- April/May: Revolution PoS launches on testnet.
This is the biggest upgrade to the DeSo blockchain ever, years in the making, and arguably the most advanced consensus of any blockchain. Revolution will bring with it:
• 20% initial APY for staking DESO
• 1 second confirmation times
• 500 posts per second, and even higher “transactions” per second. This is ~1/10th of Twitter-scale. Anyone who said a blockchain can’t power a Twitter-scale application will be proven wrong.
• Liquid bonding. Stake and unstake with minimal cooldown time (2 hours on Revolution vs weeks on other top-tier layer-1 chains)
• No slashing. Revolution maintains security without slashing, allowing you to stake confidently without risk to your principal.
• Auto-compounding. Staking rewards can be automatically restaked without having to manually claim rewards.
• Burn-Maximizing Fee Mechanism. Revolution burns the theoretical maximum amount per transaction thanks to its “BMF” mechanism, maximizing deflation for coin-holders.
• Fully permissionless and decentralized. Revolution PoS maximizes decentralization, scaling to tens of thousands of nodes, ensuring no single entity can unilaterally control the network or censor users. Anyone can join the network and be a validator with a minimal amount of stake.
• Low-cost and simple. Revolution PoS is a simple protocol, and anyone can run a node on commodity hardware.
- May/June: Revolution PoS launches on mainnet.
After two to four weeks of stable block production on testnet, Revolution will be ready for prime-time and the mainnet fork will trigger.