Actualy there are. We are working on Android wallet and also on xNodes.
What does the 'x' stand for? Extra? Extreme? Exclusive? Expensive?
I believe these are expensive nodes (xNodes) that will be somewhat similar to 'Masternodes' of Dash.
Well indeed the mn will be a little bit expensive but for those who can't afford one still can stake the coins (25% / year is a good payout). About the amount was voted 25 million espers, but when the community voted the price of 1 ESP was 1/2 satoshi. Another thing 25 million / mn won but there was people who voted 50 and 100 million also. About the xNodes well... first was ixNodes ( for Inteligent TX Nodes, but I simplified it to just xnodes).
dash mn = 172000 $ / mn , esp is 9300 $
current supply 20.19 Billion / 25 Million per masternode = 807 masternodes
max supply 50 Billion /25 Million per masternode = 2000 masternodes --> all coins mined
that is
assuming everyone has more than 25 Million with 25 Million denominations (ex. 50M, 100M, 150M....) and there are no exchanges that have coins(cannot masternode for this example)..
dash currently has ~ 4500 masternodes, ESP can only have a lot less than 807 masternodes (assuming masternodes are ready to be implemented now) isn't 25 million per ESP masternode really good for the health of the network?
You also have to take into consideration the fact that the Dash network is much bigger. How many
% of the nodes in the network should be a masternode?
I don't know any statistics but I'm sure the Dash network is magnitudes bigger than the Espers network right now, so shouldn't the number of masternodes match that ratio? Just a thought ...
Also the plan (afaik) is to adjust the price for a masternode later on, like they are doing with Insane. That will make sure the price per masternode and masternodes ratio in the network make sense and are not ridiculously high or low.
My personal suggestion to CCz was to adjust the payout and power of masternodes
dynamically, depending on the balance you reserve for it, and on the ratio of masternodes in the network. I don't know if any of that has made it into the "xNodes" idea though.