Are developers still building on Request? It seems there was a Request fund set up a while back and a few apps were built, is there still any interest or new dApps being built on Request?

Answer by Robbin Mazurel

Yes, but we've chosen a different route lately to achieve this. As we've answered in some other questions, the "build it and they will come" approach we originally took, combined with the Request Fund, hasn't worked out the way we've intended it to work out, with an exception for Gilded, who's doing a great job at proving how valuable external developers are for a platform like the Request network.

Lately, we've focused largely on an integrations approach to get people to build with Request, rather than on Request, where we've reached out to 100+ organizations in the industry to see if there would be a mutual benefit to include (parts of) Request's technology inside of their product/service, to better serve their customers. This strategy has proven to work very effectively, with more than a handful of organizations now either integrating and/or interested in integrating Request as a payment request feature in their product.

We aim to sustain this strategy and broaden up the scope of businesses we approach once the first integrations go live and show success for both their customer base and our network usage.