Team notes from the google hangout Aug 30, 2015Development• Team still working with CIYAM, may get into more in depth partnership in the future but focusing immediate resource on ETH implementation
• Team focusing on going with ETH at the moment
• Putting together full spec for discussion with Vitalik including features such as marketplace, escrow, auctions, certificates, offer-linking, and bidirectional communication between DApps on the ETH chain. If ETH can accommodate all of these use cases we'll move forward with that approach.
• Planning to raise funds for expedited SYS2 development and continued support- the raising of these funds is not happening officially until after the Shade release; SYS2 equity conversion discussions are ongoing but the current primary focus development itself.
• Prerequisite to beginning crowdsale marketing is finalizing the new token name- marketing team focusing on this, collecting suggestions from community as well
• Team discussing how to prevent other's from infringing on our SYS2 DApp code even though its open-source
• Team would be developing several DApps on top of ETH, the marketplace being the first
• Still will deliver all plugins, frontends etc on top of DApp we deliver
Syscoin 1.5.2 "shade" Wallet Release and Hard Fork• Shade release will now include offer-linking (reselling) and offer refunding but it will be through whitelisting only (those who have a cert you have issued to them will be able to resell your offer if this is enabled on this offer)
• Offer reselling is being release in Shade as a proof-of-concept feature, the complications we encountered when developing this feature for production lead us to the realization that we needed fully turing complete scripts (such as ETH or AT) to solve the problem
• SYS/USD pegging is now complete in Shade release and is being tested- other pegs still possibly being added after testing
• Adding email notification for orders to blockmarket to facilitate real world use and direct integration with launch partner fulfillment systems
Marketing/Communication• Changing the approach on twitter scheduled tweets to be more relevant to the Syscoin team / goals / initiative
• Focusing on getting brand for SYS2 together in the coming week
• Working with partners to pre-populate shade release with marketplace items (partner names TBD)
• Discussing having a hosted marketplace website powered by the SYS team which allows for 1-click creation of web-based blockmarket that users can customize to their liking with their own custom URL as well. These markets would only show that individuals items and would allow for easy adoption of the SYS marketplace system.
• New marketing initiatives are yielding good results, articles being written on new alt-coin news sites
• Creating logo to market the "Shade" release of the 1.5.2 wallet