Devery Roadmap 2019 — Phase One in Review and Future Plans
As we release our second roadmap we’ve taken a different approach in communicating our goals and we reflect upon our progress thus far. We’ve instead chose to communicate our vision and make it more explicitly clear on the direction of the project.
Phase One — Building the foundation of the project and establishing our technology and core demonstration partnerships.
Phase one was focused on establishing the project and building the release of foundational aspects of the protocol as well as gaining initial partners. As we moved towards expanding the foundational contracts and our core team, we were proud in achieving this stage.
These included;
— Growing and building our initial team — As we expanded our team throughout the year we focused on expanding the protocol and it’s ease of use for users. Finding and sourcing our core and extended team were a significant priority as they formed the initial foundational steps of the company and allowed us to plan and refine our further product suite.
— Our core Devery Protocol Foundation — We deployed our protocol contracts which allowed decentralised use of the protocol. Applications and frameworks utilised this protocol to access the verification capabilities of Devery.
— DeveryJS — Releasing our protocol framework built on top of the framework, written entirely in Javascript. This allowed our protocol to be easily installed using Node Package Manager and be easily accessed by developers whom don’t thoroughly understand blockchain.
— Reading Mobile Application on Android & iOS — We utilised our framework to build our mobile applications written entirely from our protocol. Our Android application is available for testing publicly, and our iOS application is available via Testflight under request.
— Our move to China and the wealth of experience and understanding gained.
— The Tunisian Ministry of Education project with the World Food Programme based in Tunisia and it’s Chain of Custody solution.
— Our inaugural hackathon which showed further real use of the protocol through applications being built through our frameworks and contracts.
As the end of phase one has completed, the foundational stages of the project has completed allowing decentralised verification applications to be built with further ease.
Phase Two — We will be focused on deploying our entire extended product suite and growing developer adoption.
Whilst our first phase was focused on foundational protocol aspects, our second phase is focused upon building these foundations to extend the ecosystem further through releasing our own real, usable decentralised applications utilising our technology.
By the end of phase two, our goal is to have released the entirety of our extended marking and mobile product suite for use publicly. We will have the suite ideally deployed for use by roughly mid year — Q3 at the latest, ending the phase with the entire marking and mobile suite released (fluctuating heavily due to development and deployment work, hence the range). However as always, the development process is unpredictable but we will be doing our best to ensure release.
These include all of our extended mobile and marking product suite mentioned previously with updates as to our functionality that will be extended -
Devery Product Marking Application — Our anticipated visual marking application that allows the marking of products on the blockchain through a variety of markings, QR, Ethereum address or NFC tag. This is our most cross compatible application, compatible with the entirety of our mobile product suite and will be released to allow public marking to the blockchain without a development understanding.
Devery Ownership Mobile Application — A mobile application that allows the reading of our marked products on the blockchain. It enables the reading of items marked on the blockchain marked realtime and NFC markings with our marking app. Items are immutably stored on the blockchain and this is currently in testing on Android & iOS.
Devery NFC Mobile Writer — An application that allows writing to NFC tags using our marking application. Tags will be cross read via our marking and transferred into our NFC mobile writing application to allow ease and simplicity of use.
Compatible NFC Tags — We will be releasing support for a NFC standard of tags which will be cross compatible with our products.
Chain of Custody Application — An application which is used for projects such as the WFP and Ministry of Education School Meals Project. This enables chain of custody tracking to ensure transparent tracking of deliveries. This is a cross compatible mobile, desktop application that provides a full suite of delivery of products stamped on the blockchain via POA and cross placed on the blockchain. Whilst this is not a part of the extended marking and mobile product suite, in current plans we will be releasing a demonstration walkthrough of this application and it’s aspects in french.
The entirety of our product suite that we are working to deploy is available on the devery_overview, which was formed to make it explicitly clear as to what we will be focused on releasing. As well as this we will be running community hackathons throughout this time to incentivise development moving towards the decentralisation stage. Our first hackathon was a success as a large number of participants attended (90+ in total in our slack) and we were able to further decentralise the protocol through further development of applications in our ecosystem, we hope to expand this in our second phase.
Phase Three — Decentralisation and further expansion of the ecosystem.
In current plans, in phase three we will be moving to be a completely decentralised project by commencement of this final phase. We will be working to identify teams and individuals throughout the year to grow the ecosystem after the release of our extended product suite, in which the existing team will be decoupled and the project decentralised even further. As such, during this final phase, the ecosystem will instead be led by external teams whom we will have reached out or contacted us to be focused on projects within the ecosystem.
If you are a team or individual that would like to work on a toolset, utilise the protocol or build a verification application to further the ecosystem during this phase contact us at — contact@devery.io — We are already working to identify teams both internally and externally through our hackathons, internal members and those have contacted us directly to lead our next stage of decentralisation over the next few months.
Our focus to further decentralise the project and grow our ecosystem will push the project towards its goal stated in the whitepaper; a decentralised network for verification on the Ethereum network. We will be expanding upon this throughout the year with further details and with possible changes as our move towards decentralisation commences. We believe this approach will help grow the ecosystem even further and empower teams lead the project to it’s next stage.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the current focus?
The focus is on releasing our extended product suite providing real demonstrations of products built on the protocol. This is a long process as our applications are cross compatible, multi-platform, real time as well as powered by the blockchain. As such, we’ll be working hard to ensure their development and deployment release smoothly.
Why not more partnerships?
To clarify, our focus is to build a decentralised protocol which developers can build verification services via our developer tools on the Ethereum network as described in the whitepaper as opposed to a centralised partnership oriented business. Providing a decentralised suite of developer tools that can be adapted to work with a multitude of industries as opposed to a ‘one-size fits all approach’ and utilising these tools to demonstrate a decentralised product suite using the Ethereum network.
Whilst attaining partnerships were started in the initial foundational stage of the protocol, attaining further partnerships would detract from our focus of building an open source, decentralised verification protocol on the Ethereum network. The goal of projects such as the Ministry of Education and WFP project are mainly to demonstrate real world usage of our technology and utilise this publicity to increase usage of our development ecosystem. To be clear, it is not the focal point of Devery as we are a decentralised verification protocol at our core.
What’s next?
As we move to the next stage and once we have released our entire product suite, the focus is decentralising the project further. We will be as mentioned earlier, decoupling our existing team into a decentralised ecosystem encompassing multiple external teams each working to grow the ecosystem further.
It has been a very long journey for our team until this stage and we will be focused on achieving our vision. We thank our supporters following the project!
