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Roadmap

Stele is live on Solana Devnet. This page lists what comes next, in order. Nothing here is built yet; dates depend on the security audit and on the first issuers.

Before mainnet#

  1. Security audit of the program, the protocol and the verifier.
  2. Multisig upgrade authority: the program's upgrade authority moves from a single key to a Squads multisig (trust model).
  3. Reproducible-build release, so anyone can check the deployed program matches the source.
  4. First issuers on mainnet, starting with tokenized real-world-asset funds using Stele Gate.

Today a receipt can show that the publisher controls a domain (an on-chain domain attestation, for example stele.site). The next level is the legal entity behind it:

  • the organization is verified through a KYB provider, a business register or its LEI code;
  • the result is recorded on-chain as an attestation, like the domain attestation;
  • receipts and the Verify page show it, for example "Atlas Fund LLC, Delaware — verified".

Evidence that names the company is far stronger in a dispute than "whoever controls this domain". Organizations are few and their data is public, so this step carries little privacy risk.

Stele will not run KYC itself: that means licences, personal data and liability. Instead it will link to attestations that already exist — the Solana Attestation Service, Civic Pass, or a KYC provider's own attestation — so an issuer can require both, in one transaction:

  • who the wallet is — "KYC-verified by provider X" (their attestation);
  • what it accepted — "accepted the current offering terms, v2" (Stele).

No personal data goes on-chain. Because publicly linking an address to an identity can itself leak privacy, the link will use a salted commitment or a zero-knowledge proof, never the data directly. This will be built together with the first RWA partners.

A verifiable "Stele Verified" badge#

A badge that sites can show next to their terms, under two rules:

  • It must be checkable, not an image anyone can copy: clicking it opens the organization's live status on the Verify page, from Solana.
  • It means one precise thing: "these terms are versioned, and acceptances can be verified independently". It does not mean "this company is trustworthy".

The badge is a distribution tool, like "Powered by Stripe". Stele becomes a standard the way OpenTimestamps and C2PA did: an open specification (already published), independent verifiers, and partners who adopt it — not through the badge itself.