- App Metadata & Deployment Standardization proposal

Development Fund Proposal Submission

Proposal file: /proposals/2026-07-Pixelplex-DA-Canton_Applicaiton_Metadata_And_Deployment_Standardization.md

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Summary

This proposal tackles a bottleneck in the Canton Network: dApp developers can't easily get their DAR (Daml Archive) packages hosted by node operators, because there's no standard way to verify a DAR is safe, matches its audited source, or has its dependencies resolved. Node operators currently rely on manual, ad-hoc trust judgments, which doesn't scale and has already caused real failures (e.g., a missing Splice dependency breaking a MainNet deployment).

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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

(Add anything the Tech & Ops Committee should pay attention to.)

• SIG: wallet-apps
• Champion: @davidrichards-da