I used to read about dash long time ago and I'm very impressed it's still going strong :O

Any major innovations planned for near future?

Dash Evolution creates a new type of cryptographic currency with various advanced features that assist in the creation of decentralized technology. Dash introduces a tiered network design, which allows users to do various jobs for the network, along with decentralized API access and a decentralized file system.

We will be writing the software for this project in stages, the first stage will take about 2 months to have a very early prototype for Dash Evolution that includes a basic implementation of DashDrive, Primitives, DAPI and a simple T3 wallet. In six to eight months, we should be entering testnet phase with most basic functionality. In 12-18 months, we plan for the first release version (a stable prototype).

Included below is our current work on Evolution, that adds many components such as:

•DashDrive – A decentralized shared file system that lives on the second tier network
•DAPI – A decentralized API which allows third tier users to access the network securely
•DashPay Decentralized Wallets – These wallets are light clients connected to the network via DAPI and run on various platforms
•Second Tier – The masternode network, which provides compensated infrastructure for the project
•Budgets – The second tier is given voting power to allocate funds for specific projects on the network via the budget system
•Governance – The second tier is given voting power to govern the currency and chart the course the currency takes
•Quorum Chain – This feature introduces a permanent stable masternode list, which can be used to calculate past and present quorums
•Social Wallet – We introduce a social wallet, which allows friends lists, grouping of users and shared multisig accounts.