That gives me good reason to increase my XEM stack. I am very curious about the news coming up!
Recent News Roundup #7It has admittedly been way too long since
Roundup 6. Lots of things that have happened since then are getting skipped over but here are a few highlights.
Mobile apps will be launched as soon as we have translators and enough testers testing for bugs. Please help us test and give feedback.
https://forum.nem.io/t/nem-mobile-app-open-beta-and-5000-xem-bug-bounty/1825/26We have people working on Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Portuguese. If you would like to help translate into your native tongue, please send me a message. I guess it takes about 1-1.5 hours for each Android and iOS and is made super easy via a Google docs sheet made by Mixmaster.
Work continues to be done on Lightwallet. Hopefully it will be improved in the future.
Here is some very interesting news..... Devs are working on a secret project code named Catapult. Code being contributed to it is on a private repository. No more information at this time.
Work promoting and marketing NEM is still active in Japan by Makoto, Lon, and the Mijin team. Announcements will be made when contracts are signed, not before.
Ronel, the main marketer and leader of the Chinese community has made some progress with BTC38 with the recent promotion and activity has picked up on that exchange. A first time we saw movement from China. We hope that they might consider us for CNY <-> XEM if our volume and marketcap stays up.
Supernodes underwent its second update. No ETA on paid launch, but we are having some discussions on it and the nodes and network seem to be performing well.
http://supernodes.nem.io/ Webpage is still being worked on by Saul. Yes, we know it isn't as good as other platforms webpages and it really needs to be updated. New webpage will at least have an about section on the front page highlighting NEM's features as requested by others. It will also have content being maintained via google docs so it will be much easier to translate and update. We are looking for people to help build a news section and NEM dev/business section. Please message me if you are interested in either coding or designing the template.
Tony has made pretty good progress with a branding guideline. It is a definite improvement on our old one.
General road map for NEM is as follows.
0. fast loading
1. account metadata
2a. asset exchange
2b. contracts
Devs are still discussing if 2a or 2b should go first. Some might ask why the devs are working on "fast loading" first and not other things like smart contracts. The reason is everything else that is added needs to be able to scale. There is a long term game plan in action. This is not meant to be a proof of concept.
Crypto Apex has released screen shots of their demo that is undergoing some limited testing. It is an in wallet BTC <-> XEM exchange and also Fiat <-> XEM.
