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Foundation

53% of this phase complete

Done
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Building
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Awaiting audit
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Blocked
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Phase 053%

Foundation

Months 0 to 1

Phase 10%

Core Protocol

Months 1 to 4

Phase 20%

Execution Layer

Months 2 to 6, overlapping

Phase 30%

Compute Mesh, Governance, Oracle

Months 4 to 7, overlapping

Phase 40%

Mainnet

Months 7 to 9

Phase 50%

Trading Engine v1

Months 5 to 9, overlapping

Phase 60%

Full Launch

Months 7 to 12, overlapping

Phase 70%

Scale

Month 12 and beyond

  • Incorporate in British ColumbiaNot codeStand up the legal entity the project operates through.Incorporation under way in British Columbia.infraIn progress
  • Stand up the repositoriesOne repository per shippable component, with the policy and CI gates that keep the public tracker honest.Twenty three repositories with policy, CI gates and progress tracking.infraDone
  • Launch the project sitePublic site, live build tracker and the plain-English changelog.Live at aton-network.org, on both domains, deploying from main on every push. Tracker and changelog read the organisation directly.siteDone
  • Discord and Telegram live with moderationThe Discord server and the single public Telegram channel both up, both bots deployed, moderation running from day one.Bot repositories stood up. Neither server is open yet.discordIn progress
  • Referral and rewards system liveRewards from day one, with the pending window built in so nothing becomes irreversible too fast.Single level only, no pyramid. Rewards live from day one, but landing in a 14 to 30 day pending window first, so a fraudulent claim can be reversed before it is irreversible.portalIn progress
  • Product Launchpad Program campaignPre-sale of subscription access on our own checkout, not a third-party crowdfunding platform.Own checkout, not a crowdfunding platform. Four tiers, the top two capped to bound the lifetime liability. The tier economics are still unmodelled while the site already publishes the prices, so that is the first job.portalIn progress
  • Customer portalAccounts, checkout, licences and gifting on portal.aton-network.org. Sign in with an email and password or with a wallet, because the people buying this will not all want the same one.Accounts and wallet sign-in working end to end against the real database and real mail. Checkout, licences and gifting still to come.portalIn progress
  • Team portalInternal finance dashboards on a private subdomain we do not publish. Payments, tax thresholds and the daily export, behind a role somebody has to be granted rather than one an invitation implies.Deployed and serving on its own private subdomain, which is deliberately not named here. Sign-in, roles and the finance dashboards are next; there is nothing behind the page yet.portalIn progress
  • Continuous fuzzingA machine that spends every hour trying to break what we shipped, and reports what it found. Pointed at the code handling money and identity first, because that is where a quiet bug is expensive.Running hourly on its own machine. Five targets against the code that handles money and identity, roughly 1.4 million attempts a pass, keeping whatever input reached somewhere new so each run starts from what the last one learned. Static analysis, dependency scanning and the property suite run alongside it. It found a real bug in its first run: an amount from the exchange that could end a payment pass and orphan that payment silently. Adding a new target is adding a file.infraDone
  • Lock starting consensus parametersBaseline anticone constraint and the block-rate target testnet will be measured against.Locked at 8 blocks per second, k=40, sized against 1.5s of propagation delay and breaking at 1.94s. The rejection criteria were written and committed four minutes before the simulation that produced the numbers, and the commit dates can be checked. Reproducible from sim/select_baseline.py. The propagation delay itself is still an assumption rather than a measurement: that is what testnet is for, and it is the one number that could move all of this.specDone
  • Reserve three chain IDsOne per network. Sharing an ID across devnet, testnet and mainnet would make a transaction signed on one replayable on another, so this is a security item rather than paperwork.2866, 28661 and 28662, all free in the public registry along with the names. Submission files written for both registries. Waiting on the icon, which has to resolve over IPFS rather than a file host.specIn progress
  • Public status pageWhether each part of Atheron is working right now, on its own machine and its own database so it does not go down with what it reports on. Sites that go down send people to it rather than to a browser error, with somewhere to leave an address and stop having to check.Checking every service on its own machine and its own database, with the maintenance page and the notify-me list built. Being wired to the sites now.statusIn progress
  • Bootstrap the Compute Mesh devnetTwo consumer GPUs become the founding nodes. This is genesis zero for the decentralized side of the network.meshPlanned
  • Devnet liveThe chain produces its first blocks. Internal only, reset whenever convenient, no value and no outside nodes, which is exactly what lets us break it freely. Its chain ID stays internal.nodePlanned
