I am attempting to make a accurate timeline of NANO/XRB development with relevant dates and links. If you have suggestions please let me know via comments or tag me on twitter at IdealFog.

May 1, 2014 — First commit by Colin on Github : https://github.com/nanocurrency/nano-node/commit/e387c894861f4d04dab24e2d230ef394e58eaffa

December 2014 — First Draft of First White paper : https://docs.google.com/document/d/13s6BKzRq9oD5Me55JBRzR7BdvjJ44QKqPu2lf-JsAlU/ and final draft of first whitepaer : https://docs.nano.org/whitepaper/english/

December 16, 2014 — First Google Group Post : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/raiblocks/G_sViie8IbE

December 24, 2014 — First interview : https://bitcoinist.com/exclusive-interview-raiblocks-team/

January 18, 2015 — First thread by Colin in Bitcointalk : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=928860

Ocotober 13, 2015 — Faucet goes live : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/raiblocks/OmoQ88MhE5s

October 24, 2015 — Second thread by Colin in Bitcointalk : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1381323.0

February 29, 2016 — Third thread by Colin in Bitcointalk : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1219264.0

October 20, 2017 — Faucet is turned off and 205 million XRB/NANO are burned making final supply 133,248,297 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwR-CXNafLs

December 12, 2017 — Colin goes full time on NANO/XRB : https://twitter.com/colinlemahieu/status/940638119254257664

January 31, 2018 — Raiblocks rebrands to NANO : https://medium.com/hackernoon/nano-rebrand-announcement-9101528a7b76

2018 — Second White Paper release : https://content.nano.org/whitepaper/Nano_Whitepaper_en.pdf

August 20, 2018 — V15.0 : https://github.com/nanocurrency/nano-node/milestone/1

September 11, 2018 — V16.0 : https://github.com/nanocurrency/nano-node/milestone/2

December 19, 2018 — V17.0 : https://github.com/nanocurrency/nano-node/milestone/6

February 27, 2019 — V18.0 : https://github.com/nanocurrency/nano-node/milestone/7

July 16, 2019 — V19.0 : https://github.com/nanocurrency/nano-node/milestone/9

November 21, 2019 — V20.0 : https://github.com/nanocurrency/nano-node/milestone/10

I will try to update this timeline as we progress.

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