Proposal: Upstreaming and Integrating the K2F Labs' Rust SDK for Canton

Development Fund Proposal Submission

Proposal file: /proposals/2026-07-K2FLabs-rust-sdk-upstreaming-integration.md

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Summary

K2F Labs has operated production applications on Canton mainnet for over a year, built on a comprehensive in-house Rust SDK covering the ledger client, DAR codegen, a typed Daml runtime, transcoding, and a Splice application layer (token standard registry, Scan, wallet flows, ledger indexing). This proposal funds open-sourcing that SDK under Apache-2.0, aligning it with published DA standards (Ledger Client Standard, daml-lf-archive, CIP-56), and integrating it with the official toolchain (dpm, Canton/Splice release cadence), with the final milestone gated on adoption by independent organizations.

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Checklist

• [x] Proposal file added under /proposals/
• [x] Milestones and funding amounts defined
• [x] Acceptance criteria included
• [x] Alignment with Canton priorities described

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Notes for Reviewers

• SIG alignment: canton-apis.
• Champion: currently seeking a champion; open to committee guidance.
• Relationship to the approved Rust SDK proposal (#407) is addressed in the Rationale: this proposal is independent, anchors all milestones to published DA-owned standards rather than any in-flight work, and covers the Splice application layer as working client code. We are open to collaboration with all ecosystem Rust efforts.
• Post-grant maintenance is self-funded: K2F's production applications run on these crates, so maintenance continues as part of our own operational upgrade cycle.