Dates after Phase 1 are windows. A phase is done only when its exit check is true.
RUCKCOINIssue plate · RUCK

March route · last updated 14 August 2026

Timeline

This is the working calendar. After official launch we will push to list RUCK on exchanges so mined coins can be traded. We will not publish a token price, a named “listed by” date, or a guaranteed hash rate. If a date slips, we slip the date. We do not quietly change the money rules to look busy.

How to readMeaning
DoneFinished.
NowThis is the current work.
NextWhat we build after the current phase.
IfOnly if the condition is real (miners, users, a reason to trade).
14 Aug 2026
Phase 0 · Done

Private test chain

Independent test network. New identity (RUCK, K addresses, own genesis). Mining, transfers, and assets work. What people see says RuckCoin.

Exit check: a test node can mine, send, and issue an asset. Met.

What this is not: a public launch. Test coins do not become the public supply.

14–18 Aug 2026
Phase 1 · Now

Public record

This website, white paper v1.1, veterans-fund policy, and this timeline. Honest status: private test, nothing to buy, no veterans address yet.

Exit check: anyone can open the site, read the paper, and see the same frozen money rules.

late Aug 2026
Phase 2 · Done

A wallet people can actually use

  • Official wallet: receive, send RUCK, create and send assets
  • Optional veterans donation on send (off unless you turn it on)
  • Look-up explorer (height, payment id, K address)
  • One-click start: node + wallet

Exit check: someone who is not us can receive, send, look up, and issue an asset without raw commands.

Sep – Oct 2026, after Phase 2
Phase 3

Public launch day (height 0)

  • A published start time in UTC
  • A chain that begins at height 0 with no spendable premine
  • Tagged source and binaries (at least Linux; Windows if the wallet is ready)
  • This website and GitHub showing the same genesis hash
  • One honest public seed if we are willing to keep it up
  • Veterans address printed on this site the same day

Exit check: a stranger can download software, mine or receive a first coin, and verify genesis against this site.

Hard rule. If we skip the reset and call the test wallet the public coin, we have broken the white paper.

After Phase 3, if used
Phase 4 · If

Only if people actually show up

  • 2–3 seed nodes (small VPS, port 8867). Hostnames go into vSeeds.
  • A public explorer
  • Public GPU / stratum instructions
  • A running outflow log on the veterans page (category + txid, no personal names)

Exit check: a new peer can find the network from published seeds.

After official launch
Phase 5

Push for exchange listings

Mining creates RUCK. Listings are how people can trade it for other money. After height 0 we will apply to exchanges and keep pushing. Coins for ops and for listing deposits go into public locks. Holders vote to unlock a named amount. None of that is part of consensus. No exchange has to say yes.

Exit check: lock addresses and vote minimum printed; at least one real listing application published (venue type, date — not a fake “listed by Q4”).

Not on the calendar