New Office Progress

We’ve had our first delivery of office furniture and equipment arrive. Most of the office is covered in boxes right now, so it’ll be a while before we make the official move into this space. Plus the most important feature has yet to be installed… Internet!

Financials

Did you ever imagine one day you’ll have to meticulously go through a full history of every Ether transaction you’ve ever made and create notes on why/who the payment was for? How about tracking the money through multiple accounts and exchanges and recording gas fees along the way. How about collecting invoices from everyone you’ve ever sent Ether?

Well you’ll probably need to if you file taxes on your cryptocurrencies. This was one of our big tasks this week to prepare our financial records for submission. It’s not fun or interesting to talk about, but it’s the rough and dirty work that needs to be done when running a startup. We’re still a small team and that means we have to wear multiple hats.

Local Community

BlockCAT has been meeting with some prominent figures in our local tech community. Business advisors, Financial advisors, HR & Recruitment advisors. We’ve even met with other local Blockchain companies so we can work together in building a network where all members can mutually benefit from resources relevant to this new technology.

Online Community

We hear you. Our social media and communication hasn’t been at the quality we would like it to be. We’ll be the first to admit and recognize that. We’re understaffed until we onboard more developers and a community manager. So we ask for your patience over the next few weeks. Finding talented, passionate people is going to take a little time. We really want to get this right and it’ll be worth the wait!

Regarding Updates

BlockCAT has an ambitious vision. What we’re creating is more than just a series of templates for smart contracts. Our marketplace will be an ecosystem of developers and consumers that will make huge changes to how the world interacts with the Ethereum blockchain. It’s really exciting to see the constant support from our beloved BlockCAT community — on our Discord channel, on twitter, and in private messages. We hope to continue to hear from everyone who shares our vision for making smart contracts universally accessible.

That said, it’s a little discouraging when we receive messages from the community such as the following:

We want to make be clear that BlockCAT will never post updates for the purpose of artificially manipulating the market. We have never and will never entertain such requests. Besides the fact that it’s a distraction from our real goal — building an awesome product — this is also exactly the sort of behavior that could lead to government regulators paying us a visit. Then we’d have to call our lawyer, and who ever wants to talk to lawyers?

We know this is a vocal minority, and that’s why our continued focus is on development of our platform and growing the company. We really appreciate the engagement by our community and we will continue to post updates and answer messages to keep you all updated of what we’re up to — please continue to ask questions and submit suggestions on smart contracts or features you’d like to see! We did an AMA on our discord channel earlier this week with some great questions about the future of BlockCAT and the features we’ll be providing.

Exchanges

Radar Relay: We’re due to be added to the Beta in the near future. Once we know more, we’ll be sure to let you know.

Binance: The community vote is over and congratulations to Stratis for winning with an incredible 69,372 votes. That is about 7 times the total number of wallets that hold CAT, though our efforts were not futile. Our application to be listed on Binance is still ongoing, the vote was simply a way to be listed without requiring the compliance fee. Once again, we’ll update you when we know more.

Cryptopia: We’ve paid the listing fee and are in talks with them about a solution regarding the duplicate use of the CAT ticker (since they already list CatCoin as CAT).