🗓️ Roadmap & Team

Most roadmaps are lists of promises. This one is mostly a list of receipts.

As of July 2026, the Matsuri platform is live: the token is on mainnet with its authorities revoked, three native iOS apps are on the App Store, and crypto payments run in production every day. What remains ahead is deliberately narrow — moving the economic engine on-chain, one audited contract at a time — and it has dates attached.

3iOS apps liveMatsuri / GCF Admin / J-Times

550MMTC lockedStreamflow, cliff 2027-06-01

43Contract testszero clippy warnings, zero unwrap/panic

20Languagesthis whitepaper site

✅ Shipped — where we already are

Theme: build first, then talk. Everything in this table is live and verifiable today — on Solscan, on the App Store, or in the apps themselves.

Status	Milestone	Detail
✅	Token genesis	900,000,000 MTC minted on Solana; mint and freeze authorities revoked — the supply is fixed forever
✅	Community pool locked	550M MTC (≈61%) locked in Streamflow Finance with an irrevocable cliff on 2027-06-01
✅	Initial liquidity	Raydium MTC/SOL liquidity pool seeded
✅	3 native iOS apps released	Matsuri (consumer), GCF Admin, and J-Times — all live on the App Store
✅	Web platform live	matsuri.group (web app), j-times.org (media), gcf.works (GCF portal), matsuri-dao.com (this whitepaper, in 20 languages)
✅	Crypto payments in production	Solana Pay and Phantom deep-link payment verification live in the production apps
✅	Disaster Lifeline shipped	Offline shelter finder, P2P mesh bulletin board, JMA alerts — see Disaster Lifeline
✅	Live streaming shipped	Self-hosted LiveKit infrastructure with tips, drops, and tier-gated archives — see Live
✅	Contracts code-complete	matsuri-buyback, matsuri-vesting, matsuri-distribution written and tested (43 tests); Hashlock Phase 1 submission package complete

The audit relationship

The staged security audit with Hashlock was initiated in April 2026 at TEAMZ Summit Tokyo. The precise wording matters: audit-prep is complete and a staged audit is in progress — no contract is described as "audited" until its phase concludes, and no contract activates on mainnet before that.

🔥 In progress — H2 2026

Theme: proof. The second half of 2026 turns code-complete contracts into audited, deployed infrastructure — and turns the initial liquidity pool into a real market.

Status	Milestone	Detail
⬜	Hashlock Phase 1 kickoff (Aug 2026)	matsuri-buyback enters audit; findings expected September, final report October
⬜	DEX listing	Broaden MTC market access beyond the initial Raydium pool
⬜	Buyback engine on mainnet (Oct–Dec 2026)	Deployed after the audit passes and DEX listing completes; routes 20% of Matsuri HQ sales and 25% of GCF membership fees into market buyback + LP injection — see Tokenomics
⬜	Liquidity mining rollout	LP rewards on the Raydium MTC/SOL pool (target 20% APY — a target, not a promise)
⬜	Asia expansion	Partner bases and GCF events beyond Japan, starting with markets such as Thailand and Taiwan
⬜	¥1 billion target	Ecosystem-wide asset scale by end of phase

🌸 2027 — the Grand Unlock

Theme: circulation. On 2027-06-01 the Streamflow cliff ends and the 550M community pool comes to life — not as a dump, but as a metered, audited release schedule.

Q1 2027 — Phase 1.5 audit
matsuri-vesting and matsuri-distribution enter Hashlock review, in time for the unlock.
2027-06-01 — the cliff ends
Streamflow releases the 550M MTC community pool into the audited vesting and distribution contracts, which go live the same day.
The halving era begins
Release runs in 2-year epochs at a 50% factor: Epoch 1 (2027–2029) ≈275M, Epoch 2 (2029–2031) ≈137.5M, Epoch 3 (2031–2033) ≈68.75M, and onward — see Tokenomics.
The DAO transition starts
GCF Gold and Platinum members gain protocol voting rights (see Governance below).

Status	Milestone	Detail
⬜	Worldwide release	Matsuri app official global launch
⬜	DAO transition begins	Voting by GCF Gold (capped at 300) and Platinum (capped at 50, on-chain SBT) members
⬜	¥10 billion target	Ecosystem-wide asset scale

⚡ The on-chain migration map

This table is the canonical statement of what is on-chain today versus what migrates next. Other chapters — Mining, Tokenomics, Product & Tech — link here rather than restating it.

