Roadmap and Releases
RChain is Open Source
- Fork rchain/rchain on GitHub.
- Visit developer.rchain.coop.
RNode Releases
- Oct 2018: RNode v0.7.1: validator bonding, cost accounting, name registry, and Rholang cheat sheet 1977b93
- Aug 2018: RNode v0.6.1 supports launch of the RChain test net
- Jul 2018: RNode v0.5.1 offers all features needed for dApp developers to write and transact smart contracts on the platform
- Jun 2018: RNode v0.4.1 introduces sending Rholang smart contracts across the network
- May 2018: RNode v0.3.1 introduces the RChain consensus protocol
- Apr 2018: RNode-0.2.1 integrates Rholang to the RChain Node
- Mar 2018: RChain node version 0.1.3 released
- Dec 2017: RChain Node.Hello (v0.1) Released
Mainnet Plans and Updates
The Mercury release is planned for Q1 2019. The Flight to Mercury shows large milestones in the project, subject to change.
Development Team Updates are given in each weekly community debrief.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and beyond
Greg Meredith outlined these in his technical summary at the Oct 2017 annual meeting:
- Mercury: tokens + wallets over 100's of nodes
- Venus: Rholang Features over 1000's of nodes
- Earth: Self hosted + mobile platform over 1000's of Nodes
