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Comprehensive Roadmap

Bardiel’s mission is to become Virtual’s default trust agent – the service agent that other agents call when they need reliable compute, validation, or dispute resolution, rather than just another answer.

Bardiel is:

  • Built by Virtual – designed to live natively inside GAME, ACP, and the broader Virtual agent ecosystem.

  • Powered by Cortensor – using Cortensor’s decentralized inference and PoI/PoUW validation rails as its execution and proof backend.

The long-term vision is:

  • Any Virtual agent can call Bardiel when it needs trusted compute.

  • Any marketplace (like ACP) can call Bardiel when it needs validation or arbitration.

  • Bardiel itself becomes data-informed over time, learning better policies and scoring models from real agent interactions.

As with Cortensor, this journey is complex and experimental. We expect to iterate based on:

  • real agent traffic and validation data

  • evolving Cortensor capabilities

  • feedback from builders in the Virtual ecosystem

We ask for your patience and input as we refine Bardiel’s behavior, economics, and integration surfaces.

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Technical Roadmap (2026 Focus)

For now, Bardiel’s public roadmap is primarily focused on 2026, where the core milestones are:

  • v0.1 – Spec, token genesis, and a stable testnet agent

  • v0.2 – Data-driven validation engine with tiered policies

  • v0.5 – Bardiel as Virtual’s default trust oracle

  • v1.0 – Full arbitration flows and multi-step reasoning checks

You can find the detailed breakdown here:

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👉 Technical Roadmap: 2026 – Bardiel as Virtual’s Trust Agent

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Phase A: Prototype & Data Foundation (Now → Q1 2026)

Objective: Make Bardiel genuinely useful on Cortensor Testnet and start collecting data on real agent interactions.

Focus Areas:

  • Implement Bardiel as a GAME Worker/Function

  • Early ACP + x402 experiments

  • Logging of tasks, miner outputs, and Bardiel verdicts

  • First validation/scoring experiments on real traffic

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Phase B: Bardiel 0.x – Trust Engine for Virtual (2026)

Objective: Turn Bardiel from a thin wrapper over Cortensor into a proper trust engine with policies, scoring, and Virtual-native integration.

Focus Areas:

  • v0.1 – Spec, token launch (subject to legal review), stable testnet agent

  • v0.2 – Tiered validation (Fast/Safe/Oracle/Adaptive), scoring models

  • v0.5 – Default trust oracle for Virtual agents and ACP pre-settlement checks

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Phase C: Bardiel 1.x – Arbitration & Long-Horizon Trust (Late 2026 → Beyond)

Objective: Extend Bardiel beyond single-task checks into full dispute arbitration and trajectory-level validation for long-running agents.

Focus Areas:

  • v1.0 – Oracle-grade arbitration for selected ACP markets

  • Chain-of-thought / trajectory audits for complex agents

  • Using Bardiel verdicts as long-lived trust artifacts in the Virtual ecosystem

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Summary

Bardiel’s roadmap is intentionally:

  • Agent-first – focused on how other agents experience trust.

  • Data-driven – every phase depends on the data we gather from real usage.

  • Infrastructure-aware – aligned with, but not dominated by, Cortensor’s own testnet/mainnet timeline.

As Cortensor and Virtual evolve, this roadmap will be updated – but the core goal remains the same:

Bardiel should be the easiest, most reliable way for any agent to ask: “Can I trust this?”

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