Component	Status today (July 2026)	On-chain milestone
MTC SPL token (900M, fixed)	✅ Live on mainnet; mint and freeze authorities revoked	Complete
Streamflow lockup (550M MTC)	✅ Live; irrevocable cliff 2027-06-01	Complete
Raydium MTC/SOL LP	✅ Live; initial pool seeded	Liquidity-mining rollout, H2 2026
Solana Pay / Phantom payments	✅ Live in the production apps	Complete
Self-custody withdrawals	✅ Live — in-app MTC balance withdraws to Phantom under tiered limits	Complete
NFTs — event drops, 御朱印 (goshuin, temple-seal) NFTs, Platinum SBT	✅ Live — Metaplex Core, Solscan-verifiable	Complete
matsuri-buyback	Code-complete (1,797 LOC / 17 tests); not deployed to any cluster	Hashlock Phase 1 from Aug 2026 → mainnet Oct–Dec 2026, post-DEX-listing
matsuri-vesting	Code-complete (1,629 LOC / 26 tests); not deployed to any cluster	Phase 1.5 audit Q1 2027 → live 2027-06-01
matsuri-distribution	Code-complete; not deployed to any cluster	Phase 1.5 audit Q1 2027 → live 2027-06-01
縁 (En) mining on-chain leg + 徳 (Toku) staking	Off-chain today (oracle phase)	Parameters finalize with the on-chain phase

One rule never changes

Apps never touch Solana directly. Every on-chain action flows app → Django backend → Solana — see Product & Tech for why.

🔭 Beyond — the Culture OS

Past the Grand Unlock, the roadmap widens from a token economy into a cultural operating system: real-world assets (RWA) tied to cultural properties, and on-chain preservation of the crafts, festivals, and places the platform already serves.

Today, a tourist buys a souvenir from a shop that pays rent to a platform. Tomorrow, a rural artisan sells directly to a fan in Copenhagen, and a portion of that sale automatically strengthens the MTC economy — the flywheel in its most complete form. The long-horizon design lives in The Future.

👤 Team

Matsuri Protocol is built by Jon & Coo Inc. (Japan).


Ko Takahashi Founder / CEO	Jon Anders Jensen Director, GCF	Ryunosuke Honda Director, Regional Ambassador

Ko Takahashi — Founder / CEO. Overall project leadership: platform architecture, smart contracts, full-stack development. Writes the code himself and stands on the ground himself (Golden Gai) — a practitioner of skin in the game.

Jon Anders Jensen — Director, GCF. Runs GCF operations and the on-the-ground design of events and tours. His international perspective and trusted relationships with GCF members carry the human flow of the ecosystem.

Ryunosuke Honda — Director, Regional Ambassador. The bridge between regional cultures and communities across Japan and the Matsuri platform — discovering regional cultural assets and bringing Deep Japan experiences online.

🌏 Built with the GCF community

The founding team is small by design. GCF members around the world — Japan, Norway, Thailand, Taiwan, and beyond — contribute testing, translation, sacred-site scouting, event operations, and regional deployment.

Cultural infrastructure we build together

Joining GCF makes you a co-developer of Matsuri Protocol. Writing code is not the only contribution: introducing sacred sites in your area, translating documentation, and planning events all carry this protocol to the world.

温故知新 (onko-chishin — learn from the old to build the new): wisdom handed forward.

🏛️ Governance — the road to a DAO

Matsuri Protocol migrates gradually from a founding team to a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). From 2027, GCF Gold and Platinum members — numbered memberships capped at 300 and 50 respectively, with Platinum anchored by an on-chain SBT certificate — hold voting rights over key protocol matters. See GCF for the membership ladder.

Vote item	Content
💰 Fund allocation	Which initiatives and markets ecosystem revenue is reinvested in
⚙️ Protocol parameters	Tuning of fee rates and mining reward rates
⛩️ Cultural accreditation	Which festivals and sacred sites receive official accreditation and financial support

A borderless cultural economy — the Matsuri flywheel reaching across the world.

Not just an app

We are not building an app. We are building a borderless cultural economy — and as of July 2026, most of its foundation is already standing.

✅ Shipped — where we already are​

🔥 In progress — H2 2026​

🌸 2027 — the Grand Unlock​

⚡ The on-chain migration map​

🔭 Beyond — the Culture OS​

👤 Team​

🌏 Built with the GCF community​

🏛️ Governance — the road to a DAO​