New Office

We’re looking to expand our team and this new office has the space for 12–15 people. Here’s a photo of the main room. At the back there’s 3 separate rooms where most of the action will be happening. This open space you see below will be a common-area. And behind the camera is a 4th room for more busy work.

We’ll share more photos once the place has been kitted out. Right now there’s a few odd-ends needing a touchup and obviously we have to move all our stuff in!

Onboarding x2!

We contracted two new members of our team this week. First up is our business consultant. He’s the sort of guy who you drop into a company and he’ll tell you exactly what’s going wrong and how to fix it. So we’re in the fantastic position of having him right from the start, so these problems never happen. He’s also going to be key in helping us expand our development team. Lots of tech companies really struggle to expand from a handful of people into double digits, so it’s important we do this right.

Next up, we have an in-house lawyer. Every smart contract BlockCAT officially releases will have different legal challenges. They involve crowdfunding, token sales, investment pooling, prediction markets, etc. Our lawyer is especially important with all the recent reports from regulators such as the SEC. He’ll ensure BlockCAT can continue to operate in any environment.

We mentioned last week we’re looking for a community manager. That one is still ongoing, as we’ve not found the perfect fit yet. So more news there once the position has been filled.

We’re also starting hires for additional developers so we can increase both the quality of our platform and speed of our release schedule.

Exchanges x2!

Many of you heard about the RadarRelay announcement. We’re especially excited to be included as a launch token on their platform. BlockCAT is being listed right alongside some huge names in crypto such as Golem, Gnosis, Aragon, Bancor. So it’s pretty incredible to be included when we’re relatively unknown in comparison. We’ll talk more about this in a separate post though, coming soon.

Binance really took us by surprise this week when they informed us about their new monthly coin vote. We requested to be involved and then we got surprised again when we woke up this morning to discover we’re included in the vote, and it’s ongoing, right now! Again we’re up there with some big names like Stratis & OmiseGo. Even if we don’t win the vote, a high position will indicate demand to Binance which could help with our main application (which is still ongoing with them). So if you’ve not voted yet, what are you waiting for! https://www.binance.com/vote.html

As for other exchanges, talks are still ongoing and we appreciate the patience around this process. It’s been a tough one for us too with all the new legal compliance we have to follow.

New Roadmap

Now the sale has ended, we’re able to redesign our roadmap to reflect our final budget. We’ll be writing up a separate post on this too once it’s ready, but the good news is we’re able to release faster than expected. We’re also planning a rolling release that’ll take us from beta to the final product. That means lots of regular updates and tons of community feedback.

See you next week 😺