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Questions have been asked about the roadmap, and we've got answers! Let's break it down into clear objectives, impacts, and what this means in benefits for the network. Q4 2024 Right now, we are drilling through the remaining message passing issues of 2.0.4 – getting through these is important, as while 2.1 will be more sparse in mesh density, ensuring that the network appropriately handles extreme overpeering (like is happening now) means a far healthier and resilient network when attempts at intentional overloading occur. v2.0.4-p1 is going through test runs on testnet (and if you'd like to help, please run some testnet nodes!). After these message passing issues are cleared, v2.0.4-p1 will be promoted for general availability, and testnet moves towards v2.1. There are additional items in flight alongside this. We are building an interactive dashboard for node operators to have clear at-a-glance information about their provers, landing rates, and identifiable issues operators can take charge on to improve their own node's tuning. This dashboard update will also be helpful for v2.1 in seeing underallocated rings (and greater reward potential) and give optionality for provers to better strategize their prover ring allocations to optimize earnings. The other major improvement is the addition of a network explorer. This will give deeper details, similar to a block explorer, in tracing one's own transactions and general success in landing proofs. Overall network state, emissions, and accessibility of owned data will be easier to view here without bespoke tooling. Both the dashboard and explorer are targeted to arrive in the next few weeks, with early previews arriving sooner. While v2.1 is in testnet, we'll begin rolling out early access to the features being planning to run atop the network, with distributed storage (S3 API compatible) and MPC key management. v2.1 is going to be undergoing a very intense test period on testnet, but getting builders using these services early will unlock many of the initial applications that builders are wanting to create, for secure decentralized app hosting, decentralized social media content storage, and powerful wallets for other networks that no longer have custodial risks.

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