The time has come to introduce the Safe Node Application and Node Activation details; a highly anticipated release for the Safe Haven community. In keeping with our roadmap, we utilized (almost) every moment that we had to ensure that this particular release left nothing to be desired. We also have stated that this release would address not only the completion of the App itself, but also afford one last opportunity for the community to position themselves accordingly prior to the snapshot date.

Node App Completion Details

As of March 26th, we received word from our Node Development team that the final testing and debugging of the Node App had been completed and that we could begin the journey towards App Store integrations. This is a huge milestone for both our company, and for you — our community of supporters and SHA holders. Those of you who have taken the time and resources to gather the SHA necessary to qualify for one (or more) of the Node levels will soon have the reward of instant maturity for your Node — more on those specifics below. Though the Node App has been completed, and the Node Maturity Snapshot will be conducted according to the timeline mentioned below, the App itself will almost certainly not be available on your mobile devices in time to witness this event from within the App itself.

Since completion of the Node App program, we have begun the public listing submittal process for our App within the respective App stores. There are two critical paths we now follow:

Apple App Store Integration, and Google Play Store Integration

In an effort to release both of these versions of the Node App at (approximately) the same time, we have started with the Apple App Store submission process first. For those of you who do not know, the review and integration process for Apple is considerably longer and more rigorous than it is for the Google equivalent. In order to avoid favoritism towards one half of our community over the other, i.e. the Android users over the iPhone users, we are planning to submit the Google Play App and documentation once we have gotten fairly far down the line with Apple. We cannot represent the exact timeframes we are looking at here, but to give you an idea — submissions of this type to the Apple App Store may take 1–3+ months in review, while the Google Play Store submissions take generally 3–5 days. Our plan is to release these two apps within days of each other, or same-day, and we will continue to keep our community members informed as to our progress and public availability dates!

Node Maturity Snapshot Date

Despite this 3rd party lag time, in order to properly reward our early adopters, we did not feel it was fair to delay the Snapshot date any further. For those of you who are not yet familiar with this concept, the Snapshot date refers to the day your Node-specific amount of SHA will need to be stored within your VeChainThor Wallet in order to waive the maturity period.

The Node Snapshot Date is: May 1, 2019, 1300 UTC

As promised, this announcement gives you just over one month to complete whatever transfers need to be made so that you can arrange to have your SHA safely stored within your VeChainThor Wallet in time to be rewarded.

Please keep in mind that once the Snapshot takes place, you cannot remove an amount of SHA that will decrease your Node Level without needing to wait the full maturity period to re-establish that Node level. This Snapshot will only occur once, after which time the required Node Maturity is hard-coded into the smart contracts and cannot be waived. This, of course, is the crux of the trustless nature of decentralized operations — and while it makes sure that everything remains fair to all of our Node Holders, it does mean that no amount of customer service assistance can help you if you accidentally move SHA from the linked wallet.

IMPORTANT DETAIL FOR MULTIPLE NODE HOLDERS: For those within our community that are choosing to break up their SHA balance in order to qualify for MULTIPLE NODES, e.g. a Harbor Node AND a Connect Node, you will be required to establish MULTIPLE WALLETS within your VeChainThor Wallet — as Node is not programmed to automatically divide your total SHA balance in a single linked wallet address into the maximum number of nodes possible. If you need assistance in completing this process, please reach out to a moderator within the Safe Haven Telegram Channel and they will assist you in accomplishing the task. Again, this is a major reason we are giving ample notice before your linked wallet(s) must be prepared.

Node Application Sneak Peek and Tutorial

Since we are currently waiting for Apple and then Google to start and finish their respective due diligence and listing processes, we wanted to give you a sneak peek into the Node App itself so that you get a feel for what is coming at public launch. This way you will be ready to go native in the application itself immediately once the App is available to you. Below are screen shots of the finished product with some commentary, when necessary, as to what you are looking at and what will be expected of you when the day comes that you have downloaded the App onto your mobile device.

The Start Screen: Nothing to explain here, but simple and elegant design with a lot going on underneath the hood (much like Safe Haven itself). No doubt you will get used to seeing this on your phone once the Node App becomes listed!

Sign In Screen: As you enter the Node application, you will find it necessary to establish a 6-digit pin. This pin will be used to enter the application for all future logins. Please be sure to memorize your selected pin. If you are the type that forgets things, you may want to write this pin down on a piece of paper that you keep in a secure location.