The first block of the Ardor mainnet was forged shortly after midnight on January 1st, 2018, marking the launch of the first public multi-chain blockchain ecosystem.
Together with the parent chain, three child chains were also activated at launch - Ignis, AEUR, and Bitswift. For the first time in history, multiple transactions submitted to a child chain could be bundled into a single transaction on the parent chain, the security of each child chain being ensured by the proof-of-stake consensus on the parent chain.
The Ardor public blockchain has been running stable ever since, and is under active development according to our roadmap below.
2025 Roadmap
Q3-Q4 2025
- Launch Nxt child chain on testnet
Q1 2026
- Atomic Transaction Chains on mainnet
- Launch Nxt child chain on mainnet
Research Projects Ideas we are exploring
- Child-chain Subnets
- Decentralized Pegged Tokens
- Decentralized Liquidity Pools
Project History
Q1-Q2 2025
- Ardor 2.5.1 release
- Ardor 2.5.2 release
- Atomic Transaction Chains on testnet
- Bundling API enhancements
- Modals with templates in UI plugins
2024
- Ardor 2.5.0 release
- Integrated HD account functionality with Contract Runner
- Managed Accounts Bundler for HD wallet accounts
- Support detached contract setup parameters
- Maximum leasing period increased
- Support UI plugins for AddOns
- Continuing Bridge Champ development and integration
2022
- Per-Transaction-Type Asset Control
- Asset Trade Royalties
- Ardor 3.0.1e testnet release
- Development & maintenance of gateway contracts for wrapping Ardor assets with EVM based tokens
- Development & maintenance of IPFS integration contract
- Continuing Bridge Champ development and integration
2021
- Ardor 3.0 testnet - testing, stabilization, bug fixes
- Ardor 2.3.4 release
- Bridge Champ application development, integration with the Ardor platform
2020
- Hybrid permissions on public networks
- User interface for node configuration
- Tax reporting tool
- Asset Exchange trading bot
- Node Reward Program
- Mobile Friendly UI
- Ledger Wallet app generally available
- HD Wallet implementation and rework of wallet login page
- Wallet walk through - newbie friendly tutorial
- Wallet translation
- Pruning and Snapshots on Testnet
- Remove child chain transactions from the blockchain when their state is stable
- Share state snapshots between nodes
- Support archival nodes for retrieving pruned child transactions
- Developers documentation available
2019
- MPG Child Chain
- Lightweight Contracts
- Token Balance Migration
- Shamir Secret Sharing and Paper Wallet
- Coin Exchange Enhancements
- Child Chain Control Infrastructure
- Loadtest and Benchmark Results
- Full Node on Android devices
- Ledger Wallet Integration - App submitted for review
- Coin Exchange Trading bot
- Confidential Node Configuration
- Standby Shufflers
- Change Now and Change Hero integration
- Forging reward program
2018
- Ardor launched in production. ARDR tokens distributed to airdrop participants
- Ignis child chain is live. IGNIS tokens distributed to crowdsale and airdrop participants
- Stabilization period
- Asset Properties
- Transaction Vouchers
- Asset, Currency, Goods specific Bundlers
- Translation of wallet to 14 languages
2017
- Ardor Public Testnet launched
- Cross-chain decentralized coin exchange
- Bundling system
- Redesigned peer networking
- Ignis crowdsale performed on the Nxt blockchain
- Ignis and Ardor airdrop snapshots taken
2016
- Ardor asset issued on the Nxt blockchain
- Ardor tokens distributed to Nxt holders after a 3 month snapshot period
