| 2025 – Assetification & Royalty Readiness | Launch registry, staking-as-confidence, reputation, payout rails; pilot APIs/SDKs; roll out 50–100 topics | Kick off regional clubs (pods) in major geographies to manage onboarding, peer support, local campaigns | Number of topics live; volume of royalty payouts; total staked on data/contributors; average confidence scores; number of active data access calls |
| 2026 – Scale Participation & Business Integration | Deploy portfolio packaging & fractional data asset modules; SDK v2; onboard business clients and consumption APIs | Expand pod network (20+ regions); train pod leads; run local events, sprints, hackathons | % of revenue flowing to contributors; number of portfolios created & traded; data usage / request volume; retention of high-confidence data; latencies / response times for queries |
| 2027 – Decentralization & Interoperability | Protocol v3: modular, cross-chain infrastructure, operator decentralization, on-chain governance & treasury | Transition pods into local DAO/sub-DAO roles; enable pod proposals & supervision; federated pod coordination | Governance decentralization (e.g. % non-foundation votes, Nakamoto coefficient); number of independent operators; cross-chain throughput; governance proposals count; protocol uptime / availability |
| 2028 – Knowledge Economy Backbone | Protocol v4: autonomous upgrades, data marketplace maturity, AI-agent integration, institutional portfolio launch | Pods fully integrated into ecosystem governance; pod subgovernance (topic forks, curator elections); global pod collaboration | Total topics; contributor count; ARR of protocol; average royalty per contributor; number of AI integrations; on-chain upgrade frequency; protocol composability across chains |