Road Map 2019-2020

This document is discribing the development roadmap of Plasma Chamber, Cryptoeconomics Lab's Plapps Development Framework. The roadmap includes milestones consisting of each month's expected implementation tasks and deriverables until testnet launch and mainnet launch.

• We will make Github project board for each month

Our Goal

• Build usable middlewares and applications on layer 2 to produce realworld use case of public blockchain.
• Share development techniques of layer 2 apps combined as a framework to the world.
  • developers = users -> define the contract updtates by theireselves without deployment
• Build the universal client for layer 2.

Summary of our roadmap

1. Rust implementation for generalized plasma spec
   This includes operator and client. We are aimig for an interoperable, transparent sdk.
   https://github.com/cryptoeconomicslab/plasma-rust-framework
2. Android client implementation using 1. also iOS.
   https://github.com/cryptoeconomicslab/plasma-android-sdk
3. Research potential applications for OVM
   Categorize usecases
   FF predicate, Payment channel, Multi-hop payment, Dex, Lending, Checkpoint…etc
   https://github.com/cryptoeconomicslab/plasma-predicates
   development tools for OVM
4. Research universal client for OVM
   research generalized layer 2 client
   prototyping universal client for OVM

Roadmap

Jun 2019

• Minimal Rust Framework for Plasma
  • Merkle Interval Tree
• Minimal operator client with Rust
  • JSON RPC server
  • Block Manager

Jul

• Plasma Contracts
  • Mock Commitment Contract and Deposit Contract
• Predicates
  • Ownership predicate
  • Swap predicate
• Research univesal client for OVM
• Minimal client with Rust

Aug

• Predicates
  • Fast finality predicate
  • Payment Channel predicate
  • Swap main chain and plasma predicate
  • Fee predicate
  • Defragmentation predicate
• Minimal client with Browser
  • user interface
  • merchant dashboard for setup fast finality predicate
  • use pigi spec for SDK?
• Minimal client with Android
  • State Manager
  • Sync Manager
  • JSON RPC Client
  • Contract Wrapper
• Research
  • Write a formal paper on design patterns of predicate to build Plapps
  • Mass-move using checkpoint predicate
  • Standarize deposit contract

Sep

• Client implementation
  • Payment with Fast finality
  • Payment channel node
  • Checkpoint
  • Defragmentation
• Full client with Android
  • History Manager
• Minimal predicate development framework
  • Just audited libraries like openzeppelin?
• Others
  • Use create2 op code to deploy predicate contract
  • Support create2
• Packaging
  • Support Docker Compose for easy deployment to Azure or AWS
  • Implementation for the smooth installation of Plasma Chamber

Oct (DEVCON5)

Overview: Real Use Case Focus + Research

• Specific Usecase
  • Payment Plasma
  • Instant finality and micro payment
  • Merchant dashboard
    • Installation flow
• Plapps development framework
  • Research Paper
  • Predicate library
• Test network
• Platform Support
  • Android
  • Linux, MacOS
  • Browser

DEVCON5

• Installation DEMO
  • Android phone and merchant client DEMO
    • How merchant start using Plasma
    • Payment with instant finality
    • How micro payment works (reduced gas cost)
  • Introduce our multi-platform client sdks (undecided)
  • Introduce audited libraries for plapp
    • How developers can build Plapp
    • Migration plapp to eth 2.0(undecided)

Nov

• Benchmark
• Audit client code
• Micropayment and instant finality
  • Payment channel network predicate
• Connect to Plasma network
  • Interoperable and universal Client SDK
  • Interoperable Payment
    • Multihop payment across Plasma Chain
  • Interoperable Dex
    • Swap between across Plasma Chain
• NFT Deposit Contract

Dec

• Monitoring service for operator
• Improve availability
  • Infrastructure
    • Support Enterprize Level insrastructure
    • k8s
    • Support other IaaS and PaaS
• Optimization
  • Optimize History Manager
    • Optimize Merkle Tree
  • Efficient checkpoint
    • Checkpoint predicate

Jan 2020 (Production ready)

• Main network deploy (TBA)
• Start developing applications on top of Plasma

Feb

• Build Plasma application

  • Lending Plapp
  • Game (like MCH)

• Try to build more complex application

  • Lottery
  • Voting
  • Swap with liquidity pool

Mar

• Product evaluation with quantifiable indices
  • Active users
  • Number of Transactions
  • Number of Deposit and Exit

Goal of March 2020

• Most widely-used/usable Dapps framework