Thanks to loyal community members who are still mining and holding Photon and other Blake Coins. 


I updated the OP adding Cryptopia where Photon is traded in several markets.

Thanks to Cryptopia for listing the coin and support of Blake Coin , Lithium, and Universal Mol >>>>

They have an impressive exchange with an excellent selection of coins/pairings....

Also thanks to some unknown person who arranged for Photon to be supported by CryptoId a site where there are quite a few alt coin explorers hosted.... Their layout is top notch and for every coin they have a lot of cool features like 'the richest' photon addresses , detailed stats on coin age , node counts and quite a bit more.

Finally a hi five to Bluedragon747 and the other blake coin family devs ...

As to the state of the network now and the future....

The past 3.5+ years has proven our teams intentions were from the heart and truthful to provide cutting edge merged mining capability to max speed of hardware and efficiency --- everything is still working very well.

Anyone looking at the current or historical pricing can see that our supporters/bagholders of coins in the blake 256 family have never got rich by any means...  Obviously right now the current market hype  around bitcoin and other alt coins has attracted a lot of attention and new people to cryptocurrency looking for financial rewards.
Of course we want our work to be successful but we measure our success in things other than 'prices' --
Developing code/solutions - innovation are the best rewards !

Our codebase remains stable (checkpoints  have been added to github source but no new release of wallets for users is necessary) and we have had some discussions for updating the codebase to be parallel with many of the upgrades bitcoin users have enjoyed since the 8.x generation... update will likely not be until next year since our lead dev. Bluedragon747 is working on game projects to integrate Blake  Coin into right at this time.

There are many ideas (of mine and others) that are being considered for the future development  of Photon and features to add. Many of these are obvious next steps / spv client support, mobile apps ect... 

For now we are focusing on game development and other 'real world' use cases for coins which without the demand these create there is little need for additional infrastructure.  As always our community is open for anyone who wants to develop /design/ create services or open source software to advance the network. Pull requests for enhancements are always welcome.

More updates as they occur following @PhotonCoin will always have recent information first....