@ PIVX Labs
2025-02-11 17:44:43
It's 2025, PIVX Labs has grown, and *so should our plans*.
The **Labs Vision** is our eternal mission, as the builders around PIVX, to empower the world's people with it's technology in a **deliverable**, **portable**, **easy** package.
Let's dive in to **what exactly the Labs Vision means for PIVX.**
*Note: The majority of this post is excerpts from the internal Labs Team 2025 discussion, consolidating our ideas and efforts in an organised, efficient manner.*
# Vision and Goals
PIVX, in my words, was made to *'... put privacy, safety, and identity in to the hands of all..'*, a universal goal that everyone under the PIVX umbrella can agree upon.
And similarly, in my eyes, Labs is the group that "forges" these ideas in to reality, a vision and a mission is good - but Labs is what builds PIVX's Mission, we lead in portability, onboarding, and the ***utility*** of PIVX **as a currency**.
All this to say... if PIVX's mission is to *'... put privacy, safety, and identity in to the hands of all..*, and SpaceX's mission is to *'... make human life multi-planetary by sending people to Mars.'...*
Then PIVX Labs' Mission is to **Build a parallel economy, reachable anywhere in the world.**
Our projects, listed below, are how we are going to achieve this.
## Where our projects stand in the Labs Vision
Labs' projects were chosen for very particular reasons, because they all slot together in a perfect master-puzzle; that is, **the PIVX parallel economy**.
- **My PIVX Wallet**: at the center of everything we do: the be-your-own-bank, bank.
- **PIVCards**: the ability to spend with - and even *live* on - PIVX as a currency.
- **PIVX Rewards**: the ability to earn PIV for time & tasks, our onboarding portal.
- **Vector** *(prev. Chatstr)*: the ability to communicate safely with anyone in the world - a Trojan Horse to bring PIVX to the masses, by competing with Telegram.
Everything combined?
You can **earn**, **save**, **spend** with PIVX, and you can **communicate safely** without compromise, with **family**, **friends** and **businesses**.
As such, I believe Labs now has the necessary projects and components needed for the PIVX Parallel Economy, we should now bunker down.
## What's next for Labs in 2025?
I've proposed and found majority consensus upon the below plans, with the structure incentivising a deepened **Parallel Economy for PIVX.**
**My PIVX Wallet**:
- **Multi-Everything:** full multi-account and multi-masternode support, including Ledger.
- **One-Click Setup:** it is necessary that we make "setting up MPW" as FAST as possible, because facing reality: if you're at the bar learning about PIVX, you won't be writing 12 words on paper anytime soon.
- **Shield By Default:** we've discussed the possibility of having Shield-by-Default, making transparency opt-in instead of opt-out, this would use a relay system `shield->temp-transparent->receiver` to remain compliant with all non-Shield services, WITHOUT user interaction and WITHOUT integration compliance necessary.
- **Modularity:** we've discussed the possibility of making MPW more easily utilisable by external softwares - this has MANY possible usecases, such as giving Vector the ability to integrate MPW for in-chat transactions, or making it easier to integrate PIVX with POS systems, without needing to re-implement another PIVX wallet from scratch - one core backend, hundreds of frontends.
**PIVCards**:
- **Non-Custodial**: PIVCards will become fully non-custodial - this may lead to a temporary reduction in features, but in the long-run, allows for the potential of fully open-sourcing and decentralising PIVCards.
- **Multi-Provider**: PIVCards needs to allow plug-n-play style provider integration, allowing near-unlimited PIVX-accepting services to be integrated.
**PIVX Rewards**:
- **The Onboarder**: this platform needs to become the #1 spot for bringing new people to PIVX, with 'appetizers' of free PIV for everyone that wants it, and more for those whom stay and contribute.
- **Non-Custodial shift**: with `PIVX Promos` libraries improving, we can now create decentralised codes very quickly in bulk, as such, we should start utilising this tech to make PIVX Rewards semi-non-custodial, meaning: no more hot wallets, only pre-filled `PIVX Promos` distributions, straight to MPW - in the broader timeline, we may even disband `PIVX Rewards` in favour of a larger `PIVX Promos` system, which would be a preferred outcome.
- **Business Offerings**: as discussed by the community, PIVX Promos may be very useful for onboarding businesses to use PIVX, by using PIVX as a 'loyalty' and 'cashback' system, in a decentralised, yet easy method.
# Too long? Here's the TL;DR:
- **PIVX Labs aims to build a global parallel economy** with PIVX at the forefront.
- **Our four main projects will unify efforts to achieve this**: **wallet** (banking), **cards** (spending), **rewards** (earning), and **messaging** (communication).
- Our 2025 plans focus on making everything **easier to use**, and more **business-friendly** while **prioritizing privacy and non-custodial philosophy** by default.