Aleph Zero is a peer-reviewed DAG platform that’s scalable, fast and developer-friendly.<br />
It’s a Proof-of-Stake public blockchain with private smart contracts built by a world-class team that aims to reach mass adoption of Distributed Ledger Technology.
First iteration of a DAG-based Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (aBFT) consensus protocol.
Q3 2018
Finalizing proof of security and liveness under asynchronicity conditions.<br />
Aleph Consensus 1.5 — enabling the production of proofs for outside users, ensuring that a given transaction is validated.
Q4 2018
Commencing research on smart contracts.<br />
Aleph Governance 1.0 — a basic protocol for committee swaps.
Q1 2019
Aleph Consensus 2.5 — switching from gossip to reliable broadcast (RBC) to improve latency.<br />
Aleph Beacon 1.0 — the first aBFT randomness beacon with trustless setup.<br />
Aleph Smart Contracts 1.0
Q2 2019
Aleph Governance 1.5 — adding hot-seat governance model.<br />
Aleph Smart Contracts 1.5 — off-chain computed smart contracts with Truebit-like disputes on Aleph platform.<br />
Aleph Common 1.0 — the first iteration of a trustless, universal wallet and a decentralized exchange (DEX)
Q3 2019
Aleph Common 1.5 — research ongoing.<br />
Aleph Cloud 1.0 — IPFS on Aleph chain.<br />
Aleph Consensus 3.0 — switching from reliable broadcast to normal broadcast with a fall-back to gossip to further improve latency.
Q4 2019
Aleph Governance 2.0 — proof of proof of stake as a protection against long-range-attacks.<br />
Aleph Common 2.0 — adding anonymity and privacy.
Q1 2020
Aleph Smart Contracts 2.0 — enabling Aleph contracts to act as single actors with hidden private keys enabling to sign messages.
Q2 2020
Aleph Oracle 1.0 — oracle system for off-chain data.