I think every serious investor not too focused on the price will wait for Q4 and the main net rollout. It might be a little disappointing for some investors but they just need to be patient

The claiming process is well managed and easy to follow. I am really looking forward to see how many people actually are going to claim their coins since I guess a lot of people will miss the opportunity

Always crazy how fast one year can go by. Congratulation to everyone still here and helping the project.

The high volume will come sooner or later. I think the major impact would actually be the real world sky wire with antennas. This would really create something independent from the internet right now and will draw some high amount of attention to the project

I never heard about that in any project before. But I guess it wouldn't be this hard to really make this come to live. I guess the NEM projects group on telegram (more focused on development, technical questions) would be the place to go.

I actually never heard about Perlin before. I hope that's not a try to hijack this thread or draw some attention to a project which has no similarities with elastic

It is just always nice to keep following the updates along the whole way. The team is really doing great and I am really looking forward to the super node release since that will draw a lot more attention to the project and will enable some further features and testing to roll it out in a huge manner

The partnership and news is great and especially since they are in close relationship with NEM, which I think is a very clever and potentially huge way to grow in the future. Really interested in the fact to see how everything turns out in the upcoming year

Nice recap. They should do a little more education on the token swap on their channels, especially twitter in my opinion. That is missing right now and even though the new token are airdropped, it is good to have everyone educated about which wallet to choose and how to handle everything

Not only with partnerships. Actually I think the most important thing is usage. Especially real world usage and adoption for the platform. Its not worth doing all the hard work just for some major pump and dump to be honest.

Thanks for the update and your hard work ! Always appreciated, especially since it is a lot of work to keep everything updated and handled smoothly

The logo is quite nice but it seems a little bit too restless. Maybe its just me but it does not feel smooth

Just for everyone interested:

TLDR; Two4one App brings NEM to Africa, the first NEM Blockchain Hub in Australia launches soon, Malaysia gains traction in Sabah, He3Labs unveils Crow Tribe partnership, NEM joins FinTech Association of Hong Kong, and Netcetera and Unibright join the NEMsp Network trial.

“This week’s updates show how the expansion in different regions is starting to take shape. I’m pleased to see updates from across the globe. Some of these updates may seem trivial, but they demonstrate how our ecosystem is growing. We are continuously improving our approach to helping the ecosystem grow faster which ultimately will translate into an exponential increase in adoption of the technology.” - Kristof Van de Reck, Interim President
Ongoing Planning Efforts:

Starting this week, this NEM Foundation blog will move to bi-weekly updates. Due to upcoming team travel, the next blog post will be August 20th.

Same here. It is just great running a node on vultr. Quite easy to set up and highly reliable.

But I might try out one of the provided alternatives provided by the team. Really interested in the telegram bot via myce. Will share my experience if someone is interested

Thats actually more than true. Having some fudder isn't the worst thing since it really draws in some attention too. Especially if the team can easily wipe out every accusations. That only makes the project more credible and better after all.

The fudder actually hasn't done his homework since many/all addresses are from real holders and not related to the team

Lon Wong:
I've got a hunch that the boom is only starting now for blockchain tech, like dotcom.

Along with it, crypto will start to rise.

Companies associated with blockchain tech will be termed sexy like companies of the dotcom boom in the mid nineties.

Although it only attracted VCs and institutional funds then, it will have crypto boys in the game this time, making the bubble much bigger

Do understand that a forming bubble means it will get bigger. The bust of the dotcom bubble happened around the year 2000, more than 5 years after it started bloating.

Unlike the dotcom bust, the collateral win here is that crypto, like commodities and stocks, will undergo cyclical lows and highs. Bubbles will form, bust and re-form. It is here to stay, unless governments ban it totally.

Meanwhile, blockchain tech companies will come and go, and amidst the ashes from the fires of the "gold rush", an odyssey of phoenixes will rise.

Whatever we do, the frontrunning blockchain tech companies will be the winners throughout.

ProximaX is one company that we hope will become a front runner in the game and take blockchain tech play to a new level playing field.

In the next 6 months, we hope to achieve and unveil  those action plans that we recently crafted out to chart a new course in the landscape.

I thank you all who supported and are supporting ProximaX in this journey.

But would that actually be that bad ? The more nodes supporting the network the better and healthier it is. The miner are just something to start with and to evaluate the testnet performance. there are a lot of DIY minder / nodes that contribute to the network.

Thanks in advance for sharing this. I think it is really important to expand the reach of the token swap as far as possible to avoid some investors to miss it. It is especially great that a lot of major exchanges are supporting the swap to really make it as fast and easy as possible

It is always hard to buy in at the absolute bottom. Thats why a lot of investors might still be waiting for some bigger moves from Bitcoin to evaluate the altcoin market further. But still the projects is great and the R/R ratio is getting better each day

You will see some major differences if you compare those projects. Just head over to nem.io and read the whitepaper and especially about catapult. This should be really helpful if you are familiar with Ethereum already.

There is no token burn event planned as of now and I doubt that one will happen in the future since I don't see any reason for it