A lot has happened since we announced our 2017 Roadmap on January 9th, so we figure a progress update is in order. We expect to complete the majority of what was laid out in the roadmap before the end of 2017. Here is a very brief summary of our progress on the roadmap:

• Convert Decred into a stakeholder-directed DAO
  • Hard fork voting - Complete, In production
  • Public proposal system - Work-in-progress, ETA late Q3 2017
  • Decentralized control of DHG funds - Work-in-progress, ETA early Q1 2018
• Lightning Network support - Work-in-progress, ETA Q4 2017
• Improved GUI wallets - Work-in-progress, ETA early Q4 2017
• RFP process change - Complete, In production
• Presence at events - Work-in-progress, talks in Q3 and Q4 2017
• Enhanced privacy - …

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The time for a new Decred roadmap has finally arrived. While many users have been keen to know where the project is headed in detail, we have intentionally avoided laying out our longer term plans in order to prevent other projects from implementing these ideas before they make it into Decred. I recognize that our approach with Decred runs counter to most other cryptocurrency projects, which often focus much more on hype and marketing than on development and sound engineering. Instead of hyping future work in advance of its completion, we have quietly completed our work and will hype it as it goes into production. Now that we are close to our first major post-launch milestone, hard fork voting, it is a good time to share where Decred …

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