| 2021 | Starting a wild ride from the peak of the bull |
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| ✅ November | Project start |
| ✅ December | Defining core concepts, drafting onchain game architecture |
| 2022 | Project started as decentralized Poker app initiative |
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| ✅ 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 |
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| ✅ 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: Broken link , Broken link, Broken link, Broken link, Broken link, Broken link, race-js-sdk, Broken link, Broken link, race-cli, Broken link, smart-contract, examples-and-use-cases Open sourced & transparent: Main github repo. |
| 2024 | Refining the technology, testing and early user acquisition |
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| ✅ 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 |
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| 📌 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. |