Hello everyone — welcome to Ryu Coin’s first biweekly update. Given the rapid growth of our community, we’ve decided to begin biweekly Monday updates on everything related to our business.

This week, we reflected on the past few months and what to expect around the corner.

Marketing & Community Growth 🗞😃📈

Nintendo Switch and Ryu Coin Swag Giveaway…Ending Soon 🎮

Our contest to giveaway two Nintendo Switch’s and Ryu Coin Swag is ending soon — enter now! We’ve already announced 26 winners of swag. Through this contest, we’ve grown our community exponentially, with thousands of emails and followers on all of our social media channels.

Development

Ryu Ecosystem

The team is currently in Tokyo, Japan for the next three months while we work full-time on finishing the development of the platform. While in Tokyo we are working out of O3’s office.

We are currently working on development of the iOS version of the home base app, finishing touches to a new and improved version of the Ryu Vault smart contract, the Ryu Coin NEP-5 contract, our developer API and updates to Slime Soccer. The new version of Ryu Vault eliminates the one block wait time before each match and takes advantage of the use of key pairs in NEO, using ECDSA signature verification to allow for Ryu to add players to a match by having the player sign the match data off-chain, which is then verified on-chain. The two main benefits of joining matches this way is that it will only take about 15 seconds to join the match (which will happen while the match has already begun) and will allow for Ryu to pay priority GAS fees for users.

Our private beta was released on Slime Soccer — a top 500 sports game in the Apple App Store in 36 countries including the United States, U.K., Australia and Canada. The private beta helped us identify numerous ways in which we can improve the system. Ryu Coin won an excellence award in the first NEO Blockchain Game Development Competition, hosted by NewEconLabs and supported by NEO. Ryu Coin’s submission can be found here.

NEO Ecosystem

Over the last few weeks Wyatt has been working to help improve the NEO ecosystem as well. He has made a few contributions to some of the City of Zion’s Github repositories, such as standardizing the Python NEP-5 contract demos, helping identify an issue in neo-scan and a handful of changes to the awesome-neo repo.

We also submitted an article to the City Of Zion’s 3rd competition titled Bootstrapping a dApp focused business in the NEO ecosystem which was one of three runners up.

Roadshow 🌏

CEO Ross Krasner speaking at XBlockchain in Bali with Dapp.com founder Kyle Lu

This week was the last stop for Ryu Coin’s roadshow — Ross was invited to speak at XBlockchain in Bali on a panel “Not Playing Around: How Blockchain Could Redefine the Gaming Industry” moderated by Stewart Rogers, Analyst-at-Large, Venture Beat. You can view a video of the panel here.

Previously, Ryu Coin had a booth at the LAToken BlockchainHub in Vietnam. And last week, Ross spoke at Blocfest in Kuala Lumpur at a fireside chat “NFT Revolution: What are non-fungible tokens and their applications.” Wyatt led a workshop on how to build a Telegram Bot powered by IBM’s Watson. While in Kuala Lumpur the team connected with Aaron Hong, founder of the NEO Malaysia Community.

The Ryu Team with Aaron Hong founder of the NEO Malaysia Community in Kuala Lumpur

The conferences have been a great way to meet potential private sale investors, network with potential video game partners and gain strategic advisors.

Partnerships 🤝

One of our partners, Guardian Earth HD

We are now partnered with four (non-crypto based) game developers who have signed letters of intent to implement our system when it is available.

Ryu Coin in the Press 🗞

We’ve received significant press coverage from the site NEO News Today, including articles covering our beta release, our roadmap update, and the addition of our advisor Paul Hsu.

Read Blockchaingamer.net’s exclusive interview with CEO Ross Krasner, here

A note from the team 😀

We’re quite excited by the progress on our product and by the updates and partnerships we’ll be sharing in the coming weeks. Ensuring we have a top quality product ready for mass adoption BEFORE our token sale is part of our core belief.

Ross Krasner | CEO — Ryu Coin | ross@ryucoin.com

Wyatt Mufson | CTO — Ryu Coin | wyatt@ryucoin.com