Hello guys! Yesterday, Vincent published our dev update, it's a good way to take a deep dive into the technical part and we also introduce our technical vision and philosophy.
You can read it here:
https://blog.request.network/request-network-dev-update-2017-09-18-12ecc595d608

2 weeks later, we are more than 6'000 people gathered around Request on Slack, and it keeps growing.
As you know, we don't do any marketing/advertising so we are very proud to see so many people join our project and support us.

So, from all the team, thank you all.

Some of you asked us how they could support Request, here is how you can help us:
- We believe we can get qualitative visibility thanks to articles in media. If you have good contacts in a legit crypto/bitcoin media, feel free to introduce us.
- Our whitepaper is only in English so far. We already have a multicultural community and we would love everybody to be able to read more in their native language, such as Chinese, Korean and Russian. If you feel able to do it, please contact me. I've also heard a Kakao Talk channel has been opened 3 hours ago to relay our announcements. That's great too.
- We are also interested in business partnerships because they will help us grow in the long term. Any thoughts? Reach out and tell us.
- If you can't do any of this, feel free to share Request Network with your closest friends on Twitter, Facebook and other social media. It is very appreciated. Word of mouth made Request what it is today, let's keep going 🙂 🚀

Today we dive into one of our use case and about why would an Amazon, Alibaba, or any other marketplace benefit from using the Request Network
https://blog.request.network/using-the-request-network-protocol-to-pay-online-in-any-crypto-currencies-a59fcce12034

Feel free to give us some thumbs up on reddit for visibility https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/72caw2/why_would_an_amazon_alibaba_or_any_other/?st=j806uy2t&sh=d605e5f2

*Warning* ❗️ Please be aware that *many users* will pretend to be part of the team and *will try to steal from you. DO NOT TRUST* anyone, especially @slackbot from Slack.

Hello everyone!
Slack is closed, so is the whitelist.
If you didn't make it (somehow, some of our followers did not join Slack before), join the waiting line filling this form: http://bit.ly/2jZe7Ja
The waiting line will be used if less than 15k people goes through the KYC process

KYC stats for the last day:
Cumulative submissions = 19'667
Approved accounts (after manual checks) = 15'140
Pending accounts = 0
Incomplete submissions = 814
Rejected accounts = 3'713

These stats can still change until tomorrow because the incomplete profiles still have a last chance to provide correct information until October 7 11pm (CEST) and because we're doing a last control about potential duplicate accounts. But it won't change a lot 😄

Our objective was to have around 15'000 successful registrants. We reached that number, so we are very happy with our community ! From Monday, rejected or duplicate accounts will be deactivated from the slack and people from the waiting list who passed the KYC will be invited, so we can keep a strong community

On Monday we'll publish an article about our KYC process, some data about the community including a map per nationality 🌍

Thank you all!

Thank you everyone for supporting us.
By being here on Telegram you represent the Request Network project when you talk on other media. Here are some thoughts about the role of the community as ambassadors.

We do not support shilling, aggressive behavior and rumors.
- our community is strong and smart and do not need this
- this is a short-term strategy where people take advantage of others for their own good
- there is a strong and important difference between "Convince" and "Persuade"
- wouldn't it be better if others understood the long term potential of the project?

If you want to spread the word, please, do it in a rational way

Hello everybody.
Here is some feedback about exchanges listing:

We believe the future successful exchanges are decentralized ones.
Right now, Etherdelta and RadarRelay are listing REQ. Gate_io and Idex_market too.

However we know that the simplicity of centralized exchange is still way better and we are doing our best to list REQ on them.
Many questions have been asked regarding Binance: we're going to apply for the community vote during the month of November.

Other exchanges like Bittrex, Bitfinex and Poloniex have been contacted, we're in discussions and can't make any additional comment.

Request Network is at an early stage and we have an ambitious roadmap towards success. Our challenges are numerous, we need to execute well and build a product people love. We are pleased to announce the appointment of 2 key advisors to our project who will help us build and develop Request Network over the next few years
https://blog.request.network/request-network-announces-new-advisors-b5e049abb021

Over the last few hours/days we heard some concerns and we are aware that the community needs to know when there will be updates from Request Network Team.

