Roadmap

Avail Coin’s development roadmap outlines the key milestones in the project’s past and future. This roadmap is a living plan, subject to updates by the core team and the DAO, but it provides a clear trajectory for Avail’s technical progress and community growth. The journey is broken into phases with target timelines:

2019–2021: Research & Conception – The foundational ideas of Avail Coin were born from research into proof-of-space consensus and decentralized storage (inspired by academic papers and projects like Chia and Storj). During this period, the founding team formalized the concept of combining a storage-based blockchain with an incentivized data storage network. Early prototypes of the consensus algorithm (Proof-of-Space with verifiable delay functions) were developed and tested in controlled environments. By late 2021, a technical whitepaper draft was completed, outlining Avail’s core protocols (consensus, storage contracts, encryption schemes) and economic design.

2022: Core Development and Alpha Testing – In 2022, active development of the Avail blockchain node software and storage client took place. The team implemented the first version of the Avail protocol in code. An internal alpha network launched, allowing developers to spin up nodes and simulate storing data on a small scale. Key achievements in this phase included:

Successful farming of blocks with proof-of-space consensus (demonstrating that the chain could run reliably with farmers proving disk space).
Integration of basic storage contracts on-chain, and local testing of the proof-of-storage mechanisms (providers proving they hold a dummy file).
Security audits of the cryptographic functions (encryption, hashing, VDF logic) to ensure robustness.
By Q4 2022, a limited alpha testnet was opened to a few community members and advisors to gather feedback.

2023: Testnet Launch and Iteration – In early 2023, Avail launched its first public Testnet (codename Atlas). This testnet was a major milestone where community participants could run nodes, farm testnet $AVAIL, and try out storing real data in a sandbox environment. Over the course of 2023:

The testnet iterated through multiple versions (Testnet v1, v2, …), each improving stability and performance. Features like the storage deal marketplace and the DAO governance module were enabled gradually for testing.
The team collected performance metrics: transaction throughput, average proof-of-space timings, network storage capacity, etc., using them to optimize the code. For example, improvements were made to how quickly retrievals happen and how the protocol handles proof verification at scale.
A series of incentivized testnet challenges were run: prospective farmers and storage providers earned rewards for completing tasks (like storing X GB for Y days successfully, or finding bugs). These exercises not only helped harden the network under real-world conditions, but also bootstrapped a community of node operators.
Testnet usage revealed valuable insights – e.g., the need to refine the pricing model for storage deals, and to enhance the GUI of the Avail client for better user experience. The development team implemented these changes on the fly.
Meanwhile, the governance aspect was trialed in testnet as well: a dummy token allowed users to vote on test proposals, ensuring the DAO framework was ready for prime time.

Q1 2024: Mainnet Launch “Phase 1” – After thorough testing and audits, Avail’s mainnet officially launched in 2024. This phase is considered “Phase 1” of Avail’s deployment, focusing on core functionality:

Genesis Block was produced (with the initial distribution of actual $AVAIL tokens as per tokenomics). Early farmers began securing the network from day one.
Storage operations commenced on mainnet: users could start storing real data on Avail. Initially, limits were in place (like a max file size or total network storage cap) to ensure stability while scaling up.
The Avail Explorer and dashboard went live, allowing anyone to monitor network stats: total storage power, number of files stored, token supply distribution, etc., to promote transparency.
$AVAIL was listed on a couple of exchanges around launch, improving accessibility for users joining the ecosystem.
The founding team and community moderators closely watched mainnet in its early weeks, ready to pause or hotfix if any critical issues emerged. Thanks to extensive testing, launch went relatively smoothly, with only minor patches.
2024: Ecosystem Growth “Phase 2” – After the successful mainnet launch, the focus shifted to expanding Avail’s ecosystem and feature set.
Developer SDK & Tools: Avail released SDKs (Software Development Kits) and APIs to enable developers to integrate the storage network into applications. For example, plugins or libraries were provided for popular languages (Python, JavaScript) so developers can easily store and fetch data from Avail within their apps. Documentation and tutorials were created (e.g., how to build a decentralized backup service on Avail).
Ecosystem DApps: Several use-case demos and partner projects were highlighted. These included: a decentralized photo backup app, an NFT media storage solution (using Avail to store the images/videos behind NFTs), and plugins for existing Web3 platforms to offload data to Avail. The Avail Grants Program (funded by the DAO treasury) was launched to fund community developers – resulting in a dozen third-party projects building on Avail by late 2024.
Performance Upgrades: Work on improving scalability continued. This included optimizing the proof-of-space implementation for faster block times and exploring layer-2 solutions for micropayments (so that tiny file uploads or retrievals could be aggregated to save on fees). Research also began into perhaps integrating a Proof-of-Stake secondary layer to complement proof-of-space (hybrid consensus), though any major change would be subject to DAO approval.
Interoperability: To broaden adoption, Phase 2 emphasized interoperability. Bridges were built to Ethereum, Polygon, and other ecosystems, allowing $AVAIL to move between chains and enabling data stored on Avail to be referenced or paid for from other blockchain environments. For instance, an Ethereum smart contract could pay in ETH for data storage on Avail via a bridge and adapter, broadening Avail’s utility.
Community Growth: Avail’s community grew globally – meetups, hackathons, and an Ambassador Program were set up. By end of 2024, Avail had a vibrant Discord/Telegram with thousands of members, and regional communities translating docs into various languages to spread awareness.

