News about the project are mostly in github as discussions in the github issues. Before any implementation is published, most of the discussion is about the design and schedule.
The most important proposal so far is this issue:
https://github.com/bitcoinroyale/whitepaper/issues/14The criticism of the design paper that repeated the most had to do with the length of the bootstrap period. In the original design, the bootstrap period is 1 year with a fixed block reward that drops very aggressively at the end of the bootstrap period to Bitcoin's regular block reward schedule.
The proposal is to make the bootstrap period significantly longer. From 1 year, change to 4.5 years.
In addition, during the bootstrap, instead of having a fixed block reward, make the block reward gradually decreasing.
A schedule that works nicely is to divide the 4.5 years to 9 sub-periods of 6 months each. The block reward will start at 175. After 6 months drop to 150, then after 6 months drop to 125, then to 100, then 75, then 50, then 25, then 12.5 and finally the 9th sub-period will have block reward of 6.25.
The bootstrap of 4.5 years will catch up to the first 16 years of Bitcoin. After the bootstrap, the schedule will converge to the regular Bitcon one. This will take place right after the 4th halving. Therefore the next period after the bootstrap will be 4 years (210,000 blocks) with reward of 3.125.
The full details of the proposal appear in the issue:
https://github.com/bitcoinroyale/whitepaper/issues/14Please comment on the issue if you have anything to contribute.. since implementation is already under way, this proposal should be decided upon very shortly.