Good morning. Q1 is in the books. Below: a tight breakdown of what shipped.
Faktorist
A steady quarter on the platform: more producers onboarded, more repeat buyers, and two new markets opened. We also stayed out of three we'd originally planned for — the credit underwriting wasn't ready for those markets yet.
Made-in-Ukraine
Issue N°08 closed copy in March and goes to print this week. The cover story (agri-export from the grey zone) got an early sign-off from the German trade press; expect coverage in May. The podcast kept its weekly rhythm.
The book
Final edits in three languages — Italian, English and Ukrainian. Each edition is adapted, not merely translated. Dates when there are dates.
Refereeing
UPL matches through the quarter. One controversial late call that the post-match review confirmed was correct.
FTR
Whitepaper v2 in November is now what we're building against. Testnet activity steady. Mainnet still 2027.
What I learned
The big lesson of the quarter: every time we've resisted scaling a product we're not ready to support, we've been right twelve months later. The discipline of saying no to a new market is harder than the discipline of saying yes; both compound.
— Oleksandr