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🛤️ Grassroots Economics Roadmap (2025 Edition)

🌐 Custodial & Core Systems

  • CIC-Stack v2 contracts deployed and maintained
  • All user migration completed to updated infrastructure
  • Disaster recovery plan implemented and documented
  • Automated integration tests running on every commit
  • Real-time dashboards available for CIC network metrics

🔗 Community Distributed Services

  • Local blockchain infrastructure live with 5+ node deployments
  • CIC networks operating across multiple local chains with tested interoperability
  • Local microservices running in pilot regions
  • Localized content delivery via mesh networks active
  • CICs issued for broadband and local offline content services
  • Users sharing and storing community content with incentive structures live

🤝 Trust Networks

  • Impact claim tools in use by service providers for user and CIC data
  • Visual dashboards show CIC-linked community impact
  • Contributors can direct support to validated claims
  • Sarafu issuance now embedded in community endorsement protocols
  • Liquidity bridges established for Sarafu ↔ ETH swaps

🔒 Privacy & Resilience

  • Research implemented for zk-proofs in transactions and CIC parameter privacy
  • Secure communication and decentralized storage options available
  • Strategy for censorship resistance implemented across comms stack

🧰 Tooling

  • USSD interface supports holding 100+ tokens per user without degradation
  • Multitoken support fully integrated on Sarafu.Network web wallet
  • Social recovery tools active; 50%+ of new users opt-in
  • USSD and Web Directory live for community goods and services
  • Marketplace live with user ratings and published UX feedback reports
  • Web-based custodial wallet live with CLI test tools and REST API parity
  • Paper voucher system active with unique code redemption
  • Non-custodial wallet spec published and beta deployed
  • Community CIC creation available via DAO interface on web
  • Governance tools for demurrage redistribution and community proposals active

🛡️ Security

  • All smart contracts under static analysis with automated test workflows
  • Full audit trail and security report logs maintained quarterly
  • Bridging contracts analyzed and secured against cross-chain risks
  • Two-year gas reserve secured for network operations

💻 Contributor Experience

  • Full onboarding flow in monorepo including code of conduct
  • Documentation site live with build/test guides
  • Nextcloud re-deployed for team collaboration
  • Discourse forum live for RFCs and governance discussions
  • Git self-hosting strategy deployed and maintained
  • Fork/PR flow tutorials and CI/CD test coverage in all major codebases
  • Contributor growth tracked via chat/code engagement
  • Internal libraries versioned with semver and published to relevant registries
  • Economic Commons Agreement formalized and updated
  • Community Service Agreements for CIC issuance standardized
  • Ongoing legal review cycles institutionalized with partners and regulators

🌍 Implementations

  • Sarafu.Network live with React front-end and USSD integration
  • Commitment Pooling contracts deployed and functioning with tracking dashboards
  • RCT conducted to measure CIC impact in humanitarian and marginalized settings
  • Humanitarian modules live for deployment with partners (e.g., Red Cross, WFP, GIZ, UNICEF)

This roadmap reflects our 2025 landscape—where trust, care, and coordination drive innovation in local and global economic ecosystems.

Last update: 2025-07-27
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