Sensational in the past year, the blockchain startup Filecoin announced the approximate time of the official launch of its platform for data storage: it should take place in the middle of next year.
On Tuesday, the team Filecoin published a roadmap with a long-term development plan of the company. The document says that current week will be released a demo version of the future platform will be created a repository on GitHub for public presentation, and most importantly — by the middle of 2019, after the initial test phase, will begin work on mainnet Filecoin. Team Filecoin has invited developers to participate in the process of placing the repository when it starts.
“This is an important step for the community as a whole, and we invite you to take part in it specialists interested in the development of the platform Filecoin or creating applications based on it”, — said in the company blog.
A test run of the platform is scheduled either for the last quarter of the current year or the first quarter of 2019. The exact date is still unknown.
The team warns that the roadmap is more a sketch of the plan of action, but did not have specific dates. As explained by the authors of the project, they “hate to give dates that can be changed”, but also do not want the developers and the community remained in absolute ignorance as to the readiness of the product. The team blog describes the pros and cons of this approach:
“Pros: clear and transparent approach to planning, easier coordination of activities within the community and a sense of joy as you approach the stages. Cons: time frame definitely will change — some things can be done earlier or later than originally planned”.
We will remind that last year the startup has raised more than $200 million for the first 60 minutes after the start of the primary placement of coins (ICO), breaking all records. In the presale period, the project team has raised approximately $50 million investment from venture capital funds Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.
