Canton dAppBooster is live

dAppBooster for Canton is live.

An open-source, full-stack starter for building a dApp UI on top of a Daml package. You get a one-command local Canton environment, wagmi-style React hooks and components for wallet connection and signing, and an example dApp to fork instead of a blank page.

It’s built on Canton’s dApp SDK, so your dApp hands signing and execution to the user’s wallet, and any CIP-0103 compliant wallet works with no wallet-specific code. The local stack runs Wallet Gateway by default.

The Canton Development Fund supported this work.

Highlights

• canton-barebones: starts a local Canton environment with one command (Splice localnet, DAR deploy, health checks). It ships as a dpm component.

• canton-connect: wraps Canton’s official dApp SDK in wagmi-style React hooks and a context provider (connect, accounts, transactions, message signing, ledger queries).

• canton-dappbooster: a dapp starter template featuring reusable UI components: connect button, party input, explorer link, token input and select.

• Reference dApp: a Canton Coin vesting example dApp that signs through any CIP-0103 wallet, live at demo.dappbooster.cc.

• A wallet-less dApp demo on the same stack, live at canton-dappbooster-walletless.vercel.app.

• Docs and a narrative getting-started tutorial.

• Agentic-ready docs (per-repo CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md) so you can build your app with an AI assistant.

Where do I start?

• Install guide. Install and set up everything with one command: One-command installation – Canton dAppBooster

• Getting started. Build a small dApp where one party writes a note and another acknowledges it: Getting started – Canton dAppBooster

Links

• Landing: https://dappbooster.cc

• Docs: https://docs.dappbooster.cc

• Repo: GitHub - BootNodeDev/canton-dappbooster: Local Canton development stack · GitHub

• Live demo: https://demo.dappbooster.cc

This is Milestone 1, the MVP. We’re now focused on teams shipping real/production dApps on top of it, so if you’re building on Canton, reach out, we’d love to help you ship it.

Give it a spin and let us know what you think. Feedback and issues are very welcome, reply here or open an issue on the repo.

You can check out this video for a quick walkthrough of:

1. dAppBooster installation
2. Project creation
3. Stack initialization
4. “CC Vesting” Sample dApp exploration (wallet connection, in-wallet Party creation, and TX submissions)

Try it out and give us feedback!

drive.google.com

dAppBooster-for-Canton_walkthrough.mp4

Google Drive file.