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

OPENPull Request

by BlockXAI23-03-2026Needs Champion

726K CC requested

dapp-integrationdaml-toolingchampion-confirmed

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Development Fund Proposal Submission

Proposal file: /proposals/ginie.md

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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 |

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Checklist

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

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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