Roadmap & Future
Our vision and development roadmap
Where We Are Today
Agora has shipped nine versioned milestones (v1.0 through v9.0) between March 1 and March 22, 2026. The platform now comprises 52 NestJS backend modules, 28 extracted core packages, and 6 custom circom circuits, with private settlement on the Canton Network through Agora's own live mainnet validator and a DAML attribution ledger.
v9.0 delivered Agora's Canton Network settlement: a live mainnet validator, a DAML attribution ledger for token operations and vote receipts, Canton Coin settlement for poll-activation fees and rewards, and a shielded fee pool that hides which deposit funded a fee (the amounts are public). The broader token economy — dynamic reward scaling, staking, and governance — remains in design and is not yet deployed.
The roadmap below reflects live production state. Completed phases have shipped and are running; the anonymous-action v2 platform, which followed v9.0, has carried production ballots since 28 August 2026 and is described in the Solution and Architecture sections. The forward phases are ordered, not dated: the security audit that opens them is planned but not yet scheduled.
Versioned Milestones
v1.0 – v4.0: Foundation — Theme System, Anonymous Social, Mobile, Web Frontend
- •Agora design system v4.0 (Mediterranean palette, Cinzel + Plus Jakarta Sans)
- •Semaphore v4 anonymous voting, communities, posts, comments
- •React Native 0.81.5 + Expo 54 mobile app with ZK identity (SecureStore + Poseidon)
- •Next.js 15 + React 19 web frontend with 40+ routes
- •Three theme variants: Modern neon, Classic Light, Classic Dark
v5.0: Advanced Analytics Platform
- •Event store + schema registry with type-safe event tracking
- •k-anonymity analytics engine (k ≥ 25) for privacy-preserving metrics
- •Community health dashboard (growth, activation, retention, cohort, churn)
- •Social health dashboard (engagement, moderation risk, content quality)
- •Funnel analytics (poll funnel, member funnel, post funnel)
v6.0 – v8.0: Ecosystem Extraction — Packages, Shared Schemas, Auth
- •Turborepo monorepo with 28 extracted core packages (@agora/*)
- •Shared schema layer: auth, posts, polls, votes, messages, communities, wallet
- •@agora/auth extraction: JWT, SIWE, OAuth, password, RBAC guards
- •@agora/zk-engine, @agora/anon-credential, @agora/anon-receipt extracted
- •Ecosystem v2 branch, backend DI wiring hardened
v9.0: Canton Network Settlement — Validator, DAML Ledger, Shielded Fees
- •Live Canton Network mainnet validator with a DAML attribution ledger
- •Canton Coin settlement for poll-activation fees and rewards
- •Shielded fee pool (Poseidon commitments + Merkle proofs) hides which deposit paid a fee
- •Vote receipts (BatchAnchored / VoteRecorded) and poll-created events on the DAML ledger
- •Wallet balance migrated from double precision to decimal(38,18)
v9.1 — Active: Poll Duration System, Vote Limit System, Shielded Fees
- •Fixed poll duration tiers (1-week / 2-week / 1-month) with admin-configurable fees
- •Dynamic per-community vote caps based on engagement
- •shielded_fee.circom — privacy-preserving fee proofs
- •RLN circuit hardening; Math.random() replaced with crypto.randomInt() across ZK paths
- •Canton settlement monitoring, alerting, and Prometheus dashboards
Next — audit not yet scheduled: Security Audit & Settlement Hardening
- •Third-party security audit of settlement and token-economy design
- •Formal verification of critical settlement paths
- •Canton Coin settlement hardening and reconciliation tooling
- •Canton validator integration hardening for private enterprise settlement
- •Bug bounty program launch
Following phase: Governance Maturity & Advanced Analytics
- •Governance design refinement based on voter turnout data
- •Advanced analytics dashboard (predictive cohort modeling, anomaly detection)
- •Organization API gateway for programmatic access
- •White-label deployment mode for enterprise customers
- •SDK for third-party developers (polls, votes, identity)
Later phase: DAO Tooling & Global Scale
- •Global-scale Canton settlement capacity and throughput hardening
- •DAO tooling suite (proposal templates, delegation UI, voting analytics)
- •Enterprise partnerships & regulatory compliance certifications (MiCA)
- •Quadratic voting & liquid democracy pilots
- •Community ambassador program & developer grants
Long-Term Vision
Anonymous Social Standard
Become the default infrastructure for privacy-preserving voting, community discourse, and reputation across DAOs, enterprises, academia, and civil society.
Developer Ecosystem
28 core @agora/* packages, a public SDK, and a partner API gateway — so any team can add anonymous voting, credential-budgeted anonymous discussion, or pseudonymous reputation to their product in hours.
Progressive Decentralization
Hand off platform parameters — reward rates, settlement allocation, upgrades — to the community through a planned governance process.
Next-Generation ZK Primitives
Quadratic voting, liquid democracy, and conviction voting — all backed by the next generation of the membership-proof and reputation circuits.
Technology Roadmap
Zero-Knowledge & Circuits
- shielded_fee.circom — privacy-preserving fees (live in v9.1)
- Semaphore batch proofs via semaphore_batch.circom (multiple votes per transaction)
- Optimized batch proving for high-throughput anonymous actions (posts, reactions)
- Mobile-side proof optimization (Poseidon, WebView Groth16)
Canton Network Settlement
- Live Canton Network mainnet validator with a DAML attribution ledger
- Canton Coin settlement for poll-activation fees and rewards
- Shielded fee pool (Poseidon + Merkle proofs) hides which deposit paid a fee
- Canton validator integration for private enterprise settlement
Platform & Ecosystem
- 22 core packages extracted (@agora/auth, zk-engine, token-engine, messaging, analytics…)
- 52 NestJS backend modules covering social, messaging, moderation, analytics, and Canton settlement
- 122 web routes (app + organization dashboards + moderation + wallet)
- 20 mobile feature modules with offline quota tracking
Security, Audit & Monitoring
- Third-party settlement & token-design audit — planned, not yet scheduled
- Bug bounty program — planned, not yet scheduled
- Formal verification of critical settlement paths
- Prometheus + Grafana dashboards for validator and settlement health
Community Participation
Agora's future is shaped by its community. We believe in open development, transparent decision-making, and progressive decentralization of governance.
How to Get Involved:
- •Contribute to @agora/* packages on GitHub
- •Delegate voting power once governance goes live
- •Report bugs through the upcoming bounty program
- •Build integrations using the public SDK
Upcoming Initiatives:
- •Settlement & token-design security audit (planned, not yet scheduled)
- •Developer grants program (planned)
- •Bug bounty program (planned, not yet scheduled)
- •Community ambassador program (Q4 2026)
Join Us on This Journey
Nine versioned milestones already shipped. Settlement live on the Canton Network through Agora's own mainnet validator. A security audit on the horizon. Whether you're a developer, organization, journalist, or community member, there's a place for you in Agora's ecosystem — helping build the future of anonymous participation.
Have a partnership idea, an integration request, or want to collaborate on the roadmap? Reach out to us directly — we read every message.