Btcd is now a sleeper but it's very alive and it's going to be a very important piece in a larger set of tools that requires all other piaces to be in place as well in order to get the maximum benefit.
You can hardly see the progress here on BTT, the den of trolls, because most discussions take place in
Supernet Slack(channels #iguana # btcd), James also posts frequent updates in
bitco.in forum where the mods created a section for Iguana. He's is coding like a mule and
github gets daily updates. Also a team of people is helping with gui and testing.
James is developing this brand new Bitcoin wallet called
Iguana that is coded from scratch in C. Unlike the other clients available, Iguana is extremely optimized and allows to create a full bitcoin node in a fraction of the time of other implementations. Beside being a Bitcoin wallet it also includes a Btcd wallet,
Pax (pegged assets),
Pangea (decentralized poker),
Teleport (privacy),
Instantdex (decentralized exchange),
Jumblr (bitcoin mixing) and all other Supernet features.
Iguana could very well get mass adoption from Bitcoin users who wish to run a full node, also many users who currently use a spv wallet could change back to a full node since it will not be as painful as it used to be. Imagine when they see the other features and a fraction of them become Btcd/Supernet users and you get an idea of where all this is going.
Hey guys, and special thanks to you barbierir for providing a summary of where BTCD is headed.
I don't meant to troll here but what you wrote reads like this is going to be the iPhone 12 of crypto
Sounds extremely promising, but I fail to see where this Iguana wallet is going to be beneficial for BTCD. Also, Pangeapoker's last update on its website is over a year old and InstantDEX dev updates are as fresh as November 2015. So judging from the fragmented attention that these numerous projects have been receiving lately, if you're aiming for the full feature wallet that you've described as above, it's a safe bet to predict the release date of that wallet at around the same date when the iPhone 12 comes out
Why don't the devs go for a minimum viable product instead of advertising loads of cool features and products that require presently unavailable resources?
AFAIK all single parts like Pangea, Teleport, Instantdex, etc.. are already coded for 90% or more and mostly need integration with the main wallet and gui. You must also consider that there were an unfortunate series of
events that delayed the project, just the last api surprise from Nxt required months of rewriting code!
My impression from following slack is that most problems have been resolved and development has progressed very smoothly since november.
You're not the first I see asking why not just release a Btcd wallet with Teleport? Well the first release of Iguana is expected to be a mvp (=minumum viable product). More cool stuff will be added later. James also said that serious privacy tech requires mass adoption and he doesn't like pumping a product that's not ready for that yet. He wants Iguana to become the most commonly used Bitcoin wallet that also appeals to Bitcoin maximalists.
About the question when Iguana will be released, I'd like to know like everyone else! From the progress I see I think it will happen by this year. It seems now the hardest roadblocks in basic Bitcoin code have been overcome. Once the Bitcoin wallet works it should be relatively easy to integrate the other parts. Not long ago James said it will be a close run between him and the other guys who are doing the gui.
Also he needs feedback from testers, it's not for idiots yet but the more people can compile and try Iguana on different systems the better.
and that really does sound like a SuperNET 
How many lines must a man get down before he can call it a day, 16 hours they say, good work Jim. 
