Unlocking Canton with Daml: Unifying Traditional and Crypto Markets On-Chain

Digital assets and on-chain finance hold incredible promise, but they face a fundamental challenge. How do you get different global institutions, who don't necessarily trust each other, to work together, while also making sure everything is private, consistent, and settled without risk, just like regulators want?

Imagine a world where complicated deals involving multiple parties can all happen perfectly, in sync. By creating a shared ledger that respects each institution's boundaries, this "synchronized finance" lets transactions settle instantly, boosts liquidity, and opens the door to exciting new financial products. But to build this, we need a new kind of system. A system that's better than the all-or-nothing privacy of public blockchains and the slow pace of traditional systems.

That’s where the Canton Network comes in — the first privacy-enabled blockchain network purpose-built for institutions. Launched to bridge the gap between traditional finance and decentralized markets, Canton offers a complete infrastructure designed to tackle the main challenges that stop institutions from getting involved.

By the end of your learning, you will be able to:

• Explain Canton's institutional values of privacy, integrity, and scalability
• Model complex logic using Daml templates, choices, and composition
• Develop and test Daml applications using the SDK and Scripts
• Submit commands and retrieve ledger data via JSON Ledger API
• Apply the knowledge and skills gained to prepare for the Canton Construct Ideathon in November