Introducing Public Alpha: Embracing Transparency and Community Feedback

PAWSWAP
4 min readMay 31, 2023

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Snapshot of PawChain’s alpha features, pushing forward in decentralized finance

PawChain team is excited to release Public Alpha, a significant step forward in our path towards building our secure PawChain Platform. The team has continued to embrace transparency and commitment to community involvement, PawChain is committed to building a platform that empowers its users by leveraging the power of decentralization.

  1. Transparency: Transparency lies in the DNA of PawChain’s values. We believe in providing our community with a clear understanding of our processes and decision-making. With the Public Alpha release, we open our doors to the community, allowing everyone to discover the inner workings of our platform. We will be sharing regular updates to keep you informed and involved every step of the way.
  2. Community Feedback and Involvement: PawChain team recognizes the value of community feedback. We understand that the collective wisdom and diverse perspectives of our users are important in shaping the direction of our platform. During Public Alpha , we encourage your input, ideas, and suggestions. Your feedback will play a critical role in shaping PawChain’s features and user experiences. Together, we can build a crypto currency platform that exceeds the expectations of our community.

Understanding Public Alpha

Public Alpha is part of the overall agile development lifecycle and industry standard for releasing software products to the market. Public Alpha embraces the principles of decentralization in transparency and responsibly handing over control of PawChain platform to the community by receiving critical feedback on our development activities early on in the lifecycle and incorporating that feedback into DAO proposals. Below are important aspects of understanding Public Alpha as it relates to PawChain:

Release on a Dedicated Domain: Public Alpha marks the release of PawChain products on a dedicated domain. Dedicated domain allows us to safely release products without negatively effecting production platform while giving the community ability to participate in testing our new utilities.

Early Access: Community members will have access to the latest features and functionalities before they are made available to the wider public.

Imperfections and Errors Expected: Public Alpha release may not be flawless. As a feedback phase on main-net, we anticipate the presence of errors or bugs that may affect certain functionalities. However, our team is dedicated to receiving your feedback so they can improve the stability and performance of the utilities.

Stability and Security Under Certik Audit: Even though Public Alpha release strives for stable and secure functionality, it is essential to note that PawChain products are still undergoing the Certik security audit.

Public Alpha Early Feedback and Improvement: As a community you will see the utilities evolve as the development teams take in your feedback, consider the technological impact(s), and make changes as necessary. This truly is a project built by the people for the people. Feedback can be gathered from you in many ways, the team is always reviewing feedback from all available sources. The most effective feedback mechanism is by providing it directly in the discord pawchain-dapp channel. This method ensures broadest visibility across the teams and ensures we see it faster.

Public Alpha: First Release

Today PawChain team will launch a series of Mediums on the first utilities planned for Public Alpha release, and then we will release mediums on each additional utility moving to Public Alpha over the coming weeks. The following 4 PawChain utilities will be released within the next 24 hours of their dedicated Medium articles:

  1. DAO — decentralized autonomous organization that will underpin the governance of PawChain Ecosystem.
  2. Aggregator — Application that collects and brings together trade data from various Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms into a single location. This simplifies and enhances the user experience by allowing the best price to be found from a single source rather than having to check multiple locations individually.
  3. Paw Wallet — Blends the simplicity of digital wallets with the potential of peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions.
  4. Fiat to Crypto — Ability to convert Fiat to Crypto without the need of CEX.

Disclaimer

  1. Imperfections and Limitations: Please be aware that the Public Alpha release of PawChain products are not perfect. As an early version of the utilities, there may be bugs, errors, or incomplete features.
  2. Use at Your Own Risk: By participating in the Public Alpha, you acknowledge and accept that you are using PawChain products at your own risk as the utilities are pre-production releases.
  3. Best Effort Support: During Public Alpha, our support services will be provided “as best effort” support on utilities released to Public Alpha. However, level of support may be limited as we focus on further development and refining the platform. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we prioritize the ongoing enhancement of PawChain development features.
  4. Subject to Change: Features, user interface, and other aspects of PawChain products are subject to change throughout the Public Alpha phase. We may introduce new features, modify existing ones, or remove certain functionality based on user feedback and our improvement process. Your feedback is foundational in shaping the final version of PawChain Platform.

We value your participation in the Public Alpha release process. Your feedback is greatly appreciated as we work towards creating a secure, robust, and intuitive user interface. Together with our Development team and our user community, we will shape the future of PawChain Ecosystem.

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