The following is an initial outline of the Lava Roadmap and planned features over the coming year and more.
It is our aim to be the place where anyone can help make the onchain experience faster and more reliable - while earning the tokens of their favourite chains.
As a decentralized protocol, the Foundation invites feedback from the community.
Vision
Power the on-chain world
Lava’s vision is to power the on-chain world, by supplying blockchain data access that just works.
Goals
Q4 2024 - Q1 2025
- [Q4-Q1] Service improvements - enhancing Lava Network’s RPC services to deliver top-notch performance and reliability.
- Reduce RPC error rates for a seamless user experience
- Optimize latency to meet industry standards ~100ms
- Comprehensive scoring and ranking of providers ensure high-quality services
- Migrate testnet production services to the Lava mainnet
- [Q4] Incentive Flow - clear, simple and satisfying delegation flow and rewards
- Visibility of rewards by clearly providing estimations and actionable guidance for maximizing rewards
- Simplify the delegation flow and provide decision-making information
- Retain and onboard top-performing providers by promoting fairness, and clear improvement guidelines and tools
- [Q1] Lava Portal - create a unified, interactive portal for Lava users to access essential information and perform necessary actions seamlessly
- Delegators flow featuring a staking portal, validator comparison, provider comparison, and a rewards calculator
- Provider flow including service feedback benchmarking against others and strategies for improving rewards
- Chain usage dashboard to easily access services on Lava
- Rewards Visibility
- distribution
- [Q1] Indexing - introduce a free-to-use indexing service on Lava, building a comprehensive all-in-one abstraction layer
Q2 2025 - Q3 2025
- [Q2-Q3] best-in-class service - Lava provides top-notch RPC & indexing with high customer satisfaction on several top chains
- [Q2] paid tiers - offering enterprise-grade services with extended features to cater to diverse user needs
- [Q3] provider experience- streamline onboarding, improved monitoring, and simplify service maintenance
- [Q3] Multi Chain Apis - Lava offers dedicated Api that can fetch information across multiple chains in real time
- multi chain balance
- multi chain latest block
Q4 2025+
- [Q4+] Most users use Lava SDK from the browser
- [Q4+] Abstracting the usage of users so they aren’t aware of the data access layer, or what chain they are using
- [Q4+] 100+ chains
- [Q4+] library embedding - allow users to use decentralized rpc without configuring it in open source projects
- [Q4+] intents - users specify an outcome and lava breaks it into data apis and compares vendors
Features
[Service improvements Q4]
- score providers based on node errors and add this to the selection calculation
- distribute traffic amongst top providers and provide visibility on the ranking
- create delegation program for free tier services and collaborate with partners, migrating services from testnet to mainnet
- consumer lava over lava - fault tolerance
- retries state machine - allow the consumer customizable behavior under different requests
[Service improvements Q1]
- improve error detection across all protocols and chains
- improve pool bridging capabilities to unlock more pools
- adding support for chains with “missing” blocks & improving block hash hit rate
- score providers based on current load, to avoid choking under high demand, reflect this on info
- add selected integrations (big customers) to the testing flow + health monitoring
[Incentive Flow Q4 ]
- provide APR calculations and estimations based on the tokenomic model and current performance of providers via an API - V
- simplify delegation flow by eliminating delegator spec-id selection - moving the control of delegated funds to providers - V
- improvements to restaking flow via lava webpage - WIP
- integrate restaking with multiple partners unlocking actions and claims - WIP
- integrate APR and performance through multiple explorers and dashboards - WIP
- create a rewards dashboard providing visibility on future, active and past rewards distribution - V
- provide clear improvement guidelines and tools to providers showcasing where they can improve and how - in info show the current lacks in performance and provide instructions how to improve (maybe AI chat bot)
- daily delegation credit
[Lava Portal Q1]
- combining existing assets across the lava ecosystem into a branded flow- info, stats, pools, stakers
- interactive staking portal, for staking restaking, APR estimations and rewards claiming
- improve info to present benchmarking of providers vs others and rewards simulator (stake, geolocation, addons, reputation - latency, availability, sync)
- add distribution history of rewards to pools
- APR leaderboard
[Indexing Q1]
- advanced graphql support
- bootstrapping open source indexing + guides
[best-in-class service Q2-Q3]
- improve geolocation coverage of consumers, communicate geolocation coverage and demand to providers - showcasing unfulfilled demand
- result parsing to detect malformed responses
- provider enhanced metrics + notifications integration
- spec generated test suite
- lava backup service - seamlessly add lava as a backup rpc and get a performance comparison
[paid tiers Q2]
- tiered cu limitations
- CU auto charge
- gateway purchase plans + subscription referral
- multiple projects/ developers in a single consumer
[provider experience Q3]
- provider onboarding portal + management ui
- provider enhanced metrics + notifications integration
[Multi Chain Apis Q3]
- multi chain api standard - develop a set of apis relevant for all chains based on rpc (latest data & indexed data)