Canton Developer Onboarding and Validation Infrastructure#154
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yucetrade wants to merge 6 commits intocanton-foundation:mainfrom
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Canton Developer Onboarding and Validation Infrastructure#154yucetrade wants to merge 6 commits intocanton-foundation:mainfrom
yucetrade wants to merge 6 commits intocanton-foundation:mainfrom
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Proposal for Canton Developer Onboarding and Validation Infrastructure
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Link to the proposal added in this PR (e.g., /CantonDeveloper-onboardingValidation.md)
Summary
This proposal requests development funding for a public developer onboarding and validation infrastructure for Canton. The project is positioned as shared ecosystem infrastructure rather than a single application or a new network. Its purpose is to provide a managed intermediate environment between local development and formal DevNet / TestNet validation, so that developers and early-stage teams can complete account onboarding, identity and party allocation, DAR upload, Ledger API / JSON Ledger API access, contract testing, transaction execution, and basic debugging without first building and operating their own full setup.
The infrastructure is designed to reduce onboarding friction, improve validation efficiency, and avoid duplicated effort across teams that would otherwise need to build similar early-stage environments independently. It will provide a reusable developer access path, managed participant infrastructure, controlled DAR handling, baseline observability, and supporting documentation for onboarding, troubleshooting, and migration. The intended outcome is a public-good validation layer that improves developer experience, supports project incubation and ecosystem education, and strengthens Canton’s shared development infrastructure.
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/proposals/Notes for Reviewers
Please pay particular attention to the project’s positioning as shared developer infrastructure rather than a consumer-facing application. The purpose of the project is not to replace DevNet, TestNet, or MainNet, but to introduce a managed public validation layer that fills the gap between local development and formal network environments.
Reviewers may also wish to focus on the project’s ecosystem value in lowering developer onboarding barriers, reducing duplicated setup and operational work across teams, and creating a reusable validation path for project incubation, training, hackathons, and tool testing. In addition, the project is structured to validate practical ecosystem demand through measurable adoption indicators such as developer onboarding, project usage, DAR upload and installation, and support for ecosystem activities.