Roadmap and Future Plans
This section outlines Juno's development roadmap and future plans, providing insight into how the platform will evolve and improve over time. This chapter will help you understand the long-term vision and upcoming features that will enhance the experience and capabilities of the platform.
Last update: October 25, 2024
Ongoing Effort
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Ecosystem Growth: Continuing to build a robust ecosystem around Juno by fostering a strong developer community, hosting events, and providing comprehensive resources and support.
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Following Internet Computer Innovations: Juno will continuously evolve alongside the Internet Computer's new features, integrating the latest advancements in security, performance, and interoperability to ensure the platform stays at the cutting edge of Web3 technology.
H1 2025
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GitHub Integration: Adding support for authentication and automated deployment processes, including preview deployments, through a deeper GitHub integration.
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Payments and Wallet SDK: Allowing developers to integrate payment solutions seamlessly into their dApps using signer standards and connect to their developer wallet, enabling secure and efficient management of earnings, payments, and transactions.
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Third-Party Authentication: Supporting integration with more third-party authentication providers for developers and their applications.
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Standalone Analytics: Providing the existing analytics solution as a standalone product, offering comprehensive insights and performance on Web3 metrics for any developers or product owners.
H2 2025
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Secure Team Collaboration: Introducing support for secure team collaboration, enabling multiple developers to work together efficiently and securely.
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Enhanced Management Tools: Offering advanced administration capabilities such as automatic top-up and batch upgrade of smart contracts.
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GitLab: Similar integration as for GitHub.
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Subscription-Based Model: Launching a subscription-based model to provide premium features and services, including secure team collaboration and enhanced management tools.
2026 and Long Term
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Marketplace for Developers: Establishing a marketplace from developers to developers to design and offer their own smart contract solutions, templates, and plugins, allowing them to contribute to and profit from their work.
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Enhanced Serverless Functions: Developing additional capabilities for serverless functions to further empower developers in creating scalable and efficient applications, including support for writing these functions in JavaScript and TypeScript.
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Mobile Development: Providing SDKs for mobile development in Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android), enabling developers to integrate Juno’s smart contract capabilities and services directly into mobile applications.
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Text-Prompted UI Generation: Provide an application to generate UI features that leverages Juno’s capabilities and automatically spins up maintainable smart contracts through simple text prompts.
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Error Monitoring and Reporting: Introducing an integrated error tracking and reporting tool, allowing developers to identify, diagnose, and fix issues in their dApps in real-time, improving overall stability and performance.
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Cross-Chain Compatibility: Developing cross-chain features to enable interoperability between different blockchain networks, allowing for more versatile and integrated applications.
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Real-Time: Enabling real-time data exchange capabilities to facilitate instant updates and seamless synchronization within Juno-powered applications.
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Network Actor: Becoming a key actor in decentralized networks to enhance the robustness of Juno's services and contribute to the overall infrastructure for the greater good. This includes becoming a node provider on the Internet Computer.
Juno is committed to continuous improvement and innovation, ensuring that developers have access to the best, most comprehensive tools and technologies for building decentralized applications.
Released Features
To date, and as a side note, these are the key features that have been successfully delivered, in addition to general maintenance and lifecycle improvements, showcasing a commitment to continuous progress:
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Analytics (Sept. 2023)
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Upgraded Satellites Memory (Oct. 2023)
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Enhanced Hosting Capabilities (Nov. 2023)
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Local Emulator for Developers (Jan. 2024)
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Blockchainless ("Serverless") Functions (Feb. 2024)
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Project Scaffolding Templates (Apr. 2024)
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Regions / Subnets Selection (Oct. 2024)