This is a great announcement and I hate to be "that guy" who comes in and takes a dump on the good vibes, but what about Smart Media Tokens?
I know, SMT's were scaled back and we are going to be getting SMT-lite while other features come later, but the silence is deafening. I also recall RocksDB being important to the launch of SMT's and now that RocksDB appears to be going well, how about SMT's?
In the interim, @yabapmatt @aggroed and @harpagon have launched an impressive side-chain called Steem Engine and while it is only basic for now, it gives us SMT like functionality on Steem right now.
The Steem community has always impressed me, but of late, even more so and it feels like they have been picking up the slack a little bit. We have all been feeling the pinch of this bear market, but still.
The increased transparency and communication lately has also been welcomed and appreciated, I can see STINC is making more of an effort now, but the silence about the pending mainnet launch in a month concerns me.