Particl Marketplace (MP)

The majority of our team will be focused on the private decentralized marketplace over the next 6 months. We are readying our Alpha release of the Particl Marketplace as I write this.

ALPHA is the long-awaited decentralized marketplace dApp within Particl Desktop. The Alpha release of the marketplace will be barebones to start as users begin to test and progress through the buying/selling process.

As more users onboard we’ll continue refining the user experience and the tools available to vendors and shoppers.

Listing Governance

Governance won’t be in our initial release of the Markeplace but is one of the items in the pipeline this year. The vision of the Particl Project is to be a privacy focused platform for decentralized applications.

The Particl Marketplace is being built to be self-sustaining, self-governing and completely decentralized. Governance is a huge piece of the puzzle that the team will be focused on developing to protect privacy and protect users.

Software Development Kit (SDK)

A plan to have a SDK for developers is in the pipeline. The SDK will allow the creation of applications within the Marketplace or Desktop.

This might not come in 2018 from the Particl team (it is a pipeline item in the future) but could be a community development item someone takes on as a side project to create. The full support of the dev team will be available to anyone wanting to contribute and help speed of delivery of valuable items.

A software development kit is typically a set of software development tools that allows the creation of applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar development platform. — Wikipedia

ZMQ for MP Messages

Short for ZeroMQ, this is an automated messaging system that allows messages and notifications to be automatically pushed to Particl Desktop. An example would be if Particl Desktop has an update available, ZMQ will push notification to Particl Desktop and users will see a notice a new version of the Desktop is available.

BETA Marketplace

Our next major release of the decentralized marketplace will be BETA.

Beta MP may or may-not be a mainnet viable product. It is too early to tell but is something the team will be transparent in communicating.

Factors such as Governance and privacy (RingCT) are big factors on whether a mainnet marketplace is available in the next 6 months on mainnet. 50/50 is the best bet at the moment; being completely honest and forthcoming.

A Beta marketplace release with governance but without RingCT could happen with our Confidential TX’s (CT) already providing privacy on mainnet. CT do a good job of hiding amounts (MAD escrow) but don’t provide complete privacy for addresses of vendors and buyers in a escrow contract.

Privacy and Governance are 2 of the major factors that ultimately will determine the BETA marketplace release in the coming 6 months.

Full Particl Marketplace Release

All versions of the MP leading up to full release will be testing versions and live versions with new features introduced at each release. Once RingCT is on mainnet, Governance is fully developed, and currency-agnostic options like cross-chain atomic swaps/integrations have been through the proper testing environment we’ll plan a Full Particl Marketplace Release.

This will be the truly private decentralized marketplace that will disrupt the way you buy and sell online.