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 the sole consensus mechanism has yielded an impressive result of finalizing data corresponding in size to 89600 transactions per second with the sub-second latency.

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

Researching the zero-knowledge proof subsystem of the native privacy layer on Aleph Zero. Detailed roadmap under construction.

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

Integrating with wallet, basic explorer and developer tool at azero.dev

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

Developing mechanism allowing 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 on them by the community.

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

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

Allows to store AZERO on Ledger and Parity Signer hardware wallets.

Preparing for future chain upgrades to be performed on-the-fly, i.e., without the chain downtime.

Including both backend templates, and frontend integration with wallets.

Providing plugin for Metamask based on the Metamask Snap feature.

Explorer showing status of validators and their advanced statistics.

Substrate pallet for verifying ZK-SNARKs with smart contract API that will enable integrating privacy components into Aleph Zero dApps

At this stage, foundation nodes will still keep their permanent positions in the committee, but the committee size will grow so that the majority of seats will be occupied by community validators chosen in the permissionless manner.

Enhancing developer experience with a handy debugger and easy to set-up local development environment.

Enabling simple creation of shielded tokens with ERC20-like API.

Enabling applications written in DPC private computation paradigm, where private state is stored on user machines.

Giving away privileged positions of foundation nodes in the committee and enabling full community governance over future chain updates.

Enabling smart contracts to store their own private state under and perform MPC computation on it. Enabling general private DeFi and governance.

First private applications deployed on the mainnet, including private DEX, and private governance system.