Here is our monthly OST roadmap update for March 2018.

Please note: As always, all dates provided are directional and subject to change based on business requirements and macroeconomic conditions. While we intend to provide the community with detailed and highly transparent updates, information on some projects may be withheld due to confidentiality agreements or competitive market dynamics.

OST KIT⍺

OST is building the complete blockchain toolkit for business.

Our ambition is to be the blockchain platform of choice for forward-thinking businesses.

Our signature product, OST KIT, gives businesses all the tools they need to run a blockchain-powered economy on scalable OpenST Utility Blockchains, without requiring in-house blockchain developers. In fact, anyone can use OST KIT to setup a token economy and simulate transactions without needing any developer skills. Developers can take OST KIT even further with our robust developer APIs and SDK to integrate with any business, website, or app.

OST KIT alpha screen mock-up, subject to change

We are currently in private/closed OST KIT⍺ (alpha) testing and it is going quite well. Our focus this past week has been on performance and scalability, prior to opening OST KIT⍺ up to the public. One of the interesting technical challenges we took up with OST KIT⍺ is enabling thousands of people to simultaneously mint branded tokens and run thousands of simultaneous transactions. This has taken some significant innovation and optimization from our team.

We want to make sure that OST KIT⍺ scales to thousands of simultaneous companies and company-users, and that anyone anywhere can easily sign-up, mint Branded Tokens, and simulate transactions, via the OST KIT⍺ dashboard and via the developer APIs at high throughput. In recent internal tests we are tracking at 100 transactions per second (TPS) per sidechain (on testnet) and we’re working on parallel scaling towards maintaining such speed as we add thousands of Branded Token communities on multiple sidechains. (We’ll then look to exceeding 100 TPS per BT community on our way from alpha to beta, and testnet to mainnet.)

Barring any unforeseen challenges, we anticipate opening up OST KIT⍺ to public alpha users later this week. We hope you hammer the heck out of it, provide ample feedback, and help us build the most valuable blockchain management toolkit for all!

Following the public OST KIT⍺ release, we will be following a roadmap split evenly between user feedback and known features to be developed. Our April update will contain further roadmap specifics to guide us from alpha to beta.