July 5th update:

So I was mistaken with my personal guesstimate about how long it would take, but the network is up and running in its final form as of the beginning of the month:



The coin swap will be happening in the immediate future, coinciding with a full revamp and relaunch of AltMarket which is currently in testing. Coins deposited before the relaunch will be swapped for you by AM staff and someone is working with qTrade to get them to do the same.

You will be given 15% more Tao after the swap from v1:



If you miss the window for the initial swap on AM there will be a smart contract "bridge" you can use on your own which will be made available sometime after the AM swap.

Everything will be happening in phases over the course of July and should be completed for most people by the first of August, but the smart contract bridge will be available indefinitely. 

There will be mobile wallets coming out in the same timeframe, as well as market maker and arb bots,


and new smart contracts supporting ERC-20 style artist tokens like ODB running on the Tao network, based on a modified version of Tomochain's TRC21 standard. A DEX is coming later which will support Tao and the TRC2 tokens




AltMarket got $500K in VC money a few months ago, a portion of which will be used to fund market making on the TAO market on AM, which should provide some nice liquidity:


Bryce will give a 72-hour warning to get your funds deposited on https://exchange.alt.market/ for the initial swap. This heads up should happen sometime in the next few days. I will post an update here as soon as I see his notification in the slack



Again, if you miss this initial window you'll still be able to use the smart contract bridge to move to the new network later.

I've already moved my funds to the exchange and have been helping some friends who I gave some to 2-3 years ago deposit their funds, as well as lending a hand to a couple of people in the slack and on twitter. So you don't need to wait to deposit if you are worried about missing the initial swap window.

In the mean time, here is a link to the official repository where you can review the code and start on setting up a node if you're interested in running a masternode. If you check my math upthread you'll find the economics look really good.

https://github.com/Tao-Network/tao2

Note: the above link is a different URL from the early draft version some of the goofballs who like to hang around this thread without contributing anything foolishly seized upon earlier this year. I'm sure they'll be back to make fools of themselves again since I've updated the thread. Just watch. 


Oh, and you can also see some network stats here: https://stats.tao.network/

A Tao2 explorer here: https://scan.tao.network/

and a web wallet here: https://wallet.tao.network/