Milestones

Quadratic has already defined a number of milestones which will make up its initial roadmap. Some of these milestones are already under development. Others have been scoped and are awaiting development. Yet others have been identified as areas of interest to the project but no formal development plan has been formulated.

Quadratic Token

Deployed to Testnet

The Quadratic token is an ERC20-compatible utility token.

Digital Object Identifiers

Alpha Release

Quadratic Identifiers are now deployed to Testnet and can be registered via the Qu.Id Registrar. We are currently inviting select archive administrators to participate in the alpha release. More information will be provided via our Minds newsfeed.

Quadratic Identifiers (Qu.Id) is a digital object resolution service. Unlike services such as Handle.net and DOI, Qu.Id is fully decentralized and does not require yearly subscriptions with a centralized authority.

Qu.Id is discussed in depth on the Gitlab project page.

Citations

To be specified

Quadratic Citations (Qu.ite) provides decentralized citation management. In particular, citation impact factor could be measured and the creators of the cited work could be directly remunerated based on the reach of their work.

Contributor Identifiers

To be specified

A decentralized replacement for existing contributor and researcher identification systems such as ORCID.

Tokenized Governance

Planning

A transition to a decentralized governance model.

A participant's voting power will be determined by the number of tokens they have, or, by the voting weight of a single token.

A minimum threshold of tokens, or, a particular voting "weight" will be required if a participant wishes to put forward a proposal.

The implementation of a tokenized governance model should be prioritized and the founding organization should ensure initial business decisions are transparently reported through the same governance model as that which will be used by the community. Such an approach will simplify the migration from the initial business model to a community-based one.

Decentralized Archive

Planning

Quadratic.Network. Decentralized archiving using peer-to-peer database storage and network replication. Data associated with a work will be stored, replicated and distributed by the owner(s) of the work.