2018 — Summary

Somehow it feels like 2018 went so very fast, and so many things have happened that it’s hard to keep up with everything. But for O3 it has been a year that helped us define who we are, and made us think of who we want to be. We went from zero to being the main gateway and application for users interacting with both NEO and Ontology blockchains. We have gained many fans and supporters and always are happy to see positive reactions on social media, our community forum and through our support channel. Thank you for all of you O3 fans and supporters, you help us keep going! Look at how much O3 has changed!

The first version was a beauty, but we like the new look :)

What we also realized as we built more and more functions into the O3 apps and started mapping out the future of O3, is that even though our core product is a wallet application, we are not ‘just a wallet’. In 2018 we have built a solid base product. 2019 will be the year that we add some key pieces to the infrastructure, and from there we will start bringing in real use cases and easy accessibility from within the O3 apps to make actual use of the NEO and Ontology ecosystems and everything in them.

2019 — What will it bring?

We have great plans for 2019. Of course we will try to bring out better and cooler versions of the O3 applications on mobile and desktop, but a lot of work will be done in improving the O3 ecosystem itself, better integration between our applications on different platforms, and we want to improve general stability of the apps. Last but not least and maybe most importantly, we will be bringing applications to O3 that you can use (and want to use) on a daily basis.

A few things that are coming very soon are:

NEO fiat gateway (we have been saying soon, but now it’s very soon.. 😋)

O3 Swap (buy NEO/ONT with other currencies from within O3)

Ontology staking (first desktop, then mobile)

Automatically adding Ontology OEP4 and OEP8 tokens

After that we will be moving on to the infrastructure improvements. First we will be working on finishing up a few other important parts of the O3 ecosystem for other developers. Working out an easy way for developers to hook up their websites and (d)apps to O3 will be important to bring more apps on board, and we made a good start on the foundation for this in 2018 (the O3 dAPI). After the O3 dAPI for both NEO and Ontology is in a good place we will do a bit of a redesign and work on better integration between our apps themselves and external apps or websites for an even smoother experience and more use cases.

In the end, all that matters is usability. To get a bigger and more active ecosystem, we need more active users. And to get more active users, we need to look outside of the current crypto sphere. We would like to be able to give the O3 app to a person that knows nothing about cryptocurrency or blockchain, and still be able to do everything they need to do or want to do with the underlying technology. A new user would need to be able to:

Onboard and get NEO and ONT with fiat or other cryptocurrencies Switch the NEO and ONT in-app for tokens/currencies needed Spend the tokens/currencies held in the O3 wallet in any available (d)app

Having a stable product and enabling the complete process above for new users to easily get on board is a necessity to grow, so this is where our focus will be lying in the first part of this year. Some parts are already there, some parts have to be improved and some parts still have to be built. But when we get this into place and offer the safest, most user friendly and fun way to do all of this with a single click from within O3, we believe we can lead the way in this new blockchain era and become something that will become an inevitable part of everyone’s daily lives.

Thank you once again for all your support this year, stay tuned for more and enjoy the ride! 🚀

P.S. We hope to see you all at the NEO DevCon in Seattle ✈️

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