Proposal: Canton Participant Workbench
Open-source PQS-to-UI layer giving non-technical Canton participants (compliance officers, auditors, ops leads) human-readable visibility into their private ledger data. Deliverables: @canton-workbench/pqs-connector, @canton-workbench/pqs-decoder, compliance export schema, and a reference Next.js frontend with 8 pages (dashboard, contracts, contract detail, transactions, event graph, counterparties, stakeholder groups, compliance export).
Demo: https://canton-prism.vercel.app/
Development Fund Proposal Submission
Proposal file:
proposals/canton-participant-workbench.md
Summary
Canton Participant Workbench is an open-source PQS-to-UI layer that translates raw Daml contract data into human-readable views for compliance officers, auditors, and operations staff — the non-technical institutional users who currently have no way to act on their private ledger data without engineering support. The fund deliverables are two reusable npm libraries (@canton-workbench/pqs-connector and @canton-workbench/pqs-decoder), a published compliance export schema, and a production-ready reference frontend that any Canton participant or node operator can deploy against their own PQS in under an hour. By shipping open source software rather than a single-institution integration, this proposal lowers the cost of building compliant Canton applications for every future developer in the ecosystem. The team intends to build a hosted commercial product on top of these open-source components; that work is entirely separate from and out of scope for this proposal.
Checklist
- Proposal file added under
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- Acceptance criteria included
- Alignment with Canton priorities described
Notes for Reviewers
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