Here are some positive things to look forward to in the near future:
1. New zoltchain with the genesis block will be brought online.
2. The Level 1 STaTiC nodes will be brought online.
3. 33 new level 1 STaTiC nodes will be offered for sale to the community.
4. XBY will be listed on Bittrex after the tech is up and running.
5. Level 2 STaTiC nodes will be offered up for sale to the community, and brought online.
6. XtraBYtes will start selling decentralized distributed harddrive space once we get the system in place.
That explanation (it's actually just a list of marketing buzzwords) is not based on facts or logic. It's 100% pure CCRevolution's Gate cargo cult doctrine fake.
XtraBYtes's 2nd tier is a fatal flaw, not a feature, because it requires users to trust 3rd parties controlled by unknown entities. Also, the "STaTiC nodes" are a Ponzi scheme and HYIP in violation of the Howey act, and thus ripe for aggressive law/regulatory enforcement actions. XtraBYtes's trusted 3rd party "backbone"
is a security hole and presents the .gov JBTs of the world a fat juicy target.
is shit-tier garbage compared to Monero's state-of-the-art RingCT.
The "self-funding" is also misleading, given the funding is created by inflation and comes at the involuntary expense of existing bagholders.
See
https://forum.getmonero.org/8/funding-required for an example of a proper 'skin in the game' approach incorporating best practices such as voluntary donation, escrow, and deliverable milestones. Monero's FFS is why it doesn't suffer from a litany of failures (which constitute dis-proof of concept) like XtraBYtes's. EG: