Merge pull request #93 from dogecoinfoundation/roadmap

Trailmap & Prologue first cut

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content/roadmap.md

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-title = "Dogecoin Foundation Roadmap"
+title = "Dog Walk"
 date = "2021-08-15"
 [ author ]
   name = "Dogecoin Foundation"

content/trailmap/gigawallet.md

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+title = "Project: GigaWallet" 
+date = "2021-12-10"
+type = "about"
+[ author ]
+name = "Dogecoin Foundation"
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+
+<section class="presentation">
+<div class="left">
+
+<div class="title">
+
+
+ ## <img width="60px" style='display: inline;' src="/marker.png"/>Project: GigaWallet 
+
+<div class="underline"></div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="description">
+
+* [Dogecoin Trailmap: Prologue](/trailmap/prologue/) 
+* [Project: Dogecoin.com makeover & Dogepedia](/trailmap/website/)
+* [Project: Libdogecoin](/trailmap/libdogecoin/)
+* [Project: Dogecoin Standard](/trailmap/standard/)
+* [**Project: GigaWallet**](/trailmap/gigawallet/)
+* Project: Dogecoin Keyring (App / SDK)
+* Project: RadioDoge (Starlink + Radio nodes for remote locations)
+* Proposal: Community Staking (Proof of Stake)
+* Partnership: Point of Sale (L2 app) 
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="right">
+<img class="dogegoin-light" src="/logo-gigawallet.jpg" alt="Dogecoin logo">
+<img class="dogegoin-dark" src="/logo-gigawallet.jpg" alt="Dogecoin logo">
+</div>
+
+
+</section>
+
+<section class='board'>
+
+## GigaWallet, an enterprise-ready dogecoin service for your platform.
+
+As we've mentioned in the [Prologue](/trailmap/prologue), we believe that utility 
+comes from adoption and adoption comes from utility, it's a feedback loop that is 
+on the slow path right now due to friction around platform adoption. 
+
+Many of the initiatives in this trailmap are focused on decreasing the cycle-time
+for development, and smoothing the path for developers looking to integrate Dogecoin
+into their platforms.
+
+One key hurdle in this journey is the lack of a fit-for-purpose, drop in backend
+service that any platform, exchange or retailer can run on their own infrastructure
+that provides a modern non-custodial approach to processing Dogecoin transactions.
+
+The GigaWallet project is an open-source initiative aimed at filling that gap by
+providing a node / API solution that can be set up in seconds and allow a developer
+to add Dogecoin transactions to their platform, as easily as they might with any
+polished payment provider.
+
+The GigaWallet aims to provide two levels of API, the first for processing and validating
+traditional Dogecoin transactions, with a modern event-architecture ready to connect
+with message queues and web APIs. The second will be APIs to integrate with the
+proposed Dogecoin Keyring App & SDK. This is a mobile-first solution that will allow
+platforms that use the GigaWallet to issue charges directly from their Apps to the 
+Dogecoin Keyring App for approval by the user. This is important because it puts 
+the ownership of keys back in the hands of the user, without removing a platform's 
+ability to transact Dogecoin.
+
+We believe that providing both halves of the solution as an open-source project, 
+backend as well as ready-to-integrate mobile SDK for making Dogecoin payments, will
+rapidly accelerate the uptake of Dogecoin by retailers, social media platforms, 
+game developers and more. 
+
+
+</section>

