Alpha release

According to our roadmap, our Alpha release is planned for the end of Q2/2018. We, therefore, have about 1.5 months (or 3 bi-weekly sprints) to complete the release by the given date.

The Agent and Client software in Alpha will be totally reliant on the Ethereum blockchain without any of the external centralized services we originally planned. It will become a TESTNET release only when everyone is able to be an Agent (Selling traffic) or Client (Buying traffic or using VPN). Everything will be on the blockchain, including full and real accounting via state-channel, as in the future MAINNET releases.

The UI/UX will be overloaded and nowhere near one-click software. This first release will be of more interest to tech-savvy people rather than to regular users looking for simplicity.

We are a long way from an easy-to-use solution because of the many default parameters that need to be synced from oracles and market data feeds — something we will also have to create in the future. But moving gradually from complexity to easiness is definitely the right way to go.

We will publish a “faucet” via Telegram bot in order to make “airdrops” on testnet of the ETH and PRIX required to operate the software and test it out at full scale in the easiest way possible.

Of course, our software is now open-source and will be open-source during the release; however, along with the code, a lot of technical documentation will be released accompanied by simple understandable instructions.

Be aware that, because all our code is open on github and we are updating it live all the time, some people may take our code and attempt to modify it with malware and then try to spread it before the official release.

The official release will be published on github — at the moment there is no fixed release date. Once it is published, we will also publish the news on all official channels, and you will be able to verify the checksum as well. If you see any suspicious attempts to do this, please let us know.