Proposal: Canton ClearSign

OPENPull Request
by srikanth-bitdynamics13-03-2026In Review (Champion Assigned)
wallet-apps
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Development Fund Proposal Submission

Proposal file: /proposals/canton-clearsign.md

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Summary

This proposal requests funding for Canton ClearSign, an open-source wallet platform focused on explainable self-custody, external-party onboarding, and operator conformance for custom/operator-managed Canton environments. It is intentionally complementary to broader wallet-connectivity efforts and focuses instead on a concrete reference wallet, topology-aware onboarding flows, transaction explainability, diagnostics, and deployment-readiness tooling.

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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

This proposal is intentionally scoped to avoid overlap with broader wallet-discovery, generic provider-standard, and dApp-SDK efforts already under discussion.

ClearSign is not trying to define the universal wallet standard for Canton. It is an open-source reference wallet and integration surface focused on making self-custodial Canton usage real, inspectable, and usable in custom and operator-managed environments. The goal is to give new dApp teams a concrete wallet target they can integrate against today, while giving operators the onboarding, diagnostics, and conformance tooling needed to support real deployments.

The main differentiators are:

  • external-party onboarding with explicit topology review
  • explainable signing with local transaction-hash verification
  • JWT / rights / package / route diagnostics for custom nodes
  • operator conformance harness and deployment-readiness reporting

The provider/SDK/React/extension surfaces in this proposal are scoped as ClearSign’s own integration surfaces for the reference wallet and example dApp, not as a new universal ecosystem standard.

This project is intended as a practical open-source reference implementation, not just an abstraction layer. It is designed to help new dApp teams integrate against a real wallet, especially in custom-node and operator-managed deployments that remain under-served today. The codebase is modular and public so it can be extended and maintained by the wider community after release.

No dedicated third-party audit budget or recurring maintenance funding is requested in this proposal. If the shipped platform demonstrates meaningful adoption or reviewer-requested security scope beyond the funded milestones, Bitdynamics may return with a follow-on proposal for scoped security review and/or ongoing maintenance support.

Current Prototype

The project is not starting from a blank slate. We've got Wireframes ready to start development once approved and make lives of developers much easier.

Current prototype UI Wireframe : !canton-wallet-demo