As said earlier, we are strongly committed to our project development and we will communicate every 2 weeks. We believe that communicating transparently is the key for a healthy community and we will communicate a first Project Update on Friday 27th.

Feel free to suggest additional questions that you need to be answered (Slack/Messenger/Twitter).

We appreciate the responsibility some show to the community. Thank you for your support!

Over the last 2 weeks, we went heads down and focused on designing the Core layer of the product, planning the long term growth of Request, and building out relationships with potential partners.

We just published our project update: https://blog.request.network/request-network-project-update-october-27th-2017-1cd981fe131a

Request Network is built to allow anyone to develop advanced payment conditions (what we call request extensions). Today we’re explaining one of the potential use cases: Continuous Payments.

What does it mean? It means that you will eventually get paid by the second, the minute, or by the day instead of at the end of the month.

Take a look here: https://blog.request.network/introducing-continuous-payments-a61132332984

FYI we are not using Parity to hold our funds, and are unaffected by the bug discovered today (see : https://paritytech.io/blog/security-alert.html)

Over the last two weeks, we were focused on the development of Request Colossus, the first version of our product, and were creating relationships with potential business partners.

See our project update here: https://blog.request.network/request-network-project-update-november-10th-2017-a57193780ddf

Also, we answered your questions in this blog post. We would like to thank the community for all the submitted questions and especially adm for organizing the Q&A session this week.

Have a good read!

(the following was initially featured in the project update of 10th November) For the first version of the working product, a Request will be:
- payable only in ETH
- without extensions (such as escrow or late fees)
- created by the payee only
Full Project Update here: http://bit.ly/2j2mznd #request

We're happy to release our latest project update: https://blog.request.network/request-network-project-update-november-24th-2017-tech-ecosystem-request-core-kyber-network-b760637eba9b

In the past two weeks, we have focused on the refinement of Request as a tech ecosystem, designing the Core features of a request for the release of Request Colossus and building relations with potential partners.

=> Request is not an app but a financial platform on which many projects can be developed. It is a layer on top of Ethereum simplifying the development of many features in the crypto finance space. Our plan is to create an ecosystem and encourage teams and projects to work on top of Request.

Have a good read!

You were many to ask for an official Telegram Chat Group to talk together about Request Network & REQ token.

Free free to join us at https://t.me/REQ_Official

Here is our latest project update: https://blog.request.network/request-network-project-update-december-8th-2017-financial-flows-management-request-colossus-ef62fed295c0

What we were up to in the last two weeks:
-designing and integrating the different financial flows within Request
-JS Library design and development
-MVP Colossus development
-Burning contract and Core refinement

Here we are! Colossus main *demo feature* and 1st version of Request working on a testnet is live at https://app.request.network

See information on how to use it here: https://blog.request.network/request-colossus-launch-how-it-works-871464b361cf

This is a MVP. What we call MVP is the first version of the website that allows anyone to interact with Request Network smart contracts on *Rinkeby* testnet. With this test version, we'd like to give you the opportunity to discover and explore Colossus features.
We are looking forward to *your feedback*. Feel free to use our contact form: https://app.request.network/#/contact or our Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/RequestNetwork/comments/7kl71z/colossus_is_out_please_share_your_feedback_with/ to share your thoughts.

Many functionalities will be added in the coming weeks and months and we’ll keep communicating about the upcoming features and our development progress

Hello everyone! Find our last project update here: https://blog.request.network/request-network-project-update-december-22nd-2017-first-feedbacks-colossus-introducing-request-51fc3387a686

What we were up to in the last two weeks:
-Launching Colossus main demo feature.
-Releasing the first version of the smart contracts on Rinkeby.
-Developing the JS Library.
-Defining the ecosystem around Request with the Request Hub.

Have a good read and a good Christmas week-end!