Malairte Improvement Proposal 1 introduces SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) addresses for post-quantum signatures. SLH-DSA is stateless and hash-based, sharing the same SHA-3 primitive as MLRTHash. Targeted activation: Q4 2026 / early 2027 testnet, followed by mainnet activation 90+ days later.

Malairte Improvement Proposal 2 (draft, contingent on FIPS 206 finalisation) would add Falcon-based (FN-DSA) signatures as an alternative to SLH-DSA. Falcon signatures are smaller (~1.3 KB vs SLH-DSA's ~17 KB) but lattice-based rather than hash-based. Plan B if FIPS 206 isn't final by mid-2026.

Will the roadmap dates slip?

Probably some will. The roadmap is intentionally conservative on dates and aggressive on transparency — we publish slips when they happen rather than quietly moving goalposts. Major slips trigger a written explanation on this page and a social-media announcement.

How do I follow roadmap updates?

Roadmap edits are published as commits to the GitHub website repo. Subscribe to the GitHub repo's release feed, or follow the project's Twitter/X account. Major activation events (MLIP-1, exchange listings) are announced via blog post 30+ days in advance.

Can I propose an MLIP?

Yes. Open a discussion on the GitHub repository with a draft specification. Process mirrors Bitcoin's BIP process: discussion → draft → testnet activation → mainnet activation. Consensus changes require strong network agreement before deployment.

Public Engineering Roadmap

What's shipping next

Dated milestones for the next 24 months. We publish the plan publicly — including the post-quantum signature roadmap (MLIP-1) — because the alternative is being one of the chains that pretends quantum is solved when it isn't.

Last updated: 2026-04-18 All dates conservative Slips published openly

Q2 2026

Foundations

✓ Mainnet launch (April 2026)
✓ CPU + NVIDIA CUDA GPU miner shipping
✓ iOS / Android / Windows / macOS wallet (TestFlight + APK)
✓ Block explorer + miner dashboard
◐ Public testnet stand-up
◐ Treasury transparency dashboard
◐ Paid consensus-diff audit (Quarkslab / Cure53 scope)
○ GPG-signed reproducible builds (≥3 independent signers)

Q3 2026

Mining + community

○ Reference mining pool (Stratum v1 server)
○ Hardware-wallet integration (Ledger first, Trezor next)
○ Multisig wallet support
○ AMD GPU mining (ROCm) — community-funded contribution
○ Block-explorer API documentation + rate-limited public endpoints
○ CoinMarketCap + CoinGecko listings (60-day operational milestone)

Q4 2026

Post-quantum signatures (MLIP-1 testnet)

○ MLIP-1 draft: SLH-DSA-128f-SHAKE-256 addresses, full spec + test vectors
○ Reference implementation in Go + reference wallet integration
○ MLIP-1 activation on public testnet
○ Independent cryptographer review of MLIP-1
○ First exchange listings (tier-3 EU, then expanding)

2027

MLIP-1 mainnet + ecosystem

○ MLIP-1 mainnet activation (post-quantum signatures live)
○ MLIP-2 draft: Falcon / FN-DSA alternative addresses (contingent on FIPS 206)
○ Wikipedia stub (post-notability bar)
○ arXiv / IACR ePrint paper on MLRTHash design rationale
○ Tier-1 exchange listings (Binance, Coinbase, Kraken — process is theirs, not ours)

Spotlight

MLIP-1 — Post-quantum signatures

Today, Malairte signatures use ECDSA on secp256k1 — the same primitive as Bitcoin. ECDSA is vulnerable to a sufficiently powerful quantum computer running Shor's algorithm. We're addressing this with MLIP-1: an opt-in address format using SLH-DSA-128f-SHAKE-256 (NIST FIPS 205).

SLH-DSA is the stateless hash-based signature standard NIST finalised August 2024. We chose it over Falcon (FN-DSA, FIPS 206 draft) and Dilithium (ML-DSA, FIPS 204) because it's hash-based — coherent with our SHA-3 hash function — and stateless, preserving normal wallet UX.

Trade-offs disclosed:

• Signature size: ~17 KB (vs ECDSA's 64 bytes)
• Block-space cost rebalanced — fewer transactions per block, larger transactions
• Wallet, miner, exchange integration required — 12-month lead time
• Backward-compatible — ECDSA addresses continue to work indefinitely

The full draft will live at github.com/computervirtualservices/malairte/blob/main/docs/mlip/mlip-1.md when published.

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