July Update: New White Paper, Search Nodes and AMAsWith the recent announcement that open source search expert Trey Grainger has joined Presearch as CTO, we are excited to deliver some long-awaited updates to the Presearch community.
New White PaperMany of you have asked about our development roadmap and a white paper refresh, and we’ve been planning to release an update since back in February / March.
Covid threw a bit of a wrench into our March plans causing some delays, and then a couple of very positive developments caused us to delay further when we had a breakthrough with search nodes that we realized could drastically alter our timelines, and then we started speaking with Trey and realized there may be an opportunity to have him join us as CTO.
Now that Trey is on board and internal alpha testing of search nodes have been successful, we’re ready to formally commit to a roadmap and white paper release date of July 31st.
Please keep an eye out for periodic updates between now and then. We’re really excited to share our vision for the future of Presearch in more detail, and to build the features and systems we need to realize the potential of a decentralized, blockchain-powered, community-driven search engine.
Search NodesAs mentioned, we’ve made some solid progress on developing the first version of our new Search Nodes software that will enable people to install and host a node that returns search results for user queries.
An internal alpha version has been in testing for the past month, and it has met and exceeded our expectations for result quality and user experience.
We are now working on the security / proxy layer, token economics and a release plan and will communicate more about the platform throughout the month leading up to the release of the new white paper.
Ask Me Anythings (AMAs)We are excited to announce that Presearch founder, Colin Pape, will be participating in an AMA session on Friday, July 3rd with the KuCoin community.
New CTO, Trey Grainger, is also preparing to host an AMA with the Presearch community as well. Details to follow in a separate post.
It’s shaping up to be a very busy summer for the Presearch Team and we are really thrilled to share more information with you as we can.