#123Needs Champion Pull Request726K CC requested

Proposal: Ginie — English to DAML Full Stack Dapp Builder tool for all EVM Solidity and Other chain builders to Increase Canton Adoption

BlockXAI23-03-2026Last activity 5mo ago

dapp-integrationdaml-toolingchampion-confirmed

Development Fund Proposal Submission

Summary

Ginie transforms plain English into fully compiled, deployed Daml Full Stack Apps on Cantonin under 90 seconds, with zero prior Daml knowledge required.

This is not a proposal for an idea. Ginie already works.

We recently did a private beta launch of Ginie

Acquired 1500 Canton Passionate Builders on platfrom Grown the TG community to 1100+ folks across globe Grown x to 2500 followers builders community

The full pipeline is live and verified in production:

LocalNet Canton sandbox deployed on Railway and over 1000+ Contracts deployed so far from the community Private Beta Testing Every generated contract passes an automated 5-gate pre-deployment audit — missing signatories, unchecked controllers, unguarded choices, known anti-patterns, and SCU upgrade compatibility (Gate 5) — before any DAR upload. No other Canton tooling project builds this.

Funding

726,000 CC (~$110,000 USD) across 4 milestones over 6 months

Milestone	CC	USD	Delivery
M1: Production MVP	118,800 CC	~$18,000	Week 4
M2: Full-Stack dApp Builder + MCP	182,820 CC	~$27,700	Week 12
M3: IDE Extensions + ML Data Collection	273,240 CC	~$41,400	Week 20
M4: Ginie-1 Full Training + Apache 2.0 Release	151,140 CC	~$22,900	Week 24
Total	726,000 CC	~$110,000	6 months

Checklist

Proposal file added under /proposals/
Milestones and funding amounts defined
Acceptance criteria included per milestone
SCU compatibility addressed — Gate 5 in M1 audit layer per Canton Foundation feedback
dpm build / Canton 3.4 throughout — no legacy daml-assistant references
Alignment with Canton priorities described

Notes for Reviewers

Champion: Canton Foundation

This grant accelerates a production-ready product — not an idea — directly benefiting the open-source Daml community and institutional builders by eliminating the Daml expertise barrier, reducing developer onboarding cost from weeks to minutes, and providing a privacy-first SDK for teams who cannot route sensitive contract specifications through external APIs.

Ginie is not a SaaS product with a paywall. GinieNet runs as a public, free-to-use Canton sandbox. All generated contracts, the RAG corpus, the Canton Skills library, and Ginie-1 weights are Apache 2.0. BlockX AI does not charge for contract generation. The commercial sustainability model — if any — comes from enterprise self-hosting support, not from gating the open-source tool. This grant funds the public-good infrastructure, not a proprietary product

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