Proposal: OpenZeppelin Canton Ecosystem Stack

Abstract

This proposal requests a grant to fund the design, implementation, security audit, and ecosystem adoption of an open-source development stack for Canton, delivered over 24 months in eight quarterly milestones. Canton today lacks open-source reference implementations for the complex financial products its ecosystem needs and standardized audited Daml contract libraries, leaving teams to independently rebuild the same foundational components, increasing security risk and slowing adoption. This grant delivers eight production-ready Reference Implementations across strategic DeFi and institutional use cases, an audited Daml Contracts Library that serves as the trusted foundation developers import when building applications, and 55 researcher-weeks of dedicated security capacity covering audits, security reviews, and penetration testing of all OpenZeppelin-produced code. The project culminates in measurable independent adoption — at least 20 Canton projects integrating the Library and external forks of the Reference Implementations — establishing OpenZeppelin's stack as the default secure foundation for institutional and DeFi composability on the Canton Network.

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