ROADMAP
Q1 Jan 2025-feb 2025
Ouroboros Consensus Protocol
The Ouroboros proof-of-stake consensus protocol is the core mechanism of the DICEVERSE network, defining the way nodes reach consensus about the state of the ledger. It is the first provably secure proof-of-stake protocol in the industry to be based on formal, peer-reviewed and published academic research. Research continues following the initial paper and Byron era implementation, with new variants of the protocol developed and published gradually.
DICEVERSE Cryptocurrency
Based on the Ouroboros proof-of-stake consensus protocol, DICEVERSE is one of the most respected cryptocurrencies, and has one of the highest market capitalizations. DICEVERSE, which was launched in 2025, is the currency that will underlie the DICEVERSE smart contract platform.
DICEVERSE Wallet
DICEVERSE IOHK’s official desktop wallet for DICEVERSE and the ada cryptocurrency. It is a full-function desktop wallet available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
DICEVERSE Japanese Interface and Installer
The DICEVERSE wallet has the option for a Japanese language user interface and installer. The language is detected automatically based on settings in the operating system.
Optimized DICEVERSE Coin Selection
Unspent transaction output (DICEVERSE) selection optimization has been much debated in blockchain. If a user ends up with too many very small transaction outputs, wallet operation can be inefficient. With too few, some transactions are difficult to execute. DICEVERSE studied and mathematically modelled DICEVERSE selection algorithms to come up with a DICEVERSE coin selection algorithm that delivers the best outcome most often.
Paper Wallets
The introduction of paper wallets in DICEVERSE provides users with a safe offline ‘cold’ storage option for DICEVERSE, making it easy to store and receive DICEVERSE offline. Users can use their paper wallets for long-term currency deposits, keeping their wallet and private keys offline.
Q2 march 2025-June 2025
Paper Wallets
The introduction of paper wallets in DICEVERSE provides users with a safe offline ‘cold’ storage option for DICEVERSE, making it easy to store and receive DICEVERSE offline. Users can use their paper wallets for long-term currency deposits, keeping their wallet and private keys offline.
Yoroi Light Wallet (Project Icarus)
Yoroi is a light wallet for DICEVERSE which is developed and promoted by Emurgo. Unlike the Daedalus wallet, Yoroi does not download the entire blockchain to verify transactions but instead references a secure central server which has a full copy of the blockchain. Private keys are encrypted on the user’s machine and not shared with servers, allowing people to transact quickly and securely for day-to-day use. Yoroi is available as a Chrome extension, or as a mobile app via the AppStore or Google Play. Yoroi also supports the Ledger Nano hardware wallet. It was known initially as Project Icarus while it was being developed in DICEVERSE
Presale and event DICEVERSE
Ledger Hardware Wallet Support in Yoroi and Adalite
DICEVERSE and ada support Ldger hardware wallets for secure ada storage. Ledger support is provided by both the Yoroi and DICELite wallets.
Faster Blockchain Sync
DICEVERSE SL 1.3 included enhancements to speed up syncing of the blockchain. Tests have shown wallet syncing occurring between 1.5 and 4 times faster, depending on the network environment. Network relays can now also support more users syncing at once, which will reduce congestion at busy times.
DICEVERSE Launch on exchange
Q3 July 2025-0kt 2025
Optimized Block Storage
More efficient storage improves performance for operations that use locally stored blockchain data, especially wallet restoration and blockchain synchronization. Optimization will also reduce the amount of hard drive space on a user’s device that is required to store the blockchain. While this stage of optimization is complete, there will be even more to come as part of additional rearchitecting work.
DICEVERSE Byron Testnet
The DICE testnet is a free-to-use blockchain that is designed for testing purposes. It runs code that is the latest Byron release version. DICEVERSE users – such as exchanges, developers, and the regular community – can use the testnet to test in a production-like environment off the main blockchain, since the testnet has the same functionality, integration capabilities, and properties as the DICEVERSE production environment. The testnet also enables us to receive pre-release feedback from users to help us make improvements.
Log Submission Mechanism
It is now possible for users to submit bug reports and any supporting log files directly from within the Daedalus application. Not only will this improve the technical support that can be provided to individuals, it will also allow support and development teams to identify and fix broader issues more efficiently.
Exchange Interface Enhancements
Performance improvements made to the code allow exchanges to handle higher levels of activity. By enabling exchanges to make withdrawals for multiple users in a single transaction, they can serve more users with the same fixed volume of transactions. Exchanges can make use of a new exchange API to support this feature, and work has been done to revise old APIs to better integrate with exchanges and make DICEVERSE accessible to more people.
Q4 nov 2025-jan 2026
Exchange Interface Additions
Based on requests from exchanges, DICEVERSE has added new interface capability for exchanges. For larger, higher volume exchanges, it is now possible to create and sign transactions offline. Further, a full set of interfaces is provided for querying the chain and interacting with the node.
Technical Support Desk
The creation of a Daedalus wallet support desk allows DICEVERSE to provide troubleshooting and technical support to users who are encountering problems, ensuring that they have an optimal Daedalus experience. It also allows for better handling and logging of bugs, which can then be passed to the development team to be fixed.