content/trailmap/libdogecoin.md

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+title = "Project: Libdogecoin"
+date = "2021-12-10"
+type = "about"
+[ author ]
+name = "Dogecoin Foundation"
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+
+<section class="presentation">
+<div class="left">
+
+<div class="title">
+
+
+ ## <img width="60px" style='display: inline;' src="/marker.png"/>Project: Libdogecoin 
+
+<div class="underline"></div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="description">
+
+* [Dogecoin Trailmap: Prologue](/trailmap/prologue/) 
+* [Project: Dogecoin.com makeover & Dogepedia](/trailmap/website/)
+* [**Project: Libdogecoin**](/trailmap/libdogecoin/)
+* [Project: Dogecoin Standard](/trailmap/standard/)
+* [Project: GigaWallet](/trailmap/gigawallet/)
+* Project: Dogecoin Keyring (App / SDK)
+* Project: RadioDoge (Starlink + Radio nodes for remote locations)
+* Proposal: Community Staking (Proof of Stake)
+* Partnership: Point of Sale (L2 app) 
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="right">
+<img class="dogegoin-light" src="/logo-libdogecoin.jpg" alt="Dogecoin logo">
+<img class="dogegoin-dark" src="/logo-libdogecoin.jpg" alt="Dogecoin logo">
+</div>
+
+
+</section>
+
+<section class='board'>
+
+## Libdogecoin, a clean C library of Dogecoin building blocks.
+
+Libdogecoin will be a complete implementation of the Dogecoin Protocols, 
+as a C library (and series of bindings to popular languages) which will 
+allow anyone to build a Dogecoin compliant product, without needing to 
+worry about the deeper specifics of the crypto functions.  
+
+It’s important to note that libdogecoin will be a pure library, not 
+providing a ‘runnable’ node facility. It is intended that connecting 
+the bits together into an engine be done at the level above, via the 
+networking libraries of the host language.  
+
+During the process of extracting the fundamentals from the Dogecoin Core
+Wallet (reference implementation) we aim to document 'how Dogecoin works' 
+as a suite of tests and documents we are calling the [Dogecoin Standard](/trailmap/standard).
+By doing this we will be able to verify that the Libdogecoin implementation
+of Dogecoin's internals is accurate to the OG wallet, and thus provide 
+a mechanism for any future Dogecoin implementations to verify compliance
+with the Dogecoin Network.
+
+## Why, what does this do for Dogecoin?
+
+It's all about utility through adoption, and adoption comes through integration. 
+Right now the aging Dogecoin Core wallet is heavy with desktop metaphors that
+made sense a decade ago, and encumbered with facilities which slow down development
+and would better be broken out into utilities. 
+
+We believe that by taking the core functionality from Dogecoin and making it
+available as a simple C library with bindings for many languages, we multiply
+the community's ability to innovate. 
+
+* Want to create a new Dogecoin Wallet in Python? Ruby? Node.js? Do it!
+* Want to create a slimmed down Dogecoin node for a specific purpose (like [GigaWallet](/trailmap/gigawallet))? Sure!
+* Want to create a shell utility for managing HD Dogecoin keypairs in Golang? Go nuts! 
+
+We're aiming to make the Dogecoin Ecosystem healthier as we:
+
+* Diversify the dependence on the Core Wallet as the single definition of the Dogecoin Blockchain. 
+* Increase the options for standard-based wallet & node implementations to be developed. 
+* Increase the integration options to improve adoption of Dogecoin by platforms. 
+* Improve the process of joining the Dogecoin network so more people run Dogecoin nodes. 
+
+<img class='center' src="/libdogecoin-purpose.png">
+
+These objectives are met primarily through the librarification of Dogecoin and validated by a 
+[Dogecoin Standard](/trailmap/standard) which will allow the community to have confidence in 
+diverse implementations of Dogecoin Nodes and Wallets.   
+
+Libdogecoin is the underlying building block in the Foundation's plan to make this happen.
+
+</section>

