A brief history of the Radicle project.

January, 2018

Berlin-based Monadic GmbH is founded by Eleftherios Diakomichalis and Alexis Sellier a.k.a cloudhead to pursue the vision of a sovereign developer stack.

February, 2019

Radicle, a code collaboration platform launches in alpha. The initial version of Radicle is built on IPFS.

October, 2019

Development on the second generation of the Radicle protocol, Radicle Link starts.

June, 2020

The Radicle Foundation is established. A Swiss non-profit that oversees the development of the project.

December, 2020

The Radicle Upstream desktop client is released, based on the new Radicle Link protocol.

The Link protocol is modeled around Secure Scuttlebut and uses Git under the hood for replication. IPFS is no longer used.

January 2021

Development of Radicle moves to the Radicle Foundation, funded by the Radworks organization.

February, 2022

Radicle launches a new web client based on the Radicle Link protocol.

July, 2022

The Radicle team starts working on the third generation of its protocol, called Heartwood.

Upstream is sunset in favor of the web client which transitions to the Heartwood protocol.

January, 2023

Radicle becomes self-hosted: development of the Radicle stack moves to Radicle.

March, 2024

Radicle gears up for its 1.0 RC1 release.