  • GhostDAG orderingThe consensus core that decides what order parallel blocks happened in.consensusPlanned
  • Account-based state modelA deliberate departure from a UTXO ledger, because a real contract platform needs accounts.nodePlanned
  • Lane A, the ASIC laneBLAKE3 proof of work for purpose-built hardware.consensusPlanned
  • Lane B, the GPU laneAudit requiredA tensor-friendly memory-hard algorithm, built so consumer GPUs stay competitive.consensusPlanned
  • Per-lane difficulty and the dampenerEach lane retargets independently, with a limiter so neither can run away from the other.consensusPlanned
  • Testnet Alpha, invite onlyConsensus and mining only, no contracts yet. Closed to Deep Freeze and Absolute Zero backers plus the security researchers working the mining bounty, so the block-rate target gets tested on real machines by people with a reason to be careful with it. Chain ID 28661.nodePlanned
  • Adversarial mining bountyPaid attempts to break the GPU lane memory-hardness assumptions before mainnet does it for free. Researchers get Alpha access regardless of whether they backed anything, because a closed bounty is not a bounty.consensusPlanned
  • First independent audit of the GPU laneAudit requiredExternal cryptographic review of the newest and highest-risk algorithm in the system.consensusPlanned
  • Publish testnet telemetryReal numbers published as they come in, including the ones that argue against the current target.sitePlanned
  • EVM engineExisting Solidity, MetaMask, Hardhat and Foundry workflows run unmodified.vmPlanned
  • Native WASM engineThe native side, with direct access to protocol precompiles for staking, mining stats and compute jobs.vmPlanned
  • Cross-VM routerAudit requiredCalls that cross between the two engines. The hardest correctness problem in the execution layer.vmPlanned
  • Gas abstractionSponsored transactions, so a contract can pay for a first interaction on a user behalf.vmPlanned
  • Independent audits of all three enginesAudit requiredBoth engines and the router reviewed externally before anything touches mainnet.vmPlanned
  • Adversarial cross-VM fuzzingSustained fuzzing against the router on Testnet Beta, not just in CI.vmPlanned
  • SDKs, docs and faucetEverything a developer needs to deploy on either engine on their first afternoon.sdk-rsPlanned
  • Testnet Beta, contracts liveAlpha plus both engines, the router, a faucet and the explorer. This is what developers point Hardhat and Foundry at, and it runs continuously from here through mainnet and past it.nodePlanned
  • Block explorerContract verification for both engines, not just the EVM side.explorerPlanned
  • Staking and job schedulingAudit requiredNodes stake to take work, and work is distributed across them.compute-mesh-contractsPlanned
  • Redundant execution and majority verificationAudit requiredJobs run on several nodes and a majority has to agree on the result before anyone is paid.compute-mesh-contractsPlanned
  • Payouts and slashingAudit requiredThe economics of getting it right, and the cost of getting it wrong on purpose.compute-mesh-contractsPlanned
  • Governance ModuleAudit requiredOn-chain governance, including the scoped safety valve and the thresholds that retire it.governancePlanned
  • Native oracle serviceAudit requiredPrice and data feeds served by the same mesh, with the same verification.compute-mesh-contractsPlanned
  • Node reputation scoringA track record per node, so scheduling can prefer nodes that have behaved.meshPlanned
  • Fair-launch genesisNo public sale. Every publicly held coin comes from mining or from the open market.nodePlanned
  • Mainnet launchAudit requiredBoth engines, the router, the mesh, governance and the oracle live together.nodePlanned
  • Third-party compute marketplaceAudit requiredAnyone can submit inference work to the mesh, not just us.compute-mesh-contractsPlanned
  • Founders and referral registriesAudit requiredBoth on-chain, both non-transferable by design.registriesPlanned
  • Quant EngineThe market-signal half of the trading agent.aiPlanned
  • Non-custodial exchange connectorKeys are encrypted and never leave the user machine. This is verified in code, not just promised in copy.aiPlanned
  • Signal LedgerAudit requiredEvery decision committed on-chain as a receipt, timestamped before the market moves rather than after.signal-ledgerPlanned
  • Closed betaReal users, real exchanges, limited numbers.desktopPlanned
  • Sentiment Engine and fusion layerSocial and news reading fused with the quantitative signal into one decision.aiPlanned
  • Public desktop clientNode, wallet, trading and local RPC in one application.desktopPlanned
  • Strategy Marketplace and verified backtestingPublished strategies whose history is checkable on-chain rather than self-reported.portalPlanned
  • DEX launch, same-VM pairsAudit requiredOrder book and AMM live independently on each engine. Spot only.dexPlanned
  • Developer platform fully publicSDKs, docs, faucet, explorer and RPC all open.docsPlanned
  • Full protocol governanceAudit requiredThe safety valve sunsets. Community governance covers everything.governancePlanned
  • Cross-VM trading pairsAudit requiredTrading across both engines once the router allowlist expands.dexPlanned
  • MEV-resistant ordering researchMaking order-book ordering harder to extract value from.dexPlanned
  • Enterprise tierDedicated mesh capacity, service levels and compliance reporting.portalPlanned
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