1. There is little information about your work. Please tell us what you are doing now. Plans for 3 months?
Last year I was disproportionately focused on external communications and activities. Spoke at / participated in about 15 conferences all around the world, twice in the US alone. Gave about 20 interviews. Was heavily involved in our ecosystem rebranding. Etc. etc. This year we agreed to give leadership on network marketing to the DeFi alliance and I am focusing more on internal affairs at EverX. We opened the development at EverX and created a strategic committee to discuss and guide core development at Everscale. We incubated and moved into separate focused teams Surf browser, Gosh and Flex and are helping to set up proper processes there. During current turbulent times we at EverX are giving priority to team motivation and development. That said I am of course still involved in some key business development projects in the network, speaking at conferences and giving interviews. Just to a smaller extent and with more balance between external and internal affairs. I continue to be 100% focused on Everscale/EverX as in the last 4 years. And I am on every biweekly community call on Tuesdays happy to answer any questions.
2. Prior to Durov’s ban, EverX (TonLabs) created a product for the Coinbase exchange. In connection with the rebranding, is it possible to renew the partnership by blowing the dust off the project?
That product was done for TON during the Telegram times, before the Free TON was born. Coinbase was very happy with our work and we maintain the relationship. However, I have an impression that after the SEC/Telegram story Coinbase is reluctant to cooperate with projects having TON origin. The rebranding obviously helps, but we will have only one chance with Coinbase. We are planning to approach them a bit later once there is a bit more valuation and traction in the network.
3. A few months ago you talked about agreements with Cosmos developers to work together. Is there any information about this project?
There is one team that has been working on the bridge with Cosmos. But they couldn’t do it without the support of EverX or Broxus. We agreed to continue once either of our teams has resources needed to support.
4. Please tell us about your participation in the African marketplace project Imara. What are your future plans for this project?
I helped them with the idea because I think there is an amazing amount of talent in Africa to create beautiful NFTs and hardly any chances to monetize that art in the world. Now helping them a bit with marketing. But I don’t have enough time to support them more. Would appreciate it if our community would step up and help.
5. The ChessNFT team at the AMA session talked about the possibility of negotiating with Fide and taking on the long-awaited Chess Passport project. Is there any news on this issue?
ChessNFT project is alive and should be launched in fall this year. There are negotiations of ChessNFT team and FIDE with two large chess platforms with a substantial user base. Chess ID is part of those negotiations. I am hoping that at least one of the two partners will be closed soon and ChessNFT can start realizing their roadmap which is quite ambitious.
6. Last spring, you gave a wonderful interview to Max Bit on ForkLog and promised to return in a year. Do you have any plans to share Everscale’s success on ForkLog again?
We have a very good relationship and collaboration with the Forklog’s team. Regarding the Max Bit’s interview I am planning to repeat that after we land a few partnerships / projects that are currently in the execution or planning phase. December should be good timing for an interview to wrap up 2022 results.
7. On March 20, the community voted positively for the allocation of 11mln evers to chessnft. At what stage is the project now?
I already answered above. As to the transfer of 11 mln tokens to support marketing of the project it is awaiting implementation of the governance reforms — introduction of lever.
8. Did Mitya officially leave the post of EverX CTO? And where did Ron Millow go?
Yes, as stated many times Mitja left the EverX CTO role to focus 100% on the highly ambitious and resourceful GOSH project together with Docker. That project won’t take off without 100% focus and dedication. However, Mitja is an active member of the strategic technical committee in Everscale continuing to contribute to the network architecture. On Ron he got tired at some point leading Tuesday calls and handed over to Joanne. He also played a key role with the subgovernances / contests. As the network moved away from that he got fewer things to do. As a result of what I know he is focusing on his own project now in the Everscale ecosystem and will hopefully launch very soon. And he is still supporting Everscale obviously.
9. Who is currently doing all the core development at EverX?
There are 25 senior engineers at EverX who are 100% focused only on the core — Node, SDK, Toolchain and Infrastructure. There are more team members in EverX who are also indirectly contributing. And then again there are more teams in Everscale now who are getting involved to further contribute to core development going forward.
10. What are EverX’s plans for next year?
We need to finalize transition to the open development of the core. We need to finalize a few important deliverables on the core from the roadmap that are very much needed to sharpen the competitive edge of Everscale. We are supporting Gosh, Flex and Surf. I am hoping that next year we will be able to free up resources to do projects at the application layer. As mentioned already we have a few projects in the business development pipeline that can be very helpful for the adoption of Everscale.
