Introduction to

Day 1

Hemachandra M S
Associate Tech Specialist
BCBU | Tech Mahindra
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 Digital Asset Modelling Language
“Build full-stack, distributed applications for DLT, Blockchain,or databases in days”

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 Today's Agenda
Introduction to DAML

 What is DAML?
 Why DAML?

 Application Architecture
 Development Tools
 Template, Transactions, Contract, Ledger

 Asset Ownership Transfer - Coding

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 What is DAML?
Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) is a purpose-built open source programming
language and software framework for the rapid development (10x faster) of portable,
future-proof, and easy to read and write applications using smart contracts.

Runtime and DAML Ledger integrations allow you to write your app once and easily run it
on any infrastructure that meets your needs, be it DLT/blockchain, cloud-native, or
traditional technology.

DAML is a functional language and was designed for distributed business workflows. It
helps a developer to focus more on programming business processes by cutting down
the amount of time the developer would spend on dealing with encryption and blockchain.

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 Why Daml?
Silos exist between and within enterprises

 Every enterprise relies on multi-party workflows to manage processes.

 Different parties use different technologies, databases and applications.
 There is no common data model and standards.
 This results in different and costly manual work.
 Critical processes end up with breaks, and risk is increased.

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 Why Daml?
All current major blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms fall short in these areas

 Programming these systems is difficult and error-prone.

 There is insufficient support for integrating blockchain applications into full solutions.
 Even to start developing an application, one needs to commit to a single deployment target, resulting in
applications that are then tied to that target.

 Heavy trade-offs between privacy, security, and consistency are required. These trade-offs are often
implicit and are not clear to the developer who needs to make them.

 Interoperability relies on standardizing on a single blockchain or distributed ledger technology or requires

careful planning and application development.

Find more of why DAML here: https://daml.com/why-daml

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 Why DAML
Features of DAML

Storage Abstraction Authorization Checks

 The runtime abstracts away the persistence  Ensures proper authorization for all
layer so DAML programs can be written in a actions given on a contract.
storage-agnostic way.

Accountability Tracking No Double Spends

 Signatures from all designated signatories on  A contract that has been archived by a
a contract are required to create agreements. previous transaction cannot be used again.

Atomic Transaction

 The ability to effect a set of

changes atomically such that either all
changes happen or nothing happens in case
of a conflict or error.

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 How to write our app once and easily run it
on any infrastructure? What is the underlying
application architecture?

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 Application Architecture
Bigger picture

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 Application Architecture
Recommended design of a full-stack Daml application
Your Application

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 What are the available tools for development
in DAML?

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 Development Tools
Daml Assistant (daml --help)
 daml is a command-line tool that create, initialize,
compile, build daml projects, launch other tools like
daml studio, sandbox, navigator, extractor, http json
API and run codegen which are related to SDK.
Daml Sandbox (daml start / daml sandbox)
 The Sandbox for short, is a simple ledger
implementation that enables rapid application
prototyping by simulating a Daml Ledger. Uses in-
memory storage by default.
DAML script(daml script)
 Used for testing DAML models. Provides an API
with simplicity of scenarios and all benefits while
running against the actual ledger.
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Daml Studio (daml studio)
 Daml Studio is an integrated development
environment (IDE) for Daml. It is an extension on top
of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), a cross-platform,
open-source editor providing a rich code editing
experience.
Navigator  (daml start / daml navigator)
 Front-end that you can use to connect to any Daml
Ledger and inspect and modify the ledger. You can
use it during Daml development to explore the flow
and implications of the Daml models.
DAML REPL
 Allows you to test and manipulate a ledger
interactively.
 Development Tools
Continued…

Daml codegen (daml codegen [java|js|scala]) Daml Profiler*

 You can use the Daml codegen to generate Java,  The Daml Profiler allows you to to profile execution of
Scala, and JavaScript/TypeScript classes your Daml code which can help spot bottlenecks and
representing Daml contract templates. opportunities for optimization. Only available in the Daml Connect
Enterprise Edition.

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 Template, Transactions, Contract, Ledger

 Contract is created from a template, which contains the schema of digital asset and all rules
binding applied to this type of asset.

 It is a transaction causing the change of contracts.

 Contract, representing a specific digital asset in the ledger. Each contract keeps the
necessary detail of the digital asset, and actions that only authorized parties can act upon.
Contract in the ledger is either active or archived.

 Contracts are deployed in the Ledger. Daml Ledger is just a list of commits.

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 Template, Transactions, Contract, Ledger

Transactions

Ledger

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 Asset Ownership Transfer - Coding
 Step1: Alice creates an Asset contract(active) from the template.
 Step2: Alice exercises a choice “Give” that transfers ownership to Bob, which will archive
existing contract and creates a new contract between Alice and Bob.

 Step3: Bob views the digital asset and “Give”s back the asset to Alice, as Bob is now an
owner of that asset. This will create a new active contract and archive the previous contract.

Let’s head to Daml Playground

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 Important Links (15/11/2021)

 1 hour workshop Youtube video:  Daml + PKI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxt4yQceXA&t https://
daml.com/blog/engineering/secure-daml-infrastructure-part-
 Chapters 1-7 of the intro to DAML section as pre-reading: 1-pki-and-certificates
https://docs.daml.com/daml/intro/0_Intro.html
 Daml Finance Library:
 Daml online training self paced training: https://github.com/digital-asset/lib-finance
https://daml.talentlms.com/dashboard
 Daml online support:
 Interactive Tutorials: http://discuss.daml.com/
https://daml.com/learn
 YouTube Channel (Please subscribe - Webinars on various
 Daml cheat sheet: use cases)
https://docs.daml.com/cheat-sheet/ https://
www.youtube.com/channel/UCogfiTgCgVubpLQ1i1VmPPg
 DAML App Examples:
https://daml.com/examples  Daml Certificate Catalog:
https://github.com/digital-asset/ex-models Course catalog - Daml Training Platform (talentlms.com)

 Download the Daml SDK:

https://docs.daml.com/

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