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Over the past six months+ the Ghost team has been hard at work to progress the project forward and meet road map deliverables. In the following text we’ll analyze the team’s progress and the difficulties the team faced.
In January the GitHub and a good portion of community funds, were still under the management of the previous lead developer Reborn. Be that as it may, @GhostVeterans, @test_net_online, and @Tizymandias were elected to the lead this project and spared no time in doing so. The team presented to the community an updated road map for 2021 which outlined key deliverables mentioned in the original whitepaper. With the community’s approval of the new road map, the team polished the outline and published it to corresponding websites.
Given the state that Ghost was in before the aforementioned team was elected, there was plenty of work to be done in order to repair previous relations with strategic partners. The team tirelessly worked to repair countless relationships with previous developers, exchanges, social platforms — and the image of Ghost as a whole. The desktop wallet for macOS users received an update pertaining to code signing & notarizing. The team honored all ERC-20 swaps that were eligible, thus finalizing the swap portal. To learn more about the ERC-20 swaps check out our post here. Over the past half year, the team added three new exchanges to the list and successfully intervened to prevent any imminent de-listings. At the beginning of the year, Ghost was only listed on two exchanges. This brought the total number of exchanges to five. Furthermore, Ghost successfully implemented a mobile wallet for iOS users. Read about that here. Of course, with the previous management team, months went by without updating or establishing regular communication between CoinMarketCap (CMC) & CoinGecko (CG). Thus, after the election the team was able to establish regular updates about the project and correct all displayed information on these sites. This new establishment of updates allowed the team to be listed on Blockfolio Signal which the community had been asking for, for quite some time.
With respect to the Ghost whitepaper, research & development for Dandelion++ was actually an on-going process before the current custodians took office. However, development was halted due to the…
