What week. The $COTI community has been on fire all week, following the announcement of a new management team, led by @robbievdg , as well as a new roadmap covering the rest of this year and next. More on that in a minute. Anyone doubting that @cotinetwork has a loud and engaged community need only look at this week. Lots of opinion, some positive and some negative. Lots of questions for the new team, some answered and some not quite. Personally, I have loved almost every minute of it. The good, the bad and a few horrible ones that were not so enjoyable. This is a community that have been in the trenches for so many years now. Patience is limited, people wanna see results - preferably 5 minutes ago. The new team got their first taste of this now, and know what the expectations are, going forward. That’s a good thing. Robbie’s vibe is quite different that what we’re used to, and so is the strategic direction. It’s a lot of change in a relatively short period of time. And, it’s gonna take a while to digest. Whilst we do that, let’s have a cold, hard look at some of the things on the horizon. The strategic direction is distinctly multi-dimensional. PoD stays and gets expanded. More focus on the consumer-side with a $COTI app, virtual crypto card, VPN and much more. I’m very glad to see PoD still being on the forefront of the roadmap. Expanding PoD will bring lots more traffic, and it will drastically increase the knowledge of $COTI - something that will aid significantly in the planned user capture for “COTI Retail”. When we talk about retail, it’s my opinion that we’re not (yet) talking about average consumers, but rather crypto savvy consumers. You can, of course, spend a tonne of money with campaigns to raise awareness - and that will also be required to some extent. But…I strongly feel that the planned expansion of PoD can compliment the retail strategy. Tokenomics. Always a hot-button issue, and good to see that the new team is looking into ways of reducing inflation, or doing away with it altogether. I would like to hear and see more info on their proposed burn mechanisms and whether they are radically different from what was committed by the old team. I see a few calls now from the new team, asking for the community to get involved in helping to execute. Many ways that we, as a community, can do that. I would strongly recommend to Robbie and his team that they have a look at some of the very cool things that have been/are being built here - with privacy at the core. In fact, let’s take it a step further. Robbie and his team should set up a “Builders Committee” consisting of our builders and his devs. Let them meet regularly, and have our builders update the team on what they’re building - and have Robbie and team “contract” our builders for prototypes. Building with privacy at the core is somewhat of a new category, but one that has been mastered in our community. We have beautiful products already live. Some need help for ops costs, some need help with liquidity and some need help with 3rd party audits. New team are gonna be needing prototypes for the consumer-facing part of their strategy. Win-win, if you ask me. There are so many other things that have floating around this week, and I would never be able to cover all of it. I will leave you with this, though: I always talk about fundamentals and how that should partially guide your investment decisions. Many of you are actively considering your positions right now, and understandable so. Do your research, look at the fundamentals for COTI and make your OWN decisions. There’s always a glass half empty and glass half full way to approach these things. Personally, I am cautiously optimistic. I am not gonna judge Robbie and his team on 72 hours of unbridled chaos. I wanna see what their “30 day Campaign” delivers. Keeping/expanding PoD ticked a bit box for me, and I will watch how that unfolds. Robbie has asked for some time to deliver and be judged on that. That’s exactly what I intend to do. Have a great weekend Soeren P.S. thanks for the community member for the below piece of art. Missed getting your username, but your work was appreciated.