Welcome to the fourteenth edition of the Expanse Newsletter! This publication is a bi-monthly Newsletter issued on the 1st and 15th of each month to share the news with our community. Keep in mind that breaking news can come at any time, but the Expanse Newsletter is a great overview of progress, news, and our current focus.



NEWS THAT IS HAPPENING NOW

To start off, we are excited to announce that the Expanse Polling Dapp was a huge success! So many people were voting near the end that it even functioned as a solid stress test of the Expanse network, with around 20k transactions happening rapidly. Everything worked without a hitch, providing valuable data to the team and some exposure of Expanse to the mainstream. As the identity system is still being developed and the poll was open to everyone, it seems likely that some Hillary Clinton supporters were more active in sharing the poll. Like the polls in the actual presidential election, they skewed towards Hillary Clinton despite her ultimate loss.

Over 9000 votes were registered on the Expanse Blockchain for Hillary Clinton, 4423 votes for Donald Trump, and interestingly, Jill Stein beat out Gary Johnson in the poll. It’s safe to say for those in the Libertarian party following the election, the choice of Bill Weld may have had some impact on the low number of votes for Gary Johnson. So this made for a very successful test of the voting module, and we are ahead of schedule now on the Roadmap. Several other DAO modules are partially complete already, and there will be more opportunities for the community to try out and test them over the next weeks.

The proposal module will be the next one to come out, and we will be reaching another milestone very soon. The GUI for the Proposal module is being completed now and is likely to be ready in time for the next Newsletter. This module has been discussed previously, and we are very excited about it. Publicly it is known as EXP.LIFE. It allows expanse users to create proposals or “quests” for other users to complete. This can also be used for crowd funding with Expanse and a variety of other applications. The Expanse DAO will use this module to create and fund proposals for the community. So this will bring us closer to completing another major milestone while also giving the community lots of new utility with Expanse.

In other news, Borderless was approved for its charity operations in the state of North Carolina.

Note: “Gamification” will not be included in the next module, but will be coming shortly thereafter.

RECENT NEWS

11/4/2016 BTCMANAGER published an article on Expanse. You can read it here:

https://btcmanager.com/news/tech/expanse-test-runs-blockchain-voting-for-us-elections/

11/2/2016 Bitcoinist published an article about Expanse. You can read it here:

http://bitcoinist.net/expanse-demo-blockchain-voting/

11/2/2016 Cointelegraph has published a new article on Expanse and fiat conversions in the EU

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ease-of-accessibility-enhances-the-value-of-altcoins

10/18/2016 Expanse.tech website replaced with a new website to update overall branding.

http://www.expanse.tech/

10/15/2016 Litebit.eu has added Expanse, allowing purchase directly with Euros!

https://www.litebit.eu/en/buy/expanse

10/1/2016 Expanse is added to Coinpayments.com.

https://www.coinpayments.net/

10/1/2016 Expanse Partners with Chankura and Geopay.

http://chankura.com/

10/1/2016 Expanse announces key additions to the team, greatly enhancing marketing and adaptability.

9/27/2016 Gav Wood of Ethereum has assisted Expanse with Parity into Ethcore.

9/16/2016 An article in Le-coin-coin related to technical analysis, this is in French.

https://le-coin-coin.fr/4911-expanse-analyse-de-marche-4/

8/12/2016 Borderless website updated and improved.

http://www.borderless.tech

8/1/2016 Cryptopia added Expanse to their trusted and well known exchange.

https://twitter.com/Cryptopia_NZ/status/760100566164877312?lang=en

8/01/2016 Changelly Partnership announced, and Changelly added Expanse to the new Shapeshift competitor Instant exchange site.

https://changelly.com/exchange/BTC/EXP/1?ref_id=expanse

7/13/2016 Danny Sessoms interviews Christopher Franko about Expanse and Borderless. Danny always keeps it entertaining and informative so make sure and check out the interview.

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-crypto-show-austin-unsungs-amazing-progress-and-christopher-franko-of-expanse

LIST OF CURRENT PARTNERSHIPS AND WORKING RELATIONS

Centurylink

https://www.ctl.io/blog/post/blockchain-automation-on-clc/

Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-update-7/

Microsoft Bizspark Plus

https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/startup/profile.aspx?startup=693057

Payu Vane and Maza Lakota via Borderless Technology

Changelly - The New Shapeshift Competitor

https://changelly.com/exchange/BTC/EXP/1?ref_id=expanse

Chankura and Geopay of Africa

http://chankura.com

DOWNLOAD BORDERLESS TECH ALPHA PREVIEW HERE

Current features include Marriages, Status updates, Web Of Trust, Notary, Citizenship, and many more features on the way soon!

https://github.com/borderlesstech/borderless-dapp/releases/

EXPANSE WHITEPAPER

http://www.expanse.tech/docs/whitepaper.pdf

BORDERLESS WHITEPAPER

http://www.borderless.tech/docs/BorderlessWhitepaper.pdf

RESERVE REPORT

Expanse official DAO reserve is still at 10 million and in cold storage, untouched. This will not be used at all until the DAO is implemented, and then by design, only a small amount at a time can be voted to fund various elements of development. The team reserve is at 214583 and is planned to be used to fund development until the Expanse DAO is live in the next few months.