New Development Roadmap Released!

New Decade, New Way to do eCommerce! 💪

In the past two weeks, we’ve taken a deep dive into Particl’s current status. We’ve reviewed all of last year’s accomplishments for the project and how its Open Marketplace has evolved since being released on mainnet in August 2019. If there’s one thing that’s for sure, it’s that Particl is moving full steam ahead!

However, the marketplace’s level of adoption, compared to the overwhelming amount of development the team puts into it, also highlights a very important fact — the cryptocurrency industry has matured to the point where getting blockchain products into people’s hands is now what matters, not just delivering new and exotic code alone. Yes, your product is perhaps groundbreaking, but it needs to be used by “real” people for it to be worth anything in the “real world”.

Luckily, that’s always been the vision behind Particl, so this shift in mentality from hype to real-world use-cases is precisely where the blockchain industry needs to move towards for Particl to become successful.

Indeed, the project’s current team and advisory board are composed of old-school crypto developers, long-time online sellers, and veterans within the payment industry who see, in blockchain and distributed technologies, the opportunity to completely disrupt global eCommerce and dramatically improve it for all involved parties by taking out the need to do business through middlemen — something simply not possible when relying on traditional, web 2.0 technologies.

In other words, Particl was not formed and isn’t being developed because blockchain is the new cool kid in town. No, it’s because its novel technology is bound to have a profound impact on an industry (eCommerce) in dire need of improvements.

The Path Towards a Greater Adoption of Particl’s Marketplace

Particl’s Open Marketplace may be live on mainnet, but it’s still Beta software. For that reason, it may still be rough around the edges, lacking a few features, or seem more complicated to use than your typical online marketplace. And that’s all normal — it’s nowhere near its intended first version (that comes after Beta).

To that end, four main reasons why people may not want to use the marketplace in its current form have been identified in a previous blog post.

Missing features

Required improvements on some features/functions

Required improvements on the marketplace’s performance and stability

Required improvements to the user interface (UI) and experience (UX)

The good news is…the marketplace’s adoption is not on the slow-side of things because it doesn’t provide any benefit over traditional online marketplaces, quite to the contrary. No, it’s rather simply because Particl isn’t “adoption-ready” yet.

That’s precisely with “making Particl adoption-ready” in mind that the Particl team is proud to release, today, its new development roadmap for 2020 and beyond! What’s scheduled to be improved? What features are planned to be integrated? Just keep reading and that’ll be no mystery to you by the end of this article!