This past week, the Fusion leadership team met for a weeklong session of face-to-face work. The purpose of the session was to set goals, create action plans, deliverables, assign accountability as well as share information on all areas of the business.

At the conclusion of the summit, the Fusion team has been directed to optimize for speed of production on all fronts. In DJ’s words, “It’s now time to show the world how Fusion is going to connect the world’s financial systems using DCRM technology. Fusion will be the de-facto operating system for modern finance.”

A summary of what was accomplished:

1. Business Goals: DJ set the mission and directives for the team with impacts for all areas of the business. Short-term goals are aligned to the long-term vision of having trillions in values mapped to Fusion with high transaction velocity.

2. Tech: Fusion has missed technical milestones for main net launch driving urgency to determine a new timeline that must be met. DJ outlined options, optimal paths forward, dependencies, testing processes, and resource requirements for committing to a new main net 1.0 launch date. The team assisted in vetting courses of action while evaluating impacts on different aspects of the business and potential partnerships. The team agreed to a path forward that optimizes for speed to launch with an MVP that meets key business requirements including staking, smart contracts, short account number (universal wallet), FSN swap, and time-lock. Functionality must enable POC development for partnerships. DJ committed to a date for launch at the summit and shared it with the Leadership Team. Given the gravity of the situation, the team advised DJ to take the time to finalize his thinking before announcing the main net launch date publicly.

3. Community: The team discussed the concerns of the community including needing more frequent information and content updates. Considering the tech discussion around main net MVP launch, staking was raised as a primary issue for token holders planning on building out the health of the network while generating rewards. DJ confirmed that enabling staking was an obvious priority.

4. Partnerships: Charles shared a wealth of information in regard to ongoing potential partnership conversations. The nature of the organizations evaluating Fusion are governments, financial institutions, fintechs and others. Learnings fed back to the team from Charles’s conversations have reinforced DJs initial focus on developing DCRM — solving interoperability — is proving to be one of, if not the most attractive aspects of Fusion for potential partners.

5. Tech & Marketing: A list of technical documentation releases, third party validated content on IP that cannot be shared publicly, and proof of concept work designed to test and validate DCRM was shared. A combination effort is now in progress for creating the assets and publishing.

a. A second key topic was discussed: How to galvanize and activate both the non-technical and the technically inclined members of the Fusion community on ways to enable active participation in driving the technology through its natural and required phases of maturation. Solutions included content needed to enable staking as well as POC work that is geared for broader accessibility and participation.

6. Marketing: This week the marketing strategy, plan and budget were approved. The plan is front-loaded to jump-start momentum. The key takeaways for marketing from the summit are to raise awareness of both Fusion, and DJ outside the crypto / blockchain world and China where he is well-known. All communications need to educate and inform the community including token holders, investors, financial institutions, businesses, governments and fintech companies. An uptick in community interaction is mission critical.

In summary, the leadership meeting galvanized and aligned Fusion teams in order to activate on tech delivery, partnerships and marketing. The entire team left clearly focused, energized and ready to deliver on the work necessary in the given disciplines.