Finally the Decred roadmap for the 2018 has been released!
After a wonderful 2017, where Decred released constantly features and implementations without hyping them (as other low quality crypto project do), we are approaching the 2018 with a superb deCred roadmap as reported on they main website:
- SPV Wallet Support – Instead of taking the typical wallet service approach where wallets connect to a centralized server, we have added support for a proper SPV mechanism that uses compact filters and works over the P2P network.
- Politeia Voting – Our proposal system is nearing completion and will allow users and stakeholders to make proposals, dictate what does and does not get funded, and participate in project-level decision-making.
- Lightning Network – The bulk of the work to port Lightning Labs’ lnd to Decred is quite completed and it will be released soon.
- Initial Privacy Release – Privacy work has begun in earnest and we will make an incremental privacy release where we release working code and give further information about our plans and approach.
- Decentralized Control of Funds – While Politeia voting will be used to control the flow of dev org funds in the meantime, we will be creating a smart contract that will fully decentralize control of the dev org funds.
- Decentralized Autonomous Entities – Using a similar method as that used to decentralize control of the dev org funds, we will allow for the creation of DAEs on the Decred chain.
- Scalability Optimizations – A variety of changes, some of which are consensus changes, are required to improve the scaling properties of Decred, e.g. a new signature algorithm, multipeer sync support, and header commitments.
- Decrediton Integrations – The Decrediton GUI will be adding new integrations to support SPV, mobile, Politeia voting and Lightning Network.
- Decentralized Exchange – We will draft a proposal for a cryptocurrency-only decentralized exchange and share it publicly.
- Marketing Growth – Decred has lined up a presence at many of the premier cryptocurrency trade shows for the rest of 2018 and will continue dialing up its marketing efforts.
Conclusion
The deCred roadmap has lot of features and improvements. Unlike other crypto project, Decred is not a pump&dump coin, is not a day trading coin. Decred increase slowly but constantly his insight value, we can consider Decred as a long term investment (we didn’t mention it in our 2018 selection because we consider a must-have coin). In addition, Decred has some really unique features (Politeia, SPV on the go, Dex), a really awesome UI wallet and a competent Marketing team!
