Get started with smart contract development

Daml is a smart contract language designed to build composable applications on an abstract Ledger Model.

In this introduction, you will learn about the structure of a Daml Ledger, and how to write Daml applications that run on any Daml Ledger implementation, by building an asset-holding and trading application. You will gain an overview over most important language features, how they relate to the Ledger Model and how to use Daml’s developer tools to write, test, compile, package and ship your application.

This introduction is structured such that each section presents a new self-contained application with more functionality than that from the previous section. You can find the Daml code for each section here or download them using dpm. For example, to load the sources for section 1 into a folder called intro1, run dpm new intro-contracts  --template daml-intro-contracts.

Prerequisites:

  • You have installed dpm

Next: Basic contracts.