Wanted to give the Cedar DAO holders a brief update and some insights into Atlas Wallet development.
So as of today we are on development build 203 in the Apple Developers Program.
We have done a vast amount of work on Atlas since we were lucky enough to have our CTO come onboard. It's been in many ways a painful process for me, because we had to take some serious steps back before we could move forwards. It's also been, on many occasions, invigorating and highly educational for me to work with someone at this level of the industry.
We are a small team, looking to compete in an industry where the products we are aiming to rival have dozens of developers, $100s of millions to spend. The way we compete is through a combination of long working weeks, amazing team work, and simply knowing we can build something incredible regardless of our resources.
As we stand, we remain well-resourced - of the $1.2 million infusion of funding we had back in March 2025, we have spent $486,571, and still hold $713,429 - this is remarkably efficient, and clearly leaves us plenty of runway for the plan we set out: to get to launch, onboard initial users and then look to raise VC capital.
Just a little insight into our process, and for that I include some images. So in very basic terms, it is my job to research and design our user interface and user experience, and I then take my initial ideas and designs to our CTO who refines them through a collaborative process, and he then fully prepares the development approach for our developers to work on. Generally the CTO and devs have daily meetings, and we are pushing almost 1 build a day which the whole team tests together.
One of the final elements of Atlas that needs improving before we reopen beta is our DApp browser, which was a pretty poor experience. So I have been working on the designs pictured, and these are now being discussed amongst the CTO and devs in terms of feasibility and process, and we would then expect to see updates in the builds very quickly. It'll be interesting to see these prototype ideas and see how the final DApp browser works.
This is definitely my favourite part of Atlas - seeing my scrappy ideas become reality in a working app is pretty cool! I'll ensure I share the final DApp Browser UI when it's in the build, so you can compare. The final versions always end up better than the prototypes!
I'll do a full update, as usual, at the end of the month.