- Validation of other nodes
- Fault tolerance
- Permissions framework
- Protocol audits including security audits
- Node validation framework (inspect and agree or not with what the other nodes are doing)
- Federation management tools
- More tools for benchmarking a cluster
- Descriptions and results of more benchmarking tests
- AWS image and other easy deployment options
- Drivers/SDKs for more client-side languages (e.g. JavaScript, Ruby, Java)
- ORM to better-decouple BigchainDB from its data store (will make it easy to try other databases)
- Code audits including security audits
- Byzantine fault tolerance
- Better support for smart contract frameworks