A few teams are working on a protocol that would add many innovative capabilities for Bitcoin users. It’s a decentralized sidechain called Echo, that aims to develop a suite of financial mechanisms and instruments.
We want to facilitate the development of applications that would make your lives as Bitcoiners more convenient. We will be hosting a hackathon soon with a few other teams in the industry to reward programmers and entrepreneurs with making the services that society actually demands. What application or service would be a value addition for you right now?
If you want to read more about us
Site: https://www.Echo.org
Docs: https://www.docs.echo.org
Also, the Hackathon idea is really great as more people will be able to join the community and bring in more ideas to improve the usability of bitcoin.
The only thing that I feel should be improved in the bitcoin network is it's adoption.
Though there are stores and places that accept bitcoin but it's still too less in my perspective.
Bitcoin's adoption should be increased only then it will be used for what is meant to be.
I know good things take time and bitcoin will also take it's own time to be widely adopted.