Topic timeline
Roadmap & Product over time
955 entries across all AMAs, in chronological order, showing the first 150.
30:58 Summarizes the roadmap tension between shipping fast and shipping revolutionary smart contract capability.
32:15 Previews linking the Shelley ledger to the IELE smart contract layer with Plutus and Marlowe support.
58:56 Outlines the bootstrap plan: pool registration transactions, a Docker style default pool image, and iterative rollout.
1:09:51 Clarifies the Cardano debit card is a Cardano Foundation initiative delayed by Visa and Mastercard prepaid card restrictions.
1:17:10 Argues Cardano's multi-asset accounting layer suits both security token issuance and post-decentralization utility tokens.
1:44:07 Teases an August announcement improving the light client, mobile and ATM capable Rust codebase after early vendor mistakes.
7:01 The parallel mobile wallet strategy built on a new Rust codebase, with a command line demo due in September and a wallet announcement August 15th.
11:40 Outlines the utility roadmap: smart contracts, the KEVM and yellow testnets, rapidly evolving Plutus, chimeric assets and ICOs on the platform.
22:48 Pushes back on the idea that Cardano development is slow, insisting good engineering simply takes time.
42:16 Names the Cardano Improvement Proposal process and a more diverse wallet ecosystem, including a JavaScript and an Elixir wallet, as 2019 priorities.
52:41 Lays out the Shelley timeline, specification work wrapping up in August 2018, testnets coming soon, and control handing over epoch by epoch to a decentralized network.
56:03 Gives a smart contracts timeline, the yellow testnet is live and formal semantics work is nearly done ahead of a full contracts release.
8:46 Cardano launched in 2015 with partners and a five year research agenda, on the view that scaling, interoperability and sustainability have to be solved together.
38:59 IOHK cannot be the core protocol developer forever, so the plan is alternative clients, a full treasury and an end to participation around 2020, mirroring Satoshi's exit.
1:00:03 Mobile and hardware wallet support, including Trezor and Ledger, should land within three to six months.
1:15:44 Sketches Daedalus becoming a decentralized app store and the challenge of minimizing trust in outsourced or multi party computation.
44:25 An ADA debit or credit card was originally a stalled Foundation responsibility that Emurgo and IOHK are now pursuing.
1:04:09 Daedalus evolving into a decentralized app store with one click installs, an idea dating back to early Ethereum days.
1:24:00 Details what follows Cardano 1.4, using Ouroboros BFT as a bridge protocol while decoupling the wallet backend into its own product.
1:26:07 Lists the parallel Shelley workstreams underway, covering delegation, Ouroboros Genesis, new ledger rules, and the extended UTXO model for Plutus and Marlowe.
1:40:05 Ledger hardware wallet support was delayed by Cardano's elliptic curve choice, with firmware support planned via Icarus before Daedalus.
0:37 Updates on Cardano 1.4, now in regression testing with a formally verified wallet backend, aiming for a November or December release.
1:37 Lays out the Shelley roadmap sequencing, starting with an Ouroboros BFT update before moving to Ouroboros Genesis or Praos.
3:14 Advises the community to follow the IOHK GitHub repos, since Shelley core rewrite work is moving out of the main cardano-sl repo.
4:11 Rewriting the wallet backend to be modular so it can connect to both the Rust and Haskell code, ahead of migrating to Icarus style addresses.
35:27 Atomic swaps and a DEX are likely priorities after Shelley, layered on stake pool relays alongside payment channels and oracles.
1:45 Announces the December 18th 1.0 release as the first Cardano release built directly from a formal specification, after seven release candidates.
3:17 Details the systematic decoupling of the wallet backend from the Haskell client, expected to finish in January and enable much faster feature development.
3:42 Lists upcoming wallet backend features for early 2019 including multi sig, manual UTXO collection, offline transaction creation, a command line interface, and porting the wallet scripting idea from cardano rust.
