Staking will be added to Request in the future if it's needed for scalability. The main mechanism for bringing value is the burning of REQ tokens used for fees.

Hey, the APIs are going to be released in the Q4 2017 Colossus release, after the main-net release in Q1 2018 there will be applications available for you to send Requests and a good chance of extensions / plugins built using the APIs too.

As an added extra in the next update the team will be responding to some of the questions from the community.

All the questions in the Reddit thread will get compiled and sent to the team for the next update. You can find the thread here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RequestNetwork/comments/7b3xvx/questions_for_the_request_network_team/

Next update will be on 10th November 2017 (this Friday)

Blog Update - Introducing Continuous Payments - What are continuous payments? What does it mean?

https://blog.request.network/introducing-continuous-payments-a61132332984

To anyone with questions regarding Request Network who aren't in the Slack there is a weekly discussions thread on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RequestNetwork/comments/79ubme/weekly_request_network_discussion_october_31_2017/?st=j9fbtn26&sh=d3d15fd1

If you ask any questions there the team are active + monitoring the subreddit frequently.

Hey Mitchell,

The team have openly said that Request is a pivot from Moneytis, ING and YCombinator are aware both have invested and are advising the team.

The ING relationship with Moneytis is public:

https://www.ing.com/Newsroom/All-news/ING-announces-winners-of-the-Innovation-Studio-startup-pitch.htm
http://www.bankingtech.com/851381/ings-yolt-money-app-beta-launches-in-uk/


There are public details about YCombinator backing Request (http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?batch=w2017) but nothing public yet regarding ING. The team meet frequently with the guys at ING and they have said public information will follow when it can