To gauge this project accurately I want to look at lakebtc.com's volume, trends, etc. but there's virtually no way to do this because all info on lakebtc since 2016 seems to have disappeared into a black hole in the English speaking world. The coinmarketcap/other tracking site API is broken, virtually all forum activity and site reviews date back to 2014 and so on. Additionally, I'm not filled with confidence about a token sale for a spinoff that wants to trade 30 currencies when the original platform still won't even support ETH itself before phase 2.
Will we see LakeBTC itself make improvements to match this ICO (and ideally ahead of it)? Is there a roadmap on that side?
We have not spoken at any summits or conferences recently as we have been having exceptional demand for our services. We also want to concentrate on our next big project: LakeBanker, which was developed and tested in stealth mode 1.5 years ago. Today we have more than 2,000 LakaBankers from all over the world with growing demand. Linus Torvalds says: "Talk of tech innovation is BS. Shut up and get the work done".
Technically it can be a challenge to add any currencies. Our system currently supports 40+ Fiat currencies and 52 payment methods with hundreds more to come.
We choose alt coins and tokens carefully based on many aspects which include tech maturity and business credibility. Depositing in ETH has recently been enabled on our site for the purpose of this token sale and we anticipate ETH trading to become available in October 2017. With ETH, there have been bad hacking incidents not long ago and it is not listed in some of the major exchanges neither.
And yes, we have published a roadmap of the project on our website:
https://lakebanker.com/