# Introduction

Given the founder’s vision for the project and the original time restrictions garnered by a single college semester work period, a multi-phased rollout was decided as the best choice for deployment. In this section, we will detail the short term and long term development plans for the OpenBook sportsbook protocol at the time of writing this whitepaper. These phases and anything laid out within them are subject to change at any moment, but barring any major changes these are the plans for the near future.
