The road ahead
Last updated: 08/06/20261 min read
The principle is simple and unglamorous: de-risk the hard walls first, never scale by counting chains — and keep shipping things that genuinely run, so the community has a reason to stay.
Today's testnet is deliberately the minimum that proves the mechanism, not the scale: 3 Base-A chains + 9 Base-B namespaces on one DA node — vanilla Cosmos SDK is enough at this stage.
| Node | Role | Primitives it proves |
|---|---|---|
| A0 — Root/Settlement (T0) | UIR + Asset Registry + Settlement + receives aggregated proofs | #1, #2, #4, #7 |
| A1 — Value (T1) | Assets, value transfer, ZK/validity | #2 (security-class), XMP WRITE |
| A2 — Interactive (T2) | Applications, anchoring Base-B commitments | #6 (VLC anchor), XMP READ (ICQ) |
| 9 namespaces (Base B) | Social / IoT / Chat × 3 on one DA | fee ~0 + inclusion-proof |
The pace is the point: each phase closes one specific hard problem before the next opens. The roadmap isn't a headcount of chains — it's a sequence of things stopped from being scary.