Is there already an announcement from the team if they are in contact with some online shops to implement the UTrust payment option or is still too early to ask this?
I would also like to know this. Even if the product works flawlessly, it will need to be used by online shops or other sellers. No usage of the token means no burning of tokens either

Based on their roadmap the platform test for api in merchants to integrate and test with merchant checkout mechanism to be start as early as 2nd quarter of year 2018.