Roadmap

Our path to bringing the real maritime economy on-chain, from the BNB Smart Chain testnet launch of the SHIPEX loyalty program to global maritime participation for everyday members and institutions alike. This roadmap is a living document. Milestones marked complete are already live on testnet; everything ahead is a planned direction, not a promise, and forward-looking items may change as the program, the market, and the regulatory landscape evolve.

#How to read this roadmap

Each phase below has:

• A status: Complete, In Progress, or Planned.
• A progress figure: 100% for delivered phases, a live estimate for the phase underway, and 0% for phases not yet started. The overall progress bar at the top of the page is the mean of every phase's progress, and the caption counts completed phases, so the number moves honestly as work lands rather than being set by hand.
• Sub-milestones: the concrete pieces of work inside the phase, grouped by theme (protocol, program economics, fleet, compliance, product, and growth).
• Dependencies: what has to be true before the phase can start or ship.
• Ties to the economics: how the phase connects to the $SHIPEX supply, the reward reserve, the loyalty tiers, and the attested fleet described in the whitepaper and the economic model.

A note on wording used throughout: $SHIPEX is a utility token used only to access the loyalty program and its benefits. It is not an investment, a security, or a financial product, and it grants no ownership or financial rights. Program rewards are variable and never guaranteed.

#The system this roadmap is building on

Every phase references the same on-chain foundation, so it is worth stating the ground truth once.

The fleet, as shown in the app under Vessels, is:

• An MR2 product oil tanker, about $28.5M, attested by DNV.
• An IMO Type II chemical tanker, about $19.2M, attested by Lloyd's Register.
• An LNG carrier, about $54.0M, attested by Bureau Veritas.

The reward economics are deliberately conservative. Rewards accrue per position by the contract's own formula, from the member's own locked reward rate, from the last claim forward:

accrued = amount * lockedRate * elapsed / (10000 * 31536000)

Because rewards are paid from the funded reward reserve, the contract reverts with an explicit InsufficientRewardReserve error rather than paying out more than the reserve can cover. The tokens a member participates with are never at risk from this mechanism; they are released back to the member at tier completion. This reserve-funded, bounded design is the single most important idea the roadmap protects as the program scales.

Why this matters at all: the maritime industry carries more than 80% of world trade by sea, yet ordinary participants have almost never been able to take part in it. Industry estimates already place the on-chain real-world value market in the tens of billions of dollars, and maritime operators face real, dated pressures, the IMO Carbon Intensity Indicator, the EU Emissions Trading System now covering shipping, and FuelEU Maritime, that make transparent, verifiable on-chain records genuinely useful rather than cosmetic. SHIPEX is built to sit at that intersection.

#The company behind SHIPEX

SHIPEX is a maritime-technology team bringing the real maritime economy on-chain. The company operates the SHIPEX loyalty program and connects it to real, working vessels rather than to abstractions. The roadmap below is the company's own plan of record, so this section is concrete about who is building it and what stands behind it.

What SHIPEX is. SHIPEX pairs a maritime operation with an on-chain program. On one side sits a fleet of attested vessels doing real charter work in the global shipping market; on the other sits a transparent, non-custodial program that lets verified members participate with the $SHIPEX utility token and receive variable program rewards. The two sides are tied together on-chain through Proof of Reserve, so the digital program always maps to physical vessels a member can see in the app.

The fleet that stands behind the program. The founding fleet is three vessels with a combined attested value of about $101.7M, each anchored to its IMO number and attested by an IACS member class society:

• An MR2 product oil tanker, about $28.5M, attested by DNV (IMO 9456231).
• An IMO Type II chemical tanker, about $19.2M, attested by Lloyd's Register (IMO 9612874).
• An LNG carrier, about $54.0M, attested by Bureau Veritas (IMO 9789845).

These are not marketing figures. Each vessel is identifiable by its IMO number, its class society is a globally recognized IACS member, and the attested value feeds the on-chain Proof of Reserve that the program is measured against.

The team. The people building SHIPEX work across three disciplines that the model genuinely needs at once: maritime operations (the people who understand vessels, charters, class status, and the dated environmental rules that shape a ship's real-world value), finance operations (the people who manage the reward reserve, the reference pricing, and the reserve-funded accounting), and on-chain engineering (the people who write and maintain the non-custodial contracts, the identity gating, and the live on-chain reads the app depends on). Keeping all three disciplines in one team is what lets the roadmap couple real charter activity to an honest, bounded reward reserve instead of treating the two as separate stories.

