⏳Progress Overview
Charting the Path to Decentralized Gaming Excellence
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Charting the Path to Decentralized Gaming Excellence
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| 2021 | Starting a wild ride from the peak of the bull |
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| 2022 | Project started as decentralized Poker app initiative |
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| 2023 | The Bear Year: pivoting, tons of building & standartizing logic |
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| 2024 | User aqusition, Ecosystem expansion, PMF |
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✅ November
Project start
✅ December
Defining core concepts, drafting onchain game architecture
✅ 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.
✅ 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.
📌 Current Milestones
RACE Heroes NFT collection pre-sale. RACE Poker V2 Launch: start public Tourneys/Cash/SitnGo games Start the Solfast game initiative.
✅ January
✅ 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
✅ 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
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