wwdz99 said:
What is the NXT major devs plans now?
Be currency platform? Parallel chain? Or NXT Internet?
There are so many NXT devs planning, confused where its major devs Direction?
The problem with giving a firm release schedule for these features is related to the decentralized nature of the platform. Frankly, it's both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because the community is hell-bent on decentralizing all aspects of development, and a curse because not many people are used to working in such an environment. There are growing pains, but recently the community has gotten quite inspired by The Starfish and the Spider -- possibly even at the prompting of Mr Levine.
There is a tendency among some (mostly non-native English speaking) members of the community to market "existing", "in progress", "planned", and "theoretical" features together. I've made it my mission (as a member of the Nxt Marketing Committee) to clarify this as we move forward.
Let me sum up the road map as best I can, based on what I know. All things are subject to change.
Existing core features (on the main network) include:An audited cryptographic algorithm that forms the basis of the proof-of-stake blockchainTransaction processingCurrency-type transactionsAn alias system (which can be used to set simple aliases for account numbers, but can also be used to store URIs and facilitate decentralized DNS, etc.)An arbitrary messaging system (where the term "message" means "any data up to 1000bytes", so the possible uses are very broad)These core features are "done" and are in testing on the Nxt testnet:the asset exchangethe voting system (which can't be tested quite yet because no clients have implemented it)The Nxt core developers are currently dedicated to completing these core features in the next 2-3 months:account control (two-phase payments, leased forging, account locking)a reputation systemLonger-term core features are:blockchain pruningdigital goods storeparallel blockchainscompletion of a transparent forging implementation
Outside of the core, a number of other developers are looking at additional features, including:Automated Transactions (which hopes to eventually be considered a core feature, once design is fully completed)Multi-sig gateways for cross-chain transactions (an application built on top of the asset exchange)Payment modules for remittancesSeveral other people/teams are working on Nxt clients, many of which are already released.
As the community matures, it is beginning to formalize the development process: open issues are being tracked alongside the source code at https://bitbucket.org/JeanLucPicard/nxt/src , and a process for submitting and evaluating Nxt Improvement Proposals is in progress here: https://nxtforum.org/nxt-improvement-proposals/
