The Black Exchange is focused on sharing information and establishing our platform as a key social media platform in the Black Community. Our focus is providing a safe place for our community and culture to grow by leveraging 21st century technology for our collective benefit.
Below is our roadmap for the platform. As an agile focused platform we are planning on public releases every two months. Each release will provide a listing of changes, updates, bug fixes and deprecated information. Stay in tune with us or join as a Volunteer to help us build a better future for our community.
Timeline & Roadmap
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JUL 2024 | PresentPlatform Development
Platform Development and prepping for main launch is the focus. Specifically feature testing and bug testing, feature enhancement, and content development. Develop progress available via site Development Blog.
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JAN 2025Alpha Launch – Open Testing
Specific users will have access to the platform to begin standard capacity and feature testing as part of this alpha release. Marketing and social network campaigns launch
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JAN 2026Beta Launch & Mobile –
Platform v0.2
Our focus is aggregation of resources, content and information architecture. We will focus on providing forums, channels and information on key areas of the adventure lifestyle including free resources and directories of similar content and partners. Base features in this release include standard social media integration, user profiles, and messaging. Additionally this phase and project will include the initial development of training classes, and staffing. This initial phase and project represents the initial build and Beta version 0.1
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APR 2026 – Near FutureSocial Media, Video Streaming, Volunteers, & Gamification
This phase and project represents another big lift. We will launch our social media campaign on a variety of channels. We will launch our Volunteers Campaign to promote community based engagement and moderators. We will start building our alliance program to promote collaborations and partnerships within our space. We will launch our gamification algorithm which will reward members for activities on the Exchange, social media and real world activities like exploring, hiking, camping and kayaking. We view this phase as critical to wrapping up the initial build and an official launch with Beta Version 1.0
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JUL 2026 – FutureEvents, Badges, Crypto, Web 3 & More
This project focuses on feature stabilization, bug fixes, customer focused enhancements. Additionally we include more badges, and launch our Events section featuring our events, community events, and local events. In this phase we start integrating some of the original features into a single cohesive offering, enabling users to share maps, and exchange adventure experiences. Additionally we will roll out our infrastructure to convert points to crypto and offer our community members loans and other fintech services.
This phase focuses on ensuring our platform is extensible, agile and can evolve with our users and stakeholders vision. This phase and build is considered Beta Version 1.1
