Hey team,

First I've just gotta say how incredibly excited I am about all of the progress that we've been making as a team lately. The demo last week was so great to see. 🚀

Hi all! I’m extremely excited to report that we’ve been full steam ahead and are on schedule to release the SDK to developers before the end of the month!

More specifically, we now have XMTP nodes up and running, a basic front end, and are actively sending messages around the playnet (pre-testnet testnet). Next up is bringing in those developers. Now onto the rest of it…

Hey team,

Stoked to dive in this week. It really feels like all the things are coming together across the tech side and the comms side. One story, One SDK, One Litepaper, one way to think about the future of communication for web3.

First I'll say that last week felt like a big one here at XMTP Labs. We experienced our first major change to the team since inception—a further refining of the shape of the team we're looking to build. While team departures are always very hard, I'm appreciative of how adaptable everyone seems to be. Further, it's clear that the group that we've assembled here is a strong one, and we'll be ready to tackle the challenges ahead of us.

Hi team,

First off, welcome @neekolas to the team this week! He comes to us from Brex.

Team,

Now that we've got a couple of weeks behind us of what feels like strong alignment and focus, this week it's important that we take stock in the state of things. We need to understand where we're at vs. our goals, and what it's going to take to achieve them within an ambitious but realistic timeframe. It'll be good to regroup this week and express any short-term concerns we may have about getting our SDK out and seeing developers build on it before end of February.

Hello everyone. With 2021 in hindsight, we’re excited to share our progress and outlook for 2022 as we work on delivering our first big milestone in Q1.

tl;dr: Our SDK is going live in Q1 and we want our investors to get a first look at building on top of XMTP, and giving us feedback.

Hey team,

Last week was my favorite week since we started XMTP. It felt different. Not because it's a new year and some New Year's Resolutions we wanted to change or something. Mostly, because it felt like we were all focused, executing, making things happen, and working together.

Hey team, welcome to 2022! We’ll keep this one short and sweet as we’re just now getting back into the swing of things into the new year.

Hey all,

Really excited with how we're closing out the year here and going into our last week of work before the holiday break. The last few weeks have felt mega productive and that we've really been finding the direction that we needed to hit the ground running hard come the next year. We're seeing more and more demand for messaging in web3, and interest everywhere for a decentralized back-end. All of the ingredients for a very interesting year in 2022 seem to be in place.