Blockchain startup Digital Asset has announced a developer program for its enterprise smart contract language, DAML.
Digital Asset describes DAML as “a uniquely powerful, intuitive smart contract language specifically designed for use in distributed ledger applications that align financial business processes between organizations.” It has been so designed as to reduce the risk of developer automation errors, while ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of a shared, trusted record of value transfer.
According to the official release, the program is being launched to a wider audience today, April 19. It will provide access and training for the DAML Software Development Kit (SDK), which would enable developers to model sophisticated, multi-party applications that run on the Digital Asset Platform.
“Our clients and partners can now independently build applications for the Digital Asset Platform. DAML is the only smart contract language tested at the scale needed for a national market infrastructure replacement project,” said Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset. “By opening access to a wider range of participants we are extending the application ecosystem around the Digital Asset Platform and empowering our customers to innovate.”
Digital Asset said that the DAML SDK incudes the same integrated set of developer tools that it used to build a replacement for CHESS, the ASX post-trade clearing and settlement system for cash equities.
A number of Digital Asset’s partners and clients, including Accenture, GFT, IntellectEU, ASX, ABN AMRO, and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have already joined the private beta of the developer program. Over 100 developers at partner and client organizations that participated in the beta phase have already been trained.
