Thanks for the input and suggestions Larry! I wanted to add some more background. We’ve had a notice up for a while e.g., this Sep post gave the target of Dec 15th for readiness. We have (a) proactively communicated out to parties who need to integrate and (b) been already working on potential marketing events. If anything the marketing/community activities are not the bottleneck here (the Hiro PBC team and others have had time to prepare) but engineering is dictating the timelines here which makes sense given that we want to optimize for safety and a high-quality launch – no one wants to have bugs for a new blockchain launch!
Software will be available Dec 15th with the code freeze. It’s kind of already available given the Xenon release has most of the features.
I think the time to get the word out is between Dec 15th and Jan 14th!
I see where you’re coming from Xan! I think the bottleneck is not additional time for marketing. Hiro PBC growth team for example has a lot of activities planned but the activities are more impactful closer to the actual launch so no matter how much time you introduce here, the last 30 days is where most of the action is going to happen. We are still 40 days out. I’ll let people like Mitchell and Patrick chime in but my understanding is that adding more time for marketing/community actually hurts instead of helping because it’s hard to build excitement for something that is just too far out.
Also, I’m in the camp that the most important thing here is getting the Clarity contracts and earning BTC features live. Stacks 1.0 is a very limited blockchain compared to Stacks 2.0 which is the main design. I’d personally much rather have the main system with full features live sooner rather than later. There is nothing more exciting to me than seeing real Clarity contracts live!