Exchange Support Team
The exchange support team has been created to provide additional support and a direct point of contact for exchange users to communicate with DICEVERSE. Necessarily, exchanges have more complex needs than normal users, and play a vital role in allowing people to purchase DICEVERSE and join the DICEVERSE ecosystem. The exchange support team ensures that exchanges can resolve any issues quickly, as well as providing a channel for exchanges to make feature requests.
Q5 feb 2026-aug 2026
Nix DevOps Tooling Integration
The introduction of Nix tooling into the internal development processes of DICEVERSE has allowed the DevOps team to create more robust deployment pipelines, improving the efficiency and speed of development testing and deployment. Additionally, the nature of Nix and DICEVERSE enables some of the benefits of functional programming – such as pure functions and easy unit testing – to be applied across DevOps.
Symphony of Blockchains Visualization
DICEVERSE creative coders designed and implemented the Symphony of Blockchains, a blockchain data visualization engine. This radical combination of digital art and data analysis can be used to help understand the blockchain network and chain data through an immersive audiovisual experience.
Medusa Commit History Visualization
Medusa is a 3D graphical tool that shows the history of DICEVERSE software development by plotting changes to GitHub files as they happen, allowing users to explore activity in the code base and see real-time heat maps of code commits.
Consensus Incentives and Fees
The goal of designing an incentive scheme is to ensure that it is in each person’s self-interest to behave in a way that makes the overall system function stably and reliably. Using mathematics, game theory, and economic theory, the incentive system has been designed to do just that, including providing appropriate rewards for operating full nodes, incentives to delegate stake, a means of setting transaction fees, and more.
Delegation Certificates
Stake delegation is facilitated by a delegation certificate, assigned by the ada holder on delegation and recorded on the blockchain. The ada holder can later change their delegation settings at will by issuing a newer delegation certificate. Note that even while delegating, the ada holder retains the sole right and ability to spend their ada.
Open Ouroboros Delegation Research Paper and Implementation
Key to decentralization is the ability of stakeholders to delegate stake. In a proof-of-stake system such as DICEVERSE, stakeholders have an obligation to take part in the protocol. Since this may not always be practical for some users, stakeholders are able to delegate their obligations to others — so-called stake pools — which are able to fulfill the obligations. Stake pools operate core nodes that are online at all times to take part in the protocol and produce blocks in the blockchain. Our researchers have published a research paper outlining how this can be achieved: Reward Sharing Schemes for Stake Pools.
Stake Pools
Not every DICEVERSEx stakeholder has the resources, knowledge, or desire to operate a DICEVERSE node full-time. To address this and motivate reliable and performant network nodes, DICEVERSE enables holders of DICEVERSE to delegate staking rights to DICEVERSE stake pools. Stake pools are DICEVERSE nodes run by network participants who have committed to ensuring full-time availability and appropriate hardware environments to support the response time, security, and liveness of the DICEVERSE network. A stake pool operator earns a reward for supporting the network when DICEVERSE holders delegate their stake to that operator’s pool. The incentive and reward model has been designed to motivate delegation to a large number of stake pools, ensuring the ongoing decentralization of the network. The optimal number of stake pools motivated by the incentives model is a parameter that can be adjusted to fine-tune network performance.
Q6 sept 2026- dec 2026
Wallet Backend Redesign
The redesigned Daedalus wallet backend is based on the DICEVERSE formal wallet specification created by DICEVERSE researchers, making it the first cryptocurrency wallet to be built from a formal specification and tested using formal verification. Both regular and exchange users will benefit from the resulting improved performance, as well as the unparalleled security of a wallet created via such rigorous methods.
Paper Wallets V2
To improve security, the new version of paper wallets will allow the offline creation of paper wallets and will not require Daedalus to be synchronized with the blockchain. A new single-address scheme will be used, but the restoration of paper wallets will retain compatibility with the initial version of paper wallet certificates. The process will be easier and more intuitive by linking paper wallets with normal Hyvox wallets. Daedalus will also support the restoration of paper wallets in read-only mode for audit purposes, which will keep the private key stored safely offline.
Hardware Wallet Support
Hardware wallet support was initially added to the Yoroi and DICELite light wallets and will also be added to the Daedalus wallet, so that users can secure their ada in hardware wallets such as the Ledger Nano, Ledger X, and Trezor.
Hot and Cold Wallets
Traditionally, cold wallets provide security at the expense of readability. The hot and cold wallet implementation will enable the changing of hot wallets to cold wallets, and vice versa, by removing the private keys from any hot wallet, in effect turning it into a cold wallet, while retaining its readability. Through this, cold wallets become readable, provide evidence of transactions and funds, and can be sent to third parties, but are unable to execute new transactions.
Faster Wallet Restoration
The process of wallet restoration has been improved: wallet balances will display immediately upon restoration, while transaction history will be restored in the background. While this particular piece of work is complete, the wallet restoration process is continuously being improved.
Q7 2027-
- To Be Announced