iExec 2025 Roadmap - Expanding the iExec and RLC Ecosystem

Building on last year’s momentum, in 2025, our focus will intensify as we expand our ecosystem, forge new strategic partnerships and collaborations, and enhance the accessibility of iExec technology and the utility of the RLC token.

2025 is about making a substantial impact, increasing visibility, and driving the value of the RLC token.

Our roadmap will focus on the following key areas:

Ecosystem and Strategic Partnerships
RLC: Amplifying Value & Utility
AI: The Trust Layer for AI
Marketing: Maximizing Visibility
Tech & Product: Scalability & Performance

Ecosystem and Strategic Partnerships

In 2025, iExec will harness its 2024 momentum to expand strategic partnerships across diverse verticals from AI to DePIN, strengthening our ecosystem and leveraging the network effect to maximize RLC utility and drive technological innovation.

Collaborations for decentralized computing, TEEs, GPUs, storage, and AI infrastructure.
Workerpool expansion with collaborations for models for more TEE machines available on the network, where external entities manage their workerpools while adhering to iExec’s governance and Confidential Computing standards.
Reinforcing ties with NVIDIA, Intel, Confidential Computing Consortium, and ADAN.
Supporting AI projects and startup competitions and expert guidance to accelerate market adoption.
Partnering with blockchain projects, enterprises, and DeFi protocols to expand RLC utility.
Expanding our collaborations with blockchain education and developer communities, from hands-on technical training to business strategy and integration.

📌 Key Takeaway: iExec will build on its 2024 momentum by expanding strategic partnerships integrations across AI and DePIN verticals. Our collaborations will span decentralized computing, TEEs, GPUs, storage, and AI infrastructure unlocking new value avenues for both builders and end-users and enhancing the overall attractiveness and value of the ecosystem.

RLC: Amplifying Value & Utility

Driving value and utility for the RLC token will be at the core of all our actions.

More Exchange Partnerships: Further initiatives centralized exchanges (CEXs) to improve accessibility.
Increased Liquidity: Enhanced liquidity on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) ensures smoother transactions and enhanced market efficiency.
Utility in the ecosystem: More RLC locked in the ecosystem via the iExec Voucher mechanism that simplifies developers' use of the RLC token.
For additional RLC-related actions, see Marketing section below.

📌 Key Takeaway: Efforts will be concentrated to maximize the impact on the RLC token. Strategic announcements, collaborations, and initiatives will not only enhance the token's utility but also establish a more resilient and valuable token ecosystem, supporting RLC's growth as a cornerstone of iExec's broader vision.

The Trust Layer for AI

iExec’s Confidential AI framework ensures that AI computations are private, secure, and tamper-proof. Adding this layer of trust enables AI builders to unlock value through privacy-by-design monetization mechanisms, deeply aligning with the core of iExec's mission.

Trusted AI has become a topic of global concern. The demand for Confidential AI is at an all-time high. And with its implementation of TDX TEE, iExec is perfectly positioned for growth in this sector in 2025:

TDX TEEs: Beyond SGX, TDX is a major leap in Confidential Computing for applications, iExec will continue to expand TDX workerpools availability
AI-focused Dev Tools:
- iApp Generator for developing Trusted AI Agents with minimal complexity
- A series of real-world use cases ready to use in applications.
Expanding iExec's support for AI and agent protocols to enable seamless integrations.
More Tech Partnerships: Expanding collaborations to boost our infrastructure for advanced AI and machine learning.

📌 Key Takeaway: Prioritizing the RLC token within this growing trend, iExec continues to build on its strengths since embarking on AI research in 2019. iExec will further tech partnerships with leaders like Intel and Nvidia, while increasing the number of AI protocols using iExec. The moment to capitalize on these advancements is now. AiExec.

Marketing: Maximizing Visibility

This year, strategic and targeted marketing actions will maximize the visibility of announcements and initiatives considered to have the biggest impact on the iExec ecosystem.

Strategic collaboration with CoinMarketCap: live sessions, articles, newsletters, and social media promotions on X and telegram.
PR and media collaborations to amplify iExec’s leadership and presence.
More platforms for the community rewards program
Regular community engagement campaigns with token rewards
New collaborations with existing Web3 projects to expand the RLC holder and end-user base.
Presence at top global events including ETHDenver, Consensus Hong Kong, Token 2049 Dubai and Singapor, and Devconnect, with sponsorships, side events, and networking opportunities, including regular online and on-site hackathons.

📌 Key Takeaway: These focused efforts are designed to amplify iExec and RLC’s presence in the Web3 space. iExec is intensifying its marketing initiatives by maximizing reach through PR and media partners, leveraging and forming strategic partnerships with mainstream platforms like CoinMarketCap.

Tech & Product: Scalability & Performance

In 2025, technological improvements will center on improving performance and scalability to power next-generation confidential AI applications while supporting the ecosystem's growth by simplifying development and facilitating deployment—making it easy and cost-effective—and expanding the types of digital assets protected by iExec.

Expanding AI & TEE Capabilities with a Focus on Confidential AI
- Tech: Leveraging SGX, TDX, and GPU TEEs to enhance support for advanced AI applications, boosting our capability for next-gen solutions.
- Innovation: Prioritizing Confidential AI in our research agenda for 2025, with key studies exploring secure AI model training and execution within TEEs, ensuring privacy and security in AI operations.

New Developer Tools, New Monetizeable Asset Types
- Web3Telegram dev tool: Expanding on the Web3Mail tool for email, Web3Telegram will allow projects to send messages and communicate securely to users, with their Telegram handle never being revealed.‍
- iApp Generator: Simplifies developing and deploying secure, privacy-focused applications using TEEs, including Trusted AI Agents.
- And more to be announced.

Datapools: Allows multi-dataset execution within a single task, improving efficiency, reducing blockchain congestion and costs, and enabling new use cases such as privacy-preserving data aggregation for AI model training.
The iExec Voucher: Simplifies utilisations of the iExec RLC token, working as a predictable cost mechanism for developers simplifying transactions.
Sidechain & Layer 2s: Research will focus on evolving the iExec Sidechain (Bellecour) to increase throughput and enhance Ethereum interoperability, creating new RLC use cases.
Scalability & Performance Enhancements: PoCo Boost and Transaction/Middleware initiatives will continue to improve the overall performance and reliability of the iExec platform.

📌 Key Takeaway: iExec's tech roadmap is designed to simplify developer experience and improve cost efficiency, facilitating broader asset monetization opportunities through more applications in our ecosystem. This strategy increases the utility and value of the RLC token and ensures our infrastructure is robust enough to power sophisticated confidential applications, including next-generation AI, further driving growth across our entire ecosystem.

Going Forward

iExec tech and development tools are designed to protect and monetize digital assets. By strengthening our network through builders, end-users, and partners, we expect to exponentially increase visibility, driving the adoption, value, and utility of the RLC token well into 2025 and beyond.