Any news?
Unfortunately not

The team for btcfn has pretty much died, in the massive slow decline of the bitcoin price
Things have been slowly been starting to recover, however the passion for bitcoin in the community has for a large part, been lost.
Freenet, with the major reduction of work done by Toad, has been chugging along very slowly. Much of my focus has shifted to CJDNS; an encrypted networking protocol, which is designed to be very fast.
I am happy to refund any of the bounty. Or will keep it open for developers who wish to take up the challenge of developing the btcfn project.
I guess the core problem is that it has proven to be very hard to do
Once the bitcoinj project has matured into providing the functionally of a full-node, it should be much easier to integrate with the java bitcoin project.
Overall, the funds are still safe, we are looking for developers, and if anyone is interested in developing the btcfn project, you are more than welcome to contact me.