Roadmap

Currently, builders can:

Write and test Move smart contracts
Spin up a local Sui network
Publish and run Move smart contracts on a local network

In the coming months, we will release:

A public devnet that allows Sui devs to do all of the above on a shared network powered by Mysten-operated authorities
A public testnet that onboards a diverse set of non-Mysten authorities to the network
A public mainnet with real assets and production applications!

A more fine-grained description of the upcoming features and improvements to the Sui codebase follows.

Ongoing work and upcoming features

Internal devnet

Constantly running Sui network
Productionizing network stack
Benchmarking throughput and latency in various configurations

Protocol stabilization

Implementing reconfiguration and staking
Ledger and state checkpoints
Aligning Gateway Service Rust/REST/wallet APIs
Finalizing REST data model (aka SuiJSON)
Finalizing core data types
Authority "Follower" APIs to support replicas
Integration of shared objects and consensus
Selecting principled gas costs
Event indexing hints

SDK and ecosystem

Block explorer
Key management and wallet prototypes
Support package publishing via REST API
More informative error messages
More convenient APIs that hide gas object selection and nested object authentication

Move development improvements

Allow objects used in authentication, but not passed to entrypoints
Explicit syntax and compiler enforcement for entrypoints
Adding Move Prover specs to the Sui framework and verifying in continuous integration (CI)