Mainnet Roadmap
Hickory Mainnet Roadmap
Strengthening Hickory's mainnet economic and upgrade safety while preserving the existing chain, validator state, account balances, delegations, and history.
Mainnet ProgressEconomic Hardening In Progress
In ProgressTestnetEcosystemCandidateMainnet
Execution Plan
Phased Mainnet Delivery
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Phase 1Public TestnetCore chain, fixed-supply HIC, explorer, endpoints, wallet submissions, and community launch.Completed
- Hickory blockchain online
- Fixed-supply HIC coin operational
- RPC and REST endpoints live
- HICScan explorer launched
- Hickory Wallet Chrome submission
- Hickory Wallet Firefox submission
- Telegram community launched
- Community infrastructure launched
- Early ecosystem contact established with Valopers
Phase 2Ecosystem ExpansionValidator outreach, product polish, analytics, documentation, staking UX, and public channel growth.In Progress
- Additional validator discussions
- Public faucet polish
- Documentation portal
- HICScan analytics expansion
- Wallet signing flow improvements
- Staking UI polish
- Community growth
- Social channels expansion
Phase 3Mainnet Economic HardeningQ3 2026 — Fixed-supply enforcement, safe in-place upgrades, recovery validation, and independent technical review.In Progress
Implemented and rehearsed
- Production economic state audit
- Fixed native supply specification
- 100,000,000 HIC maximum supply enforcement
- Post-genesis native mint protection
- Burn-finality and non-increasing supply safeguards
- Production-equivalent rehearsal infrastructure
- Snapshot, restore, and rollback validation
- In-place mainnet upgrade rehearsal
- Bank, Distribution, and Staking regression validation
- Two-chain IBC transfer validation
- Extended post-upgrade stability testing
Current gate
- Independent blockchain, economic invariant, and security review
Next
- Mainnet deployment approval
Phase 4Mainnet CandidateFinal candidate preparation across genesis, validators, redundancy, governance, security, and docs.Planned
- Genesis review
- Validator onboarding package
- Infrastructure stress testing
- RPC and REST redundancy
- Governance framework
- Independent review closure
- Final wallet review
- Mainnet documentation
Phase 5Mainnet LaunchProduction validator network, public staking, stable RPC, governance, wallet, and explorer readiness.Planned
- Production validator network
- Approved economic-hardening upgrade deployment
- Public staking
- Stable RPC infrastructure
- Governance activation
- Explorer and wallet production readiness
Phase 6RWA + AI ExpansionInstitutional settlement direction for RWA registry, stablecoins, AI analytics, reporting, and integrations.Planned
- RWA Registry
- Stablecoin settlement infrastructure
- AI-assisted analytics
- AI treasury and reporting systems
- ISO 20022-ready settlement messaging
- Enterprise integrations
Strategic Direction
Long-Term Vision
Hickory is a compliant, fixed-supply, AI-compatible settlement layer for stablecoin-based real-world assets.