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
Q1 - Q4 2019 Delivered as promised
- 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
Q1 2020 In Development
- 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
Q2 2020
- 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
- HD Wallet implementation and rework of wallet login page
- Wallet walk through - newbie friendly tutorial
- Wallet translation
Research projects Our vision from now on
- Subnets
- Secure Voting
- Cryptographic Tools
- IoT use cases
- More hardware wallets implementations
- Additional User interface enhancements
- Privacy features
- Java modules
- Automatic Node provisioning and Setup
Project History
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
