Notes on developments since last community call:
## Deployments
- kenya
- Bitcoin Kakuma
- UN Refugee camp
- Challenges
- Madeira
- Gateways
- Santo António
- Central Funchal
- Setup directional antennas to create a mesh throughout Funchal
- Anyone can connect
- Austria
- Starlink upstream
- 3 locations on mountainous terrain (line of sight)
- park4night
- Cafe in Canada
- Virtual ISP with VPN servers
## UX
* [Lock to npub](
https://github.com/Amperstrand/cdk/tree/feat/fakewallet-manual-approval) for Ritik Mints
* [onboarding notes](
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/deployment-notes)
* Significant [FIPS adoption](
https://github.com/jmcorgan/fips), [podcast here](
https://pod.wave.co/podcast/citadel-dispatch/cd193-fips-fixing-the-internet)
## Software
- router to router autopay & [protocol updates](
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go/tree/feature/router-to-router-autopay)
- antenna tracker
## Roadmap 2026
- Pico Balloons with SX1280
- FIPS for serving content from behind a firewall
- UX improvements
- Actively work with people deploying tollgate networks & provide support
- Improve onboarding
- rust Library
- extract core functionality of TollGate
- CDK for wallet
- agent-friendly
- support more targets
- Spillman channels
- esp32
- Support for esp32 devices