This will be a slightly longer post, so if you’re the standard crypto trader who spends his “free time” (?) frying his remaining dopamine receptors by scrolling TikTok looking for new possible trends that might become coins we want to warn you this post might exceed your 2.1ms attention span.

As summer is over, it’s good to share a bit more about the vision of Banana Gun and where it’s headed. Once run just by two founders, Banana Gun team has expanded in big ways and currently employs 30+ people (and always looking for good, non North Korean back-end devs).


Banana’s vision is threefold;

Multichain: Be where the volume is; modular, flexible architecture to quickly integrate and support new chains, DEX’s and protocols

Multiplatform: Be where the user is; Owning multiple frontends to give users flexibility and customizability to trade with Banana the way the user wants

Ecosystem: Powered by token; Leverage native token $BANANA to turn holders into traders and to turn traders into holders, fuelling the wider ecosystem

We have been burned by deadlines before, but we do want to share some of our progress on what we are working on to make the vision above come true. Below is what we are working on in Q4.

Multichain
Our back-enders have been working their ass off to refit our EVM architecture to follow the Solana architecture. This will open a wide range of possibilities right off the bat, all of which are being worked on right now and are near completion (grain of salt pls, this is what our devs tell us). Projects include (but are not limited to):

🍌 EVM CORE (plug ‘n play style adding of new dexes, chains, currencies, any2any and aggregation; new meta’s will be fast to implement in a robust way)
🍌 EVM integration into Banana Pro
🍌 One Telegram that Rules them All*
🍌 Much more (secret)

Telegram*
Banana Pro took a lot of the attention of our team, but no more! We have assembled a stand-alone team to have a laser focus on our Telegram bot. Enabled by our new back-end infrastructure, you can expect a streamlined 3.0 bot. Features include just one bot instead of different bots, DCA orders, copy trading and much more!

Multiplatform
While our back-enders are undertaking the humongous task of adapting EVM to our Solana infrastructure, our front-end team (FE devs, UX people, designers) have not been sitting still. Now that we have laid the foundation for our webapp, Banana Pro, we have started to add exciting quality of life features to it. Currently in the works or just completed:

🍌 New widgets (advanced wallet tracking, multicharts, DCA, and much more)
🍌 First-class mobile experience for webapp
🍌 Banana Data Service (our own data service)
🍌 Much more (secret)

We want to update you in a separate post in a week about our ecosystem and token plans. There’s a lot to share, so we are excited about that. However, we don’t want to wait with clarifying some information about unlocking tokens.

Half of the Banana team allocation (5% of total supply) has now completed its 2-year cliff period and entered a 36-month unlock schedule. Therefore, it will not unlock all at once but slowly over the course of 3 years. So far the smart contract unlocked 7000 $BANANA which has not been moved. More on that and our plans to make Banana more liquid in the next post!

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