roadmap

Roadmap

Make sure to read our Home#Background and Home#Design Goals.

Contents

• Roadmap
  • Concurrent Processes
  • Feature Selection

Roadmap

This is our roadmap, to be refined over time.

1. Private Alpha release - introduces a functional (although perhaps awkward) low-level rpc interface, the zc-raw-* operations.
2. Calgary Redesign - alters the protocol to integrate Zerocash operations in a more principled manner. Supports only the same zc-raw-* API.
3. Calgary Implementation - see: https://github.com/Electric-Coin-Company/zcash/blob/zc.v0.10.0.latest/doc/zcash/calgary.md#stage-1-foundations
4. Synchronization Point - Target Date: 2016-01-15: Website launch
5. Target Date: 2016-01-15: Public Alpha - zc-raw-* RPC interface. Few features.
6. Synchronization Point - Target Date: 2016-01-22 Handoff of mpc code to us (create GitHub repository).
7. Synchronization Point - Target Date: 2016-01-16? PR event - online article.
8. Synchronization Point - Target Date: 2016-01-20? PR event - print article.
9. Target Date: 2016-04-01 Beta Release - a public release with all of our feature in 1.0 goals (see Feature Selection below).
10. 1.0 Feature Freeze - a cutoff after which no feature changes are allowed.
11. Target Date: 2016-05-01? MPC software ready for practice runs / refinement.
12. Synchronization Point - Target Date: ???: Parameter Ceremony - the official ceremony for secure parameter selection.
13. Synchronization Point - Target Date: 2016-05-?? - Stewardship Org established.
14. Target Date: 2016-08-01 - 1.0 Launch - the birth of the official blockchain.
15. 1.1 Release - a set of feature not in 1.0, feature maybe in 1.0, and other features which:
    • can be implemented without consensus changes.
    • are the most valuable remaining tasks for the ecosystem.

Concurrent Processes

Note that the above `Roadmap`_ doesn't quite capture some "concurrent" processes that only have a partial order, most notably the parameter setup code, which can be developed independently until the Parameter Ceremony.

Feature Selection

Tightly intertwined with the roadmap is our feature selection decisions. See issue tracking#Feature Selection.