The whole team is working hard on the upcoming Blockmarket for Desktop release but we wanted to take a few minutes to give the community an update about what to expect both from the initial release and from additional updates to the beta product between initial release and our final release at the end of the month.

Blockmarket for Desktop Beta 1 is very close to being ready and will be released by Tuesday afternoon (US/PST).

Due to the new technologies in use for this release, we are using a similar approach to other betas and will be operating Blockmarket for Desktop on testnet only until the final release on May 22nd.

We believe that it is important to demonstrate continued progress with the product, and we value the trust that the community has placed in the team and this product. In order to show continued development we will release updates to the beta product on an ongoing basis between now and May 22nd.

While it would have been possible to hit our target release time of 3PM PST today, there are some minor remaining issues which we are choosing to address properly and release at a time when the team can be around to support questions and other feedback as users begin to explore Blockmarket for Beta 1.

We know that the community is eager to begin using Beta 1 and we are doing everything we can to get it into your hands as soon as possible. We are very close but are trying to make this release as polished as possible, here are some teaser shots from the application showing the current status of the product and to give you an idea of how fast we can move (compare these to what you will see in the actual release).

We appreciate the community’s patience and are communicating this update as soon as possible after our internal discussion.

What’s Left To Do

Here are the remaining items we’re looking to resolve before the release tomorrow:

· Improvements to the offernew/offeredit form

· Form validation feedback on all forms, so user’s know when the app is not performing due to user error.

· Add top right balance manager component to notify user of background activities

· Generally improve application styling for consistency now that core functionality is working

· Add Category List widget to marketplace browse screen

· Implement “My Sold Items” page

· Ensure transaction list cache is updated when users create new non-syscoin transactions (normal sends)

Beta Feature Scope

Features that will not be in beta 1, but will likely be in a subsequent beta, and will definitely be in the final release:

· Escrow offer purchases

· Internal Address Book

· Reselling

· Multisignature features for Syscoin services

· Notifications when your wallet receives network activity in real-time

Screenshots of Work in Progress

Keep in mind we still have a decent amount of styling and polish work on deck as mentioned in the to-do list above.

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