Milestones to Mainnet Launch
As we recently announced, the Subspace Foundation is planning to launch the Autonomys Network mainnet in Q3 2024. The milestones that Autonomys Labs needs to hit on the way to this momentous occasion are gathered together in the below diagram. Please note that this is for indicative purposes only and there are a few caveats to apply:
- For indication of milestones only
- Not to scale
- Order of tasks may be amended
- Some tasks will overlap
- This diagram ignores concurrency (and is pretty loose with dependency too)
With these points in mind, here it is:
Let’s take a look running roughly left-to-right and top-to-bottom.
Stake Wars 2
As you can see, we are already underway with work on the Astral staking interface in full-swing and the network runtime upgrades already running on Gemini 3h. Next up we will deploy our second domain based on the Auto ID runtime which will join Nova our EVM runtime domain and form the foundation on which Stake Wars 2 will run. Stay tuned for our confirmation of the date we will launch this incentivized initiative.
Protocol Roadmap
One of the core goals of the Subspace Protocol and therefore the Autonomys Network has always been massive scalability. Notice that we have already defined our scalability roadmap internally (spoiler alert - sharding) and plan to publish details on how it will work in the near future. We also have an ongoing protocol security audit with SR Labs who we have been engaged with for well over a year now.
As mentioned earlier, we will also be aligning testnet emissions around the start of Stake Wars 2.
Hacker Month 2
The fun does not stop with our staking contest of course and once the Stake Wars are running, Engineering will be delivering our Auto SDK v1 which is a toolkit enabling developers to interact with the Auto ID domain effortlessly. The SDK will take all the low-level calls required to work with Autonomys Identity and provide high-level work flows that allow builders to focus on developing their ideas rather than boilerplate code to interact with the identity primitive.
This unlocks Hacker Month 2 which will have prizes for EVM developers and those trailblazers eager to get started on Auto ID. We are truly excited to see what our community is able to build on Nova and Auto ID!! We will launch with suitable fanfare and expect there will be a number of exciting calls, workshops and other initiatives designed to engage and activate developers.
Not least of which will be a partner we will announce shortly who will be deploying some critical infrastructure projects onto Nova in both testnet and mainnet. So there will be established dApps for our community to play with.
Subspace Foundation
As mentioned previously, the Subspace Foundation is a Swiss entity setup back in the middle of last year. It is the foundation that will be responsible for launching mainnet and a number of activities related to TGE. This is a paperwork-heavy process but soon you will see a presence built out with a website setup, a voice setup on socials and a number of tasks only the foundation can deliver being worked on.
Ambassador agreements for example must be issued from the foundation and, drumroll please, tokenomics! We know this is a regular ask from the community but we have to make sure we know exactly how long the testnet will run for before we can produce final figures for our pie charts. As you can see, we expect to release tokenomics shortly after ending the incentivized testnet for that very reason.
Speaking of testnet rewards, you will notice that Astral, our block explorer will also be updated to provide a rewards checker so that our testnet farmers will be able to check how they did on previous networks and how that translates into mainnet tokens which will be minted in the genesis block. Time to dust off those old Gemini 1 and Gemini 2 wallets!
Jumping ahead a little, we can see that the foundation will also be launching our AIP process. This is similar to the Ethereum EIP process and is our first step on the road to the progressive decentralization of the project which will ultimately put control in the hands of the community. This gradual transition is a core responsibility of the foundation that you can expect we will be talking on in greater detail closer the time.
Autonomys Whitepaper
Team researchers are currently working on an Autonomys whitepaper. We have the Subspace Protocol whitepaper which describes in detail everything about our blockchain but we want to lay out the technical targets in our sights for the Autonomys Network. We expect there will be an opportunity to talk about some aspects of the paper while it is being worked on but we will be very excited when the completed artifact is ready to be published.
LAUNCH!
There are plans to run a community initiative to gather our community’s most important data and include it in the network’s seed data. This will immortalize those who are selected and, of course, the pictures of their cats. This will run around the end of Stake Wars 2 and lead us into a brief pause on proceedings. More details to come on this.
We have reserved 2-4 weeks for critical preparations with the Subspace Foundation for the mainnet launch. There are a number of smaller tasks that are required but top of mind for us is preparing the genesis block to ensure testnet rewards are represented accurately and a final security audit from SR labs. Once we are ready it will be time for the main event…
The launch itself will be coordinated by the foundation and will kick off the real Space Race (remember our excellent dress-rehearsal Mini Space Race back in February?) to activate mainnet rewards. You can expect plenty of hoopla from those of us in the Ecosystem team and we have plans for plenty of ways for our community to be involved and engage with us.
Our community means everything to us. Join us on this last leg of our journey - exciting times lay ahead.
