consider getting on COSS exchange, Binance would be tougher but would be fantastic

Just keep it in wallet that you control it's private key - all the process is automatic. You simply will notice Ether in your wallet few days after beginning of November.

I've seen on their Telegram channel that they will report every two weeks as of now, so hopefully they will. They should definitely share more about the progress. Regarding the new developer, that's right, he should start working on October 12th if I'm not mistaken.

I think there are plenty of users which want to use a decentralized VPN service which doesn't store user data and doesn't log users activites. So I wish you good luck for your project, because I surely will be interested to use your service. But I don't understand why you posted such announcement thread if you don't have a website, a white paper, a MVP and basically you got nothing. Just an idea. In my opinion that's not enough to post an ann.