Hi,
We are focussing on finishing up DIONS. We are close.
It takes some time because we added some new functionality like the messaging and some more features that will be announced when we release it. Next to that we are focussing on the API and wallet integrations. The devs are cooking the best meal a crypto enthusiast can eat with the best ingredients devs can use! We only want to go live if we are 100% sure that all works and all is tested.
We are in that last stage. Release date of roadmap and DIONS will be announced. Just not now. We don't want to over-promise and if we think we need a day extra for testing, we want to take that extra day and not disappoint you.
For marketing afterwards:We are setting up a marketing strategy right now.
Our main focus in our plan is not just to promote IOC for public adoption, but we have a more corporate strategy.
Adoption by companies that want to use the blockchain of IOC and use it for their decentralized services.
If these companies use it on a daily case, we are sure that IOC will have a healthy push. Now and in the future.
rewarding the network (rough and not a final idea):
Companies / services will have the ability to store data in our blockchain and use our chain for their de-central services. We think its fair that if companies use the blockchain for data storage, they have to pay for it somehow. Not in $ to us, but in buying IOC digital currency so they can pay for the required fees and send that fees into the network again.
So actually reward the network. The more you store, the more you need to reward the people that secure the blockchain and operate the large data storage wallets / nodes. See this as a reward structure that masternodes have. Those masternodes handle a specific service and get rewarded for providing that service. So maybe we can have an extra service like this to handle larger data transmission? its on the drawing board. We have some more ideas about that structure.
We are also looking to have the storage expire once every x time. So the data needs to be "renewed". Maybe different type of storage have different expirations. We don't know yet for sure. We are finalizing the details. Technically the expiry is implemented.
On the sidelines we are talking to people and companies that are interested. All kinds of people with different agenda's watching every step we take. You can rest asure that we know what we are doing and trustworthy / well known people in crypto and corporates are advising us on the sidelines because they know what we are doing is important and groundbreaking.
So, releasing DIONS is creating a new future for crypto. And we are on it!!
Be sure to watch out for our roadmap.
Thanks.