# kcolbchain roadmap

_Last updated: 2026-04-18_

kcolbchain is an independent blockchain research collective (est. 2015). This roadmap is our public commitment to what we're shipping over the next 12 months. It will change — dates are targets, not contracts — but the direction is firm.

## Where we are (April 2026)

- **~20 open-source repos** across RWA, stablecoins, agent payments, AI x blockchain, audit tooling, and on-chain intel.
- **Active contributor pipeline** — PRs coming in weekly from outside the core team; pr-pipeline runs on cron to triage, audit (Claude Haiku), and auto-merge safe changes.
- **Daily contrib-bot** — one rotating PR per day to high-signal adjacent orgs + our own frontier.
- **Docs + tutorials** at [docs.kcolbchain.com](https://docs.kcolbchain.com), covering agent payments (x402), RWA market-making, tokenised model weights, stablecoin ops.

## Themes

We work on **four parallel lines**, and most projects sit on the intersection of two or more:

1. **RWA + stablecoins** — tokenisation standards, market-making for illiquid assets, depeg monitoring, multi-geography compliance.
2. **Agent payments + AI x blockchain** — x402 middleware, agent-wallet infra, tokenised AI model weights, agent-to-agent transactions.
3. **L2 / Ethereum dev infra** — gas prediction, audit tooling, multi-rollup environments, cross-chain message debugging.
4. **Autonomous on-chain agents** — airdrop farming, market-making agents, market intel, wallet scoring.

## Q2 2026 (Apr–Jun) — ship what's started

**RWA + stablecoins**
- [ ] `meridian` — ML-powered pricing agent (online learning), ERC-4626 vault shares, WebSocket order-book feed
- [ ] `stablecoin-toolkit` — multi-geography deployments (US / EU / LATAM), mint/redeem simulator dashboard
- [ ] `rwa-toolkit` — jurisdiction transfer-restriction module, real-estate fractional example
- [ ] `depeg-monitor` — Curve pool source, SQLite history, Telegram alert channel

**Agent payments**
- [ ] `switchboard` — x402 server-side middleware (automatic 402 handling), gas-budget tracker
- [ ] `erc721-ai` — x402 per-inference USDC metering, IPFS + Arweave weight storage

**Dev infra**
- [ ] `gas-oracle` — Scroll + zkSync adapters, Base support, historical accuracy tracking, Telegram alerts
- [ ] `audit-checklist` — ERC-4626 advanced checks, Slither static analysis, governance-attack module
- [ ] `tesseract` — replace deprecated testnets, Base support, network validator
- [ ] `quoter` — Binance + Coinbase spot/WS oracles, inventory-skew adaptive spreads

**Research**
- [ ] Comparative analysis of stablecoin depeg events (already open PR)
- [ ] MEV on L2 rollups
- [ ] Blob fee market dynamics post-EIP-4844
- [ ] RWA compliance layer gap analysis

## Q3 2026 (Jul–Sep) — grow the community

- **Contributor network** — the pr-pipeline and welcome flow are already live. Q3 goal: 30 external contributors with ≥ 2 merged PRs each.
- **Newsletter** — weekly, focused on on-chain / protocol research. Opt-in at [kcolbchain.com](https://kcolbchain.com).
- **Discord / dev community** — real-time discussion for frontier repos.
- **Hackathon track** — sponsor a track at an ETH event with bounties tied to our open issues.
- **Research publications** — 6 long-form research notes published on our site with reproducible code.

## Q4 2026 (Oct–Dec) — deeper protocol work

- **`muzix`** — OP Stack L1 for music finance. Initial devnet with music stablecoin + catalog tokenisation primitives.
- **`scout`** — wallet-intel primitives graduate to a standalone library that other agent projects can depend on.
- **EIP proposal** — graduate the `erc721-ai` work (tokenised model weights + inference metering) into a draft EIP.
- **Third-party integrations** — partnerships with at least two L2s / rollup teams where our tooling ships as official ecosystem dev infra.

## Q1 2027 (Jan–Mar) — compounding

- **Audit practice** — formalise the `audit-checklist` work into a repeatable engagement offering; 4 full audits completed across the quarter.
- **Grant pipeline** — $500K+ of active grant-funded work across OP / EF / Arbitrum / Uniswap programs.
- **Research partnership** — long-term research retainer with a protocol or foundation, co-published outputs.

## How contribution works

- Every public repo accepts PRs. We auto-merge safe small PRs; larger work goes through human review.
- [`deploy/pr-pipeline/README.md`](./deploy/pr-pipeline/README.md) explains the routing rules.
- First-time contributors get a welcome comment and a fast path to their first merge.
- **Entry points:** live list of open `help-wanted` / `good-first-issue` across every repo → [kcolbchain.com/invitations](https://kcolbchain.com/invitations/).
- **Ladder:** Newcomer (1 merged PR) → Regular (2–4) → **Fellow** (5+). Fellows are the first-invite pool for paid research, partner-org work, and grant milestones. A `bounty` label is not, by itself, a promise of payment — see the [contribution & incentives policy](./docs/ORG_CONTRIBUTION_POLICY.md).

## How we're funded

kcolbchain is funded by a mix of open-source grants, protocol research partnerships, and consulting engagements. This lets us keep everything we build open.

## Contact

- General: hello@kcolbchain.com
- Research: research@kcolbchain.com
- Projects: projects@kcolbchain.com