The Ezira Project is well underway. I haven't been monitoring this thread for quite a while, and have returned now.

Project updates:
www.Ezira.io website has been live for over 6 months.
Ezira whitepaper has been thoroughly revised, upgraded, and shortened into a white paper, and a developers whitepaper.
Project slide deck is up and available.
In talks with developers to start work on the graphene codebase, as the project has now matured beyond the whitepaper review phase.
Ezira Preliminary Initial coin offering is underway, and will raise $500,000 for seed funding.
Project has a twitter account: @EziraNetwork
Project has a community Telegram Channel : @EziraNetwork
Undertaking grassroots marketing at Melbourne Bitcoin meetups to grow community support and find new team members. PM me if you are interested.