Official channels. The single source of truth for the program is the website at shipextoken.com and the in-app experience it links to (Dashboard, Loyalty Program, Calculator, Portfolio, Vessels, Buy). Live figures for supply, reward rates, totals, and positions are always read from the program contract and shown in the app, never asserted by hand. Members should treat the official website and its linked community channels as the only authoritative sources, and should always verify contract addresses against what the app displays.

A reminder that governs everything here: $SHIPEX is a utility token used only to access the loyalty program and its benefits. It is not an investment, a security, or a financial product, it grants no ownership or financial rights, and program rewards are variable and never guaranteed. Members receive rewards from the on-chain reward reserve, and real charter activity from the fleet replenishes that reserve. Members do not receive a direct share of that charter activity, and $SHIPEX confers no redemption right and no claim on the vessels.

#Phase 1: Q1 2026 · Foundation

Status: Complete (100%) Stat line: BSC Testnet, 4 Tiers Live, Community

The Foundation phase put a working program on-chain and opened it to the first members. Everything in this phase is delivered and verifiable on testnet today.

#Protocol and program

• Smart contract deployment on BNB Smart Chain testnet. The $SHIPEX token and the ShipexStakingV2 loyalty program contract are deployed and reading live on-chain, with a 2-decimal token and a 1,200,000 total supply.
• Four loyalty tiers live. Daily, Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly tiers are active, each with its own tier duration and its own reward rate, locked for a member at the moment they join so a later admin rate change never re-prices an existing position.
• Reserve-funded reward accounting. The 200,000-SHIPEX reward reserve and the per-position accrual model are live, with the reserve read on-chain and the claim path showing the reserve ceiling as it is rather than overstating what is claimable.
• Non-custodial participation flow. The two-step member flow, a one-time Approve then Participate (createPosition), is live; the member signs both actions in their own wallet, and SHIPEX never holds member funds or keys.

#Product and access

• Website, dApp, and community launch. The marketing site and the in-app experience (Dashboard, Loyalty Program, Calculator, Portfolio, Vessels, Buy) shipped, with live on-chain reads for totals, reward rates, balances, and positions.
• Identity-gating flow integrated. A one-time KYC step binds eligibility to a wallet, establishing the single verified identity that is designed to unlock every vessel as it comes on-chain, with no repeat checks.
• Fleet brought on-chain. The first three attested vessels are represented on-chain and browsable under Vessels, anchored to their IMO numbers with class-society attestations.

#Trust

• Independent security assessment initiated (CertiK). An independent, third-party review of the on-chain program was started, so the contracts members rely on are examined by outside eyes rather than only by the team.

#Ties to the economics

Foundation locks in the two properties the rest of the roadmap depends on: rewards are bounded by a funded reserve, and the tokens a member participates with are always released at tier completion. Every later phase adds reach and depth on top of these invariants without changing them.

#Phase 2: Q2 2026 · Growth

Status: In Progress (around 40%) Stat line: Mainnet Target, Exchange Listing, Fleet Expansion

Growth turns the tested foundation into a public, mainnet program and begins replenishing the reward reserve from real maritime activity rather than a pre-seeded balance. This phase is underway; the items below are the work in flight.

#Protocol

• Mainnet deployment on BNB Smart Chain. Promote the program from testnet (chain id 97) to mainnet (chain id 56). The wiring is already env-driven, so promotion is a configuration flip plus a fresh independent review of the exact mainnet build, not a rewrite.
• ERC-3643 permissioned build at mainnet. The mainnet token is designed around ERC-3643, the permissioned, identity-gated standard, so that only verified, eligible wallets can hold or transfer it. The current testnet token is a deliberately simplified build; the identity-gated version is what makes institutional participation possible.
• Reward reserve funded from real charter activity. Move the reward reserve from a designed starting balance toward being topped up by real maritime activity, time charters, pool activity, and bareboat charters, carried out by the fleet and brought on-chain.

#Access and liquidity

• CEX and DEX listing. Establish accessible, liquid venues for acquiring $SHIPEX, with a market-derived reference price replacing the fixed testnet constant of 0.4285 USD.
• On-chain Proof of Reserve surfaced publicly. Make the tie between the circulating token and the attested vessel value continuously visible, so members can see that what they hold maps to real vessels.

#Fleet

• Expanded maritime fleet onboarding. Bring additional attested vessels on-chain beyond the founding three (MR2 oil tanker, IMO Type II chemical tanker, LNG carrier), each attested by an IACS member class society and anchored to its IMO number, growing the roughly $101.7M attested base.

