What plans for the future dev this coin ?
SHORT TERM , within the next month or two, the projects we are working on will be getting our SOIL-sponsored mining pool running. this should be accomplished within this calendar week. we had a pool sest up within a week after launch, which the development team here tested, but in dealing with MANY bugs, we shelved that until we could find a system we trusted to work the way we wanted, as well as finding a cloud server which was cost effective to host the pool to ensure reliancy and uptime.
also within the week will be the launch of the SOIL android wallet, we are presently implementing the QRcode reader into this, and thanks to a generous offer by a community member towards the cost of listing the SOIL wallet on google play, this should all be available by end of the week. this is the first building block towards the eventual usage of SOIL at bricks and mortar and online merchants that coincide with our mission statement and target industry.
a full-featured block explorer is VERY HIGH on our priority list, and ive looked at many of the available explorers set for the Ethereum-centric currencies. there are specific features that i wish to see included into a block explorer, a rolling available supply/total supply list (which will help codify our position with regards to coinmarketcap) is absolutely necessary. WANTED, would be a differntiation and viewable context between personal wallets and contract wallets, which would make understanding and visualization of the more popular used DApps on the SOIL network, and the option to view the top miners on the system
MEDIUM TERM , the projects beyond a month or two out will be to set up a cross-chain communicative DApp, allowing SOIL to communicate, firstly, with Ethereums blockchain, as well as, conceivably, with Expanse and Shift (and what other ETH-related currencies pop up in the future.) similar DApps will allow SOIL to communicate with the blockchains outside of the algorithms used by Ethereum and its relatives.
this is the first step towards a port of EtherEx onto the SOIL platform, where SOIL would act as the base currency upon the system, and setting up trading pairs with Ethereum and, after we might have positive communication with the development teams of the other two ETH-platform forks, (SHF and EXP), to include those as well. subcurrencies (personal tokens) created ON the SOIL virtual machine would be tradeable upon this exchange as well, which opens up a lot of possibilities and would directly reflect ones reputation within the community. bringing in trading pairs with unrelated algorithmic currencies will be the medium term goal of this exchange.
(what the SOILexchange produces is a true peer-to-peer decentralized exchange, cutting out the middleman and the need to store ones assets on an centralized, traditional exchange. the fees assosciated with trades will simply be the gas costs involved, which will be something essentially set the same cost no matter the size of the trade, which will encourage larger volume trades between trading pairs, and discourage microtrades and bots, both of which would become cost-diseffective. this project is about a month and half out, although we should have the first, basic, cross-chain communicative technology set up within a few weeks.)
the other projects i will be concentrating on, in the medium term (
three to six months) would be an effective DApps toolkit linked towards the SOIL network which would make development and deployment of smart contracts, for everyone, onto the SOIL network much more user friendly, and would be a first step towards a deployment of a GUI SOIL browser.
secondly, a commodity quote and charting DApp, which would eventually be folded into the SOILexchange, setting SOIL valuation against non-crypto futures and assets. that project may be much more challenging as we may need to navigate potential regulatory issues.
thirdly, (is that even a real word?), a decentralized voting process distributed application for voting, which will help create the democratic atmosphere we have envisioned from the beginning of this project, with a one oneSOIL/oneVote mechanism. thus far, DApps which allow a sort of vote taking relies on oneWallet/oneVote schemata, so work will need to be done on that architecture.
each step we take will be to further the blockchain towards the large scale DApps that will serve the industries that we will be concentrating our efforts towards, long term. naturally, some of these projects may be delayed due to technical issues or the need to concentrate our efforts on specific or requested needs of the community.
this sort of project has been brought up previously, and i agree that its a gorgeous interface, and provides a quick glimpse into the health of the system overall. ill definitely look into it after we have finished our immediate projects. its something ive glanced at, but havent kicked the tires or looked under the hood of.
i hope this basic roadmap for the next several months is helpful to those looking for such a thing. remember,
YOU , the community, can help by deploying contracts onto the SOIL network yourselves. set up your personal tokens, that seems to be a popular first step into smart contracts many people take (im the proud owner of 100% of the one million BOBcoins that exist on the blockchain, essentially valueless right now, but was a great exercise in understanding the methods of deployment and calign of contracts onto the network) a FAQ or tutorial along those lines is also something i SHOULD be concentrating on in the near term as well, i suppose.
