I'd like to clarify an issue that has rightly been raised by some attentive community members, which is my earlier statement about the Bittrex exchange adding the DigitalNote to its trading options, thanks to the Foundation's direct effort. People here have correctly pointed out that Bittrex has been trading the XDN in the past and as many of you know, the reason Bittrex has removed DigitalNote from its current exchange system was the low trading volume of the coin.

We were in negotiations with Bittrex to indicate that the overall trading volume across all exchanges has been steadily rising, since the time they've made their decision to remove it, and it is now at an appropriate level to be added back to Bittrex. Therefore, we were successful in outlining this trend to the managers at Bittrex, who took necessary action to return DigitalNote back to trading facility. Hope this clarifies the confusion.

Hi guys. Over the past several weeks the XDN Foundation, among other things, has been actively working with multiple exchanges so that they would add the DigitalNote to their trading options. Some were cooperative and other more reluctant, but we keep working with everyone we can reach. Today, I'm proud to present you the first result of these negotiations: the XDN can now be traded on Bittrex.com!

This is only a first step on a long road, but now we are entirely sure that there is indeed a demand for XDN trading among exchanges and that we are sure to be successful in bringing the DigitalNote to the masses. Now feel free to go there and get the trade flowing!

As promised, here is my report on the competition we have launched to select a marketing communication agency that will support our marketing effort in promoting DigitalNote on the global marketplace. We have received three proposals from six shortlisted agencies. Our main criteria were strong team, transparent operations and a decently tailored proposal that encompasses all the key aspects of marketing in the crypto scene.

Those were solid offers, which included most of the necessary lines of operation: PR, newsmaking, social media marketing, etc. The agencies themselves also seem rather trustworthy and professional and we would be happy to enlist the help of one of them. However, the prices of all three offers were prohibitively expensive, well above the level that the Foundation can currently afford, so we will, regrettably, have to decline all the offers that we have received.

With that being said, we also cannot afford to wait for the offer with the right combination of price/value to come to us while doing nothing, so, after a discussion with the team members, I have decided to move forward and engage a certain marketing agency that we haven't contacted yet, but which is, nonetheless, related to me.

Please meet True Story Media. I know the team personally and have worked with them in the past, they are all great professionals, who I believe, are perfectly capable of driving the Foundation's marketing effort; they will also be able to make an offer for the Foundation at an acceptable price, thanks to our past cooperation. Moreover, being so adamantly confident in their abilities, I will not be hesitant about investing my own private resources in their activities, and thus help the Foundation to grow beyond its own means.

In the coming days we plan to strike a deal with the TSM and announce it to the community, after which we'll release a plan for marketing activities and proceed to its realization. Thank you all for your attention and please stay tuned for more information to follow.

Today we have finished receiving proposals from the marketing communications agencies in the cryptocurrency scene. Some of them are very comprehensive and encompass whole spectrum of activities including SEO, social media, PR and content development. However, I have some concerns about price-quality ration. Last thing I want to do, is to spend hard earned XDN Foundation’s money with little or no affect. It was a very difficult journey to bring our activity to the level where we are now. There is no way we are going to throw it away now. We will squeeze every cent, to make sure that our effort and community’s donations are put to the best use.

Tomorrow I will share with you the results of the competition to select marketing communications agency that will support our marketing effort in promoting DigitalNote.

The next stage of our plan is focused on increasing DigitalNote’s media presence. We are already working to promoting XDN anonymous and untraceable messaging capabilities to media representatives in the US and Europe. However, such effort should be paramount – on all fronts and with all the potential.

To facilitate our effort in increasing media coverage of the DigitalNote, we ask the community to help us develop the newsmakers. Therefore, we are launching a competition for the best newsmaker related to DigitalNote. The question of the competition is the following:


Please post your comments and competition entries in this threat, quoting this message. We will have an open vote on all the competition entries to select the top three. The three winners will be awarded 100 000 XDN.

Help us take XDN to the top! Together we can make it happen!

