Short summary:
Arizen wallet is released v1.0.
Mobile wallet on android.
Logo wasn't awesome! New contest.
Price jump!
Influx of volunteers.
Goodbye slack; welcome discord overlords
Moon!
More money means faster, better and more robust development. Which is awesome.
What's with the price jump though? Well ZenCash continues to go forward with it's philosophy. We're always nice, open and explaining to people. Who could've thought that one of them, Teeka Tewari, would have such a big following?
This is a result of building trust, something that ZEN will continue to do!
Colonization of discord
Let's be honest slack sucks!
Shame on you slack users! Repent your sins and convert to discord. A much more suited platform for managing a large active community.
More ZEN philosophy
Why ZenCash? How does it fit into market? What makes it special? Why it's important to go out of cryptospace? What's our value?
Spoiler alert: 42.
Secure nodes
Testing tracking and payment system, different failovers and all sort of that unpredictable stuff. Once we beat it up for good we will start mainnet test.
Expecting more than a thousand nodes in mainnet.
Arizen wallet
Check this wallet! All those buttons! And you can press them and click on stuff and see transactions. It's slick!
Seriously it's great, check it out. Not an alpha anymore but still expecting to find some bugs.
Arizen is a light-weight wallet with an encryption and multiaccounts.
Boring stuff
- Ledger integration soon-ish
- Coinomi integration slow-ish
- zend updates (merging improvements from Zcash)
- new potential developers
- shielded processor
- some guy relaxing at the beach
Partnerships & Exchanges
cointopay -- a fiat-crypto gateway easily usable with options to cashout to fiat banks.
We're on upbit! That's a korean exchange.
Outreach
Rob at Crypto-Finance conference in Oslo.
Rob will be in Tahiti for Seasteading conference.
Rolf at Texas Bitcoin Conference.
Jane going crazy in Asia again. She'll probably conquer it by new year and move over to Korea and Japan.
Latin America Bohota conference in December (which is big cause ZEN has a very small influence there).
Got into bunch of radio shows and loved them!
Logo
Well we're running community contest again. Those are few of the entries we've got so far. There will be a community vote sometime soon.
How can you help?
Team is getting ton of feedback and suggestions and volunteers and they appreciate it but! It's not possible to answer all of them. Figure out what you can and want to do and do it!
If you require a budget or want to be compensated create a proposal on forums.
Easiest and obvious things are translations: get em in all languages!
Another dire thing needed are actual guides on how to use wallets, how to message and everything else new people get lost at.
Since some people for some reason think that this is an official presentation (??) this is not.
It's my take and overview of an actual 50 minute presentation sourced at top.