Index of planned, design-only, and deprecated protocol directions — what is named or scaffolded but not yet part of shipped TinyCloud.

Roadmap

The roadmap is the index of TinyCloud protocol directions that are named, scaffolded, or specified but not yet shipped — the boundary between what the protocol does today and what it intends to do. Read it to know which capabilities are real, which are under active development, and which are speculative or dropped.

Members

Threshold decryption — delegatable ferveo / TACO threshold decryption that fills the reserved KeyBackendKind::Threshold slot. Actively under development. Live concept: threshold-decryption.
Replication & peer discovery — first-class P2P replication and Bitcoin/Ethereum-style peer discovery. The replication/ module exists in code but is unmounted. Actively under development. Live concept: replication.
Compute — the whitepaper's tinycloud.compute service (WASM / ZK-VM execution over space data). Named in the spec, no implementing code. Live concept: compute.
Proxy re-encryption (deprecated) — the LIT-Protocol-style proxy re-encryption approach that was cut from v1 and replaced by threshold decryption. Documented as dropped.
ZK VMs — verifiable compute via zero-knowledge VMs (RISC Zero, SP1). Research-phase, speculative.
Light clients — recursive-ZK light-client verification (the "Recon" direction) so a browser can verify a space without the full DAG. Research-phase, speculative.

State of the roadmap

Shipped is the Layer 1 base protocol — spaces, capabilities, delegation, the kv/sql/duckdb/encryption services, and decrypt-only encryption networks (see the status matrix). Actively under development are threshold decryption and replication/discovery — both have code footholds (a reserved enum slot; an uncompiled module) plus live design intent, so they sit closest to landing. Speculative are compute, ZK VMs, and light clients — named in the whitepaper's vision but with no captured design beyond the spec. Dropped is proxy re-encryption, kept here only to record why it was cut. Each entry below is intentionally brief: depth lives in the linked live concept, not here.

Adjacencies

Everything on this roadmap is Layer 1 protocol work. It sits beside the status matrix (the shipped/planned ledger) and contradictions (where the whitepaper still describes things — like proxy re-encryption — that code has since dropped).

Sources

whitepaper: README.md §6 (Future Directions)
tinycloud-node: reserved/unmounted scaffolds (encryption_network/, replication/)