Library

The OpenZeppelin library for Canton is a set of foundational Daml modules that other packages and applications compose on top of. It brings the patterns developers know from OpenZeppelin's Solidity contracts (role-based access control, ownership, emergency stop) to Daml, adapted to Canton's authorization and privacy model rather than translated literally.

Packages

Each primitive ships as its own independent Daml package: its own DAR, with no dependency on the others, so a consumer imports only what it needs:

• Access Control: role-based authorization, the AccessControl.sol analogue. An admin grants named roles as bearer credentials; gated choices verify the presented grant.
• Ownable: single-owner authorization for privileged actions, the Ownable2Step.sol analogue. Ownership transfer is a two-step handshake, because in Daml a new owner is a signatory and cannot be bound unilaterally.
• Pausable: an emergency stop, the Pausable.sol analogue. An authorized party halts and resumes sensitive choices; pause is origination control on a keyless ledger.

Design Philosophy

Independence at the package boundary. Daml has no inheritance, and its unit of reuse is the DAR. The library therefore delivers OpenZeppelin's decoupled-module promise at the package level: three packages, three DARs, zero cross-dependencies. A project that only needs pausing imports only openzeppelin-pausable-v1.

Versioned packages and modules. Each component is released as a versioned package (openzeppelin-<component>-v1) with a matching module suffix (OpenZeppelin.<Component>V1). Compatible upgrades keep the package name; a breaking change ships as a sibling -v2 package instead of mutating -v1.

Adapted, not transliterated. Where Daml's model differs from the EVM (monomorphic templates, no global state lookups, signatory-based authority), each primitive adopts the idiomatic Daml shape and documents the divergence on its page.

Script-free libraries. The shipped packages carry no daml-script dependency; tests and example consumers live in a separate test package. Your production DAR stays lean.

Using the Library

Add the package(s) you need as data-dependencies of your Daml project and import the module:

import OpenZeppelin.AccessControlV1
import OpenZeppelin.OwnableV1
import OpenZeppelin.PausableV1

See Get Started for toolchain setup, and each package page for its templates, choices, and usage patterns.