# General ## Roadmap
What is the current status of DeltaDeFi? DeltaDeFi Spot Trading is **live on Cardano mainnet**. We launched beta mainnet in November 2025 and the full release with multi-pair support, deposits, and withdrawals is now live. Our current focus is on Hydra reliability and scalability — achieving zero corrupted states with 100+ TPS in complex UTxO sets.
What is the decentralization roadmap? We are taking a step-by-step approach to full decentralization: 1. ~~Open source & verifiable~~ ✅ 2. ~~Live on Mainnet~~ ✅ 3. **Hydra — Reliability & Scalability** ← current 4. Community node operators 5. Smart contract auditing (internal review, community bug bounty, independent 3rd-party verification) 6. Token Launch + Open Governance
Any token for DeltaDeFi? Yes, we have concrete token plans built around three core principles: * **>50% Community Owned** — The majority of token supply will be allocated to users of the protocol. * **Massive Airdrop** — The largest share will be distributed to early participants. * **100% Revenue Distributed** — All protocol fees will flow back to token holders. Our [XP Program](https://docs.deltadefi.io/start-trading/dlta-points-xp) (Season 1) is the core mechanism to identify and reward early supporters. Every trade, deposit, and referral earns XP that will count toward the airdrop.
Any plans to go multi-chain? No. While we thought of the multi-chain strategy in the early days, now we are more in a stage of focusing on the technology itself and bringing as much sought-after trading experience to the Cardano community natively, before considering diluting our focus.
## Design
Why Cardano? Our team is deeply rooted in the Cardano ecosystem. We build on Cardano of course, since we love Cardano. But more importantly, our understanding of Cardano enables us to build products that fill gaps in DeFi, which is a unique opportunity that exists in the Cardano ecosystem.
Why order book? In the realm of trading, we believe the order book model is the true model that serves the actual demand of trading and stands the test of time. As a project aims to bridge the gap between centralized trading experience with the DeFi world, we have then chosen order book model to build the decentralized exchange.
Why Hydra? In order to trade with speed and bring as close user experience to centralized services as possible, we have to build on top of any available scaling technology. So far, Hydra is the only scaling technology that works on Cardano. After assessing factors like potential features, support, and limitations, we decided that Hydra is a technology that meets the bar of DeltaDeFi's need, and then started investing in this technology.
## Hydra
What is the relationship between DeltaDeFi and Hydra team? There is no relationship. Apart from the fact that DeltaDeFi is one of a few teams that is actively building on top of Hydra and providing actual user feedback to the Hydra team. DeltaDeFi is like a community member in the Hydra family.
I have heard about the Hydra Head protocol being custodial. Is my fund deposited into DeltaDeFi safe? Hydra's fund safety comes from "at least one honest participant". Achieving sufficient decentralization in Hydra comes with some decisions on who could host the DeltaDeFi Hydra node and open-sourcing the infrastructure. Given that the decentralization of how we use Hydra can be improved over time, and also with limited funding, our team decides to focus every resource possible on bringing the right product to Cardano at first. We will start testing by hosting all nodes and then invite trusted community parties to host part of the Hydra nodes. DeltaDeFi will become more and more decentralized as time goes by, and eventually a fully decentralized DApp for the community.
Who is hosting the Hydra node right now? Currently we host the Hydra nodes ourselves, as we are working closely with the Hydra team on [several issues](https://github.com/deltadefi-protocol/hydra-issues). Once Hydra software stabilizes, we will begin inviting community node operators to co-host — see the decentralization roadmap above.
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