#Growth

• Community ambassador and referral program. Stand up a structured, compliant member-growth program with referral mechanics, so growth is driven by members rather than paid noise.

#Dependencies

• A clean, independent review of the mainnet ERC-3643 build before any mainnet promotion.
• Real charter activity flowing on-chain before the reserve can credibly be described as activity-funded.

#Ties to the economics

Growth is where the reward reserve stops being a static number and starts being connected to vessel activity, and where the reference price becomes a real market price. The 1,200,000 supply and the reserve-funded, InsufficientRewardReserve-bounded design carry over unchanged; what changes is that the reserve is replenished by the fleet rather than pre-seeded.

#Phase 3: Q3 2026 · Expansion

Status: Planned (0%) Stat line: Multi-chain, Institutional, Mobile Beta

Expansion widens the surface: more chains, deeper analytics, the first institutional members, and mobile. The program mechanics stay identical; the reach grows.

#Protocol

• Multi-chain reach (Ethereum, BNB Chain). Introduce a bridge so eligible members can access the program across BNB Chain and Ethereum, with the identity-gating and Proof of Reserve properties preserved on every chain rather than diluted by the extra surface.

#Product

• Advanced portfolio and analytics dashboard. Give members a deeper, exportable view of their positions, accrued rewards over time, tier completion dates, and fleet-level activity, all driven by live on-chain reads with reserve-aware reward figures.
• Mobile app beta (iOS and Android). Ship a mobile beta of the dApp so members can participate, claim, and track positions from a phone with a native, wallet-browser-friendly experience.

#Members

• Institutional onboarding. Open a compliant onboarding path for institutional members, building on the ERC-3643 identity gating so eligible entities can participate under the same reserve-funded rules as everyone else.

#Community

• Community input framework v1. Introduce a first, structured way for members to give input on program direction. This is member input, not a formal governance right over the program.

#Dependencies

• Mainnet live and stable (Phase 2) before multi-chain reach is meaningful.
• The identity-gating model proven on mainnet before institutional onboarding scales.

#Ties to the economics

Expansion does not add new reward sources; it adds new places and new kinds of members participating in the same bounded reward reserve. The analytics work makes the reserve-aware reward math visible to members at a glance, which matters more, not less, as participation grows.

#Phase 4: Q4 2026 · Scale

Status: Planned (0%) Stat line: 10+ Markets, Community Input, Global

Scale takes the program from a working multi-chain product to a globally available one, with enterprise integration and a full compliance framework for international reach.

#Product and integration

• Enterprise API v2 and white-label integration. Provide a documented API and a white-label path so operators and platforms can integrate SHIPEX participation and fleet transparency into their own products.
• Mobile app full release. Graduate the mobile beta to a full public release on iOS and Android.

#Community and compliance

• Community input and program updates. Mature the member-input framework so members can shape program direction through structured channels, still as input rather than a formal governance right.
• Full compliance and regulatory framework rollout. Roll out the broader compliance framework, designed in line with the MiCA and VARA regulatory frameworks, to support participation across more jurisdictions.

#Growth

• Global expansion: Asia, Europe, Middle East. Extend availability and localization across at least ten markets, prioritizing regions where on-chain real-world value already has regulatory clarity.

#Dependencies

• Institutional onboarding and multi-chain reach proven (Phase 3).
• Jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction compliance work completed ahead of each market opening.

#Ties to the economics

Scale is the phase where the fleet base and the reserve are large enough that enterprise members and multiple markets can participate without stressing the bounded reward model. The whitepaper's compliance-first thesis, ERC-3643 gating plus Proof of Reserve, is what makes cross-jurisdiction expansion credible rather than aspirational.

#Phase 5: Q1 2027 · Deepening

Status: Planned (0%) Stat line: Reserve Depth, Proof of Reserve v2, Data

With 2026 focused on launch, mainnet, reach, and scale, 2027 focuses on depth and durability. Deepening is about making the reserve-funded model demonstrably robust at higher participation.

#Protocol and economics

• Reserve depth and replenishment cadence. Formalize and publish the cadence by which real charter activity replenishes the reward reserve, so members can see the reserve breathing with fleet activity rather than as a black box. The reward rates stay indicative and read-live; the reserve stays the ceiling.
• Proof of Reserve v2. Extend Proof of Reserve from static attested vessel value toward a richer, more frequently updated attestation that reflects class status and voyage activity, keeping the on-chain representation accurate as the fleet grows.

