The Xenio blockchain code is available on github: https://github.com/xenioplatform/go-xenio/

Oren's code is...well, it's never been available anywhere, actually, because it never existed. Like so many ICOs before it, they tried raising money before they actually put out any code at all. Those are the scam projects. Vaporware. Empty promises.

Xenio has code. Good code. And it's being updated practically daily.

It's ambitious, but the long term vision here is going to take a lot of time and effort. We didn't want to handcuff the project by short changing it right out of the gate.

Any unsold coins will be burned before distribution, and if that happens, the holdback for development and staff incentives will also be burned proportionally.

Hero is nothing more than a gambling project. Other projects have been compared, but none of them come close to making a decentralized competitor to Steam plus a tokenization platform for in-game assets, which is what we're building.

The Early Presale round is underway now, but is limited to 10 million coins. You can register an account at https://xenio.io and join the party...But we are selling faster than anticipated, so even if you miss this round, there are three more rounds to come

$6.6 million dollars raised in the first 4 hours. It's very comforting (and humbling) to see your baby get validation from the community.

And thanks very much

That's the idea, certainly We hope you stick around, this is a community-driven project and we could always use input on the features people want

aeternus - good catch, thank you. Sometimes it's the "forest for the trees" problem Replacement should be up shortly

New article - Why we created Proof-of-Networking: an introduction to the Xenio consensus algorithm

https://medium.com/@xenioblockchain/why-we-created-proof-of-networking-2594d48eba3b

It won't happen overnight, that much we know - but it really all comes down to the price of the platform. Steam reportedly takes between 30-40% of revenues from all game sales just for distribution, so game developers end up making a lot less money for their effort than they could if they distributed their games themselves. Other centralized blockchain projects take 10%, which is better, but still not ideal. Our aim is to create an open platform where game devs can sell their games for little to no cost, with no commissions, and on a platform where they control the game licensing in a way that fits their own business model, not Steam's business model.

We believe that our open platform will attract game devs for this reason, and since the addition of more games will attract gamers, which in turn makes the platform more valuable to developers again, we end up with a positive feedback loop that eventually reaches a critical mass where the amount we have to spend on marketing to gaming developers approaches zero. If the games are there, the gamers will follow, so it's just a matter of doing as much as we can to make the platform easy to use and easy to integrate into the games that the game developers want to make.

The system will be open for developers to use how they see fit - to get the most out of the Xenio platform, there are a lot of options publishers can include, but the basic game store functionality is going to be the most obvious first step for any publisher.

We started this project just a few months ago, and while development is taking place very rapidly, we are focusing on building the platform itself rather than trying to attract a publisher to integrate a game on Day 1. So no, we do not have any games that work with the system today, since there isn't a public test platform for publishers to implement in their game binaries. We have had early interest from a few independent game developers, but we've had to tell them to hold tight for a bit until the system is at a point where we feel comfortable that the system is ready for 3rd party access. Once the system is in Beta stage, we expect a lot more developers will show up for the party.

As for timing of the prototype client, we have committed to releasing a preview version, with source code, before the end of the main crowdsale. The presale will probably begin before the code is ready for release.

We have no intention of using Steam for our game distribution - we do our own.

There have occasionally been other questions about potential competitors, and your question dovetails into that question as well, so let me address them both at the same time. We have discussed this at length as a team, and we came to the conclusion that in reality, there are no other projects like ours in the crypto space. We are the first project to implement a full decentralized distribution model for game publishers along with integrated tokenized game assets and a marketplace for them - and we're doing it on our own dedicated blockchain, not the generic ethereum chain that some of the others are attempting to use.

Even so, Xenio is much more than the sum of those things. Our platform isn't owned by a company that can go bankrupt or be bought by one of the existing megacorporations, it's fully decentralized. And because we're decentralized, the system we're building follows the open source philosophy, so we are building Xenio as an open platform that game publishers can use any way that works for their own business model. They can publish traditionally with an up front cost and free gameplay, or they can make their game a Freemium type game, or a hybrid, or even give their games away for free if they want. And for the in-game asset tokenization you mentioned, game publishers can set it up so gamers can purchase in-game items, or trade them outside the game, or they can even set up their in-game auction house to use the Xenio system directly from within their games. We're not building a simple token trading app, we're building an entire gaming ecosystem that is open and extensible.

So, knowing there isn't any real competition in the crypto world, we've set our sights squarely at Steam. They are the only competition that matters, as they're the biggest and most well established. We have the means and determination to displace them. And we're coming like a freight train.

Ben here - first of all, thanks for the report; I have let Facebook know that the public facing side of my profile is generating an error (they have a support page specifically dedicated to this issue, as it has apparently been around for a long time and is relatively widespread.) Secondly, you're not going to see very much once Facebook fixes the error, as I don't make too much publicly available on my profile. I also really don't mix my personal and professional lives at all, and as a rule I am rather a private "behind the scenes" type of person. But I thought it was important enough to at least prove I am a real human being by showing that my profile exists. If you have any other questions, I'd be glad to answer them here if they aren't too personal in nature. I trust you understand

Hey, everyone - check out the new intro video for the Xenio project. Don't forget to follow the Twitter channel for news as well

Hey, everyone - thanks for checking the Xenio project out. We will be making regular updates here as development progresses, and we have some exciting news for Xenio coming very soon, so be sure to put this thread on your watch list and check back regularly.

Don't forget to check out our social media links from the OP, too - since this is an open source project, we're committed to listening to your input, and since forums like bitcointalk are not always the best format for certain kinds of discussions, we've opened up a subreddit, a Slack community, and other methods of communicating with the team as well. The links are on the first post of this thread.

Thanks again!