What’s happening with exchanges
Cryptopia — We’re live! You can go trade our token right now, it’s listed with the ticker BKCAT. To clarify the ticker name, CAT is still our official ticker, though as some websites/exchanges already use CAT for a really old bitcoin fork called CatCoin, we’ve had to adopt a secondary ticker of BKCAT.
We don’t see this being a problem, as it’s actually quite common for coins/tokens to have multiple tickers. Even Bitcoin is traded as both BTC and XBT depending on where you look.
RadarRelay — We’ve been in close contact with RR throughout their Beta. We’re due to be listed soon, though they’re adding new coins/tokens gradually as they continue to test their service. It’s brand new, and they want to make sure everything works correctly, we totally respect that.
We’re very excited about our RR listing. If you look at the launch lineup, we’re listed alongside some very high profile tokens/coins such as BAT, Augur, OmiseGo, EOS, Bancor, etc. RR is also one of the first companies to use the 0xProtocol, which we believe is going to make huge changes to how people trade cryptocurrencies.
Other — We know the community is very excited about us being listed on other exchanges 🐱🥔. We don’t have any further news and we don’t expect any for some time. It’s a long process to get listed these days due to the increased concern with regulators and the recent bans happening in China. Liquidity of our token is always important to us so we’re continually researching new options and pushing forward with current applications as a top priority.
Speaking of China
We made a statement about the Chinese ban on our twitter but just wanted to clarify things here for those that missed it. BlockCAT will not be affected by the ban. We shall continue to operate as expected.
Hiring
Lots of progress happening with expanding our team. We contracted a recruiter who’s got tons of experience finding high profile developers for tech startups. Huge progress is already being made in this area.
We’ve mentioned a few times that we’re only hiring locally. To be more specific, we’re hiring within our province of Canada (British Columbia), so if you fit any of the following roles and are living in BC, please email us: team@blockcat.io and we’ll provide you more details.
Javascript Front-end / UX Engineer
Blockchain (Solidity) Engineer
Back-end Engineer
Office Progress
It seems office updates are a controversial topic for us! Some of you love hearing about how it’s evolving, others feel it’s not so important. We’ll keep including updates on how it’s going, but it’ll be the last section of our weekly update so you can skip if you’re not interested.
This week was our first full week in the new office. We’re up and running with our computers and desks and it’s been great! Lots still to happen, as most of the rooms are still empty. We’re working with an interior design company to furnish the whole place over the next 4–6 weeks, and a networking company to setup servers, firewalls and get WiFi flying around. Once that’s all done we’ll do a full tour!
