OpenBazaar, a decentralized, unregulated and open-source marketplace that uses bitcoin, has released a roadmap to its second version following a better-than-expected response to its first version in April, according to Medium.
OpenBazaar, which opened for business last month, has long-term plans to be a major e-commerce player. Its immediate focus is traditional e-commerce for digital and physical goods and services. An Evolving Roadmap
Customers’ favorite features could be missing from the new roadmap, the company noted. Such features might be nested in one of the cards. Depending on the feature, it might not align with OpenBazaar’s mission or it might be too long-term for the new roadmap. It encourages people to give feedback in its Slack group .
OpenBazaar is fundamentally a protocol with server and client reference implementations that can be installed on multiple desktop operating systems. The development stack will expand in the future to house additional platforms including mobile. The roadmap is designed using cards and columns. Every card consists of a general feature to be deployed. Cards are grouped in the following columns: ongoing improvements, short-term (under three months), medium-term (three to 12 months), and long-term (more than 12 months.) More Tasks Coming
The roadmap will add “subtasks” as the ecosystem matures.
The moderation system provides a minimum viable product that relies heavily on third-party platforms to assess and discover moderators.
Features under development include: moderator reputation system; dedicated discovery of moderators in application; a dedicated moderator page to show precedents and policies; “enable vendor” and “buyer” to switch moderators if the moderator is unresponsive; accept/reject moderator service terms; and reputation pledges such as CLTV, surety bonds, proof of burn, etc.
An additional long-term feature could be the creation of moderator protocols that have threshold signatures to distribute and minimize collusion risk. Flexibility An Ongoing Process Listing flexibility represents […]
