The Aurono roadmap, eight months later

In February I published a five-phase roadmap for Aurono. Eight months on, it’s worth holding it up against what actually happened. Some of it shipped. One phase arrived a year early, in a different shape than I planned. And some of it is still only a plan, which I’d rather say plainly than dress up with new dates.

Phase 1 - Aurono Start: shipped

Aurono Start went live at the end of May 2026. It runs your rules on your own device, on Bitvavo, Kraken or Coinbase, and explains every decision it makes, including the ones where it chose not to act.

Since launch it has grown in the places real use pointed to:

Strategy Lab. Test a set of rules against past prices before any money moves, and see how it compares with buying monthly or buying once and holding.
RSI confirmation. A buy or sell can wait until momentum agrees, so a strategy doesn’t buy into a fall that is still falling.
Shadow mode that matches live. Shadow results now include trading fees and fill like real orders, so the free trial shows what a strategy would really have done.
Honest return figures. The dashboard measures what your money earned from the day each euro went in, the standard way, instead of a figure that shifted every time you added or withdrew.
A ready-made device. Since the end of August you can order a Raspberry Pi 5 with Aurono already installed (Netherlands only for now).
Your data for your own AI. You can download every strategy’s rules, results and history and ask the AI tool you already use what your best and worst strategies have in common.

The roadmap also promised that the decision engine would be open and inspectable. Since September it is: the core of Aurono Start is public on GitHub under an open-source license. You don’t have to take my word for how it decides. You can read it.

Phase 2 - Portfolio awareness: the core is in place

The February plan described Phase 2 as one big step. In practice most of it arrived inside Aurono Start, piece by piece:

Several exchanges, one view. Aurono reads your balances on every connected exchange and knows which money is free and which is locked in open orders.
Capital across strategies. The Capital Rebalancer shows which strategies are short of cash and which have money sitting idle, and lets you move it between them.
Isolation. Each strategy keeps its own capital, so a problem in one doesn’t spill into another.
An audit trail. Every decision, trade and skipped run is recorded with its reason, and an hourly check compares Aurono’s open orders with what each exchange reports.

What isn’t there yet: risk limits that the system enforces across all your strategies at once. Today the Rebalancer helps you decide. It doesn’t decide for you. Whether it should is still an open question, and I’d rather leave it open than build it because a roadmap once said so.

There’s a second half to portfolio awareness that doesn’t belong inside a trading tool: seeing everything you own in one place, not just what your strategies trade. That’s Aurono Atlas. Right now it’s an early version running on my own device, built to learn what a portfolio monitor should actually show before it becomes a product. The same rules apply: it runs locally, and your data stays yours. More when it’s ready.

Phase 4 - Multi-asset: a year early, as Aurono Onchain

This is the biggest change from the plan. Multi-asset was pencilled in for 2027, after the Strategy Store. It came first, and it took a different route than expected.

Instead of connecting to traditional brokers, Aurono Onchain trades directly on a blockchain, from a wallet only you hold. It uses the same rule engine as Aurono Start, but there is no exchange account in between: the only signature that can move your funds is yours. (Why that difference matters.)

It also opened the door to more than crypto. Onchain can trade tokenized US stocks next to crypto, settled in USDC, under the same rules and the same explanations.

Onchain placed its first real trade in September and is in beta now, with a first outside tester trading with real money. It isn’t for sale yet. Getting it to a beta I’m happy to offer more widely is where most of my building time goes now.

Phase 3 - Strategy Store: still planned for 2027

The Strategy Store is the most fully designed part of the roadmap that hasn’t been built. The idea hasn’t changed: adopt someone else’s rules with complete transparency, while execution stays on your own device and decisions stay yours.

What has changed is the question of scope. With Start and Onchain sharing one rule engine, a store that only serves one of them would be half a store. The plan is still to deliver it in 2027.

Phase 5 - Infrastructure: direction, not work

Aurono as a general-purpose execution layer, stewarded by an Aurono Foundation, is still where this is heading in the long run. There’s no work on it today. One thing did get settled: the Foundation will be its own legal entity, separate from Aurono Labs, so the open core never depends on one company’s commercial interests.

What comes next

In order:

Aurono Start keeps improving where real use asks for it. Fixes come quickly, and new releases keep arriving. But the big new building happens elsewhere for now.
Aurono Onchain to a proper beta, ready to offer to anyone who wants self-custodial rule-based trading.
The Strategy Store after that, in 2027.

Held against the February plan: Onchain is ahead of schedule and the Strategy Store is still planned for 2027. Portfolio awareness has become more concrete than it was in February: the parts with the most value are already in Start and Onchain.

The thread is still the same

Eight months: one phase shipped, one ahead of schedule, one taking concrete shape and the Strategy Store on track for 2027. The line through all of it hasn’t moved: your device, your rules, your data, no custody. Every phase that shipped kept to it. The ones still ahead will too.

Aurono Start is live. Try it free in shadow mode or download it to get started.