Every thing is going as expected. You can buy and sell gold tokens easily in their marketplace at any time. The tokens are backed by real gold and you can verify this. (For information about the verification, you can visit this link.
What else do you expect from this project? They are active here is this thread. Feel free to ask the questions you have.

Also, I don't know what blog you are referring to. In addition to this thread in bitcointalk, they are active in telegram, reddit and steemit and give the updates if there is any need.