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title: "Is Radix still under active development?"
url: "https://radix.wiki/contents/resources/is-radix-still-under-active-development"
updated: 2026-11-15
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# Is Radix still under active development?

| Short answer | Yes, without a company behind it |
| --- | --- |
| Radix Foundation | [Maintenance mode since May 2026](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/foundation-update-moving-to-maintenance-mode) |
| Latest node release | [babylon-node v1.4.0.0](https://github.com/radixdlt/babylon-node/releases/tag/v1.4.0.0), 10 September 2026 |
| Latest Android wallet | [1.22.2](https://github.com/radixdlt/babylon-wallet-android/releases/tag/1.22.2), 27 October 2026 |
| Next protocol | [hyperscale-rs](/contents/tech/research/hyperscale-rs), open source, no roadmap |

## Introduction

Radix is still being developed, but no company now employs a team to do it. The [Radix Foundation](/ecosystem/radix-foundation), which built the network, [moved to maintenance mode in May 2026](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/foundation-update-moving-to-maintenance-mode): it said active development of new features and services would become minimal, and that its remaining full-time development team would finish handing over its work by the end of June. Since then the network's software has been kept running by a funded operations team and repaired by volunteers, community developers build new services for the Radix DAO, and the protocol meant to succeed today's is written in the open by one developer.

## Who keeps the network software running?

The node software, the [Radix Engine](/contents/tech/core-protocols/radix-engine) and the Gateway, the service through which wallets and apps read the ledger, last had releases in September 2026. They carried [Eagle Ray](/contents/tech/releases/protocol-updates#eagle-ray-enacted), the protocol update that restarted the network after the [August halt](/contents/history/hyperlane-asset-drain-2026): [radixdlt-scrypto v1.4.0](https://github.com/radixdlt/radixdlt-scrypto/releases/tag/v1.4.0) and [Gateway v1.10.7](https://github.com/radixdlt/babylon-gateway/releases/tag/v1.10.7) on 7 September, and the node release in the infobox three days later.

The Gateway, the Radix Connect Relay and the Signaling Server, which connect the wallet to dApps, passed to a standalone operation run by the Foundation's former DevOps team, which the Foundation [pre-funded to the end of December 2026](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/foundation-update-moving-to-maintenance-mode).

The [Radix Wallet](/contents/tech/core-protocols/radix-wallet) gets maintenance and no new features. Its maintainer [said in August 2026](https://t.me/RadixDevelopers/65908) that no wallet releases or Gateway improvements were planned until the community sets a direction by proposal. The Android release since then sets the target SDK that Google Play requires and fixes an error when a recovery phrase is missing from the device ([release notes](https://github.com/radixdlt/babylon-wallet-android/releases/tag/1.22.2)).

## What is being built for the next version of Radix?

[hyperscale-rs](/contents/tech/research/hyperscale-rs) is a Rust implementation of sharded consensus and the leading candidate for [Xi'an](/contents/tech/releases/radix-mainnet-xian), the upgrade that would spread Radix across many shards so that throughput grows with the number of nodes. Its lead developer, flightofthefox, [stopped seeking Radix grants](https://t.me/hyperscale_rs/11644) on 3 September 2026 and [said the project would continue](https://t.me/hyperscale_rs/11647) as open source that Radix is free to adopt.

The [hyperscale-rs repository](https://github.com/hyperscalers/hyperscale-rs) took at least 100 commits between 15 October and 10 November 2026, all of them his, and its companion virtual machine, [hyperscale-vm](https://github.com/hyperscalers/hyperscale-vm), 24 more. Asked on 13 November where its milestones are published, he answered that [there is no particular roadmap](https://t.me/hyperscale_rs/14100).

## What are community developers building?

New services now come from community developers working for the DAO. On 12 November 2026 they put a [token price service](/contents/tech/core-protocols/radix-wallet#token-prices) for the Radix Wallet into production, run by RadixDAO; its [code](https://github.com/RadixDAO/pricing-service) is open source and took 21 commits from two developers between 15 October and 13 November.

The community is also building the organization that would pay for development. [Radix DAO LLC](/ideas/dao-incorporate-duna-llc), the DAO's legal company, was incorporated in the Marshall Islands in October 2026, the Foundation has committed its remaining treasury to it as a [grant](/ideas/dao-foundation-ip-asset-transfer), and candidacy for the [Permanent RAC](/ideas/dao-elect-permanent-rac), the DAO's first elected council, closed on 13 November with 15 candidates.

## What happens when the protocol itself needs a fix?

A fix to Radix's built-in code needs a protocol update, which someone has to write, release and get validators to install. The rounding flaw in the native pool code that the [14 November 2026 DEX pool drain](/contents/history/dex-pool-drain-november-2026) used is such a case. That day a community developer [said he had written patches](https://t.me/radix_dlt/1012473) that he could not deploy himself, and the wallet's maintainer [said a new release was needed](https://t.me/radix_dlt/1012402) and that the release accounts were still held by the Foundation. The Foundation's funding of the network services runs to the end of December 2026, and its treasury is to pass to the DAO once the transfer's [legal and compliance steps](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/foundation-update-moving-to-maintenance-mode) are complete.

## External Links

- [Foundation Update: Moving to Maintenance Mode (Radix blog, 28 April 2026)](https://www.radixdlt.com/blog/foundation-update-moving-to-maintenance-mode)
- [babylon-node releases](https://github.com/radixdlt/babylon-node/releases)
- [hyperscale-rs on GitHub](https://github.com/hyperscalers/hyperscale-rs)
- [RadixDAO pricing-service on GitHub](https://github.com/RadixDAO/pricing-service)