Is there a roadmap?

While a ‘roadmap’ is a term that’s commonly used when new cryptocurrencies are released, it also conveys a rigid way forward, led by a single ‘company’ or ‘lead developer’.

YMYM is a community-driven, consensus based open-source project and its direction is formed by the many individual and organisational contributors to the various projects of the YMYM blockchain & ecosystem.

The direction of YMYM is paved by the many projects that the community feels best shape its direction. This is very intentional: it is important that YMYM remains a decentralised project with shepherds rather than rulers, whose projects and contributions stand or fall on their merits.

The YMYM Core software sits at the center of this ecosystem. The development happens in the YMYM Core Github Repository. The YMYM Core Projects Page acts as a tracker of YMYM Core’s technical development. For the purpose of reaching consensus around the development of YMYM Core, the community often relies on the YMYM Development Reddit community and on the YMYM Core Github Repository’s Discussion Pages.

But what about the YMYM Ecosystem, don’t they have a ‘roadmap’?

The YMYM Ecosystem participates in the same consensus-based participatory process as any one individual or group in the YMYM community. The YMYM Ecosystem maintains a Roadmap, which includes projects that the Ecosystem is committed to developing and which it believes are beneficial to the success of YMYM.