Book of DALPLifecycle Core
Fragmentation is the default state of today's tokenization stack: issuance wizards, compliance databases, custody portals, trading adapters, and settlement workarounds stitched together by spreadsheets and project chats. The DALP turns that sprawl into one control plane, so every lifecycle event (issuance, onboarding, transfers, servicing, settlement, reporting) runs through a programmable core instead of brittle handoffs.
Why fragmentation kills institutional deals
Fragmented programs stall for the same reasons cited in Chapter 1, and teams feel the drag immediately. Integrations between vendors add latency, reconciliation, and finger-pointing. Compliance breaks because eligibility lives in middleware instead of the asset path. Custody vaults cannot see rule updates. Secondary markets detach liquidity from governance. Cash settlement stays T+2 because tokens and fiat sit on separate systems with no shared state. Institutions do not buy that risk profile; they are judged by auditors who want a single accountable platform, not a blame-shifting consortium of vendors.
The DALP integration blueprint
The Asset Tokenization Kit already models the control plane we need. Its layered architecture (frontend -> REST API -> business services -> data -> blockchain -> infrastructure) replaces point integrations with orchestrated services:
- Experience layer (web, mobile, admin, developer portals) guides issuers, investors, and operators through lifecycle actions while reusing shared component libraries.
- API & business logic run type-safe REST endpoints defined by the OpenAPI catalog that route every request through asset, compliance, identity, and notification services, removing one-off integrations and enforcing policy centrally.
- Blockchain infrastructure couples ERC-3643-based system contracts with TheGraph indexers so on-chain events and off-chain state stay synchronized.
- Data plane (PostgreSQL HA cluster, Redis cache, MinIO/IPFS storage) provides authoritative state, document retention, and low-latency access for the entire stack.
- Testing & deployment components (Playwright/Vitest suites, Helm/Kubernetes delivery) keep quality and rollout mechanics wired into the lifecycle core itself.
Each component has explicit performance targets (e.g., <2s UI loads, <200ms API calls, <5s indexing latency, 99.9% data uptime), so operations teams can measure the health of the control plane instead of inferring it from downstream breakage.
Network strategy follows the same pattern. The Asset Tokenization Kit drives public chains, consortium validators, and private EVM builds from the same configuration bundle, so lifecycle policies stay identical even when infrastructure teams demand a permissioned footprint.
How one control plane interacts with the outside world
The integration architecture binds the DALP to identity networks, compliance partners, banking rails, custody providers, and monitoring stacks without diluting control. OnchainID and third-party KYC services plug into the identity registry while respecting the DALP's rule engine. Core banking and payment systems connect through mediation services that translate ISO 20022 and SWIFT messaging, yet settlement logic remains inside the platform. Custodian APIs surface into the same business services that govern transfers. Observability hooks feed internal and client SIEM/SOC tooling so every external dependency is monitored from the DALP's cockpit.
Operationalizing one control plane
The monorepo structure hard-codes the integration discipline the market has been missing. Contracts, the Next.js dApp, the REST API module, the TheGraph indexer, end-to-end tests, and Helm charts live in one workspace. Shared packages (configuration, TypeScript types, Zod schemas) remove ambiguity about interfaces, so lifecycle flows never drift between teams. Environments (development, staging, production) deploy from one Helm-defined topology, meaning policy, infrastructure, and product evolve together instead of through successive vendor statements of work.
What stakeholders finally get
- Institutions negotiate one SLA and risk profile. Lifecycle policy changes propagate everywhere because the control plane owns them end-to-end.
- Compliance teams review deterministic, pre-transfer checks and auditor-ready logs rather than reconciling middleware exports.
- Operations teams monitor one set of metrics and alerts, rehearse failovers, and manage capacity using the same pipelines that drive production.
- Developers ship features instead of glue. The API surface, smart contracts, and UI stay aligned through shared types and tests.
Lifecycle vignette: one asset, one runtime
Consider a launch that issues a bond, a feeder fund, and a deposit note simultaneously:
- Product leads model each instrument in the web console, generating ERC-3643 token blueprints that inherit the appropriate extension sets (yield, voting, collateral) from the control plane.
- Compliance officers configure country, investor-limit, and lock-up modules once; those policies apply to every asset because the rule engine runs centrally.
- Identity teams onboard investors through the shared OpenAPI-documented REST APIs. Claims flow into the identity registry and synchronize across offerings with no duplicate KYC.
- Custody operations pre-stage HSM-backed wallet tiers and policy thresholds directly in the DALP's custody services.
- Settlement ops wire cash legs via the payment gateway adapters (SWIFT for deposits, RTGS for bonds) using the same workflow state machine that drives token transfers, so cash and tokens stay in lockstep.
- Corporate action timelines, notifications, and evidence packs are scheduled through the servicing workflow engine, providing investors and auditors the same data without manual exports.
Because every step references the same control plane, there is no reconciliation step between products, so issuance, compliance, custody, and settlement remain consistent across instruments and venues.
Invariants to carry forward
- Every lifecycle capability (issuance, onboarding, transfers, settlement, reporting) must reside on the DALP control plane; vendor integrations become adapters, not core dependencies.
- Business logic, data, and smart contracts share versioned interfaces inside the monorepo so no team builds against stale assumptions.
- Compliance and identity stay embedded via SMART Protocol primitives; a transfer cannot bypass the rule engine even when adapters extend functionality.
- Deployment, monitoring, and disaster recovery remain part of the product. Environments move through the same automated pipeline so a fix applied in staging behaves identically in production.
When we stick to those invariants, the platform upgrades from a patchwork to a single programmable lifecycle, making Chapter 2's promise of the DALP tangible for customers who demand a turnkey answer to fragmentation. The calm that follows is deliberate.
DALP Overview
The fix for a fragmented, non-compliant, T+2 world is a single, programmable infrastructure that runs issuance → compliance → custody → settlement → servicing without handoffs, with compliance encoded in the asset path, and with enterprise control over deployment and identity. That is the Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP).
Compliance as Code
Compliance cannot sit in a sidecar. It must live in the asset path, identity-bound, rule-enforced, and auditable before any state change. The DALP makes this non-negotiable by combining onboarding (KYC/KYB), accreditation, on-chain whitelists, a jurisdictional rule engine, and regulator-grade reporting into one runtime. Transfers that don't comply never execute. Full stop. That certainty is what regulators and investors expect to see.