Getting Started with LegalLab

Introduction

Welcome to LegalLab, your all-in-one software for Smart Contract management and automation. This onboarding tutorial guides you through setting up and utilizing LegalLab efficiently. Let’s get started!

Clone and run the LegalLab:

Clone: Head to LegalLab repository and clone the repository.
Run: Open the solution on Visual Studio. (make sure that you always have the latest version). From there, you can go ahead and build and then run the solution.

Note!

To run and use LegalLab, it is recommended to use Visual Studio. Make sure you run it on debug mode.

Connection

Once you have built and run LegalLab, you will need to connect to the XMPP server (Neuron®) on which you will be experimenting and managing smart contracts.

Navigate to the Network ID tab. There you will need to fill in the following fields:

If you have an existing account on the server:
1. XMPP server: The server you will be connecting to.
2. Account: The network account on that server.
3. Password: Account password.
4. Click Connect.
If you don’t have an account:
1. Do steps 1-2 from above.
2. Create a password for said account. Recommended to use the Randomize Password button.
3. Tick the box Create Account, if none exists
4. Repeat the password
5. You will need API Key credentials. You will find them under the API Keys menu if you have access to the server’s (Neuron®) admin dashboard. Look at Legal ID Tutorial for more information.
6. Leave remaining boxes unticked
7. Click Connect

Note:

Credentials should be saved for reuse by clicking on Save Credentials.
To the right of the window, there is an XMPP sniffer that serves as a log for transparency. Sniffers are important developer tools that help engineers troubleshoot problems or perform security reviews. They can also act as a base for learning more about the underlying communication protocol.
API keys can be requested via the Feedback page of the neuron you want the keys for.

Legal Identity

To sign and manage Smart Contracts, you must create a Digital Identity. To do that, navigate to the Legal ID tab.

Provide the required personal and/or organization information and then apply for a legal identity by clicking “Apply.”
Once you have applied, you will see the application status in the console to the right. Different values the application status can have:
- Created
- Rejected
- Approved
- Obsolete
- Compromised
If you have access to the Neuron® admin dashboard, you can do Manual approval of Identity Otherwise contact an administrator.
Once your legal identity is approved, you can engage in contract management within the federated Neuron® Network.

Wallet

In the wallet tab, you can see the balance and transaction history. Process eDaler® URIs, “buy,” “sell,” and “transfer” eDaler® using service providers installed on the Neuron®. (It is up to the Neuron® operator to define what an eDaler® is. The process of acquiring eDaler® is here mentioned as “buying” eDaler®, and destroying eDaler® as “selling.” The process of transferring eDaler® from one account to another in the federated Neuron® network is referred to as “transfer”. eDaler® is only an electronic token used in cross-domain interoperation between automated services.

Tokens

In this tab, you can see all the tokens related to the account. A list of tokens is presented on the right panel. If you click on a token, you can see some additional information as well.

Designing Contract Templates

Under this tab, Smart Contracts can be designed and proposed for approval. The repository contains several example contracts that can be used as templates in order to experiment and get to learn how to use TAG technologies. The example contracts can be loaded to LegalLab (Load button). For more information about the different examples, visit LegalLab Readme

Approve Contract Proposals

Once you have Loaded or created a contract, you can propose it by clicking on Propose You can manually accept the contract proposal on the admin dashboard (/Admin.md) by navigating to Notarius Electronicus and selecting Pending Smart Contract Proposals.

For more details, please see: Approve Contract Proposal

Note!

It is crucial to check the integrity between the human and machine-readable content of the contract. The auditor is responsible for assuring the rest of the network that these are consistent. This is what Trust means, and this is the basis for the responsibility a Trust Provider takes. Users should be able to trust that a real Trust Provider’s contract templates are correct and have integrity.
Furthermore, contracts can be multilingual; therefore, it is essential to check all published languages so integrity is preserved in every language.

Create Contract

Once a contract template has been approved, you can now use it for creating and executing contracts under the Create Contract tab.

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