Noders admin console UI

Development Fund Proposal Submission

Proposal file:
Link to the proposal added in this PR: /proposals/admin-console-ui.md

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Summary

This proposal funds an open-source operational tool that provides a UI layer over Canton CLI and node administration workflows, making participant and validator management significantly easier and safer for technical teams. Starting from an existing MVP, the project will expand into a broader admin platform with DAR deployment and version management, OIDC authentication, identity backups, REST API, and logging/monitoring. For the Canton ecosystem, this delivers a reusable operational layer that reduces reliance on custom scripts, lowers operator error, and makes Canton infrastructure more accessible and easier to standardize across teams.

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Checklist

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

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Notes for Reviewers

• This proposal is for an open-source operational tool, not a replacement for the Canton CLI. The goal is to provide a safer, more usable management layer on top of existing Canton node administration workflows.
• The project already has an MVP with working support for account, user, rights, party, and validator management. The requested funding is focused on hardening, open-sourcing, documenting, and extending that MVP into a broader ecosystem tool.
• The Committee should evaluate this proposal as shared operational infrastructure for the ecosystem: without a reusable tool, teams are likely to continue building internal wrappers and scripts for the same participant and validator workflows.
• Particular attention should be paid to the value of the planned next-step features — DAR deployment and version visibility, OIDC authentication, identity backups, REST API, and logging/monitoring — because these are the features that move the project from a useful internal utility to infrastructure-grade tooling for wider adoption.
• We expect the main ecosystem value to come not only from the software itself, but also from making Canton operations more standardized, auditable, and accessible for teams managing real deployments.