8:13 Recounts authorizing the Icarus program in March as one of the fastest engineering efforts yet, building a new wallet from scratch with a rust and JavaScript component in about three months.
10:41 The fix requires moving to deterministic Icarus style addresses and the new wallet backend, expected to land with Cardano 1.5.
13:26 Ongoing UI and UX mockups for the delegation center and staking registration flow ahead of Shelley.
19:09 Corrects the claim that a delayed Shelley means everything is delayed, clarifying the smart contract work followed an entirely separate research track.
20:23 Confirms smart contracts remain on schedule for late first half or early second half of 2019 even as Shelley's own release date slips to whenever it's ready.
0:03 Opens December 20th 2018 before Christmas to cover Shelley and the features expected in Q1 2019, starting with the just-released 1.4 client.
14:29 A Q1 priority for the Daedalus team is a built-in terminal enabling an advanced user mode for manual transactions, offline signing, and running scripts, useful for power users, forensics, and exchanges.
30:07 Explains that Daedalus wallets stuck at 0 percent sync usually have a corrupted block database, points to antivirus or old hard drives as culprits, and promises a repair utility.
33:08 Confirms staking is planned for the Yoroi mobile wallet, tied to a January delegation spec summit with EMURGO and other wallet developers.
47:35 Reveals plans for Daedalus to become a one-click dApp store, similar to Google Play, hosting wallets, explorers, and applications for multiple chains.
1:02:38 Demos the Tangem NFC card wallet and describes negotiating a low-cost Cardano version sold as a spending and recovery card pair.
11:01 Announces that release 1.5 retires Byron and starts the Shelley bridge by replacing the old consensus implementation with Ouroboros BFT.
12:12 Release 1.6 will ship the decoupled Cardano wallet backend as a standalone product with Icarus style addresses.
13:20 Plans for the following update to swap in the new Rust and Haskell clients, replacing the deprecated Byron based Cardano SL code entirely.
16:14 Upcoming address and metadata design, including stake pool metadata like ticker names, descriptions and URLs, plus signed transaction intent metadata.
19:09 Lays out two parallel tracks toward staking: core infrastructure updates and a separate effort helping early stake pool operators get set up ahead of a February testnet.
31:59 Outlines the next roadmap phase: hardware wallet support, multi-asset APIs, and a final set of staking specific REST API extensions.
1:22:03 Daedalus hardware wallet support waits on Icarus style addresses landing in 1.6, so Yoroi will likely add Ledger support first around February with Daedalus following in March.
1:24:55 Hopes to ship Docker images around February and get community help pushing Homebrew, Snapcraft and Chocolatey packages for easier installs.
0:50 Gives an update on Ledger hardware wallet integration, built with Vacuum Labs and Yoroi, expected in March.
3:02 Lays out the three work buckets for Shelley: code, specifications, and staking, with Byron reaching end of life.
4:04 Release 1.5 deprecates the V0 API, so exchanges still on old node versions need to upgrade.
22:23 Answers a Windows question by noting stake pool operators will likely run Linux servers on AWS or Azure, while consumer clients will support Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile.
23:56 Argues end of 2020 remains a reasonable deadline for the first generation roadmap now that the company is moving from heavy research into fast software delivery.
1:42:21 Defends long research timelines against deadline critics using the Microsoft HoloLens analogy, pointing to 40 published papers and proof of stake and sidechains now proven rather than theoretical.
1:45:01 Lists concrete progress against critics: over 20 peer reviewed papers, growth from one exchange to 25 and a hundred thousand plus community members, a top 15 ranking since launch on a small budget, plus pivots like shipping Icarus, now Yoroi, and a Rust client after Haskell proved too slow.
1:02 Third generation means scaling to billions of users, interoperating with legacy finance and self governance, and Cardano launched in 2015 with the Byron mainnet in September 2017 before Shelley brings decentralization.
9:36 Software estimates are hard, but the Shelley testnet is still on track for Q1 and staking has to start on a testnet so people learn how to register pools.
