Dear Community,

We have heard your requests for a revised project roadmap and we are happy to be able to share an update with you today! As development progresses, we will also be providing updated documentation on Github. This includes:

API (application programming interface) documentation

Blockchain abstraction documentation

VM (virtual machine) documentation

DAG (directed acyclic graph) design documentation

As always, we appreciate your support and look forward to the launch of the ITC network later this year. Stay tuned for further updates!

IoT Chain Technical Roadmap

1 . May 2018 — Modular framework and testbed

Abstraction of core data structure and state machine

Flexible peer management

Secure, high-throughput p2p network

Pluggable consensus algorithm

Pluggable smart contract layer

Language independent interface and service

Property-based testkit

2 . July 2018 — Integration of all components

Continuous integration

Benchmarks and performance optimizations

API development

3 . October 2018 — Public test network

Public test networks for staging various use concepts

Adversarial model and formar verification

4 . November 2018 — Developer ecosystem

SDK (software development kit) for popular platforms and applications, including wallet

Detailed developer documentation

Blockchain explorer and other utilities

5 . December 2018 — Public release of main IoT Chain network