In an announcement on keybase this afternoon J Eckert, VP of Ecosystem Operations at Chia Network, has teased a new feature launch that they will be unveiling next week on January 12th.
It doesn’t sound like they are very interested in offering up any details ahead of next Wednesday so we will have to stay tuned for that. Because Chia Network does a lot of their development in plain sight there is a good chance this has already been teased or commits made to GitHub indicating what’s coming.
My personal guess is offer files, which are mechanism of doing on-chain swaps without requiring a trusted third party. This is the sort of thing DeFi is all about and there have been a lot of DeX and DeFi products popping up and one of them is using offer files on testnet.
Another possibility is the NFT standard. In order to get a real NFT ecosystem running on Chia there needs to be a coherent standard different marketplaces can leverage. Because NFTs are very hot right now getting them out as quickly as possible might be a huge strategic advantage against competing chains.
Either way, or any other way, there will be no way to know until next Wednesday, the 12th. Normally I dislike wild speculation, but this time I’m going to encourage more of it. Sound off in the comments what you think the feature announcement will be and I will split 1000 SpaceBucks amongst everyone that gets it right.
DeFi
I think you hit it on the head about the offer files. Makes sense with all the new Dec and defi stuff coming out.
DeX
Should be the CAT & Offer support wallet.
Something related to NFTs
The top priority should be NFTs
Probably, the chia purchase button.
Buy XCH button on chia.net
I do think it is the merch store
Easy plot button in the GUI
Ooh that’s a good one
I think, that it will be NFT standart.
They’re likely going to unveil the “buy chia” portal/button on chia.net to boost easy, non-farmed–but also non-exchange–liquidity.
Buy Chia button on website, powered by offer files on the backend.
NFT
I wish both but probably offer files and nft in the next 2 months. 🌱🌍
WorldBank chia debit card. Spend your mojos at the corner market 🙂
I don’t care what it is as long as it helps xch get listed on major exchanges.
NFT standard
Offer files and XCH-buy button
Offering Files
Buy XCH button on chia
I’m on the NFT train too.
New version of the blockchain database, much smaller and efficient.
Farm monitoring tools and Network data export from Prometheus Exporters
announcement about RL coins and RL wallets