpkg.dev, open-source at github.com/tolgayayci/damlpkg, with a demo video walking through the full publish-install-verify loop.