⏳Progress Overview

Charting the Path to Decentralized Gaming Excellence

2021	Starting a wild ride from the peak of the bull
✅ November	Project start
✅ December	Defining core concepts, drafting onchain game architecture

2022	Project started as decentralized Poker app initiative
✅ January	First presense on social media: Medium, Discord
✅ February	Simple texas holdem logic MVP, mental poker + p2p card shuffling algo, first deploy on solana testnet.
✅ March	POC poker app (RACE Poker) submission to Solana Riptide Hackathon, honorable mention on game track.
✅ April	Onchain poker Alpha 0.1 version, first "Sit-&-Go" game logic finally playable on testnet.
✅ May	Introducing cash game logic to RACE Poker, 9 player tables, "rakeback" support in any token, first deploy on solana mainnet.
✅ June	UI rebranded, added browser stored hand histories, web3 music player integration (Audius).
✅ July	Simple multi-table tourney game first version, improved encryption/key sharing.
✅ August	Support for native Solana (previously SPL only), NFT prizes, GTD prize pool and up to 20 winners support for MTTs
✅ September	RACE Heroes NFT art, improved signature verification & safety, 3 blind levels for tourneys & "show my cards". Co-hosted poker tourneys with Solana ecosystem projects: Grape, Solend, Hubble, Dappio, Parrot Finance, Penguin Finance & more More in #-storybook and #-memories section of RACE Discord.
✅ October	First mobile version, Workshop version (to design custom tables), Permisionless tourney creation, 276 ppl in a single room 🎉 Separate independent lobbies introduced First whitelabel game service tested, start of whitelabel sales & pre-sales
✅ November	Raiders rewards, improved consensus algo, encryption, action verification Sol'em poker app IP & codebase aquisition
✅ December	Standardizing algos in the poker app to be applicable to any game logic Drafting architecture for developer tooling - first research and prep to pivot

2023	The Bear Year: pivoting, tons of building & standartizing logic
✅ January	Grant agreement with Solana Foundation
✅ February	Protocol MVP and OG presentation @ Istanbul Solana Hacker House
✅ March - December	Thorough research, tons of iterations to reach current architecture: Components , On-chain Accounts, Synchronization, Randomization, Payment, Race API, Race JS SDK, Race Test Kit, Encryption Methods, Command-line Tools, Blockchain Transport Implementations, Smart Contract, Examples and Use Cases Open sourced & transparent: Main github repo.

2024	Refining the technology, testing and early user acquisition
✅ January	Migrating old RACE Poker app to new protocol architecture. Crafting a comprehensive protocol documentation (this gitbook).
✅ February	Entering the o1Labs Partner Program. Tracking independent developers adopting protocol.
✅ March	MVP of RACE integration with a no-code game editor (Construct3) Research on Zero-Knowledge Cryptography x RACE integration First Security Audit to identify issues and areas for improvements.
✅ April - December	RACE Heroes NFT collection pre-sale. RACE Poker V2: Full rewrite of the poker app to support new protocol, solana programs, nft & spl standards. Testing stage. Start the Solfast game initiative: building the new Solana games: X50, Double, Fast & Classic on top of the new protocol. Testing stage. Refining no-code game editor, preparing easy compmilation to Solana Saga & Seeker devices. Testing stage.

2025	User aqusition, Ecosystem expansion, PMF
📌 Current Milestones	Minting & Dispatching first RACE Heroes to pre-sale and OG community. Verifying Heroes collection on MagicEden & Tensor. Release new client for RACE Poker V2. Heroes Inventory.

Further objectives

• Start community hosted server cluster/ public infrastructure testing stage (sign up in Discord)

• Refine Protocol according to the RACE Research Reports

• Comission-based game nft minting process/ heroes nft staking logic

• Publish educational materials on solana foundation pages and solana ecosystem websites

• Developer workshops, hackathons, and community grants initiative

• RACE games catalogue, dashboard, tutorials including token & nft information and listing all games/servers, etc

• 10k protocol users / 150 games with at least 100 comuinty run games

• Validate commision revenue model on protocol level

• Validate whitelabel solution sales, commission revenue model on the game level

• Public protocol token sale launch

• Game nft marketplace (where game owners could sell/rent/whitelabel their games)

• Public staking (users contribution to community hosted nodes with tokens to increase amount of games they serve/increase shared revenue)

• Expanding Multi-chain Support

• Enhancing Game Management Features

• Publishing and pumping out games (p2p strategy/skill-based), listing games on catalogue