01
Live
Public development begins
The Gonka repository opened publicly, establishing the visible start of protocol development before mainnet.
The project’s build history can be inspected from its earliest public work.
GitHub · GonkaGonka AI · Evidence ledger
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02
Live
Tokenomics published
The economic paper documented GNK issuance, work-based rewards, vesting, and epoch mechanics ahead of launch.
Network incentives became reviewable before the token went live.
Gonka · Tokenomics03
Live
Genesis ceremony
Validators submitted genesis transactions and participant records through a public, pull-request-based rehearsal process.
Initial network membership and launch preparation left a public audit trail.
GitHub · Genesis04
Live
Mainnet launch
Release v0.2.0 launched the main network for distributed AI compute, rewarding participants in GNK.
A live network and verifiable block history.
GitHub · v0.2.005
Live
Inference validation v2
v0.2.2 added full-token enforcement, recovery for missed validations, on-chain MLNode upgrades, and a second generation of inference validation.
Verification advanced beyond the launch configuration.
GitHub · v0.2.206
Live
CertiK fixes shipped
v0.2.3 incorporated direct remediations from the CertiK audit alongside API transport and transaction-subscription fixes.
External review findings translated into production code.
GitHub · v0.2.307
Live
Ethereum bridge introduced
v0.2.5 added a native Ethereum bridge service and the operational path for hosts to run it.
GNK gained infrastructure for movement beyond its native chain.
GitHub · v0.2.508
Reported>6,000 H100-equiv.
Compute reaches scale
Bitfury reported more than 6,000 H100-equivalents. This is aggregate compute, not a physical H100 count or proof of paid utilization.
Compute supply expanded rapidly.
Business Wire09
Reported$50M
$50M investment announced
Bitfury announced funding for protocol and ecosystem development—the first investment under a broader initiative, not a $1B transfer to Gonka.
Institutional backing expanded development resources.
Business Wire10
Live
PoC v2 enforced
v0.2.9 fully activated PoC v2, consolidated the validation model, gated transfer agents, and added a guardian tiebreaker for unresolved votes.
Compute verification and request control became stricter.
GitHub · v0.2.911
Live
New inference architecture
v0.2.11 introduced the subnet package while updating community-sale and liquidity-pool contracts and bridge tooling.
The chain began its transition toward modular inference delivery.
GitHub · v0.2.1112
Live
DevShard routing arrives
v0.2.12 added versiond and routed DevShard traffic independently from the core API service.
Inference runtimes could evolve separately from chain upgrades.
GitHub · v0.2.1213
Reported
API relaunched
DevShards separated inference-runtime development from the core network. The team reported throughput near one billion tokens per day in the first weeks.
Developers gained a working compute access layer.
GitHub · Gonka14
Approved
Roadmap approved
Proposal #57 established three horizons and twelve development tracks. Individual projects still require separate decisions and funding.
Execution gained a shared evaluation framework.
Governance · #5715
Live
DevShard safeguards
v0.2.13 fixed reward accounting and escrow limits, added an emergency DevShard switch, and reduced early guardian influence.
Operational controls matured as inference volume grew.
GitHub · v0.2.1316
Live
HackerOne launched
The bug bounty became a permanent channel for finding and resolving vulnerabilities with Bitfury’s support.
Security became a continuous formal process.
Gonka Docs · Security17
Live
Bridge audit completed
CertiK completed its Ethereum bridge review with no critical findings; four major findings were resolved in the final report.
A key cross-chain component received named third-party review.
CertiK · Final report18
Approved
WebX Asia activation
Governance funded the community’s conference presence, including partner coordination and broker onboarding activity.
Protocol growth moved from engineering into coordinated distribution.
Governance · #5119
Live
High-availability shift
v0.2.14–v0.2.15 introduced edge-api, versiond-router, and automatic loading and verification of approved DevShard runtimes.
Infrastructure became easier to upgrade and more resilient.
GitHub · v0.2.1520
Reported16.5B / day
WebX usage high
The team reported 16.5 billion processed tokens on the conference day—a network record at the time.
Throughput moved well above early API levels.
Product Science · WebX21
Approved
DevShard v5
Proposal #105 approved mainnet-height synchronization, session recovery, and high-availability improvements alongside a refreshed model set.
Runtime and models can evolve without a full shutdown.
Governance · #10522
Reported>1T / month
Trillion-token month
The team reported roughly 35 billion tokens per day and more than 2× monthly growth. Usage does not equal revenue.
Paid share and returning customers are the next test.
Network updates23
Reported≈100B / day
100B-token peak days
The team reported several days near this level and several dozen B300s added. It is not yet a sustained average.
Peak throughput entered a new order of magnitude.
Network updates24
Live
Production hardening
DevShard 5.0.2 capped Postgres connection pools; 5.0.3 continued stabilization after an issue surfaced in production.
The transparent release-and-fix cycle shows maturity.
GitHub · Releases25
In progress
TOKEN2049 Singapore
The community approved Gold Sponsorship and up to 100,000 USDT. Participation expands access, but does not imply completed deals.
Impact should be measured through later partnerships.
Governance · #99Now · epoch 417
26
In progress
v0.2.16 upgrade
Trusted Weight, dynamic model coefficients, fees, and PoC Challenge under Proposal #112.
Completion: Proposal passes and the upgrade activates on mainnet.
Network updates · #112 27
Approved
Community DevNet + test lab
Proposal #82 funds an external test lab, a public multi-node DevNet, observability, runbooks, and independent release validation.
Completion: Pilot deliverables and community handoff are accepted by governance.
Governance · #82 28
In progress
Foundation
Register the legal entity and present its directors, mandate, and first budget. No public completion date is confirmed.
Completion: Entity registered; leadership, spending rules, and approved budget published.
Roadmap · #57 29
Approved
Ledger + security audit
Ledger integration is funded; the Trail of Bits audit is reported as underway. No public delivery date is confirmed.
Completion: Ledger support ships; audit and remediations are published.
Governance · #102 30
Planned
Confidential inference
A TEE-based MLNode class is being explored for enterprise and privacy-sensitive inference workloads.
Completion: A confidential node class and priced private-inference path run on mainnet.
GitHub · TEE proposal 31
Planned
Developer distribution
The approved roadmap targets easier access through SDKs, gateways, aggregators, and AI-agent tooling.
Completion: Supported integrations publish usage, reliability, and developer-adoption KPIs.
Network roadmap 32
Planned
Full CEX listings
The Foundation is expected to remove the legal blocker to major exchange negotiations.
Completion: An exchange enables GNK trading, deposits, and withdrawals.
Network roadmap 33
Planned
Paid inference economics
Usage growth must translate into transparent revenue and recurring demand. The horizon is directional, not committed guidance.
Completion: Paid share, revenue, returning customers, latency, and errors are disclosed.
Network roadmap 34
Planned
Neocloud-scale network
The roadmap’s later horizon targets competitive reliability, utilization, and capacity at decentralized cloud scale.
Completion: Comparable cost, latency, uptime, geographic reach, and sustained paid demand are disclosed.
Network roadmap