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-Q2 2022
- Per-Transaction-Type Asset Control
- Asset Trade Royalties
- Ardor 3.0.1e testnet release
- Continuing Bridge Champ development and integration
Q3 - Q4 2022
- Ardor 3.0 mainnet
- Continue the development/maintenance of gateway contracts for wrapping Ardor assets with EVM based tokens
- Continuing Bridge Champ development and integration
- Continue the development/maintenance of IPFS integration contract
- Feature development as needed to support the end user application ecosystem
Research Projects Ideas we are exploring
- Child-chain Subnets
- Decentralized Pegged Tokens
- Decentralized Liquidity Pools
- Integration of HD account functionallity with contract runner and shuffling
- Enhance contract runner security
- Configurable market making contracts
Project History
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