2025: Decentralization & New Features “Phase 3” – In 2025, the project’s emphasis is on full decentralization and advanced feature roll-out.

DAO Empowerment: While the DAO existed from mainnet launch, by 2025 it takes center stage. The foundation progressively hands off control to the community. For example, the block reward schedule or fee parameters can now be adjusted by on-chain governance. The first major on-chain votes – possibly to adjust token emission or to fund a significant new initiative – are expected this year. The community treasury also begins funding external proposals (like paying a development team to build a mobile app for Avail, as per a DAO vote).
Scaling Storage & Retrieval Markets: Phase 3 introduces more sophisticated market mechanisms. A retrieval market (like Filecoin’s retrieval market) is enhanced so that not only the original storage miner but any node caching the data can compete to serve retrievals for reward, creating a decentralized content delivery network for faster access. Also, support for streaming data and large files (> gigabyte size) is optimized, potentially by integrating with protocols like IPFS more tightly for chunk addressing.
Smart Contracts & Compute over Data: Avail explores adding a smart contract layer or integrating with existing ones (e.g., leveraging the Filecoin Virtual Machine or an EVM module) to allow more complex logic around data. This could enable compute-over-data, where instead of retrieving large datasets, users could run computations (like search or analytics) on the data directly on the network’s nodes (in a privacy-preserving way) and just get results. This would transform Avail from pure storage to a decentralized data lake with compute capabilities. The roadmap envisions starting with simple compute functions by end of 2025, with more to come.
Enhanced Privacy & Encryption: Another feature in development is zero-knowledge proofs for storage. While data is already end-to-end encrypted (so content is private), the metadata (like which user stored which file hash) is on-chain. Research is underway to use zero-knowledge proof systems to increase privacy – e.g., proving you paid for storage without revealing which file is yours, or mixing retrieval requests to hide access patterns. These features are in prototype stage in 2025.
Enterprise and Institutional Adoption: With the network maturing, outreach to enterprises and institutions intensifies. Phase 3 includes building enterprise gateways – interfaces that make it easy for businesses to use Avail as a backend for large-scale backups or archival of cold data, with compliance features (audit logs, etc.). Partnerships with Web2 cloud providers or enterprises could emerge, blending decentralized storage with existing IT infrastructure. Success here would drive large amounts of data (and value) onto the network.
Metrics Targets: The roadmap sets some quantitative goals to measure success by end of 2025: e.g., achieving over 50 PiB (pebibytes) of data stored on the network, having 10,000+ active nodes globally, and making $AVAIL a top 100 crypto asset by market cap. While ambitious, these targets rally the community and give a sense of scale aimed for.

Beyond 2025 – Future Vision: In the long term, Avail aims to become a foundational layer for Web3 data, analogous to how AWS S3 is for Web2, but decentralized. Future plans include:

Autonomous Storage DAO: A vision where the storage network can self-regulate pricing and maintenance using autonomous smart contracts, possibly employing AI agents to optimize data placement and replication.
Permanent Storage Option: Introducing a model for perpetual storage (users pay once and data is stored forever with self-sustaining incentives, similar to Arweave’s model) for certain data that the community deems valuable.
Green Storage Initiatives: Encouraging use of excess storage from renewable-powered data centers or capturing the e-waste of unused hard drives, aligning with an eco-friendly approach. Already, proof-of-space is more energy-efficient than proof-of-work, and this initiative would further cement Avail as a “green” blockchain project.
Modular Expansion: Avail’s tech could be modularized to support different storage classes (fast but less redundant vs. highly redundant cold storage) or even be used as a data availability layer for other blockchains (given its name “Avail” for availability, one could imagine partnerships where Avail provides guaranteed data availability for other blockchain networks or rollups).

