Our roadmap
The goal of eCash is to become sound money that is usable by everyone in the world. The scaling roadmap is organized around three main pillars.
Main areas of improvement
Transaction Throughput
Scaling transaction throughput (from about 100 transactions per second to more than 5 million transactions per second).
Payment Experience
Improving the payment experience. Instant and reliable is the baseline. All transactions should arrive instantly and be secure within 3 seconds
Protocol & Upgrades
Extending the protocol & establishing fork-free future upgrades to support tomorrow's economy.
Scaling
Enable eCash to scale from ~100 tx/s to over 5,000,000 tx/s. Mass-parallelization is necessary to achieve mankind scale.
Graphene or other
Scalable block processing
Market driven growth to 1TB blocks
Blockchain pruning, faster initial sync
Scalable block processing
Batched signature validation
Usability
Improve the eCash payment experience to ensure that it is instant and reliable. Transactions must be received instantly and be completely secure within seconds.
Bulletproof privacy
Fees low forever
Instant transactions & real-time processing
Easier & safer to use
Hardware wallet security
2 decimal places
Enhanced security & 1-block finality
Opt-in privacy
Powerful application API
More consistent block times
Extensibility
Make eCash extensible. An extensible protocol makes future improvements less disruptive, providing a solid base for businesses and developers to build on.
Scalable smart contracts & improved privacy
Enhanced script capability
More capable & compact
Functional script capability
Tokens on chain
Oracles and covenants
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