Some free project feedback:
Zano lacks a clear communicable vision, unique value proposition along with a general ecosystem. This is reflected by its general lack of market interest, adoption and capitalization growth.
The website has multiple milestones marked as planned, under development or completed; but someone from the outside looking in at these milestones has no clue how they all mesh together to form a unique value proposition that will positively impact the world. As a result, they are left to speculate their own conclusions on what problem Zano is solving or which market is being addressed and these might not be based in reality.
A successful project needs to have a unique value proposition that resonates within a community that forms around an ecosystem; otherwise they are building a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist. This is an obvious conclusion if one looks at Zano’s long term performance in market capitalization, which, unfortunately seems to be following the same footsteps as Boolberry unless there is a positive change moving forward to reverse that trend.
After reviewing the roadmap milestones on the Zano website I have come to the conclusion that the most viable option available for Zano is pivoting away from whatever its current unknown direction and into one that caters to patrons of the NFT market. A privacy preserving digital art gallery where buyers and sellers along with their transactions are anonymous. This is something that just isn’t possible on Ethereum or Solana and is preventing the sector from reaching its true potential.
Some real world examples pertaining to the current sales of NFT artwork on said networks:
1 - Sealed art bidding protects bidders from having their wallet balances used against them
2 - Financial and personal privacy for artists i.e. Banksy (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy)
3 - Private art ownership
In many aspects the current NFT art market is a digital reflection of the physical art market. The latter being one of the oldest markets that has maintained a firm foundation in the preservation of privacy: from the confidentiality of buyers and sellers to the value of the item sold. All these aspects present the perfect product market fit for Zano which at the moment is still unknown. While art is just one vertical in the NFT market it provides a solid basis for Zano to expand into the verticals.
Zano already has the majority of the building blocks available in the roadmap to make this a clean and nondestructive pivot in terms of a functioning NFT on Zanochain through the existing on-chain address aliasing, marketplace, privacy enhancements and efforts towards an efficiently scalable blockchain. It can provide the unique value proposition that the project is missing and help create an ecosystem that can drive adoption and growth.
For example, the marketplace can be called “zGallery” with "zNFTs" or whatever else works to distinguish it from the underlying currency and traditional NFTs.
Gallery: “a room, series of rooms, or building devoted to the exhibition and often the sale of works of art.”
Below is a clear and concise mission statement that provides zero confusion for potential onlookers on what is being developed or its designated target market:
“Zano — an efficient NFT ecosystem built for confidential transactions between private parties.”