Chart go up.
Charles get huge.

Roadmap

Number goes up. Charles gets wider. Eventually the website becomes structurally unsound. This is the entire utility.

Previously, on Cardano

Years of patience, whitepapers, and roadmap eras named like a literature exam. We reviewed the lore so you do not have to.

1. 2017 — MainnetLaunched with the promise of being the most academically rigorous chain alive. Then everyone went back to reading.
2. The roadmap erasByron, Shelley, Goguen, Basho, Voltaire. Other chains shipped features. We shipped a poetry syllabus.
3. 2018–2021 — "Wen smart contracts?"Asked daily for years. The official answer was, essentially, "after the paper."
4. Sept 2021 — AlonzoSmart contracts finally arrived. ADA hit its all-time high the same month. Nobody has seen that high since.
5. Jan 2022 — The first big DEX launchThe UTXO concurrency problem met a real crowd. Queue up, anon, your swap will be with you shortly.
6. "1 million TPS"Hydra was meme'd into a million-TPS promise the internet never let go of. Charles still checks his TPS every morning.
7. The Ethereum killerEthereum is still alive. Cardano is still peer reviewing the murder weapon.
8. TodayGovernance is live, and the community can finally vote on whether to write another paper about it.

Peer-reviewed posting

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