So, after we successfully completed the crowdfunding campaign and carried out the XDN auction to acquire some liquid funds for XDN Foundation, we move to the next important stage of our plan. Today we announce a competition for professional marketing and PR agencies. We sent out requests for proposals to leading agencies in crypto field. We hope to receive quality proposals, details of which I will share with you in this thread.

The competition will be open and transparent, so any agency or team of professionals that feels it has what it takes to compete, are welcome to participate. To take part in the competition, please send me an email indicating your wish and credentials (brian.gerald007@gmail.com).

It is critical for our endeavor to hire decent marketing agency that can offer us all the service we require for our limited budget. Therefore, if anyone can recommend us an agency or team of marketing and PR professionals that can take part in our competition, I will be grateful.

Let’s go, then.

The last two weeks were very important in terms of our community work. First we did a successful crowdfunding campaign. Now we did our first XDN auction. I was quite nervous about the reaction of the community to our initiatives, but seeing big lumps of funds coming to our wallet, and later hot debates and bidding sprees to win the auction, made me feel relieved and enthusiastic. I am delighted to say that this was a successful funding campaign that culminated in XDN auction. As a result, we raised some liquid funds for XDN Foundation, as well as supported Digitalnote’s market price.

Thank you to all the community members, who supported us in the crowdfunding campaign!

Congratulations to the auction winner TwinWinNerD! I am confident you will see your XDN funds grow in value steadily.

The funds that we collected will go to financing our marketing effort and specifically outsourcing some of the important marketing functions to the outside professional marketing and PR agency.

We are now collecting offers from the marketing and PR agencies to select the best suited one. I will update you with the proposals that we will receive shortly.

So here we are, our first XDN auction successfully accomplished. It was fascinating to see the emotions running and some hot discussions taking place. To be honest, I was surprised by the level of activity by the community members, which indicates that we are on the right track.

We are now planning to have a second XDN auction, details of which will be announced shortly. Those of you who wanted to take part in the auction, but for whatever reason did not, will have a chance to do so in the second XDN auction.

Once again, thank you to all of the community, who support us in our mission to promote XDN; to all the community members, who participated in the auction; and to our team members, who made this auction a reality. And, of course, congratulations to TwinWinNerD! This should be a memorable win for you, as we watch DigitalNote confidently strengthening its market capitalization.

We are in the last day of registering for XDN Foundation over-the-counter auction. It is a great chance for new community members to invest in Digitalnote or for existing community members to increase their stakes and support our drive to promote XDN.

Digitalnote has been continually increasing its market capitalization from the inception of the XDN Foundation. We will work hard to make sure this trend only increases in magnitude.

Here is a link to the auction thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1097352.new#new

The liquid funds raised in the auction will be directed to funding the outsourcing of some important marketing activity to a professional marketing agency that we will select in an open competition.

Please join us in our mission to promote XDN.

The current development with the discontinuing of our first auction is quite disappointing. However, I believe that one makes no mistakes, if one does nothing. We are doing something that none of us has ever done before, but we believe in our cause and firmly stand by it. I am confident that in the light of the revealed miscommunications and possible price manipulation, the decision to cancel the auction was the right one. I have had a chat with the Foundation’s team responsible for the auction and we have discussed the step that we will take to make sure that the next auction is done right with decent communication about the auction's conditions and control over fraudulent entries.

The important thing is that we learn from our mistakes and are not afraid of accepting our shortcomings. Your critique and constructive suggestions make us stronger and bring us closer to our goal. Please keep your suggestions and support coming.

The announcement about the new auction is coming shortly.

We follow best practices in marketing. One of them is related to multiple studies that say that attaining new customer costs seven times more than retaining existing one. Therefore, our plan is to nurture existing network of merchants while working on growing the network. We developed a set of support instruments to keep the existing merchants motivated, as well as incentives for new merchants to join the network. I will talk about them in more detail at a later stage.

