A century of work, laid out honestly.
AION will not ship in a year. The sequence below is not aspirational. It is the order in which independent engineering and policy work must land for the convergence doctrine to be real.
Where we actually are
The Codex Aionis exists. The cryptographic prototype binds three of the seven realities — math, geography, and time — and Phase 1 is underway to land the fourth, memory. No vault has been sealed for production use. No real secrets should be placed in the prototype. The audit lands at the close of Phase 1.
Phases 0 through 6+
- Phase 0Complete · Phase 1 underway
Foundation
Charter drafted. Doctrine recorded across CONVERGENCE, MEMORY_LAYER, STATE_MODEL, THREAT_MODEL. Local Next.js prototype shipping the seal → unseal cryptographic round-trip.
- Phase 1Building
MVP — math, geography, time, memory
Audited seal/unseal flows. Argon2id memory layer composed into the AES key path. Postgres schema and zero-knowledge audit chain. KYC, dead-man-switch, and a formal cryptographic audit before public sealings.
- Phase 2Pending
Trust ritual + voice
AI voice clone capture. Time-locked letters with calibrated VDF. Multi-heir designation. Mobile companion. The unsealing ceremony surfaces in production form.
- Phase 3Pending
Multi-jurisdiction live
Seven sovereigns wired into the active ciphertext storage path. Trustee panel hardware-backed. First physical sanctuary. Multilingual inscription and certificate.
- Phase 4Pending
DNA + synthetic quartz
DNA storage tier with Twist Biosciences. Project Silica synthetic-quartz tier. Sanctuary network across at least five cities, each with its own physical pilgrimage protocol.
- Phase 5Pending
Lunar archive
Lunar Codex partnership. The AION Constellation: a lunar-anchored copy of the encrypted vault, intended to outlive Earth. The Eternal Library begins.
- Phase 6+Future
Civilizational
Multi-civilizational discoverability protocols. Post-quantum-locked permanence. Mars when the launch windows align; further bodies as substrate capacity matures. The vault designed for a person born in 2125 becomes the vault designed for a person born in 3125.
Why phases are not deadlines
A timeline that promises civilizational permanence within a quarter would be a lie. Each phase depends on engineering, cryptographic review, regulatory clarity in each sovereign, and partnerships that do not exist yet. The Codex commits to the sequence, not to dates. Dates are added when they are provable.