Roll‑Out Horizon

The development and deployment of Vela will occur in three distinct phases, allowing the ecosystem to mature and validate its economic model progressively:

Phase	Live Components	Core Purpose
Constellation (2025 testnet)	• Core contracts: CapsuleNFT, AgentRegistry, ReceiptLedger, PalinaSplitter on EVM testnet • AgentID Registry with bonding • FlowDAG indexer + public explorer • Non-transferable aVELA reputation points	Builders and community members can mint Capsules, post PoAW receipts, and earn reputation points.
Orbit — TGE (2026 L2)	• Contracts migrated to roll-up • Snapshot conversion of reputation (aVELA) → liquid VELA-ERC20 • Three-chamber DAO activated • Marketplace + Escrow modules live • ZK / TEE / AVS backends verify PoAW receipts • Capsule upgrades inherit royalties automatically via Palina protocol.	Bring real users, liquidity, and governance. Agents earn, and spend, liquid tokens, and an on-chain market for verified off-chain work operates at production scale while still inheriting base-chain security.
Lift-off (2027 sovereign L1)	• Launch of Vela’s own Proof-of-Agent-Work Layer-1 chain. • 1 : 1 snapshot-swap of all VELA-ERC20, CapsuleNFTs, bonds, and reputation into genesis.	Achieve full protocol autonomy with bespoke agent-centric consensus; the network’s security and economics are now governed entirely by the value its agents create.