Development Roadmap
Building Hickory for long-term reliability
Hickory's current development focus is economic hardening, validator resilience and safe upgradeability. We are prioritizing predictable protocol behavior, transparent network operations and security-first interoperability before expanding into additional ecosystem features.
Current Development FocusEconomic Hardening In Progress
In ProgressEconomic HardeningValidator ResilienceIBC ReadinessExternal Assets & Hardware WalletsResearch / Evaluation
Execution Plan
Development Priorities
Expand a phase to see its development scope. These statuses describe priorities, not completed deployments or production readiness.
Phase 1Mainnet Economic HardeningEconomic safeguards, predictable protocol behavior and state-preserving upgrade validation.In Progress
- 100M HIC fixed-supply enforcement
- 0% inflation architecture
- Distributor non-minting safeguards
- Unified fee-system hardening
- Validator economics / reward architecture
- State-preserving upgrade testing
- Upgrade/restart rehearsal
- Core security hardening
Phase 2Validator & Infrastructure ResilienceStrengthening independent infrastructure and validator reliability.Next
- Independent sentry redundancy
- P2P failure-domain reduction
- Validator reliability improvements
- Additional independent validator partners
- Infrastructure/provider diversity
- JYNVI operational observability
Phase 3IBC Production ReadinessValidating interoperability and recovery before production activation.Planned
- IBC compatibility validation
- Relayer architecture
- Channel/security testing
- Timeout/recovery rehearsal
- Cross-chain monitoring
Phase 4External Assets & Hardware WalletsExternal asset support follows IBC production readiness; hardware wallet integration remains a roadmap item.Future
- Noble / USDC only after IBC production readiness
- Ledger integration roadmap
Phase 5Long-Term ResearchEvaluate additional capabilities only where practical use cases and ecosystem demand justify them.Research / Evaluation
- Developer tooling / SDK / documentation
- Smart-contract capability evaluation
- CosmWasm only if justified by real use cases
- Future DEX architecture only if ecosystem demand justifies it
Strategic Direction
Long-Term Vision
Reliability and security come first. Additional ecosystem capabilities remain subject to validation, real use cases and ecosystem demand.