Progress Report September/October 2018

Dear Noir Community,

To keep you informed, we have compiled a progress report for the last two months (so including the rebrand).

The biggest progress of these two months are the rebrand from Zoin to Noir together with the Zerocoin fix. Many other goals have been achieved and are summarised below:

Technical Development

Zerocoin protocol: bugs have been fixed, making Noir a real privacy coin again
Webwallet: is fully working and has been rebranded to Noir
Android Wallet: development is proceeding very smoothly and we are aiming for a release within Q4. Has been rebranded to Noir.
iOS Wallet: The team is looking for an iOS dev to work on the wallet. We are thinking about opening a bounty for it.
New core wallet: A new core wallet has been released containing mainly the zerocoin fix, the rebrand to Noir and more seeds to allow for faster syncing.
Noir Pool: A brand new Noir Pool has been created. The pool fees will be used for the development and marketing of Noir.

Exchanges

With the rebrand to Noir, the main aim was to keep the support of the existing exchanges. So far Cryptopia, CoinExchange, Coinroom, NovaExchange and BarterDEX have supported the rebrand. Unfortunately Cryptobridge asked for a new listing fee and for this reason we have decided to leave this exchange (at least for now) and let Zoin be delisted there.

Our short/medium term strategy will be to get Noir listed on free exchanges with some potential for the future, especially DEXs, as our current budget doesn’t allow us to pay big listing fees.

Marketing

A book displaying the history of Zoin from its inception until the rebrand to Noir has been published. We hope that this will attract people who are new to Cryptocurrency to Noir, as well as
Article and Advertising on Cryptoshib

New Team Members

Since the last progress report, three additional team members have been added to the team:

Florian (@ffuszthaler), working mainly on the Android wallet
Oscar (@Oscar) working on Public Relations and Marketing
Nina (@nina) as Social Media Manager
Mathias (@malt1), lead of Art/Graphics and Design

Miscellaneous

Took part in a listing contest (http://contest.gonetcoins.com/) and got more than 200 votes
Website has been rebranded to Noir
Noir has been added to Gin, the the “1 click” masternode setup service platform: https://p.gincoin.io
Noir has been added to Masternodes.Pro: https://masternodes.pro/stats/nor/statistics
Noir has been listed on Masternode.live: https://masternode.live/currencies/NOR/Noir
An extensive Setup Guide was released to help newcomers.

New Domains

All the Zoin domains have been rebranded to Noir ones. Below are the official Noir domains:

Website: http://noirofficial.org

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/noirofficial/

Email: team@noirofficial.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/noircoin

Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/4WTD9GN

Telegram: https://t.me/noircommunity

Telegram Announcements: https://t.me/noirofficial

Medium: https://medium.com/@noircoin

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Noirofficialorg-277345666225419/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noircoinofficial/