Strategy & Roadmap on Adoption
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Strategy & Roadmap on Adoption

In 2021 Harmony strives to be a top blockchain for cross-chain assets, collectibles, identity, and governance. Our main themes are:

  1. Adoption — We are bringing utility to users through developers and partners. Hackathons with Gitcoin and workshops at Ethereum events will boost our reach.
  2. Interoperability — We are bridging with Bitcoin and Ethereum for broader assets. Our cross-shard and cross-chain transactions will enable new finance applications.
  3. Decentralization — We are growing our validator community and network features. External voting power and resharding will guarantee our long-term governance.

How to scale Ethereum applications in 2021? Harmony is a sharding protocol with a trustless Ethereum bridge. Our developers use Etherum tooling such as Solidity and Ether.js. Users use Metamask to store and they use our bridge to swap Harmony and Ethereum assets. We achieve 2-second finality for fast transactions and support 1000 delegating stakers for secure shards. A cross-chain Uniswap fork is already live on our mainnet. Similar to layer 2 protocols, Harmony is now fully interoperable with Ethereum ecosystem.

We openly commit and update for engineering milestones here (as harmony.one/launches).

Launch Dates & Weekly Updates

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Gnosis Safe & daVinci NFT with 1Wallet
Live on Devnet
October 15, 2021
Giv ParvanehJenya PiskunovAaron Li
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Cross-Chain NFT
Live on Testnet
October 31, 2021
Leo ChenJacky WangGanesha Upadhyaya
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Bitcoin Bridge
Live on Testnet
November 1, 2021 → November 29, 2021
Yuriy MenkovTKGanesha UpadhyayaGiv ParvanehPeter Abilla
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1Wallet as Client Library
Objective Defined
November 1, 2021
Aaron LiJenya PiskunovGiv ParvanehZi Wang
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Cross-Shard Transaction
Objective Defined
November 1, 2021
Rongjian Lan
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Cross-Chain API
Live on Testnet
November 15, 2021
Boris PolaniaGanesha Upadhyaya
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Trustless Ethereum Bridge
Live on Testnet
November 22, 2021
Ganesha UpadhyayaJenya Piskunov
Streaming Sync & Fast Sync
Live on Testnet
November 30, 2021
Jacky WangRongjian Lan
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20% Fixed Income on 1wallet
Objective Defined
November 30, 2021
Boris PolaniaGanesha UpadhyayaJacky Wang
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Full Security & Recovery for 1Wallet
Objective Defined
November 30, 2021
Aaron LiYuriy MenkovGiv Parvaneh
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Decentralized Nodes
Execution Started
December 11, 2021
Leo ChenJack ChanNita Neou (Soph)
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Enable Apple Pay & Bank Wire on 1Wallet
Objective Defined
December 15, 2021
Aaron LiLi JiangZi Wang
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Polygon Bridge
Objective Defined
December 31, 2021
Ganesha Upadhyaya
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1Wallet Features
Objective Defined
January 1, 2022
Aaron LiGiv Parvaneh
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Cosmos Bridge
Objective Defined
January 31, 2022
Ganesha Upadhyaya
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Secure Resharding
Objective Defined
February 28, 2022
Rongjian Lan
1-Second Finality
Execution Started
March 15, 2022
Rongjian LanJacky Wang
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Decentralized RPC
Execution Started
March 31, 2022
Nita Neou (Soph)Leo ChenJack Chan
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Decentralized Ops
Objective Defined
June 30, 2022
Jack ChanLeo ChenRongjian Lan

Harmony in 2021 will focus on adoption through developers and partners. We will continue to strengthen our network features, to lead industry in our cross-chain architecture, and to engage broad ecosystem to build with us. There will be explosive growth and new applications this year in blockchains — Harmony is ready to be leading a part of this global fintech revolution.

Harmony is a fast, cheap and secure settlement layer. Now we are bridging with Bitcoin and Ethereum to extend our use cases. Ethereum developers can easily scale their applications with Harmony to enjoy our 2-second finality and cheap fees. Our applications are fully EVM compatible and can already withdraw and deposit Ethereum assets via a bridge. We offer the same toolings and portals such as Web3.js and MetaMask. Our value proposition as a layer 1 protocol with a Ethereum bridge is making Harmony more attractive than layer 2 protocols.

Through marketing and evangelism, Harmony is ready to showcase our technical strengths as a top blockchain. We are hosting hackathons with Gitcoin and workshops at Ethereum events to attract developers. We are incubating to launch projects through grants and product development.

Harmony’s vision remains “Open Consensus for 10B People” — that is, there will be an open platform for our future generations to create in harmony. We are committed to the mission “To scale trust and to create a radically fair economy”. That means building a decentralized, scalable and secure blockchain to settle any transactions without trusted parties. Here, fairness in radical markets promises everyone opportunity for creating meaningful wealth.

Towards our mission, Harmony’s current strategy is “Cross-Chain Finance” and "Bridge to All Chains" as decentralized finance and interoperable protocols are the product-market fit in 2021. We are building trustless bridges to Bitcoin and Ethereum for broader access of users and assets with Harmony as a hub. An example of utility is a cross-chain exchange without custodial risks. Our current settlement layer and soon liquidity infrastructure will enable further financial innovations, leading to cross-exchange integrations and cross-border finance.

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In our keynotes below, we summarize our roadmap as “Interoperability with On-Chain Bridges and Wallets" and "Hackathon & DAO on Building Bridges”. The post "$300M+ on Bounties, Grants & DAOs" gives a long-term plan on our ecosystem growth.

In short, here are our focus for coming 6 months:

  1. 1M users with $1000 assets: earn 20% fixed return with our authenticator wallets,
  2. 10k developers new to crypto: serve 10k users each with our cross-chain API,
  3. 100 DAOs on technical and ecosystem: govern 10k bounties of $300M.
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