Roadmap
🔹 2021: Laying the foundation stone and first success
- Q1-Q2: Transformation of the Coinfreak crypto community platform into NFTaggregator, a platform for NFT artists to showcase and storytell digital artworks.
- Q3-Q4: Intensive Twitter marketing campaign leads to rapid growth: Over 6000 NFT artists join, with around 150 new stories every day.
🔹 2022: Market crisis and reorientation
- Q1-Q2: The NFT market experiences a sharp decline, leading to stagnant growth on NFTaggregator.io.
- Q3: Insight & Future Direction: Analysis of the market shows a lack of confidence due to a lack of background information on NFTs. We have written our scientific paper on the crash of the NFT market: the surge, collapse and future of nfts
- Q3: First major ACYC team expansion from 5 to 10 team members.
- Q4: Development of a decentralized, community-driven valuation system to improve the assessment of the value of NFTs/assets by the community.
🔹 November 2022: Development of NFTchoice
- Integration of a 3D carousel feature and a token-based voting tool to promote community participation.
- Expanding the focus beyond NFTs, first step towards a more comprehensive platform.
🔹 2023: Functional expansions and think big
- Q1–Q2: Implementation of gamification elements to increase user interaction.
- Q2: Start writing the ACYC white paper V1.
- Q2: Launch of NFTchoice.io in the NFTcommunity with sobering findings that the NFT market is still not reactivatable and does not offer good conditions for launching an NFT community platform.
- Q3: Launch of trendhub.one V1 as a further development of NFTchoice, now with a focus on diverse content and social collaboration.
- Q4: Integration of user-created multimedia spaces.
🔹 2024: Expansion and pilot phase
- Q1: Improving the UX from a rating platform to a “slow social media” platform to promote more conscious content consumption.
- Q2: Introduction of trendhub V2 with improved community features and extended monetization options for creators.
- Q2: Second major ACYC team expansion from 8 to 15 team members.
- Q2: Preparation for the establishment of the company in the Dubai DMCC Crypto Center.
- Q2-Q4: Pilot phase with around 250 users from different areas to improve the UX.
- Q3: Completion of ACYC whitepaper V2+
- Q4: Integration of the collaboration feature to involve the community in content creation.
- Q4: Company foundation and regular license of the ACYC DMCC in the Crypto Center of the DMCC.
- Q4: AI integration for automated hub creation to meet interests or solve problems, with support for the social collaboration feature.
- Q4: NFTident: Conception of the technical implementation of a metadata tracker for physical assets.
- Q4: Development of the trendhub pitch deck.
🔹 2025: New platform & token launch and further expansion
- Q1: Integration of the CURATE & CONNECT page in trendhub to increase the interaction and connection between content and users.
- Q1-Q2: Launch of trendhub.one V3, recovery campaign for our old NFTaggregator users, special gamified AirDrop campaign on trendhub for the Solana community.
- Q1-Q2: Preparation of crypto fundraising for the CRED token, including strategic private sale rounds.
- Q2-Q3: Implementation of the TGE and listing of the CRED token on leading crypto exchanges.
- Q3-Q4: Introduction of the Hub Ads as a monetization model for companies and content creators.
- Q4: Further development of NFTtrust to display metadata such as ratings like trendhub ratings at the point of sale.
- Q4: Development start of the ACYC protocol, which is to act as an NFT metadata aggregator for metadata providers and the point-of-sale.
🔹 2026: Building the ACYC Metadata Aggregator Infrastructure (AMAI)
- Q1-Q2: Integration of NFTtrust into NFTmarketplaces & Shops.
- Q1–Q3: Integration of NFTident to authenticate digital assets via metadata, with first application in the fashion sector to bring additional metadata to the point of sale in addition to ratings.
- Q2: Expanding the global partner network to promote community-based assessments and integration of Web3 data.
- Q3: Launch of ACYC’s Governance Token.