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Roadmap 2024

Check out our plans for the year ahead as we scale up our network, tools and apps, explore new use cases, and realise our promise of making Decentralised Identity mainstream!

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January - MARCH 2024
PoC for Credential Payments in fiat currency
Proof-of-concept for verifier-pays-issuer credential verification payment flow using fiat currency

Status: Complete

Explore Use cases in AI (vAI) and Ad-Tech for credentials
 

Exploratory partnerships to uncover applications of credentials to post-cookie ad-tech industry and Generative-AI training data - verifiable AI (vAI).

Status: Complete

Research on-chain activity credentials
Exploratory partnerships to uncover applications of credentials issued based on  on-chain behaviour

Status: Complete

Cosmos SDK Mainnet Upgrade
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Upgrade of Cosmos SDK to 0.47, enabling us to stay up to date with latest functionality and leverage all the Cosmos has to offer

Status: Complete

On-chain Proofs enabling Interchain Credentials
Implement community-funded work of Vectis DAO to offer on-chain proofs of off-chain credentials, offer cheqd identity capabilities to other IBC-enabled projects

Status: Complete

APRIL - JUNE 2024
cheqd Studio self-serve dashboard
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Launch web application for cheqd Studio, to streamline onboarding and user experience

Status: Complete

Offer Selective Disclosure Credentials (SD-JWT) within cheqd Stack
Offer increased privacy and ownership within cheqd product stack through EU approved Selective Disclosure credentials 

Status: Complete

Publish DID-Linked Resource as W3C specification

Publish DID-Linked Resources (DLRs) draft specification, enabling credential ecosystem builders to leverage DLRs in common data model 

Status: Complete

Create on-chain Trust Registry’s
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Offer trust-registries to allow customers to create trusted issuer or verifier lists using DID-Linked Resources (DLRs)

Status: Complete

Offer Token Status List within cheqd Stack
Offer Status List format for SD-JWT credential types within cheqd Stack 

Status: Complete

JULY AND SEPTEMBER 2024
Implement Advanced tokenomics
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EIP 1559 style burn to counterweight inflation more effectively

Status: In Progress

Update transaction costs
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Review the cost of DIDs, Resources and fees to optimise the amount of tokens burnt and rewards distributed through increased network utility.

Status: In Progress

Fee abstraction
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Pay for Creds, DIDs & gas in other cosmos tokens which are then resolved to $CHEQ on the fly.

Status: In Progress

Provide access to stable coin usage in Credential Payments for cheqd Studio users
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Enable ledger-writs and credential verification payments using stable currencies, with CHEQ token used under the hood.

Status: Not Started


Implement Skip MEV Capture
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Complete SKIP MEV implementation to return internal revenue to treasury & improve general CHEQ tokenomics

Status: In Progress

OCTOBER AND ONWARD
Upgrade Cosmos SDK to version 0.50
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Cosmos SDK 0.50 enables ABCI++ which enables a tighter coupling between the consensus layer and the app layer

Status: Not Started

Explore running nodes on third party networks
Exploration of running nodes on other major networks to improve adoption of cheqd functionality, including LACCHAIN and KERI.

Status: Not Started

Update cheqd Studio APIs with additional functionality
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Add additional functionality to cheqd Studio APIs for schemas, templates and governance.

Status: Not Started

Implement Trust Registry APIs
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Implement 'create' and 'verify' trust registry APIs using the EBSI Verifiable Accreditation model and DID-Linked Resources.

Status: Not Started

Advanced Commercial Models
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Explore advanced commercial models using CosmWasm to expand Credential Payments beyond the existing functionality

Status: Not Started

cheqd Studio Verifier Portal
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Build a portal and interface for verifiers to pay for verifying credentials issued by cheqd Studio and integrate business rules and logic into their own applications for payment-gating.

Status: Not Started

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