#Product

• Fleet activity and voyage transparency. Surface vessel-level activity (charter status, class events, sustainability indicators) in the app, connecting the reward story to what the vessels are actually doing.
• Member data exports and reporting. Give members and institutional members clean, exportable records of their participation history for their own bookkeeping and compliance needs.

#Sustainability

• IMO CII and EU compliance signals on-chain. Begin representing each vessel's environmental compliance posture (Carbon Intensity Indicator rating, EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime exposure) on-chain, since these are exactly the factors that increasingly determine a vessel's real-world value.

#Ties to the economics

Deepening does not change the supply, the tiers, or the bounded reward model. It makes the connection between real maritime activity and the reward reserve legible and continuously attested, which is the credibility foundation for the larger fleet and network work that follows.

#Phase 6: Q2 2027 · Fleet

Status: Planned (0%) Stat line: Larger Fleet, More Classes, More Value

The Fleet phase grows the attested vessel base well beyond the founding three, broadening vessel types and class societies so the real-world value behind the program is larger and more diversified.

#Fleet

• Broaden vessel classes. Add vessel types beyond the founding oil, chemical, and LNG carriers, each attested by an IACS member class society and anchored to its IMO number.
• Diversify class-society attestation. Continue working with multiple class societies (in the spirit of the founding DNV, Lloyd's Register, and Bureau Veritas attestations) so no single attester is a single point of trust.
• Grow the attested base beyond the founding ~$101.7M. Increase total attested vessel value in step with participation, keeping Proof of Reserve coverage meaningful rather than thin.

#Product

• Fleet explorer. A richer in-app view of the whole on-chain fleet, its class records, activity, and sustainability posture, so members can browse the real maritime economy behind the program.

#Ties to the economics

A larger, more diversified fleet means a larger, more resilient base of real maritime activity feeding the reward reserve, and more room for participation to grow without pressing against the bounded reward model. Growth here is deliberately coupled to attested value, not decoupled from it.

#Phase 7: H2 2027 · Maritime Network

Status: Planned (0%) Stat line: Ecosystem, Operators, Standards

The Maritime Network phase moves SHIPEX from a single program to an ecosystem that other maritime operators and platforms can build on, while holding the same compliance and reserve-funded principles.

#Ecosystem

• Operator onboarding at scale. Make it straightforward for additional maritime operators to bring attested vessels on-chain through SHIPEX, expanding the fleet and the network of real activity.
• Standards and interoperability. Contribute to and adopt open standards for on-chain vessel attestation and Proof of Reserve, so maritime real-world value is portable and verifiable rather than proprietary.
• Enterprise ecosystem tooling. Extend the enterprise API and white-label surface so partners and platforms across jurisdictions can integrate maritime transparency and compliant member participation.

#Compliance

• Multi-jurisdiction compliance depth. Deepen the compliance framework across additional regions, continuing to design in line with MiCA, VARA, and the maritime-specific rules (IMO CII, EU ETS, FuelEU Maritime) that shape vessel value.

#Ties to the economics

The network phase is where the program's principles, identity-gated access, Proof of Reserve, bounded reserve-funded rewards, become a shared foundation rather than a single-project feature. The economics scale by adding attested activity and eligible members, never by loosening the reward reserve ceiling.

#Beyond 2027 · The horizon

Longer-range direction, intentionally described as vision rather than committed milestones:

• A fully on-chain maritime real-world value network, where a large, diversified, continuously attested fleet backs compliant, identity-gated participation across many chains and many jurisdictions.
• Real maritime activity as the primary engine of program rewards, with the reward reserve visibly and predictably replenished by charter and pool activity.
• Everyday and institutional members side by side, participating under one identity and one set of bounded, transparent rules.
• Maritime sustainability as a first-class on-chain signal, so the environmental compliance that increasingly drives vessel value is legible to every member.

None of this changes the core promise: $SHIPEX is a utility token used only to access the loyalty program and its benefits, rewards are variable and never guaranteed, and the tokens a member participates with are always released at tier completion.

#Progress methodology (for transparency)

The overall progress bar is computed, not asserted. It is the mean of every phase's progress value, and the caption counts completed phases out of the total. Adding the 2027 phases at 0% deliberately lowers the headline percentage, because an honest roadmap with a longer horizon should show more work remaining, not less. Delivered phases sit at 100%, the phase underway carries a live estimate, and planned phases stay at 0% until work begins.

#Get started

Open the app, connect a BNB Smart Chain wallet, complete the one-time verification, and pick a loyalty tier. Rewards settle on-chain, and the tokens you participate with are released at tier completion. Live reward rates, totals, and positions always come from the program contract, shown in the app.