Q Story and Roadmap
Curious how it all began? Presenting... the "Q story".
🌱 Birth
📅 2018
Quilibrium is beginning to take shape in Cassie's mind… while she works on different components of the network, with the idea of creating a private and safe Discord alternative called "Howler" (now Quorum Messenger)
💀 Internet Declared "Dead"
📅 August 2021
Cassie's public declaration to pivot towards a fully decentralized direction. Realization that centralized powers exert too much control over user freedom, necessitating a solution beyond just a Discord alternative.
🔄 Redesign Phase
📅 2019 - 2022
Intense period of redesigning the network. Evolved from a blockchain-like structure to a novel design separating data clocks from the master clock, solving sharding coordination problems and improving throughput.
🎭 The Ceremony
📅 April 2023 - March 2023
Launch of a global entropy gathering event to ensure network proof security. Designed for worldwide participation on various devices, garnering contributions from nearly all non-embargoed countries. Q had roughly double the ceremony contributions than Ethereum had to theirs.
🌅 Dawn
📅 September 2023 - February 2024
Pushing Quilibrium to its limits, stress-testing everything from BFT consensus to multi-platform compatibility. A journey of constant rewrites and improvements.
🌆 Dusk
📅 March 2024 - October 2024
Gradual roll out and testing of the components required for mainnet: Autoscaling, Hypergraph, Onion Routing and Mixnet. This phase contains the updates: Sunset > Nightfall > Midnight (mainnet)
🌉 Ethereum Bridge
📅 May 13, 2024
Rolling out the Ethereum bridge first version, to allow early node runners to claim their hard-earned tokens as wrapped $QUIL ($wQUIL).
🌃 Midnight (v2.1 - Mainnet)
📅 Q4 2024
First stage of Mainnet is deployed on a single shard, where node runner's rewards are automatically minted to their keyed accounts.
Network users can permissionlessly split, consolidate, query, and transfer tokens.
Launch of Quorum Messenger, the first app to go live on Quilibrium.
📅 Q1 2025
Final phase of "Dusk": entering full stealth mode. Transactions are fully encrypted between users. The network transitions to be multi-sharded and developers can permissionlessly deploy applications, transmit and stream data.
The first Q APIs are deployed QStorage and QKMS along with QConsole, a dashboard for these functions.
Quorum Messenger mobile apps are deployed in testing phase.
☯️ Equinox
📅 ETA: TBD
Laying the groundwork for serious applications. Think lambda functions, Redis-like databases, and more. Building a Swiss Army knife for decentralized services.
🌌 Event Horizon
📅 ETA: TBD
Things get truly advanced. End-to-end encrypted streaming, AI model training, and execution. Essentially building the operating system for a decentralized future.
Source: Quilibrium blog