Q Story and Roadmap

Are curious how it all began? Presenting... the "Q story".

🌱 Birth

📅 2018 Quilibrium is beginning to take shape in Cassie's mind… while she works on different components of the network, with the idea of creating a private and safe Discord alternative called "Howler".

💀 Internet declared "dead"

📅 August 2021 Cassie's public declaration to pivot towards a fully decentralized direction. Realization that centralized powers exert too much control over user freedom, necessitating a solution beyond just a Discord alternative.

🔄 Redesign Phase

📅 2019 - 2022 Intense period of redesigning the network. Evolved from a blockchain-like structure to a novel design separating data clocks from the master clock, solving sharding coordination problems and improving throughput.

🎭 The Ceremony

📅 April 2023 - March 2023 Launch of a global entropy gathering event to ensure network proof security. Designed for worldwide participation on various devices, garnering contributions from nearly all non-embargoed countries. Q had roughly double the ceremony contributions than Ethereum had to theirs.

🌅 Dawn

📅 September 2023 - February 2024 Pushing Quilibrium to its limits, stress-testing everything from BFT consensus to multi-platform compatibility. A journey of constant rewrites and improvements.

🌆 Dusk

📅 March 2024 - October 2024 Gradual roll out and testing of the components required for mainnet: Autoscaling, Hypergraph, Onion Routing and Mixnet. This phase contains the updates: Sunset > Nightfall > Midnight (mainnet)

🌉 Ethereum bridge

📅 May 13, 2024 Rolling out the Ethereum bridge first version, to allow early node runners to claim their hard-earned tokens as wrapped $QUIL ($wQUIL).

🌃 Midnight (v2.1 - mainnet)

📅 Q1 2025 Final phase of "Dusk": entering full stealth mode. Now node runners can mint and transfer the QUIL token, and builders can create and launch apps on Quilibrium.

☯️ Equinox

📅 ETA: TBD Laying the groundwork for serious applications. Think S3-compatible storage, Redis-like databases, and more. Building a Swiss Army knife for decentralized services.

🌌 Event Horizon

📅 ETA: TBD Things get truly advanced. End-to-end encrypted streaming, AI model training, and execution. Essentially building the operating system for a decentralized future.

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Source: Quilibrium blog

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