Chia Development Timeline and Roadmap

A timeline of notable current (and future) developments on the Chia Network. For additional milestones and media mentions, see Chia in the News

This roadmap is compiled by ChiaLinks.com and is not officially endorsed by the Chia Network.

August 2022 update: See the official Chia Network roadmap

• Initial Public Offering (IPO)

  Future

  Chia Network is actively working towards becoming a publicly traded company. No further details can be given ahead of time.

• Gene Hoffman assumes CEO role

  Jan 2023

  In a step towards maintaining momentum towards the stated goal of going public, Bram Cohen transitioned from CEO to Chairman of the Board and CTO while Gene Hoffman transitioned from COO to CEO and President of Chia Network Inc. ( Source

• Climate Action Data Trust launch

  Dec 2022

  IETA and founding partners announce the launch of Climate Action Data Trust built on the Chia blockchain utilizing the Chia DataLayer. ( Source

• Chia Establishes Singapore Entity

  Nov 2022

  The incorporation and launch of Chia Network subsidiary headquartered in Singapore, Chia Network PTE. LTD was announced. The new office will serve as the primary entity for the company’s operations in Asia. ( Source

• Data Vault Partnership

  Nov 2022

  Through the newly announced partnership, the Datavault platform now allows users to mint NFTs on the Chia Blockchain. This addresses two primary concerns from artists: resale royalties and sustainability. ( Source

• CDI Official Formation

  Nov 2022

  The Circular Drive Initiative announced its official formation, a collaboration between global leaders in digital storage, sustainability, and blockchain seeking to reduce e-waste through secure reuse of storage hardware. ( Source

• Prefarm moved to custody wallets

  Oct 2022

  All 21 million XCH in Chia’s prefarm have been moved to four custom-built custody wallets. Chia’s custody solution uses a combination of custom hardware and state-of-the-art ChiaLisp to create the most secure wallet in the industry. ( Source

• Chia DataLayer Release

  Sep 2022

  The Chia DataLayer provides a shared data network with no central authority. Nodes in this network can subscribe to data from other nodes and receive updates whenever the data changes. This technology powers the World Bank Climate Warehouse. ( Source

• Chia Bug Bounty

  Sep 2022

  Chia’s bug bounty program, managed via Bugcrowd, is opened to the public. ( Source

• Carbon Opportunity Fund

  Aug 2022

  World Bank’s IFC, Cultivo, Aspiration, and Chia Network launch the Carbon Opportunity Fund to raise private capital for source, tokenize, and sell high quality carbon credits on-chain. (Project Asteroids) ( Source

• CAT2 Standard Release

  Jul 2022

  CAT1 standard was EOL, replaced by CAT2 and assets were reissued to fix a security vulnerability uncovered by an audit. ( Source

• NFT1 Mainnet Standard

  Jun 2022

  The first standard for the minting of Non-Fungible Tokens on the Chia blockchain. ( Source

• Joins Blockchain Association

  May 2022

  Chia joins the industry coalition in regulatory analysis and insight to amplify the continued growth, development, and application of the Chia blockchain and technologies. ( Source

• NFT0 Beta Standard

  May 2022

  Chia Network releases their vision for NFTs an initial NFT0 standard for testnet. ( Source

• Public Data Dashboards

  Apr 2022

  Chia Network publishes dashboards on blockchain and network metrics. Notably showing ~200,000 active full nodes. ( Source

• Climate Warehouse Prototype

  Mar 2022

  The World Bank announces the Climate Warehouse Observer Node to explore a prototype of the Climate Warehouse, built on the Chia Blockchain. ( Source

• Chia Blockchain 1.3 Released

  Mar 2022

  Major version update of the full node software to include light wallet, new compressed database format, offers and CAT support, and more. ( Source

• CHia Improvement Proposals

  Feb 2022

  CHIP is a standardized template and procedure is established for proposing new ideas to improve the Chia project (akin to EIP/BIP in Ethereum/Bitcoin). ( Source

• Chialisp Developer Challenge

  Feb 2022

  An online event where developers competed to create innovative solutions using the Chia blockchain and Chialisp on Clovyr’s development tools. ( Source

• Business Whitepaper v2

  Feb 2022

  An updated version of the Chia Business Whitepaper is released, discussing many of the milestones and roadmap since mainnet launch. ( Source

• Partnership with Clovyr

  Jan 2022

  A new environment for Clovyr Code released, providing a browser based VSCode instance preconfigured for Chialisp development. ( Source

• Buy XCH Button on Chia.net

  Jan 2022

  Non-exchange on-ramp to buy XCH using USDS and Chia Offers is added to the Chia website. ( Source

• Stably USDS Stablecoin

  Jan 2022

  The first stablecoin following the CAT1 standard is launched on the Chia blockchain. ( Source

• Hashgreen DEX

  Jan 2022

  The first decentralized exchange (DEX) is launched supporting Chia Offers. ( Source

• Chia Offers Launched

  Jan 2022

  Chia Offers launched enabling native peer-to-peer swaps of XCH and CATs without an intemediary or counterparty risk. ( Source

• 2021 Holiday Token Airdrop

  Jan 2022

  2021 Holiday CAT (CH21) is airdropped to all farmers that won a block between mainnet launch and December 25, 2021. ( Source

• Light Wallet Launched

  Nov 2021

  Electrum-style wallet with CAT support launched to allow transactions without requiring a full node sync. ( Source

• CAT1 Standard

  Nov 2021

  The first Chia Asset Token (CAT) standard is released along with the first two CATs SpaceBucks and Marmotcoin . ( Source

• Costa Rica Partnership

  Nov 2021

  Costa Rican government will partner with Chia to develop an open-source software platform for managing climate inventory for other countries to freely use. ( Source

• World Bank Partnership

  Nov 2021

  The World Bank selected Chia to develop the Climate Warehouse which will facilitate the sharing and reporting of climate project information and asset issuance. ( Source

• Chia’s First Granted Patent

  Nov 2021

  The first patent assigned to the Chia Network is granted by the US Patents office. ( Source

• Circular Drive Initiative

  Nov 2021

  Chia joins major storage vendors, including Seagate Technology, to facilitate second-use business cases for hard drives. ( Source

• Crypto Open Patent Alliance

  Oct 2021

  Chia’s issued patents will be pooled with other crypto industry leaders under an open license. ( Source

• Supranational Partnership

  Oct 2021

  Chia partners with Supranational to create ASICs used for Proof of Time. ( Source

• Global Chia Hackathon

  Sep 2021

  The first Chia Hackathon finished with 360+ registrations across 50 countries. ( Source

• Open Compute Project

  Aug 2021

  Chia joins the OCP to contribute to sustainabiltiy in storage. ( Source

• Cultivation Grant Program

  Aug 2021

  The Chia Cultivation Program launched to invest in independent developers to the Chia ecosystem. ( Source

• Official Pooling Protocol

  Jul 2021

  New plot format released with decentralized implementation to provide small farmers more consistent rewards. ( Source

• Netspace crosses 30 EiB

  Jul 2021

• Netspace crosses 10 EiB

  May 2021

• First Exchange Listing

  May 2021

• Transactions Launch

  May 2021

  Transactions enabled on mainnet. ( Source

• Netspace crosses 1 EiB

  Apr 2021

• Chia Mainnet Launch

  Mar 2021

  Chia’s mainnet goes live with initial netspace of just over 100 PiB. ( Source

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