October 2018

This past month, DJ was in NY twice to work with the New York team. The multiple sessions dealt with the two areas, business initiatives and tech.

The key tech news centered around the progress made over the past few months. DJ took some time with the team to reflect on the overall accomplishments, “I’m very pleased with Fusion’s tech progress. Since early this summer we’ve gone from the research phase of developing the technology including DCRM and main net to hiring a CTO who is now leading the charge to shaping productized, proof of concept versions of the technology. The raw materials were there prior to Bret’s hiring. Now the team has put in the effort to get to the point of delivery. No question there were challenges, and there still will be. The team has done an excellent job of asking the right questions, solving problems, offering new thinking and perspectives in order to push the work forward. This is what we needed to do.”

On the business front DJ made special note of the work Charles Poliacof has done to institutionalize Fusion in order to evolve the project into an organization that is equipped and ready to support the largest global institutions. Creating and implementing processes, recruiting, organizing, and structuring is unglamorous, yet vital work. Charles commented, “Fusion’s focus is on creating infrastructure that can power next generation applications in finance and the financial services space. We have made tremendous strides around elevating Fusions sophistication, organizational structure, and infrastructure. I am really excited about what’s been accomplished and where we are heading.”

A summary of what was accomplished:

1. Tech: Bret Schlussman and Andre Cronje are working closely together on reorganizing the tech team, organizing workflows, solidifying deliverables and milestones for Fusion DCRM and stagenet.

a. A significant part of the Fusion tech team will be coming to NY next week to work closely with the NY team.

2. DCRM: Proof of concept including interfaces and documentation planned release the week of November 5th.

3. Roadmap: The team discussed the topic of a new roadmap. DJ weighed in with his views, “The roadmap is quite simple. First its DCRM 3.0, then it’s stagenet, once stagenet has been thoroughly tested, mainnet launches.” Others from the leadership team made the case to retire the roadmap since the business has matured beyond the ICO stage.

4. Partnerships: Charles is continuing conversations with potential partners and early adopters. Understanding edge cases, security and how we partner are core to the early selection criteria.

5. Marketing: The website launch is the main focus. The site is in production including the mobile version with the first version having been proofed. The anticipated launch date is the week of November 5th with additional features and functionality being rolled out after the core site is live, including a new blog section and the DCRM bug bounty program.

a. The second priority is content development for DCRM including a series of in-depth articles and educational pieces to be published over the course of the next few weeks.

b. Holly has fielded several inbound requests for background information on Fusion from crypto /blockchain specific writers. Because article publishing is an editorial decision, writers were not at liberty to commit to publishing dates.

In summary, the entire Fusion organization is concentrating all efforts on building Fusion’s near and long-term value through delivery and activation.