8 days before what? Could you please specify, cause as I see we don't have certain dates for roadmap updates now, and I really wonder whether we will see sidechain alpha in 2017 as it was claimed or in q1 2018.
platform will be released 31st of december and end of january or even before it will be the first ico
check the links to see about the ICO from CEO
http://picpaste.com/pics/stratICO-DRxFbqBM.1513945368.jpg