March was a good month for us. We made progress across the board, launching new software and new ways to learn about our platform. Read on for a recap of an exciting 31 days!

In this update

TSO Progress SiaTV Developer’s Corner The Exchange Situation The Sia Merch Store By the numbers

TSO Progress

We announced last month that we would be funding future development of the Sia Storage Platform via a sale of Siafunds, the revenue generating token on the Sia Storage Platform. The response so far has been very exciting, and backend work on our Tokenized Securities Offering has been progressing well. We expect to be able to open up for deposits very soon.

If you’re a qualified investor in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, or Russia and are interested in participating in the Siafunds TSO, head over to siafunds.tech to learn more!

SiaTV Launches

We have lots of good ways to get information about the Sia Storage Platform right now, and we’ve just added a very important one. SiaTV, our official YouTube channel, has launched. Check out our first video, the Sia Update, below.

Being able to communicate what we’re working on is incredibly important. We need to be able to relay information to a wide array of people. Whether you want to use our software, trade our tokens, invest in our company, or learn about us from a distance, you need information.

We think this will be an invaluable asset moving forward as SiaTV becomes a source of news, announcements, tutorials, and more. Stay tuned!

Updates from the…

Over the past month, 4 Nebulous repos were updated. 52 issues were closed, 18 were created, and 49 pieces of code were added to the core codebase.

Sia version 1.3.2 has been released. With faster, more reliable downloads and updates to the file repair and maintenance code, v1.3.2 now leads the charge as total downloads of the Sia Storage Platform software surpass 950,000.

Join us as we approach 1 million total downloads and beyond.

The Exchange Situation

We’ll have a new section in the Community Update moving forward focusing on exchanges. We want to give some insight into what we work on and deal with behind the scenes, and more importantly provide an updated list of where to get Siacoin.

Keep in mind that we haven’t vetted every single one of these options. It’s not a development team’s job to ensure that the exchanges their token is on are safe or usable, because any exchange can add Siacoin whenever they want. We expect that they are usable and will work properly, but the number of exchanges out there is huge and continues to grow, which is why Bittrex and Shapeshift remain our only recommended options for now.

Poloniex (recently acquired by Circle) has been wonderful and we think we’re on track to have their issues resolved soon. HitBTC has also been in contact with us, and we hope to have some progress there as well.

One of the things that makes Sia great is also the thing that sometimes makes it more difficult for exchanges to implement our token — our dedicated blockchain. We aren’t ERC-20, and we’re not a fork for Bitcoin. This leads to a powerful platform, but also some extra work from an exchange’s perspective to get us up and running.

The Sia Merch Store

We’re excited to announce the official Sia Merch Store is now open! We’ve worked with Design By Hümans to create a quality storefront for purchasing Sia branded apparel and accessories.

We had a couple goals in mind when setting this up:

Find a service that could grow with us

Easily offer merch without getting in the way of our day jobs

What we currently offer

We’ve got three things to wear, and one thing to stick. The men’s and women’s t-shirt, and unisex zip-up and pullover hoodies feature the rebranded Sia logo prominently on the front of a premium, high quality garment. Click the i next to any style in the store to learn more.

We also have a Sia logo sticker available, for all of your computer/window/mirror needs.

By the numbers

I was really happy to finally get that YouTube graphic in there. In addition to over 2,000 views on our first video already, subs to the channel have been steadily increasing since launch. I’m truly excited to see where we are next month, and next year.

Twitter is about to hit 100k, which is really exciting as well. As always, be vigilant over there. Scammers seem to have really taken focus on our account, and every time we tweet you can expect to see a handful of nonsense regarding free Ethereum or other tokens from accounts that look just like ours.

It’s time to…

April will see the execution of the Siafunds TSO, so next month we should have much more to talk about. Twitter will hit 100k, YouTube will continue to churn, and there will be further development on the Sia Storage Platform.

Some of you will get to enjoy Spring. Some of you will plunge deeper into the seemingly endless winter that is absorbing parts of the United States. No matter your situation, I hope the next few weeks treat you well!

Steve