Project Roadmap

Aleph asynchronous BFT consensus protocol appeared on AFT'19 peer-reviewed conference: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318041.3355467

The PoC implementation is available in our repository (https://github.com/aleph-zero-foundation/consensus-go) and served as a basis for the first benchmarks.

Testing sole consensus mechanism yielded impressive results—the finalization of data that corresponded to a scope of 89,600 TPS with sub second latency.

This implementation served as a basis for protocol benchmarks in the paper.

Researching the ZK-proof subsystem of the native privacy layer on Aleph Zero—and constructed the detailed roadmap.

Minting of AZERO and allowing it to be freely transferred among different parties.

Integrating the Polkadot.js wallet, basic explorer, and developer tool with azero.dev.

Re-implementing our consensus and setting up the chain using Substrate—a modular Rust framework for blockchain creation.

Developing mechanism enabling validators to automatically switch places in the committee.

Allowing users to see advanced account statistics.

Aleph Zero validators will be reassigned for each session—based on the sum of their own stake and funds staked with them by the community.

Adding WASM-based smart contracts to the Aleph Zero blockchain—together with deployment tutorials.

Providing a better nominator experience by allowing multiple users to jointly stake tokens.

Enabling storage of AZERO on Ledger and Parity Signer hardware wallets.

Including both backend templates—and frontend integration with wallets.

Providing the plug-in for MetaMask based on its Snap feature.

Showing validator status and advanced statistics in the explorer.

Users will be able to vote on key issues–beginning with adjusting inflation as per community consultations.

Releasing the Aleph Zero EVM Mainnet with:

• Block explorer, oracles, account abstraction, multisig with integration of state-of-the-art Safe UI, and full EVM compatibility via Arbitrum Orbit
• Beginning integration through a major multi-bridge provider

Hardening of the Aleph Zero WASM network layer.

Delivering a solution that nominates the Aleph Zero Foundation’s stake to Community Validators.

Launching the Halo2 ZK proving framework on-chain.

Launching Poseidon2 precompile and implementation for ZK proving, which is the newest proposal for ZK-friendly hashing that is 30% faster than basic Poseidon.

A completely private wallet on testnet, where users can rapidly send and receive tokens–zkID will follow.

Enables the bridging of PSP-22 tokens from Aleph Zero to Ethereum.

 Launching a bridge that directly connects Aleph Zero’s WASM layer 1 with Aleph Zero’s EVM layer 2.

Putting the community vote conducted in Q3 2024 into effect.

Adding more parts of the project under community management, beginning with Community Grants distribution.

Go-live of the integration with bridge provider from Aleph Zero to multiple other networks.

Enabling features for data storage for EVM layer on Aleph Zero layer 1.

Adding the encryption scheme as an additional tool in the EVM developer toolbox.

Ensuring that ZK-based identity on Aleph Zero is consistent with idOS.

Adding support to transact privately with ERC-20 tokens.

Releasing the SDK to allow community app developers to integrate privacy into their projects.

Implementing of general-purpose ZK

A decryption oracle allows for the storage of encrypted data on-chain with arbitrary reveals and, possibly, execution conditions. This will enable encrypted trade orders that are only revealed upon execution.

Based on arbitrary data held in zkOS and the decryption oracle, users may define custom logic for their private apps.

Native support for private multisig accounts and domain system, which will allow the use of human-readable addresses for private transfers.