Alongside this installment of the weekly dev stand-up post, we have some other exciting updates to share.

This week, a generous community member started a donation train that lasted for several days, which included a large donation match to encourage others. The project’s ECC dev fund began the day on Wednesday with a balance of 549,487, and by Friday had increased 361% to 2,534,132. The LTC dev fund also saw a similar increase of 360%, up from 0.10846025 to 0.49887065. In addition, a bounty of 574K ECC was issued for a new donations page on the website that will allow a donator to essentially shop amongst a list of opportunities. The design of this new page is now in the works.

The new team leads have been busy organizing and planning, and some changes have already been implemented for scalability:

On Friday, Lukas launched a new sign-up process for QA. 115 people have signed up so far to offer their testing assistance. With Sapphire coming right around the corner, these testers will be heavily relied upon to help us ensure a bug-free software release.

Lyndon has added a couple social media platforms to reach the broadest audience: Facebook and Instagram. He has also implemented Buffer, an automation tool that will streamline the posting process.

For better international reach, we’ve added subtitles for English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish to the video.