OurNetwork v1 launched and operated for 4+ years as a Substack-based newsletter. In an effort to progressively decentralize, we recently launched v2 in Q1 2024 — a standalone website and contributor leaderboard complete with the framework of a points system to incentivize deeper community participation. This will also include Profile pages, individually sharable submissions from each issue, and both a Contributor and Partner Portal - a gateway for our community of readers, contributors, projects and partners, which are being built and set for release in Q2 2024. 

For v3, we are building more robust crypto-native features, such as an editorial governance that allows contributors to vote on topics for our editorial calendar, allowing for permissionless publishing on the OurNetwork platform, integrating and abstracting wallet connections and token-gated content, enabling web3 social features such as following analysts, collecting submissions, and a novel framework to track onchain research reputations. 

We’ll be completing this roadmap with the following timeline: 

Phase 1:
Milestone: Migrate off of Substack onto self-hosted frontend/backend infra + building out our Community and Partner Portals. 
- Scaling our team of core contributors (Full stack + Solidity Engineer, Community Manager)
- Designing and building new website + features
- Migrating historical data and subscriber data from Substack to new site
- Milestone: Q2 2024

Phase 2:
Milestone: Launch basic web3 integrations on our frontend. During this phase, OurNetwork will still be hosted on centralized infrastructure.
- Wallet connect features
- Linking wallet address to email for streamlined distribution and future web3 activations
- Token-gated contributor access
- OUR Points to provide deeper incentives to our contributors and community
- View OurNetwork NFTs natively on the website across multiple blockchains
- Milestone: Q4 2024

Phase 3:
Milestone: Fully hosted on decentralized infrastructure. 
- Deploying and hosting OurNetwork on a high performance, low fee L1/L2/L3. 
- Leveraging web3 social protocols features (profile pages, collecting/minting posts, engaging with posts, all in an effort to create a more aligned incentives for contributors and community). 
- Putting the point system fully onchain to unlock new user experiences that allow us to reward readership and community loyalty more efficiently. 
- Token-gated editorial calendar and other forms of community-driven governance. 
- Milestone: Q1 2025