I want to say BIG Thank You to the true XDN enthusiast JypsiCreme who expressed his readiness to join the XDN Foundation team. She/he will be helping us drive our marketing effort and facilitate communications with the community. I am very happy that our team is growing with such strong activists. Once again, the additions of such caliber strengthen my belief in the success of our mission and indicates our growing trust in the community.
Join us, if you believe in Digitalnote!

As we dive deeper with the XDN Foundation, all our marketing effort will now be driven in tight collaboration with the Foundation. It is, therefore, natural that we close this thread to concentrate on the [XDN] Foundation thread, which will cover all the aspects of XDN Foundation operations including marketing activities.

Please join us on [XDN] Foundation thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072773.0

It’s my greatest pleasure to announce that we have finished our first fundraising campaign and achieved our campaign goal. I want to express my deepest appreciation and gratitude to all the community members who believed in us and contributed to facilitate our common mission of promoting XDN.

Below is the infographics with the results of the fundraising campaign.

This fundraising campaign was our first main milestone. We received the support of the community and achieved our campaign goal. This gives us confidence in further evolution of our mission with strong support from growing XDN community.

In our next step, we will use the collected funds to outsource some important PR and marketing activities to professional communications agency in crypto field. We will provide you with the information about the collected proposals shortly.

Thank you all again and let’s keep the momentum going!

Our marketing effort to the community has given its fruits! We have finished our first fundraising campaign and achieved our campaign goal!

I want to express my deepest appreciation and gratitude to all the community members who believed in us and contributed to facilitate our common mission of XDN promotion.

Below is the infographics with the results of the fundraising campaign.

This fundraising campaign was our first main milestone. We received the support of the community and achieved our campaign goal. This gives us confidence in further evolution of our mission with strong support from growing XDN community.

In our next step, we will use the collected funds to outsource some important PR and marketing activities to professional communications agency in crypto field. We will provide you with the information about the collected proposals shortly.

Thank you all again and let’s keep the momentum going!

It’s my greatest pleasure to announce that we have finished our first fundraising campaign and achieved our campaign goal. I want to express my deepest appreciation and gratitude to all the community members who believed in us and contributed to facilitate our common mission of XDN promotion.

Below is the infographics with the results of the fundraising campaign.

This fundraising campaign was our first main milestone. We received the support of the community and achieved our campaign goal. This gives us confidence in further evolution of our mission with strong support from growing XDN community.

In our next step, we will use the collected funds to outsource some important PR and marketing activities to professional communications agency in crypto field. We will provide you with the information about the collected proposals shortly.

Thank you all again and let’s keep the momentum going!

We already considered the market reaction to our XDN crowdsale campaign in our initial plan. The campaign is going to be done over-the-counter, therefore, the market price will not be affected and the increasing demand for the XDN will be satisfied accordingly. Our aim is to promote and strengthen XDN, therefore, we are very careful not to compromise our effort. The underpinning factor of the XDN Foundation's mission is to create value for the community with every action we take.

Thank you! This is a work of our volunteer designer. All the applauses to him.

Thank you for your words of support. We are determined to achieve our 50 mm XDN campaign goal. Our primary plans for the funds collected through fundraising activity is to give Digitalnote more marketing outreach and depth through attracting a professional marketing communications agency to spearhead the process. The community will be the primary beneficiary of such activity. Later we will use some of our funds to support socially important projects that resonate with the community.

As many of you know (thanks for participating), we have undertaken a market study of XDN community and are releasing the preliminary results. Below is the infographics portraying the initial results of the study.

We are still waiting for some responses and sending out new invitations to participate in the survey to community members. To those of you who already responded – Thank YOU! If you received my inquiry, but didn’t have the time to respond yet, please spare 5-10 minutes of your time to reply. If you didn’t receive the inquiry to participate in the survey, but have a Digitalnote stake and want to take part in the survey, please PM me or send me an email (brian.gerald007@gmail.com).

As Xian has outlined in the previous post we launched the XDN Foundation recently. Please contribute to our discussion about the future of XDN Foundation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072773.0

Also please check out XDN Foundation website: http://xdnfoundation.org/