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Casper Network ($CSPR), a proof-of-stake Layer-1 blockchain, has published the Casper Manifest, a multi-year technical roadmap outlining initiatives to position the network as infrastructure for regulated real-world asset tokenization and machine-to-machine commerce.
The roadmap was presented by Casper Association president and chief technology officer Michael Steuer at the Digital Finance Forum in Bermuda on 12 May. It builds on major protocol upgrades delivered since mid-2025, including Casper 2.0, which introduced deterministic finality and a multi-VM execution layer, the association's management said in a statement.
"Much of the industry is focused on either maximizing hype, or iterating on concepts that service the same existing, crypto-native use cases," Steuer said in the statement. "Few are building the infrastructure that will onboard the next billion users, the next trillion dollars in tokenized assets, or the first billion machines."
Compliance, privacy and AI payments
The nine initiatives span developer access, user experience, institutional compliance, transaction privacy, micropayments for AI agents, native token infrastructure and quantum-safe cryptography. First up is an effort to support the X402 open payment standard, which enables AI agents to pay for services programmatically per API call or data query without human intermediaries.
The roadmap arrives as competition among Layer-1 blockchains to capture the institutional tokenization business intensifies, with companies organizing pilot projects to test and kickstart the market for tokenized real-world assets. Established networks, including Ethereum and Solana, dominate current flows, but a growing number of purpose-built chains are positioning themselves as better suited to regulated finance, as regulators actively build frameworks that could accelerate institutional adoption at scale.
Casper, based in Zug, Switzerland, expects to become the first WebAssembly-native layer-1 with production X402 support, with delivery expected within weeks. As a member of the X402 Foundation, Casper is building the standard directly into its protocol infrastructure, according to the statement.
Other near-term deliverables include full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility alongside its existing WebAssembly execution environment, allowing developers to deploy existing Solidity contracts and tools without modification.
Compliant security tokens with onchain identity verification and transfer restrictions are being built in alignment with the ERC-3643 standard, which already governs $28bn in tokenized assets on chain. Gasless transactions, batch operations and smart accounts with biometric authentication are also on the schedule for 2026, Casper Association said.
Quantum safety and privacy
Transaction privacy and quantum-safe cryptography are targeted for delivery through 2027, building on the earlier infrastructure work. Steuer framed the quantum component as a differentiator for institutions evaluating decade-long blockchain deployments.
"For institutions evaluating blockchain platforms for decade-long deployments, the answer to 'what happens when quantum computers arrive' will be production code, not a research paper," Steuer said.
The privacy roadmap delivers confidential transactions with fixed, predictable costs alongside built-in tools for auditors and regulators to verify compliance without public exposure of transaction details, which Casper Association describes as targeting the $16tn real-world asset tokenization market.
Casper's token ($CSPR) provides holders access to state-of-the-art dApps, NFT platforms, wallets, and other blockchain-enabled services and features in the ecosystem, according to the issuer. As at 11:23UTC on 12 May, it was trading close to its all-time low at $0.0305. It peaked above 5 cents in 2024.