Does anyone have the roadmap of Omisego for 2018?
Regards
The Roadmap
The path that leads to Plasma is marked by milestones we have named after relevant terms from the board game ‘Go’ (碁), invented in China over 2,500 years ago. Described in brief below are the milestones up until the OmiseGO Plasma chain is deployed. Greater detail about the milestones below and proceeding milestones will be described in follow up blog posts.
1 : Fuseki(布石) and Sente(先手)
The first two milestones Fuseki(布石) and Sente(先手) are in respect to the white-label /wallet SDK.
In the game Go, ‘Fuseki’ represents the whole board opening, enabling various development and strategies on the board to take place. At OmiseGO we refer to our first milestone as Fuseki because it is the opening to our series of deliverables. Over the past few months our team of designers, developers, and financial experts have been working on Fuseki with our clients and partners to design and develop priority features for the wallet SDK, ensuring end users’ needs are front and center.
Adding further priority features and complexity to the wallet SDK, we refer to our second milestone under the name Sente. Sente is a move in ‘Go’ that retains strategic advantage for the player and controls the opponent’s response. Sente takes into account everything learnt during the workshops and the feedback received from partners during Fuseki. We expect Sente to demonstrate the value of the OmiseGO Wallet SDK and its utility in global customer loyalty programs. We are very excited to be putting Sente into the hands of developers in Q1 of 2018!
The first users and partners for the loyalty programs use-case will lead the announcement of their adoption of the wallet SDK once the solution has been fully integrated.
In parallel to Fuseki and Sente wallet SDK, the team is working on deployment of the OmiseGO network including Honte (本手), Aji (味), Tesuji (手筋) and Tengen (天元).
2 : Honte (本手)
Honte in the game of Go represents a solid move, simple and robust. In Honte, OmiseGO will deliver the OmiseGO network and lay the foundations in preparation for Plasma. Development progress and news about Honte’s public release will be shared in one of the subsequent detailed product blog posts. Honte is currently on course to be delivered in Q1 to Q2 of 2018.
3 : Aji (味)
The closest English translation of Aji (味) is ‘latent potential.’ Stemming from the Japanese term which means taste, Aji represents how stones provide options for play later in the game. In OmiseGO development milestones, the potential being added in Aji is the ability to move in and out of fiat and an interface to the Omise payment gateway.
4 : Tesuji (手筋)
Tesuji (手筋) refers to a clever and skillful move, almost to the level of a ‘trick’ play. It requires the player to read ahead and pick the best play that might be decisive to the final outcome of the game. Tesuji was chosen to represent the impressive, innovative nature of Plasma. Tesuji will utilize the foundations that were built by Honte and Aji and introduce a basic form of Plasma with a novel bonded consensus mechanism.
5 : Tengen (天元)
In combination with Tesuji, Tengen (天元) which means ‘origin of heaven’, represents the center point of the ‘Go’ board. In the Tengen development phase, we take Tesuji and deploy it on the finished OmiseGO network: a massively-scalable, cross-chain-compatible decentralized exchange (DEx) Plasma chain.
The goal is to improve the lives of people through the transformation of finance and digital commerce. By enabling people to both maintain unprecedented connectivity and retain unprecedented control over their individual financial resources, while at the same time have a stake in how the collective resource (the OmiseGO network) is operated, we are attempting to forge a path towards socioeconomic equity in a just, free market environment. In the course of delivering this goal, we also hope to contribute to the technology that enables scaling on a blockchain and to introduce new ways of performing peer-to-peer exchange of digital value.