12:22 The OBFT hard fork is the first step to accepting a new backend, Rust already implements OBFT, version 1.5 has three bugs left, and the fork only activates once exchanges and Yoroi leave the deprecated v0 API for v1.
14:28 Q2 2019 brings rapid testnet updates to a mainnet release candidate, then decentralization moves epoch by epoch every five days from a fully federated system, rolling back if blocks are not produced correctly and never disrupting users.
19:39 Shelley ships as a spectrum just like Byron because flipping a switch on new protocols would be irresponsible, and the anger about delays is really about price, which nothing moves in this market, just like Bitcoin sitting at $250.
24:07 A few megabytes are enough for Daedalus to install as a light node and upgrade to a full node in the background, after which a mobile app is trivial, though whether IOHK ships one is strategic since Yoroi already has Android with iOS coming.
1:30 Gives the monthly update: Cardano mostly on schedule, rest API a success, strong odds the Shelley testnet ships in March 2019 with a Rust command line interface.
2:37 Confirms 1.5 release candidate five is cut, calls it the last release built on the legacy Byron codebase before a full backend swap.
3:19 The plan to merge the Rust wallet backend with the Haskell Daedalus backend over the coming weeks.
4:29 Ledger hardware wallet support is close, likely shipping in March 2019 or early April.
5:04 Previews the upcoming IOHK Summit with workshops and announcements the month after Shelley.
31:51 Fires back at the claim release dates were made up, walking through the technical debt and missing foundation work that caused delays.
33:37 Lists concrete delivery proof: the Icarus wallet running 15 percent of the network, five Cardano releases, and a much improved v1 API.
1:55 Gives a progress update on Shelley decentralization work, the Haskell specs, the Rust node, and weekly wallet backend releases.
3:19 The Shelley testnet is weeks away and will roll the stake pool task force into hard stress testing.
12:12 Targets a smart contract capable platform by end of 2019, with Goguen running as a parallel research track to Shelley building Plutus and Marlowe.
13:11 A long standing goal of an app store style experience called Adapter for discovering and installing decentralized apps.
15:01 Wants the wallet and a decentralized app browser merged into one seamless client instead of separate communicating pieces.
19:38 Frames the stack as layers, smart contracts then developer experience then platform, and settles on Electron as the near term client foundation.
22:18 Plans to make Daedalus a light client by default that verifies a compact cryptographic proof instead of syncing the full chain.
1:25:55 Shelley addresses will be about half the current size, with human readable addresses to follow via a partnership or in house work.
13:17 Starts the roadmap post mortem, tracing how the 2017 plan split research, formal methods, and code into a waterfall process.
16:37 The parallel Rust based product team that built Icarus and bootstrapped the Yoroi wallet in under four months.
21:04 Reports considerable progress on Shelley and pushes back on the idea that implementation only just started.
22:29 The team is very close to a Shelley testnet after gathering the whole Rust team in Hong Kong for a month.
23:38 Compares Cardano's delays to Windows Vista and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, both shipped years late by far larger companies.
27:19 Announces the shift to demos and weekly reports, moving away from the old percentage and timer based roadmap.
34:42 David Esser and others are rewriting the roadmap alongside its underlying philosophy and new processes.
45:24 Answers when the new 2020 roadmap will release, saying it's close but was delayed to bring in the new comms director.
2:18 Plans a Plutus textbook for July and a possible OReilly book covering Plutus and Marlowe.
2:59 Confirms Ledger hardware wallet support is on the way.
6:42 Explains why Daedalus doesn't show USD values yet, since picking an exchange feed means taking a position.
8:24 Guarantees Shelley ships in 2019, joking he will eat his own shoe if not.
33:45 Decides to pause the K framework research contract for 2020 and focus 2019 on shipping Plutus and Marlowe.
35:35 Frames 2019 as the year of Plutus and Marlowe and 2020 as the interoperability era.
