Although I was aware of the project Mercury I hadn't realised that they had performed ACCT txs months ago, however, it should be noted that these were only on "testnets" (Bitcoin and Dogecoin apparently) whereas the ACCT done using AT just recently was done using two "mainnets" (Burst and Qora).

IMO anything done on a "testnet" doesn't really count but perhaps that is just me.

We will correct our media release to clarify this - the work that the Mercury project was based upon (from @TierNolan) is also key to the design of the ACCT for AT (although it doesn't work exactly the same due to the fact that ATs act as escrow accounts) and in the ACCT documentation http://ciyam.org/at/at_atomic.html you'll note that TierNolan was duly credited (and that has been in the docco for months).

With the upcoming release of Nxt (1.5.x) there comes a feature named "pay-on-reveal-secret", which I think is the key component of ACCT. Could you adopt the AT code to create a Nxt-compatible secret?

It would be huge to have ACCT between Qora, Burst and Nxt! 

I also asked the lead Nxt dev about it, here is his answer (from the Nxt forum):

I think those two are related...

press release regarding this event:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4vYMJwBtRGLLVQ0OElQRzJackE/view

please share with the world!

An Atomic Cross-Chain Transfer between Burst and Qora has been occurred successfully

Despite spending months of my life trying to figure out the legal and tax implications of it and even moving to Switzerland for three months, I was always against the ether sale and wanted to take VC money. It made a hell of a negotiating point for valuation, but introduced a terrible moral hazard of having no fiduciary responsibility behind the enormous sum raised. Also no formal due diligence process would be applied to the core team.

If there was to be a sale, then I wanted two organizations to form with a VC funded for profit building the initial protocol and then a sale at the time of launch to fund a foundation with a separate board managing it. This would create a clear separation of concerns and avoid conflicts of interest. Second, the risk to ether purchasers would be substantially less and would have eliminated the need and justification for a premine altogether. Obviously that didn't happen and the project decided to use the sale to fund some sort of bizarre swiss NPO funding a pesudo for profit in England two months after I left in early June.

Since then they've apparently spent or lost 14 of the 18 million raised and have missed two launch windows for a command line barebones version of the software. Second, they've experienced terrible mission creep with a mandate to re-invent the internet as opposed to simply giving the space a much better foundation to build cool blockchain centric applications and protocols. I'm honestly not sure what ethereum is anymore? Whisper, Swarm, Golem, Holons, Open Org, 4 new programming languages, DAOs???

In any event, don't blame people you've never met for things you know nothing about. Ethereum would be a very different project if I was still there. I'm not and they don't even have me listed as a founder nor did Mihai even mention me once in his history of the project. Thus I suppose I never played a meaningful role. 

2015

You mean [HIRING]?

CIYAM is one of the most revolutionary ideas I've seen in the Bitcoin space and I'd highly recommend checking it out.

I'd like to welcome aboard the WebCoinKit project http://ciyam.org/open/?cmd=view&data=20140414134634671001&ident=M100V137&chksum=8982ef7f and wish @killerstorm all the best with the project.

Also for those who may not already be aware http://ciyam.org/open/?cmd=view&data=20140220164742097000&ident=M100V137&chksum=065ecf7d a project to create "Turing complete" transactions for Nxt is well underway.