Polykey’s roadmap focuses on enhancing decentralized secret management and authority delegation to meet the evolving needs of Web3 and decentralized systems. The primary development goals over the next year include the continued refinement of core features and expansion of the platform’s capabilities to meet both enterprise and individual use cases.

Key milestones on the roadmap include:

First, advanced secret vault sharing and history management will be refined. Polykey will introduce features like secret schemas and automated synchronization. This will include completing the integration of Git-based workflows into the decentralized peer-to-peer network, ensuring secure and flexible secret sharing.

Second, Polykey will further develop the dynamic authority management and empowerment framework, enabling programmable smart tokens for authority delegation and control in decentralized systems. This will involve automating delegation and revocation processes to reduce configuration complexity while enhancing security.

Third, the roadmap includes creating a decentralized single sign-on (SSO) solution, allowing seamless and secure identity authentication across decentralized systems without relying on central authorities. This will bridge the gap between centralized identity authentication and decentralized identity management.

Fourth, the team will continue to refine the decentralized network architecture, focusing on improving NAT traversal capabilities and local network discovery to ensure robust peer-to-peer connections in complex network environments.

Finally, for Polykey Enterprise, integration with orchestration tools will be a key focus, enabling scalable deployments and automated authority management across distributed infrastructures. This will include improvements in bootstrapping private nodes and managing secure access in enterprise environments.

The grant funds will primarily be allocated to hiring full-time technical employees focusing on Polykey's development.