Project roadmap
Follow the Blockstream project's progress through the various development milestones: Monk, Corea, Brubeck and Blockstream 1.0. Future milestones are at top, past achievements below. For more details, check out the blog or the Trello board.
H2/2023 Blockstream 1.0
- DATA tokenomics fully deployed
- Sponsors create Sponsorships to incentivise Operators
- Delegators stake on Operators to share revenue
- Network goes trackerless
H1/2023
- Blockstream Hub
- Gasless (metatransaction) support
- Decentralized encryption key storage
H2/2022
- Non-custodial mining
- Multichain Marketplace
- Data Unions 3.0
- Faster and more scalable key exchange
H1/2022 Brubeck
- Network is decentralized!
- Anyone can run nodes
- Blockstream SDK and Blockstream nodes
- Node Operators can earn DATA by running Blockstream nodes
- End-to-end encryption
- Automatic encryption key exchange
2020 Corea
- P2P architecture finalized, all nodes still run by Blockstream
- Performance testing, metrics collection, and comparisons
- Random network topology per stream controlled by trackers
- Stream partitioning & stream-level data retention period
- Data Unions framework launched
2019 Monk
- Ethereum key-based identity and authentication
- Tamper-proof data with data signing & message chaining
- Protocol improvements preparing for P2P Network release
2018
- Marketplace launch
- Stability and scalability improvements
- R&D work started for P2P milestone
2017 Launch
- Scalable centralized pub/sub infrastructure
- JavaScript client library
- Core UI for managing Blockstream resources