Yes I am very much here, the last release of BlackHalo has a full price tracker for selling and buying coins for cash, its a peer to peer cash exchange. The other template being the original custom contracts, still working perfectly. Now im working on the last few templates mainly selling and buying with a shipping calculator etc.
The decentralized markets have been working for at least 7 months now, fully tested and functional with very few bugs (other than being somewhat slow depending on bitmessage)
Im still updating the linux and mac builds, however this month i was moving and was unavailable will be working on it again in a few days.
Rat4 does the coin core functionality so he is essentially Blackcoin. His focus is on security, optimizing the blockchain, protocol, securing the chain and exotic features like locktimes and new daemon commands or mining rules.
My work is in BlackHalo and NightTrader, which leverage Blackcoin and makes peer to peer tools, like smart contracts, decentralized markets, decentralized exchange and user friendly features like templates and pay to email.
The next big release will be NT exchange however we needed markets first as a failsafe, to keep it fully peer to peer and that provoked me to finish templates and user friendliness which has improved a lot over the year. That would fully complete the core client, where an api on the back would be something people can plug into their own projects.
Sorry im not always checking bitcointalk, its not my favorite site to communicate due to excessive trolling but can always be reached on reddit (r/blackcoin)