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

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

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