Roadmap

No dates: each phase ships when its exit criteria are met and published.

Phase 0: reference chain (done in this repository)

BFT PoS, commit certificates, slashing, jailing, voting-power cap
Two-dimensional fee market, burn, tips, conflict-aware lanes
Staking, rewards, unbonding; .aur names; guardian recovery; daily limits; simulation
Node, JSON-RPC/REST, CLI wallet, faucet, explorer, website
Devnet; testnet generator; mainnet ceremony tooling
Tests: unit + 4-node HTTP integration (fault tolerance, halt without quorum, restart, late sync)

Exit: npm test green on Node 20/22/24, Linux and Windows.

On-chain governance: proposals, stake-weighted voting, quorum, veto, deposit, timelock, live parameter changes
Two-phase BFT (propose/prevote/precommit) with proof-of-lock, fault-injection tested
WebAuthn hardware-key signatures (scheme 2) and wallet support
ANR-1 universal name resolution: records, verified reverse names, light-client proofs, DNS + ENS adapters

Independent review of the BFT implementation; formal model of the lock rules
Ledger app (needs device firmware work and a physical device to verify)
Sequential header sync for the light client (removes the trusting-period limit) and non-membership proofs for names
Authenticated, encrypted P2P (QUIC/Noise), peer scoring, DoS limits
State sync, snapshots, pruning; fsync'd validator state
Proposer randomness beacon (VRF) instead of parent-hash draw
Deterministic vote-inclusion rule
Hardware-wallet signing (Ledger/Trezor) for the operator and user keys
Incentivized fault-injection and spam campaign; bug bounty

Exit: ≥ 3 months stable, ≥ 20 independent validators, published fault-injection and performance reports.

EVM-compatible execution engine metered through the compute/state dimensions
Standard interfaces: wallet JSON-RPC (eth_* subset), name-resolution interface for contracts
Governance: proposals, stake-weighted votes, timelocks, activation heights
Light client; relayer-free verification of commits
Hotspot pricing research for contracts everyone touches

Bridge design with explicit verification method, failure handling and asset-recovery rules, reviewed before any code ships
Post-quantum signature scheme (ML-DSA) opt-in, after benchmarks
Two independent audits; all reports public
Genesis ceremony and launch per networks/mainnet/README.md