Disclaimer: Ergo is busy building NOT updating the Ergonaut Handbook😉
For an up-to-date project roadmap please see this official page,
hint it’s interactive:
https://ergoplatform.org/en/ecosystem/#Roadmap
Core
Applications
Partnerships
Successful Ergo Foundation votes in the past month
- EF Treasurer Proposal
- US Based Legal Opinion
- Marketing/CM Assistant
- Strategic Marketing Planning Budget
- Youtube/Video Manager
- AMM Kairon Labs
- Bounty Budget for Core Repositories
- Dan Friedman EF Advisor Role
- Hire Full-time engineer (android developer)
We also have 2 scala engineers starting a training period.
Ergo always was intended to be Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency resembling Bitcoin, with simple and conservative design choices whenever possible, but also incorporating years of research to have significant improvements in regards with scalability, light clients, support for financial and crypto-financial applications.
Ergo already has proven that it provides rich possibilities for building applications:
- More than 12,000 tokens have already been issued (mostly NFTs though), while colored coins projects failed
- ErgoMixer was the first non-custodial mixer and is still the only token mixer on the market!
- Ergonauts are supporting charities with ErgoRaffle
- Completely decentralized auctions (with a UI anyone can deploy) are quite unique for the whole space
- Algorithmic stablecoins with SigmaUSD and DexyUSD on the way
- ErgoDEX can already be used with Yoroi Nightly
- Zero-Knowledge treasury can back multisig-based DAOs with unique zero-knowledge property for multi sigs
- More applications are coming, such as ErgoLend, ErgoTeam etc.
Note that Ergo outperforms Bitcoin forks with extended features (Bitcoin Cash, Ravencoin etc). The protocol client is becoming more stable and feature-rich with each release, basic infrastructure is improving. Now time to go forward!
- Research on different scalability proposals for Bitcoin, Cardano, Ethereum, such as sidechains (which are also nice for testing new features), commit-chains, rollups, isomorphic state channels, FairSwap etc. For some solutions for Bitcoin new opcodes are needed (so a little chance to see things in the real-world), while Ergo allows for such contructions with no forks it seems. Ergo is going to be not just a chain, but a king of chains (which will improve the crypto-economic security of the protocol as miners will get additional rewards from sidechains).
- On performance of the network, the reference protocol client (Ergo node) is getting different performance improvements in the P2P layer.
- Bootstrapping via UTXO set snapshot and NiPoPoWs are in progress. Allowing clients to have much quicker bootstrapping without compromising security.
- The 5.0 soft-fork is going to be proposed to miners soon, the main change is about switching to just-in-time-costing in ErgoTree evaluation which will provide a 5-6x boost in scripts processing (on real blockchain data).
- It’s now time to consider the long-term crypto-economic security of the protocol, discussions already started here
- For application development, more frameworks and ready apps are needed, there are some results to be announced already.
Core
Applications
Partnerships
Events
Core
Ecosystem
Events
- ErgoSummit
- ERGOHACKFEST & ERGOHACK V
Core
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Blockchain Sync using UTXO set snapshots
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Light SPV Clients
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Mixer tokenisation | Tokenising ErgoMixer to incentivise liquidity in the 3-way ring-signatures. Allows users to ‘stake’ to earn transaction fees. Contracts in final approval
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Refundable ICOs and other novel token schemes | An ICO Example On Top of Ergo
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LETS
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Private Schnorr Swaps with other chains (BTC, Komodo, LTC, Bitcoin Cash, etc)
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Privacy Perserving Voting
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Babel Fees
WEN NIPOPOWS? For quick bootstrapping (stateless full-node), the P2P Part done but not integrated, alot of places around the node to be revisted for the needs of the new bootstrapping mode. There is also parallel work to build an external client ontop of sigma-rust. This is mostly done and then external client can be finished.
oracle core v2
SPV node API