Hodlers of ECC and everyone else in the community,

It is no secret that there have been some issues with the coin over the last few months. The coin is now stable and can continue to move forward with both developments and coin awareness. Moving more into the public eye has caused a need to expand the team to include designers and marketing along with our current developers. The development team remains the same but will be working closely with designers and marketing from the community to help make this coin a success. In the days to come a complete rebranding is the first thing on the to do list. We have updated the landing page of the ecc website with a glimpse of what the new revisions will look like.

In addition, we will be dropping the name E-Currency Coin and will be calling both the coin and the project ECC. The ticker symbol “ECC” will not change. These changes reflect that ECC will be moving beyond being just another altcoin coin with the coming implementation of Service Networks as outlined in ECC’s whitepaper. These Service Networks will help us to implement Distributed Network Services in the future and more details will be published as development continues. The designers will be giving extra attention to GUI user friendliness and marketing will be focusing on getting the word about ECC to as many people as possible.

There was also a revision to the development/release schedule for the GUI and daemon aspects of the project towards the end of September. The development team plans to release larger updates to both the GUI and the daemon during the first week of every month. Emergency patches or updates might come out during the middle of the month, but this won’t be a common occurrence. All updates will be optional unless specifically stated otherwise. Not every month will have an update. If the development team is working on a larger update the gui or daemon or both might skip a scheduled update for that month and an announcement will be made with the appropriate information.

Griffith