Average price on the exchanges is now 7714 Sats, still below the level 2 btc ICO price of 8552. Volume is still low, but starting to pick up (at least above 1 btc now). HEAT is currently number 3 on the top 24 hour performer list. Testnet has survived extensive testing today, multiple servers running automated trading on the HEAT AE. 5 transactions per second (tps) is currently working fine, continuously over many hours. In total more than 200,000 automated transactions have been made since yesterday evening on testnet. I expect that mainnet will be updated in a few days, including enabling of the HEAT AE.

Yes, the project promised a 1000tps capacity... Well, I fell for it.

Valid point, the volume is currently low. But, that argument could also be used the other way. On Alcurex it would take less than 1btc to bring the price above 10,000 Sats. Volumes will increase significantly when the HEAT AE is enabled again (expected to happen soon).

Looks like the next release will be tomorrow. At least on testnet, but perhaps also on mainnet. This is the big event we have been waiting for since the ICO started, July 2016 Feel sorry for those impatient souls who sold out at 3k sats.

Testnet survived the night. A stable rate of 5tps was achieved on multiple servers across 5 geographically distributed regions (Finland, Germany, Netherlands, France and USA). Multiple accounts forging (see Generators in the screenshot above). Up until height=33189 there have been a total of 374,224 transactions in testnet. The tps rate of HEAT will be further optimized in upcoming releases, but already now HEAT is close to matching bitcoin's rate of max 7tps.

The HEAT devs have demonstrated dedication to the project, a total of 28 releases have been put on github since January, see: https://github.com/Heat-Ledger-Ltd/heatledger-test/releases and https://github.com/Heat-Ledger-Ltd/heatledger/releases. What is new is a dedicated group of people performing stress testing of the network with geographically distributed testnodes. For future tests with tps up to 1000, additional testnodes located in Asia will be added.

Different testnodes have been used. Most nodes have 2GB RAM, but some low-end machines with 512Mb have also been tested. With 2GB it is actually possible to forge with both HEAT and NXT on the same node at the same time and hence participate in your lucky node lottery, if you can support both 

Latest news from Slack:

• New mainnet release is coming out today.
• Forging enabled. Rewards will be enabled some blocks in the future to not have everyone dive on that at once.
• The download will have a hardcoded moment within a few days.
• HEAT Asset Exchange enabled.

It is finally happening, the patience is finally rewarded! