Nxt is an iconic project in the history of blockchain development. Launched as early as November 2013 it represents the first pure proof of stake blockchain ever deployed. Started by an anonymous developer who disappeared shortly thereafter, with a crowdsale that raised only a symbolic amount, the Nxt project formed a wonderful community around it, and gave birth to many successful follow-up projects, including our own Ardor platform.
After running for 12 years and forging 6000000 blocks, the Nxt blockchain was shut down on Jan 17, 2026, and the Nxt token was migrated to an Nxt child chain on the Ardor platform.
2026 Roadmap
- Nxt child chain included in Ardor 2.6.0
Project History
2025
2022
- Nxt 1.12.3 maintenance release
2019 - 2020
- Asset Increase
- Asset Properties
- Dividend Payments by Asset and Currency
- Java 11 support
- Light Client improvements
- Load test and benchmark results – support up to 100 transactions per second
2018
- Maintenance and Performance Optimizations
2017
- Ignis Crowdsale Infrastructure
2016
- Funding Monitor
- Light/Roaming Client Modes
- Mobile App
- Ardor Distribution Snapshot
2015
- Graphical Installer
- Voting System
- Phasing
- Prunable Messages
- Offline Transaction Signing
- Account Ledger
- Peer Services
- Coin Shuffling
- Account Control
- Data Cloud
2014
- Multiple major code improvements
- Plain and Encrypted Messages
- Balance Leasing
- Asset Exchange
- Alias Transfer
- Digital Goods Store
2013
- Initial Release - NXT Token Distribution
- Proof-of-Stake algorithm improvements
- Alias System