content/trailmap/prologue.md

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+title = "Dogecoin Trailmap: Prologue"
+date = "2021-12-10"
+type = "about"
+[ author ]
+name = "Dogecoin Foundation"
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+
+<section class="presentation">
+<div class="left">
+
+<div class="title">
+
+
+ ## <img width="60px" style='display: inline;' src="/marker.png"/>Dogecoin Trailmap: Prologue
+
+<div class="underline"></div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="description">
+
+* [**Dogecoin Trailmap: Prologue**](/trailmap/prologue/) 
+* [Project: Dogecoin.com makeover & Dogepedia](/trailmap/website/)
+* [Project: Libdogecoin](/trailmap/libdogecoin/)
+* [Project: Dogecoin Standard](/trailmap/standard/)
+* [Project: GigaWallet](/trailmap/gigawallet/)
+* Project: Dogecoin Keyring (App / SDK)
+* Project: RadioDoge (Starlink + Radio nodes for remote locations)
+* Proposal: Community Staking (Proof of Stake)
+* Partnership: Point of Sale (L2 app) 
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="right">
+<img class="dogegoin-light" src="/trailmap.png" alt="Dogecoin logo">
+<img class="dogegoin-dark" src="/trailmap.png" alt="Dogecoin logo">
+</div>
+
+
+</section>
+
+<section class='board'>
+
+## What is the Dogecoin Trailmap?
+
+While _roadmap_ is a term that's commonly used when new cryptocurrencies 
+are released, it conveys a rigid way forward, led by a single company 
+or _'lead'_.  
+
+**Dogecoin is a community-driven, consensus based open-source project and its 
+direction is formed by the many individual and organisational contributors 
+to the various projects of the Dogecoin blockchain & ecosystem.**  
+
+The direction of Dogecoin is paved by the many projects that the community 
+feels best shapes its direction. This is a very intentional decision: it is 
+important that Dogecoin remains a decentralised project with shepherds rather 
+than rulers, each whose projects and contributions stand or fall on their 
+merits.
+
+This Trailmap represents a dog-walk the Dogecoin Foundation is committed
+to exploring and which it believes are beneficial for the success of Dogecoin.
+
+
+## Why these projects? 
+
+Back in August we signed the [Dogecoin Manifesto](/manifesto) and welcomed 
+the community to sign it by clicking the tweet button; the response was 
+overwhelmingly positive.  
+
+The Manifesto was our attempt at capturing everything the community wanted 
+from the Dogecoin project: a 'Currency of the people, for the people and by the 
+people', something humanity could really use, to buy a coffee or pay the rent.
+
+Therefore the first pillar of the Manifesto is: **Being useful, we value utility 
+over technical brilliance.**
+
+This is fundamental to the thinking behind the Foundation Trailmap, in fact we 
+believe this so strongly we have an even simpler saying:
+</br>utility → adoption,
+</br>utility → adoption!
+</br>utility → adoption.. this is the way.
+
+Essentially the more utility the more useful, the more useful the more adoption, 
+the more adoption the more Dogecoin gains traction as a serious universal currency 
+for people everywhere. 
+
+## Two coins starting with D...
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="/denarius.png" width='50%' style='margin: auto;' alt="Denarius to Dogecoin">
+</div>
+
+There was a time when most of the 'known world' accepted a universal currency,
+minted by Rome. A **Denarius**, 'about a day's wages' had one thing going for it: you 
+could spend it anywhere in the empire to satisfy your wants or needs, it had **utility**.
+
+A Denarius had no smart contracts, no scriptability, no DAPPs, and yet this coin once 
+controlled the world.
+
+
+We believe **Dogecoin** is on a similar trajectory, yet this time it's not the face 
+of the Emperor controlling a centralised currency, but a friendly Doge welcoming 
+all to a decentralised and liberated currency for the people. 
+
+Whilst many crypto projects are trying to be stores of value such as BTC, or 
+engineering platforms such as ETH, we believe that the _innovative step_ has 
+already been made by Satoshi with the invention of crypto _CURRENCY_.
+
+Dogecoin already has the fundamentals required to achieve these goals by focusing
+on simplicity, utility & reliability, and that's what this Trailmap is focused on.
+
+## Utility through rapid integration.
+
+For the last eight years Dogecoin has closely tracked the aging Bitcoin C++/QT 
+desktop wallet, heroically maintained by the Dogecoin Core dev team. A decade 
+ago when crypto was in its infancy this was a solid decision, but times change 
+and what was once useful at the foundation of crypto has lagged behind a world
+where most people transact on their phones, and integration with online retailers
+is paramount. 
+
+The Foundation Trailmap provides a path forward to both secure Dogecoin
+through network diversification (paving the way for new, faster Nodes), and
+consolidating what Dogecoin is through a written, provable Dogecoin Standard with 
+comprehensive testing.
+
+Furthermore it presents new avenues for payment providers, retailers, game 
+developers and social platforms (to name a few), to rapidly integrate Dogecoin 
+into their infrastructure with scalable backend solutions such as the 
+[GigaWallet Project](/trailmap/gigawallet/).
+
+<img class='center' src="/libdogecoin-ecosystem.png">
+
+Community safety is tackled with a proposed Dogecoin Keyring App & SDK that will 
+let Dogecoin users retain custody of their Dogecoin while integrating with the
+GigaWallet APIs so that mobile apps can transact Doge without holding your keys.
+
+The Foundation are also working with Vitalik (Founder of the Ethereum blockchain)
+on crafting a uniquely _Doge_ proposal for a 'Community Staking' version of PoS 
+that will allow _everyone_, not just the big players to participate in a way that
+rewards them for their contribution to running the network, and at the same time 
+gives back to the whole community through charitable causes.
+
+## Timeline.
+
+As you can imagine, setting off on such an adventure is not a small feat and 
+we are still just getting started. We already have some influential friends
+on our side and a growing group of people who are getting ready to contribute
+development time to these open-source projects. 
+
+Over the next few months the Libdogecoin and GigaWallet projects will begin
+to take shape, and we have some early integrators who are interested in putting
+them to use in their projects. These early projects are about laying a solid 
+foundation, while projects still to come will target improving transaction 
+throughput and scale. 
+
+Expect to see more of the projects on the Trailmap unlock with their own details,
+Git repositories and issues as they are refined and commence work into 2022. 
+
+
+&mdash; The Dogecoin Foundation team. 
+</section>