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Roadmap

2019–2021: Research & Conception – The foundational ideas of Avail Coin were born from research into proof-of-space consensus and decentralized storage (inspired by academic papers and projects like Chia and Storj). During this period, the founding team formalized the concept of combining a storage-based blockchain with an incentivized data storage network. Early prototypes of the consensus algorithm (Proof-of-Space with verifiable delay functions) were developed and tested in controlled environments. By late 2021, a technical whitepaper draft was completed, outlining Avail’s core protocols (consensus, storage contracts, encryption schemes) and economic design.

2022: Core Development and Alpha Testing – In 2022, active development of the Avail blockchain node software and storage client took place. The team implemented the first version of the Avail protocol in code. An internal alpha network launched, allowing developers to spin up nodes and simulate storing data on a small scale. Key achievements in this phase included:

Successful farming of blocks with proof-of-space consensus (demonstrating that the chain could run reliably with farmers proving disk space).
Integration of basic storage contracts on-chain, and local testing of the proof-of-storage mechanisms (providers proving they hold a dummy file).
Security audits of the cryptographic functions (encryption, hashing, VDF logic) to ensure robustness.
By Q4 2022, a limited alpha testnet was opened to a few community members and advisors to gather feedback.

2023: Testnet Launch and Iteration – In early 2023, Avail launched its first public Testnet (codename Atlas). This testnet was a major milestone where community participants could run nodes, farm testnet $AVAIL, and try out storing real data in a sandbox environment. Over the course of 2023:

The testnet iterated through multiple versions (Testnet v1, v2, …), each improving stability and performance. Features like the storage deal marketplace and the DAO governance module were enabled gradually for testing.
The team collected performance metrics: transaction throughput, average proof-of-space timings, network storage capacity, etc., using them to optimize the code. For example, improvements were made to how quickly retrievals happen and how the protocol handles proof verification at scale.
A series of incentivized testnet challenges were run: prospective farmers and storage providers earned rewards for completing tasks (like storing X GB for Y days successfully, or finding bugs). These exercises not only helped harden the network under real-world conditions, but also bootstrapped a community of node operators.
Testnet usage revealed valuable insights – e.g., the need to refine the pricing model for storage deals, and to enhance the GUI of the Avail client for better user experience. The development team implemented these changes on the fly.
Meanwhile, the governance aspect was trialed in testnet as well: a dummy token allowed users to vote on test proposals, ensuring the DAO framework was ready for prime time.

Q1 2024: Mainnet Launch “Phase 1” – After thorough testing and audits, Avail’s mainnet officially launched in 2024. This phase is considered “Phase 1” of Avail’s deployment, focusing on core functionality:

Genesis Block was produced (with the initial distribution of actual $AVAIL tokens as per tokenomics). Early farmers began securing the network from day one.
Storage operations commenced on mainnet: users could start storing real data on Avail. Initially, limits were in place (like a max file size or total network storage cap) to ensure stability while scaling up.
The Avail Explorer and dashboard went live, allowing anyone to monitor network stats: total storage power, number of files stored, token supply distribution, etc., to promote transparency.
$AVAIL was listed on a couple of exchanges around launch, improving accessibility for users joining the ecosystem.
The founding team and community moderators closely watched mainnet in its early weeks, ready to pause or hotfix if any critical issues emerged. Thanks to extensive testing, launch went relatively smoothly, with only minor patches.
2024: Ecosystem Growth “Phase 2” – After the successful mainnet launch, the focus shifted to expanding Avail’s ecosystem and feature set.
Developer SDK & Tools: Avail released SDKs (Software Development Kits) and APIs to enable developers to integrate the storage network into applications. For example, plugins or libraries were provided for popular languages (Python, JavaScript) so developers can easily store and fetch data from Avail within their apps. Documentation and tutorials were created (e.g., how to build a decentralized backup service on Avail).
Ecosystem DApps: Several use-case demos and partner projects were highlighted. These included: a decentralized photo backup app, an NFT media storage solution (using Avail to store the images/videos behind NFTs), and plugins for existing Web3 platforms to offload data to Avail. The Avail Grants Program (funded by the DAO treasury) was launched to fund community developers – resulting in a dozen third-party projects building on Avail by late 2024.
Performance Upgrades: Work on improving scalability continued. This included optimizing the proof-of-space implementation for faster block times and exploring layer-2 solutions for micropayments (so that tiny file uploads or retrievals could be aggregated to save on fees). Research also began into perhaps integrating a Proof-of-Stake secondary layer to complement proof-of-space (hybrid consensus), though any major change would be subject to DAO approval.
Interoperability: To broaden adoption, Phase 2 emphasized interoperability. Bridges were built to Ethereum, Polygon, and other ecosystems, allowing $AVAIL to move between chains and enabling data stored on Avail to be referenced or paid for from other blockchain environments. For instance, an Ethereum smart contract could pay in ETH for data storage on Avail via a bridge and adapter, broadening Avail’s utility.
Community Growth: Avail’s community grew globally – meetups, hackathons, and an Ambassador Program were set up. By end of 2024, Avail had a vibrant Discord/Telegram with thousands of members, and regional communities translating docs into various languages to spread awareness.

