Sure, we’d all love if things went faster. But software development, especially on cutting edge tech (like relational blockchain) is hard, and ALWAYS takes more time than expected. One may take shortcuts now, but rushing any code — especially something of the scope of a decentralized platform — usually backfires at some point.
Keep in mind that Chromia with its relational blockchain architecture is a truly unique and complex platform, not one of the many Ethereum forks with fancy names and some unique quirk, so it will take time. Take a look at the bullet point list below to see how many components there are that could all be summarized under ‘mainnet’.
I guess it is because of this complexity that there was not a lot of information given on timeframes until recently. But now there is a roadmap and specific target dates or timeframes mentioned. The updated roadmap was just a draft, containing plain text and bulletpoints, nothing fancy or polished — maybe that is why it got little attention — but it did contain a lot of information, which I will briefly summarise here.

‘Chromia Mainnet Components’
- Core blockchain tech
- Chromia system blockchains (Root chain, Directory chain, Token chain, Anchoring chain)
- Rell (programming language)
- Rell tooling (yep, from the start, because Chromia always looks after developers first!)
- Node tooling
- Blockchain & dapp libraries
- User-visible components
- Client SDK
The Timeline / Draft development Roadmap:
Q4 2019: get to MVP
- Bootstrap phase I: December 2
Q1 2020: improve & optimize
- Bootstrap phase II: Beginning of January 2020
- Bootstrap phase III: February 2020
- MVP: March 2020
From there on there is no fixed plan, which doesn’t mean there are no further improvements on the list — but the Chromia Team wants to take feedback from providers, users and developers and iterate from that.
