Greetings and a very Happy New Year to our amazing, supportive community of financial inclusion devotees, Slack pundits, and die-hard HODLers. This year, I’m resolving to participate in more Trusted Lending Circles — and to make all my payments on time!

After a much needed holiday vacation, the team is back to the grind, working hard to hit our Ethereum mainnet release date on January 18. We’re still working on some final UX improvements, as well as doing some code refactoring and cleaning up some GitHub issues. In other news, videos from the East West Blockchain Conference that WeTrust co-sponsored back in early December are now available to view on YouTube. Check out WeTrust’s VP of Product Tom Dimopoulos explaining the benefits of lending circles on the blockchain:

and WeTrust CEO George Li participating in a panel on the future of fintech:

Speaking of YouTube, we truly appreciate everyone’s comments on our first product launch ad, and are in the process of adding a better soundtrack to it. For those of you who missed the ad in our last update, check it out below!

We also engaged recently with Black Crypto Investing, a large cryptocurrency group. Many of Black Crypto Investing’s members have personal experience with ROSCAs, and we appreciate their insight into our product and the direction of our company. Check out George’s chat with them here.

As WeTrust starts the New Year, we are looking forward to working hand-in-hand with our community to refine and improve our Trusted Lending Circle product as well as building new products that serve to promote financial inclusiveness. 2017 was an incredibly exciting year of growth, learning, and accomplishments for all of us, and we’re confident that we’ll see more of the same in 2018!

Yours in financial inclusion,

The WeTrust Team