2025: Decentralization & New Features “Phase 3” – In 2025, the project’s emphasis is on full decentralization and advanced feature roll-out.

DAO Empowerment: While the DAO existed from mainnet launch, by 2025 it takes center stage. The foundation progressively hands off control to the community. For example, the block reward schedule or fee parameters can now be adjusted by on-chain governance. The first major on-chain votes – possibly to adjust token emission or to fund a significant new initiative – are expected this year. The community treasury also begins funding external proposals (like paying a development team to build a mobile app for Avail, as per a DAO vote).
Scaling Storage & Retrieval Markets: Phase 3 introduces more sophisticated market mechanisms. A retrieval market (like Filecoin’s retrieval market) is enhanced so that not only the original storage miner but any node caching the data can compete to serve retrievals for reward, creating a decentralized content delivery network for faster access. Also, support for streaming data and large files (> gigabyte size) is optimized, potentially by integrating with protocols like IPFS more tightly for chunk addressing.
Smart Contracts & Compute over Data: Avail explores adding a smart contract layer or integrating with existing ones (e.g., leveraging the Filecoin Virtual Machine or an EVM module) to allow more complex logic around data. This could enable compute-over-data, where instead of retrieving large datasets, users could run computations (like search or analytics) on the data directly on the network’s nodes (in a privacy-preserving way) and just get results. This would transform Avail from pure storage to a decentralized data lake with compute capabilities. The roadmap envisions starting with simple compute functions by end of 2025, with more to come.
Enhanced Privacy & Encryption: Another feature in development is zero-knowledge proofs for storage. While data is already end-to-end encrypted (so content is private), the metadata (like which user stored which file hash) is on-chain. Research is underway to use zero-knowledge proof systems to increase privacy – e.g., proving you paid for storage without revealing which file is yours, or mixing retrieval requests to hide access patterns. These features are in prototype stage in 2025.
Enterprise and Institutional Adoption: With the network maturing, outreach to enterprises and institutions intensifies. Phase 3 includes building enterprise gateways – interfaces that make it easy for businesses to use Avail as a backend for large-scale backups or archival of cold data, with compliance features (audit logs, etc.). Partnerships with Web2 cloud providers or enterprises could emerge, blending decentralized storage with existing IT infrastructure. Success here would drive large amounts of data (and value) onto the network.
Metrics Targets: The roadmap sets some quantitative goals to measure success by end of 2025: e.g., achieving over 50 PiB (pebibytes) of data stored on the network, having 10,000+ active nodes globally, and making $AVAIL a top 100 crypto asset by market cap. While ambitious, these targets rally the community and give a sense of scale aimed for.

Beyond 2025 – Future Vision: In the long term, Avail aims to become a foundational layer for Web3 data, analogous to how AWS S3 is for Web2, but decentralized. Future plans include:

Autonomous Storage DAO: A vision where the storage network can self-regulate pricing and maintenance using autonomous smart contracts, possibly employing AI agents to optimize data placement and replication.
Permanent Storage Option: Introducing a model for perpetual storage (users pay once and data is stored forever with self-sustaining incentives, similar to Arweave’s model) for certain data that the community deems valuable.
Green Storage Initiatives: Encouraging use of excess storage from renewable-powered data centers or capturing the e-waste of unused hard drives, aligning with an eco-friendly approach. Already, proof-of-space is more energy-efficient than proof-of-work, and this initiative would further cement Avail as a “green” blockchain project.
Modular Expansion: Avail’s tech could be modularized to support different storage classes (fast but less redundant vs. highly redundant cold storage) or even be used as a data availability layer for other blockchains (given its name “Avail” for availability, one could imagine partnerships where Avail provides guaranteed data availability for other blockchain networks or rollups).

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