38:12 Argues the research foundation already built shrinks the gap between aspiration and a shippable 2020 product.
39:05 Ledger's move toward the Nano X may mean older device owners need to upgrade.
42:10 Confirms Ledger will eventually work with Daedalus, with multisig support also coming.
44:03 The last minute Shelley testnet configuration delay.
46:32 Yoroi gets a delegation center for staking, though the wallet itself won't run a pool.
47:55 Recommends switching to Yoroi for Daedalus users with issues while the core wallet gets rewritten.
1:20:52 Confirms contingent settlement is being implemented as a business requirement, paying an early mover cost.
1:02 What is holding Shelley back: this is new science built transparently, so you see the delays and missed deadlines that industry normally hides before a product ships.
9:52 Looks at the actual progress: multiple full clients, paper wallet generators, a new blockchain explorer, and software being modularized and hardened to enterprise grade.
10:29 Announces David SR as Cardano's senior product manager heading to the Cardano Effect to unveil a redesigned roadmap built as a living document with retrospectives, pushing back on FUD by listing Byron's accomplishments and defining KPIs for milestones like Shelley and Goguen.
12:17 A Shelley testnet status update is coming soon with progress looking good, and praises how the wallet back end and its Rust integration are shaping up.
1:59 Recaps The Cardano Effect episode 30 and the newly reskinned roadmap website broken into Byron, Shelley, Goguen, Basho, and Voltaire stages.
2:48 Targets a June Shelley testnet, with the wallet backend switching databases on June 7 and a command line only test net arriving before the GUI catches up.
3:42 The stake pool task force survey gathering operator details to build the candidate set for the first beta testers.
6:12 Flags a coming 1.5.1 hot patch to tweak the OBFT implementation, the last expected change before the switch to Shelley code.
46:39 Lays out the wallet roadmap: Daedalus becoming a universal, one click wallet for ETH and other assets once priority features like multi sig, hardware wallet support, and light client bootstrapping ship.
0:00 A quick update on the upcoming Shelley testnets and how the rollout will work.
2:07 The Rust client is almost ready for a testnet release, and version one is a self node setup: a YAML generator parameterizes your own Shelley, bootstraps your own Genesis block and runs a multi node blockchain in a box with one node or a hundred.
4:27 Version one proves the configurations work across different hardware and operating systems, then level two moves everyone onto a single unified public testnet with gossiping and block downloads from real peers.
9:55 June brings the self node plus videos on the command line interface, building transactions by hand and reporting bugs on GitHub, part of moving to an open source project instead of a top down company product.
10:49 July more likely than not brings network enhancements and the jump from a self hosted node to a single unified testnet, followed by the candidate reward scheme designed collaboratively with community feedback.
12:48 A later update stops the node being self parameterized and connects it to the real testnet with faucets, so you can self host or delegate to a stake pool, and then comes candidate one of the reward scheme plus hardening from the audit findings.
13:57 The self node update ships in late May or early June 2019, the Haskell wallet backend connects to the Rust node around June 7, and a Haskell testnet is expected late June or early July 2019 before deciding how aggressively to close the delta.
16:03 Mainnet gets one minor update to the OBFT deployment in June and a hard fork date, then a choice between going straight to Shelley or first replacing the hostile old cardano-sl code with a complete Haskell rewrite of Byron.
2:08 The first launch existed to build a community, get liquidity and test how to ship a Haskell based product with exchanges, ledger and wallet providers, and now Cardano is leaving Byron for the Shelley phase with multi-sig as a top Daedalus priority.
2:55 Planned Daedalus upgrades through 2019 and 2020: account differentiation for paper and hardware wallets, staking, a stake pool center, CSV export, metadata, a friend system, address aliases, light wallet support, a command line inside the GUI, and eventually a treasury voting center.
39:52 Getting proof of stake and sidechains out is what he looks forward to most, because a blueprint only comes alive when people actually use the thing.
0:37 The new stake pool operator questionnaire covers server infrastructure, existing businesses, staking and mining pool experience.
