What an exciting journey it has been thus far. We thank you all for your continued patience and know that great things are on its way! We have set a deadline to launch the exchange on today’s date, the 30th of June 2018 — but find ourselves facing some minor delays.

First of all we would like to welcome the addition of two new members to our dev team, Somiwya and Guhana who are now working alongside Partho and Chirag to bring the Artis Turba Exchange to a reality. They have officially started working with us in the past week and we look forward to working with you to help build a brighter future for Africa and the world.

As for the exchange — to provide maximum utility and security the site needs to be rewritten. This work is being conducted on a separate localhost and will be migrated to the main site once ready. Part of this work entails rewriting the code into NodeJS and Angular formats and the setup of more server resources. AARP code is still in development and we want to ensure that everything will run smoothly once the exchange goes live. From the organizational viewpoint; all gears are in place to ensure a fluid exchange.

Furthermore; we recently attempted to list on Mercatox exchange through their vote to list procedure. Although we ended being delisted from Mercatox, through this attempt 5 million ARTIS was injected into community hands which brings the circulating supply to approximately 119 million ARTIS. OctaEX has not been processing deposits and withdrawals since end of May and we wish to caution our community from sending any funds to the exchange until we get feedback from them.

Our community and institutional investors keep placing huge pressure on the team to deliver the exchange and we want to ensure all members that we are working really hard to bring this reality and that it will soon be delivered.

Please trade responsibly, Forward Together!

Nigel & Nickey