Roadmap

HORIZON

Horizon is a client-facing API server for the Stellar ecosystem. It is how developers connect their applications to Stellar Core. SDF currently maintains three Horizon SDKs: Javascript, Java, and Go. Early this year Stellar reached out to developers in the ecosystem to get their feedback on Horizon. Stellar will use this quarter to focus on improving the Horizon admin and developer experience.

Mid/Late Q2: Bring Horizon SDKs to parity with Horizon server

Q2: Create technical spec for Core/Horizon API

Q1: Add transactions that fail in consensus to Horizon

Ongoing: Whittle down the Github PR and issue backlog

STELLAR CORE

Q2/Q3: Improve decentralization while preserving performance

More validators will join the network if a Stellar node can run on medium-range hardware. Towards that goal, Stellar will improve data access to stellar-core’s database (by implementing batching and prefetching). Stellar will add safeguards for bad archives and allow full validator discovery and quorum configuration by Q3.

Q2/Q3: Make node management faster and easier

Ongoing: Maintain a consistent ship schedule

Stellar will have 6 Minor Releases in 2019; one each in February, March, May, June, August, and October. Stellar will push 3 Protocol upgrades; one each in Q2, Q3, and Q4. In Q2 Stellar will migrate the SDF infrastructure to a new production environment.

PRODUCT

Q2: Redesign Stellar.org till May 1st.

Q1/Q2: Publish More Content

Q1/Q2: Make Better Tools: Dashboard , Laboratory , SEP6 validator

Dashboard Laboratory SEP6 validator Q2: Create an open-source Wallet SDK

Q2/Q3: Improve Kelp, a trading bot library designed to make it easy to make markets on Stellar.

a trading bot library designed to make it easy to make markets on Stellar. Q2/Q3: Continue work on Lightning-like Payment Channels (aka Starlight)

ECOSYSTEM

Ongoing: Increase community and marketplace presence

Ongoing: Integrate more community feedback

Last year, Stellar announced a process for Core Advancements Proposals — proposals to change or improve the Stellar Core protocol.

Ongoing: Collaborate with ecosystem projects

Stellar.expert: supporting their headcount growth as they develop StellarExpert ID and also improve the information design and functionality of their ledger explorer.

AnchorUSD: supporting improved brand messaging and user experience.

StellarX: supporting their continued development as an open interface to Stellar’s decentralized exchange. Emerging projects will for this program continue to receive support via the Stellar Community Fund. Stellar will announce the specifics of the Community Fund in March.

ORGANIZATION

Ongoing: Hire more good people

Q3:Increase clarity around SDF’s lumen holdings and distribution plans

A full accounting of SDF’s projects, grants, XLM holdings, and plans for those holdings is long overdue. By year-end there should be complete clarity around all SDF’s activities and assets.