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
