Secure. Scalable. Sustainable.

Technical Roadmap

• Past

• September 2018Launch of the RChain testnet

  RChain testnet goes live for validator node bonding and unbonding and smart contract deployment testing.

• October 2018Launch of the name registry

• January 2020Snapshot of Final RHOC Balances

  The RHOC token was a ERC 20 token based on the Ethereum platform. RChain’s native token is the REV token. With the advent of mainnet, RHOC token holders received an equal number of REV tokens added to their REV wallet.

• February 2020Launch of the RChain mainnet

  RChain platform goes live with 10 Co-op validator nodes. Transactions are processing.

• March 2020Epoch 1

  50M REV are staked on 10 Co-op validator nodes. Nodes transition from US-based nodes to international-base nodes.

• July 2020Epoch 2

  72M REV are staked on 20 Co-op validator nodes.

• December 2020Last Finalized State (LFS)

  LFS removes the blocks which lightens the blockchain. Having far fewer blocks to process for update creates greater efficiency which allows new node validators to quickly arrive at the current state.

• December 2020Epoch 3

  90M REV are staked on 30 Co-op validator nodes.

• December 2020Rholang v1.1

  Created Rholang v1.1 which offers code compression by a factor of 4x for common code structures and optimization on backend with communication and executing events with respect to RSpace

• March 2021Block merge on TESTNET

  rnode 0.11-alpha
  With the implementation of block merge the RChain network now scales horizontally in that as you add validator nodes, the network scales nearly linearly. Scalability is the ability to process a high volume of transactions.

• Future

• July 2021Block merge on MAINNET

• July 2021Hard fork for balances only

• August 2021PoS Contract Update to Enable External Validators

  Updating the proof-of-stake consensus smart contract allows external 3rd party validators to join and secure the network.

• September 2021Hard fork for POS and state reset

• September 2021On-Board 3rd Party External Validators

  Create a decentralized network by expanding the number of external 3rd party validators that secure the network.

• September 2021Rholang v1.1 Operationalization

  Implement Rholang v1.1

• December 2021Namespaces and Sharding

  A namespace is any collection of names: one name, two names, three names or more. A set is a collection of names. Channels facilitate transactions by acting as pathways. Channels live in namespaces. There are many many more transactions than there are names in a namespace. Implement child shards for interoperability (i.e. Ethereum and Bitcoin).

• 2022KPI Dashboard

  The rchain.coop key performance indicator dashboard display metrics such as:

  • - Transaction (txn) volume per second, per minute, per hour, per day
  • - Resource usage by second, minute, hour, day: aggregated and by bandwidth, cpu and storage
  • - Number of validators connected, number of txn/validator/day, by owner
  • - Network decentralization: RChain node cloud diversity and 3rd party validators
  • - Uptime across network as %, uptime by node as %, by owner, issues outstanding, issues yesterday
  • - Number of contracts that fail to complete, number of contracts that fail to complete due to lack of resource
  • - Block creation time

• 2022Thread mapping

  Logical threads to physical threads have linear scaling. Add more validators and achieve greater platform capacity.

• 2022Behavioral Types

  Type safety with data query functionality.

• 2022Rholang Chip (Bare Metal)

  Substantial performance increase