Project roadmap

Gummiworm is a slow-burn research and development project by Sundae Labs. Without dedicated funding, it progresses slowly. Hydrozoa begins as an independent, catalyst funded protocol, positioning itself as a lighter weight Hydra protocol.

For more on how these two projects evolved and converged, read Hydrozoa and Gummiworm: Co-evolution and convergence.

In January of 2026, we secured tentative funding to demonstrate feasibility of Gummiworm, evolving its consensus protocol from Hydrozoa.

As of that time, Hydrozoa supported only head peers with an EUTXO L2 Ledger. Gummiworm’s core insights (separation of custody and execution) were well thought out and documented in an earlier unreleased whitepaper, but implementation was sparse.

In Buidler Fest #3, in Argentina, we showed the first public proof of concept of Gummiworm and Sugar Rush.

This consisted of a single-peer head executing the full deposit, transact, withdraw, evacuate lifecycle with a custom non-EUTXO ledger implementing a central limit orderbook and a slick UI.

Notably, it did not include multi-head or coil consensus or Intel TDX encryption, and evacuation was a very manual process.

After the success of Buidler Fest, we focused on closing the gaps. We wrote the first draft of this specification, cleaned up several loose ends that developed in the rush for the Buidler Fest demo, deployed the first multi-peer head, and automated the evacuation process.

In May, we plan to add coil consensus, TDX privacy features, persistence for consensus data, and crash recovery procedures.

This rounds out a suitable initial minimum viable production grade product for a single Gummiworm head.

Through the month of June, we will focus on testing and hardening the MVP, to ensure it’s suitably robust. We will launch Sugar Rush as a trading venue for RealFi, supported by a hand-selected but diverse set of Coil peers. This iteration of Sugar Rush will have a fixed duration (on the order of 6 months to a year), allowing us to exercise the evacuation process, and ensuring we can upgrade with any improvements we make based on learnings from operating the Sugar Rush head.

We will expand Gummiworm capabilities to include EVM as an L2 ledger, and Midnight as an alternative L1 ledger. We will gauge the demand for a Midnight-focused or cross-chain instance of Sugar Rush, and facilitate key partnership integrations leveraging the EVM capabilities.

We will also facilitate adoption of Gummiworm with 3rd party launch partners.

We will build a robust, permissionless, incentive aligned coil network that offers compute and trust for new Heads in return for predictable revenue.

We will expand Gummiworm’s capabilities to leverage new Cardano L1 features, offer cross-head transactions, and continue to expand the adoption of Gummiworm until it is a revenue positive and dominant multi-chain scaling solution.