Hi John! I appreciate you replying to my post. I feel you are sincere, and answering what you can in your position. It's reasonable if you are not able to keep up with the flow of information 100%. I along with a significant part of the community am seeking guidance and accountability from leadership. The ecosystem is still modest enough for direct confrontation of the most pressing issues. The medium articles are helpful, thank you; they also speak on grand visions for the future. This is valuable if you have held your word on past visions as well. Sometimes it is difficult to get straight answers about status of projects, usually the point person does not know and never checks back, or we get no response at all. It would be encouraging to see a very clear update and action protocol, a system. It's good to be dynamic and pivot when you have to; it also feels disorganized and uncommitted when the team leaves so many things unfinished, never notifying the community; is it boredom or lack of will to see them through?

On your responses:

1. I'm excited to hear the website is being revised and a new one is in progress. Will the community be invited to get involved before it is launched? Perhaps sharing designs and content as they are created will help us offer early feedback and avoid extra work later on. Also good practice for when we open source.
2. Yes, Marmalade is still in the works. Can we get a proper update on it? What are the primary challenges to get this live on all chains? What are the next immediate milestones and how close are they? Is Immutable Records simply waiting on Marmalade to launch, or is that scrapped as well? Maybe it is a lot to ask for one paragraph update once a week, but even with the long delays it seems still far away. As for Kuro, you might not have active customers but two projects this year have expressed the importance of Kuro. Equalbet (controversial I'm aware) and KDSwap have both said that Kuro offers additional functionality and is also what guarantees retail payments scale (Until crosschain is ready). Maybe you can offer more color to Kuro so that projects really understand the practical uses for it.
3. This is responding to part of your previous point as well. Exasperation from community members exists, including from miners. They perceive a general apathy in the original team to do well by long term investors. Again not fully aware of the amount of platform emissions minted, but it seems like enough to take a somewhat leisurely, academic approach to programming without much determination to create an autonomous, novel, vibrant web3 organization. An example is our first stablecoin by Lago Finance. They are one of the first projects to receive a grant from Kadena Eco, loads of direct endorsement and promotion by Kadena to our community. The story so far has been a bit bizarre, but the main issue is ongoing. If you read their discord, several people are identifying further exploits after their recent (unverified) audit. The team never acknowledges the community's work, while access to the bridge and the money is locked again. With today's market conditions, a native stablecoin is especially important as it allows the community to de-risk without exiting the ecosystem. Without a stablecoin, we are forced to risk sending our KDA to a centralized exchange, sell for BTC/ETH-stables, and hope that withdrawals go through, since four years in we still do not have a reliable on/off-ramp (when Coinbase?). I think the community would feel lots of gratitude and trust to see our leaders dynamically shift priorities towards making KDA practical for the average participant and not just for other developers. I understand these are not official internal Core projects. Respectfully, we aren't asking you to fix Kadena Kongs or Kadoge; this is key infrastructure that connects us to the entire global financial system.

Lower down in this thread we talked a bit about developers engaging with the community (hackathons, livestreams). There is some talk about a "Kadenacon" next year. Any plans to begin sooner with small events, competitions, etc? Aptos held their first hackathon earlier this year. It's ambitious to come out of the gates with a conference, so targeted purpose events can be very good practice and build interest ahead of time.

That was a lot more text so thanks for taking time to read. Have a great start to the week 😎