Thread by @beniaminmincu

1/ Maiar Exchange & Launchpad, big steps forward, recalibrated timelines. Thread update.

Where are we, what's the focus, what's next?

Context for the exciting weeks, and months ahead.

2/ First, things have never been better.

Elrond is live. The ecosystem is vibrating. Community is rocking it. Validators are expanding. New tooling coming out every day. 150+ partners pushing to build on Elrond.

20+ partners preparing to launch their tokens on Elrond.

3/ But all of this brings complexity. A huge amount of complexity.

Complexity is like entropy, creeping in everywhere to break things.

Adding debt on all fronts and slowing things down to the point of halt.

Unless things are managed properly, and entropy is reversed.

4/ Point is we have reached a major milestone with the new mainnet release. ESDTs, SFTs & NFTs are live, and pivotal for the ecosystem.

W/ the Maiar DEX & Launchpad a new growth phase begins.

To manage things proactively & ensure optimal growth, a timeline recalibration is fit.

5/ So, what's our focus at this point?

The first project on the Maiar launchpad is coming.

Some things are worth waiting for - you will soon understand why. 👀

The new timeline will be the first week of May.

6/ Great, so where's the Maiar Exchange?

Recall that in order to launch we need:

(a) The mainnet w/ ESDT tokens live, (b) the conceptual design w/ MEX incentives, (c) SCs & backend required for the Maiar exchange, (d) the Maiar Exchange frontend, and (e) Maiar connect element.

7/ (a) is done, & (b) is in peer review, pending for tomorrow's town hall discussion.

W/ all the incentive design changes, several new SCs & backend changes have been added on the to do backlog of (c).

Still, things are progressing very well, with (c) expected to take ~2 weeks.

8/ So what about the rest of things?

Well, (d) Maiar Exchange frontend is progressing excellent, with 1st functional & design iterations expected to be ready in ~2 weeks.

Awesome news is that (e) Maiar connect is ready!
Tested as we speak, pending IOS, to be released tomorrow🔥

9/ To sum up: great products are never finished.
They are constantly reimagined, constantly improved.
And sometimes this takes time.

Time frames are always best approximations possible.
And when they change, it's for the better.

10/ So what's next?

Perhaps the most exciting growth period for Elrond yet.

Tomorrow, the new incentive design proposal will be shared in the Elrond Townhall, w/ a blog post afterwards.

The Maiar Exchange will bring a new economic significance to Elrond EGLD, MEX, MPAD, etc.

11/ The Maiar exchange with MEX, the Maiar launchpad with MPAD, and several other products and tokens are coming.

NFTs are also coming.

All of them will be ESDTs, usable in Maiar, getting native automated liquidity.

12/ The best time to care about the Elrond technology, community growth, and ecosystem expansion was 2 years ago.

The second best time is now.

With one growth engine, we’ve been accelerating hard.

Now a second and third engine are about to jump start.