Where the project is concentrating effort.
ICN is under active construction. The areas of work and current emphasis are stated below, in language that matches What's Real Now. Not a schedule. Not a release plan. A public-facing account of where effort is going.
What the project is concentrating on right now
The active frontier is expanding execution coverage — the breadth with which accepted decisions carry into concrete operational effect. Governance-backed provenance and receipts are the load-bearing parts of the system today; work is ongoing to connect more of the decisions the substrate records to the actions those decisions are supposed to authorize.
Broad areas of work
Each area below is at a different level of maturity. The maturity band is stated directly, and every description is reconcilable with What's Real Now.
Institution-in-a-box
The core loop of cooperative life — identity, membership, proposals, decisions, and durable receipts — is the most mature part of the system. Governance-backed provenance and auditable coordination are load-bearing today. This is the part of ICN we are most willing to stand behind in public.
Execution coverage and shared rules
Expanding the range of accepted decisions that translate cleanly into real operational effect, and the mechanisms that let shared rules bind practice rather than just describe it. This is the active frontier of the project. Real progress, real incompleteness — the direction is clear and the pace is real.
Federation and commons
Inter-institutional coordination and shared resources across the network. Both are real, active subsystems with serious implementation behind them, and both are still maturing. In some places the implementation is ahead of the public-facing story, and the surfaces that would let outsiders see and evaluate this work are still being built.
Member-facing experience
The surface through which ordinary members would interact with identity, governance, rules, accounting, receipts, and federation as one coherent environment. The capabilities underneath are real and in places strong. The interface on top is still catching up, and closing that gap is active work — not a finished capability.
Public and civic-scale coordination
Participatory budgeting, municipal governance, and public infrastructure coordination. The architecture is designed with this horizon in mind, but it is not where active work is concentrated today. When outsiders ask whether ICN does this, the honest answer is not yet — and we would rather say so than imply a schedule.
A note on what this page is not
This page does not commit the project to dates, releases, or feature schedules. It does not claim percentage progress. It does not report internal sprint or milestone state. When the project's public account needs to move — because implementation has advanced, or because a direction has changed — this page and What's Real Now move together.
If any claim here does not match the current project state, let us know.