2:18 Still on schedule for the June self node launch, with a YAML generator so you can run a testnet in a box on your own PC.
2:59 After the local testnet comes the networked version, then the incentives layer, then a switch flip to mainnet.
48:20 Vitalik started in 2014 and Cardano does have a product: Byron has been in market since September 2017 with multiple wallets, papers and testnets.
1:47:28 Defines working product: IOHK already has one, has said Shelley is coming, and has a clear roadmap it is building.
1:54:05 Daedalus is named after the mythological figure, the father of Icarus, not after a ship.
1:54:19 Shelley in 2019 one hundred percent, and he will eat a cowboy boot if IOHK does not ship it.
0:03 Open a late-night livestream from Colorado to walk through the freshly released Cardano roadmap.
0:44 Details the month and a half of internal discussion that shaped the roadmap's Byron, Shelley, Goguen, Basho, and Voltaire sections.
1:16 Recaps Byron's purpose of building a community and learning exchange listings and APIs, judging it an overall success despite being slower than hoped.
2:07 Update on Shelley: the self-node testnet is being prepped and already independently vetted, with about 150 stake pool operator sign-ups and a task force channel past 1,500 members.
3:50 The roadmap's design as a simple interface that can keep linking out to more detail, videos, and blog posts over time.
5:34 Goguen content on the roadmap will be filled in over the next four to six weeks before moving on to Basho and Voltaire.
8:26 Other teams converging on the same agile process, producing more demos and, overall, a roadmap of frequent iterative updates instead of big-bang releases.
21:19 Admits the K framework research wasn't mature enough to be viable for consumers within the 2020 timeframe, prompting a strategy change.
27:13 Compares protocol development to phone releases like the Samsung S10, always followed by a next version, and states the belief that Shelley, staking, and Goguen will all ship in 2019 barring disaster.
46:25 Asks the community to stress-test the self-node testnet across many configurations and file GitHub issues before the beta testnet.
7:00 Shifts to a Cardano progress update, calling Shelley a major inflection point as the rigorous Haskell rewrite nears a viable test net.
7:27 Confirms the Rust client is ready for a self node test net, with packages coming for Snapcraft, Chocolatey, and Homebrew, and a full rolling release planned for Friday.
8:47 Reports a rapid release cadence, four client releases in three weeks, with the Haskell wallet backend integration due by month end.
11:41 Expects a Haskell siren test net around July and full Shelley functionality by late July to August as the Rust and Haskell clients converge on a final design.
13:49 Announces Cardano SL 1.5.2 as the last maintenance patch before enabling OBFT, paving a clean upgrade path to the new nodes.
19:43 Points to the refreshed roadmap website and growing weekly reports as the best way to track Shelley's steady progress.
0:56 Announces the self node testnet release with documentation and notes the stake pool Telegram channel growing to 2,100 members.
1:20 Previews the first major patch for the self node testnet, fixing reported issues and possibly adding an SDK.
3:13 The wallet backend is already integrated with the Rust node and now being connected to the new Haskell rewrite.
4:26 Emurgo previewed the staking and delegation center GUI and teases getting a Daedalus demo the following week.
7:19 Lists upcoming protocol work including Ouroboros Hydra, side chains, and folding the Treasury system into Cardano.
12:16 Confirms Daedalus will get a staking interface similar to the one shown for the Yoroi wallet, with a recorded demo coming the week of July 8, 2019.
12:55 Previews Daedalus 0.14, arriving in the 1.6 update with mostly bug fixes and GUI polish.
15:42 Plans to test a full Cardano node on Raspberry Pi 4 once the Haskell Byron rewrite is finished, alongside existing Rock Pi work.
16:38 Updates on the Haskell and Plutus MOOC on Udemy with thousands of students and a Plutus book targeted for July release.
24:25 Anticipates a developer focused marketing surge when Goguen launches, targeting functional programming conferences and meetups.