We’ve grown a lot since we finished our crowdsale. We improved our development team by hiring an awesome Chief Technology Officer, who joined our development team. We got an outstanding Chief Design Officer and hired another great designer who our Chief Design Officer works with. We’ve also got a new Cost & Risk Management Advisor, who also works at the management levels in the multinational BP. We’ve worked on designing X Cloud’s interfaces and improved our brand significantly, and now many more people also know about us. Additionally, we’re building an outstanding Community that we are incredibly proud of. We’ve worked a lot and today we are a way bigger company than what we were 6 months ago. But of course, nothing of these is relevant without awesome products to match all these great stuff. We are very excited to be able to present the Alpha version of our first service, X Cloud, on the 27th of February.

During the first 3 months after the crowdsale ended, we worked on finalizing the development design of X Core and X Cloud. We carefully crafted how and what needed to be done, and right after that, we started coding. X Cloud’s commercial version will officially hit the market in Q1, 2019 as per our Roadmap. X Cloud’s Alpha release also includes X Core Alpha, the main infrastructure that makes X Cloud work; its heart. As we develop further products, X Core will act as the heart of this wider product range. X Cloud is here to bring a mass-market solution that both enterprises and individuals love. As such, we’re directly improving upon Storj by creating awesome interfaces, doing marketing right, significantly improving their core code so that the network is faster and more reliable, and adding great features (eg file sharing) so that we don’t only compete with Amazon S3, but also with services like Dropbox. Both enterprises and individuals are going to love it. We’re thrilled.

And the moment you were waiting for is here…

In less than 72 hours, so on February 27th, Internxt’s X Cloud and X Core Alpha will be released. On February 27th we will be pushing our big code update for both products to GitHub. From then on, since we’re already writing everything for X Cloud and X Core, all the code will be constantly pushed to GitHub, being a 100% transparent development process. On February 27th we’ll also be releasing an updated version of our whitepaper with all our platform’s technical details. Very exciting times ahead. We’re incredibly proud to be part of this. With our current Alpha version of X Core, file distribution, replication, synchronization and encryption using AES 256 CTR encryption protocol are ready. From the Alpha release onwards, we will work on finishing X Cloud and X Core, and will increase our marketing efforts so that by the time X Cloud is out (very soon!), literally everyone knows about it!

Life after the Alpha. We built X Cloud completely from scratch and forked from Storj to build X Core. As of X Core, there are still some features that need to be significantly improved, added, and some others that we will leave as they are for the commercial release since they’re already outstanding. We are working on fixing issues regarding the speed of Storj’s processes and improving its network reliability in order to enhance the overall user experience. We’re still running the latest tests on our Alpha code and running major debugging processes on X Cloud and X Core, and working prototypes for both should be made available to test soon after the Alpha release. We’re also working on the front-end of X Cloud and X Core, and once we are confident enough about our prototype, you will be able to actually test it. When our working prototype is out, X Cloud clients testing it will not have to pay Hosts running X Core; everything will be done on a volunteer-basis, for testing purposes only (user storage limits will be set). Once the working prototype is ready, this will also be updated constantly as we update our GitHub code with more features and improved code. We are also working on our own interfaces for X Cloud’s web and mobile versions, and X Core’s desktop version. For X Cloud’s desktop version we are keeping a simple folder interface. We also need to finish implementing our file sharing feature (almost done). Additionally, we are finishing to build our pricing model, which strives to find the strike point in which we offer Customers competitive prices and pay Hosts generous compensations. Our pricing structure should also be made available soon. We are going to include front-end developers and experienced product testers in our team, who will work with our current team on our interfaces and optimize our code. Once all of the mention tasks are done, X Cloud and X Core will go commercial.

So, all in all, X Cloud Alpha is not only an awesome release but is also a great moment in time: it is the beginning of the most exciting times for Internxt. We are here to stay and to make a big impact. X Cloud and X Core’s commercial versions will soon be here with us and will bring all benefits of the cloud, with the security and privacy that we all deserve. And this will only be the beginning of a wider series of awesome Internet services. So stay tuned.