Roadmap — From MVP to Canton Settlement and Beyond
Nine milestones shipped in under four weeks. Settlement is live on the Canton Network. Here's what's next.
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 48 NestJS backend modules, 22 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 amounts. 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. In-progress work refers to v9.1 (poll duration, vote limit, shielded fees). Planned phases cover Q2–Q4 2026, culminating in progressive decentralization and a global scale rollout.
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 + Poseidon2)
- •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 22 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 (Poseidon2 commitments + Merkle proofs) hides settlement amounts
- •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
Q2 2026: 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
Q3 2026: 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)
Q4 2026: 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
22 core @agora/* packages, a public SDK, and a partner API gateway — so any team can add anonymous voting, RLN-protected chat, or UniRep 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 Semaphore, RLN, and UniRep 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 (Poseidon2, 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 (Poseidon2 + Merkle proofs) hides settlement amounts
- Canton validator integration for private enterprise settlement
Platform & Ecosystem
- 22 core packages extracted (@agora/auth, zk-engine, token-engine, messaging, analytics…)
- 48 NestJS backend modules covering social, messaging, moderation, analytics, and Canton settlement
- 40+ web routes (app + organization dashboards + moderation + wallet)
- 18 mobile feature modules with offline quota tracking
Security, Audit & Monitoring
- Third-party settlement & token-design audit — Planned Q2 2026
- Bug bounty program — Planned Q2 2026
- 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 (Q2 2026)
- •Developer grants program (Q3 2026)
- •Bug bounty program (Q2 2026)
- •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.