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title: Daml Open Source
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# Explore everything Daml can do for you

Daml is an open source application platform used to create systems of record that securely connect across business processes and data boundaries, all while retaining privacy, guaranteeing data integrity, and enforcing strict authorization. With the ability to cross legal, regulatory, and organizational boundaries, Daml lets you forge seamless economic networks.

[ Why Daml? ](https://www.digitalasset.com/hubfs/2022-overhaul/DA_Whitepaper_WhyDaml_v1.2.pdf)

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### **The platform includes the Daml Language and Canton. The Daml Language is a smart contract language and tooling that defines the schema, semantics, and execution of transactions between distributed parties.  Canton is a privacy-enabled distributed ledger that is enhanced when deployed with complementary blockchains and provides secure synchronization between multiple parties on a wide range of technologies.**

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](https://docs.daml.com/index.html)

### **Daml combines the best features of the UTXO model, Ethereum-style smart contract model, as well as typesafe and pure general-purpose languages into a unique blend of usability and safety—ensuring you can create critical and complex applications.**

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](https://docs.daml.com/daml/intro/0_Intro.html)

### **Daml is an open-source, privacy-first solution to many of the critical problems facing enterprise blockchains. Daml provides support across the entire software development cycle with interoperability between different networks and deployment targets.**

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](https://docs.daml.com/app-dev/app-arch.html)

##### Download

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##### Community

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##### Training

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