Future Plans & Roadmap Highlights
Here are the main upcoming or planned items for AltLayer / ALT token as publicly announced:
1. Expand rollup & restake infrastructure
The roadmap mentions support for multiple rollup stacks: OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon CDK, zkSync ZK Stack, etc.
They’re building services like VITAL (verification service), MACH (fast finality layer), SQUAD (ordering / decentralised sorting) to power rollups.
Example milestone: Q3/Q4 2025 marked for “Blitz Mainnet Launch” (fast finality layer leveraging Bitcoin via Babylon) and Superchain & AggLayer integration (for Ethereum L2s) according to a summary of key next steps.
2. Utility growth: staking, governance & operator involvement
ALT will be needed for staking / bonding (for operators/sequencers), to participate in the network, to earn rewards.
Governance: token holders will have say in protocol decisions.
Protocol fees: ALT may become a medium of exchange within the protocol for service fees.
3. Tokenomics & unlocks
A major token unlock of ~684 million ALT tokens (~42% of then circulating) was scheduled and triggered concern about selling pressure.
They delayed that unlock to help stability: originally July 25 2024 but moved to Jan 24 2025.
The schedule: investor/strategic partner tokens unlocking over 2 years; team/advisors/reserve unlocking over ~3 years.
4. Ecosystem building & scaling
The long-term goal is for AltLayer to become “the leading rollup platform and ecosystem” in the modular chain era: more dApps (DeFi, gaming, metaverse), more rollups on top of it.
Cross-chain interoperability and “intent-based interoperability” (user defined rules for cross-chain transactions) is part of the later roadmap.
