There could be a testnet deployment in about a month; our CTO, Roy Zhao is hard at work on it.
Additionally, I wanted to announce that we now have a piece featured in Bitcoin Magazine, which was Vitalik's original publication:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/native-advertising-roadmap/To answer people's questions about competitors, we feel that we very much occupy our own niche. No other reputable group is working on a decentralized survey application, or is also working on a direct buy marketplace focused on sponsored content.
Will there be a chance to test for everyone or there will be closed list as it often happens?
It will be an open beta.
To answer questions about our overlap with BAT, we are focused on making entirely different products. BAT is focused more on building their Brave browser and their BAT browser plugin; as of now, ads are blocked by default on Brave browser, and users can directly tip content publishers with BAT.
We are focused on creating a direct buy marketplace for sponsored content that allows companies and agencies to purchase available native ad spaces from content publishers, and then pay out to those publishers by conversion rate.
At this point, Qchain would also like to announce out
ICO Lottery. Here are the details for the lottery:
All existing and future ICO participants who participated by sending contributions via Zerion's interface at qchain.co/crowdsale will automatically be entered in our crowdsale lottery for EQC and XQC tokens. For every contribution of 0.1 ETH, you will receive a "ticket" for a drawing for EQC jackpots shortly before the conclusion of the ICO, and for every contribution of 100 XEM, you will receive a "ticket" for a drawing of XQC jackpots shortly before the conclusion of the ICO.
The EQC and XQC lotteries will be performed separately. The jackpots for both EQC and XQC are as follows:
- 1st place EQC: 1,000,000 EQC
- 2nd place EQC: 500,000 EQC
- 3rd place EQC: 250,000 EQC
- 1st place XQC: 1,000,000 XQC
- 2nd place XQC: 500,000 XQC
- 3rd place XQC: 250,000 XQC
For example, if you contribute 1.05 ETH, you will receive 10 EQC Lottery tickets. If you contribute 230 XEM, you will receive 2 XQC Lottery tickets. Pre-sale participants are not eligible for participation in the ICO lottery because of their existing discounts.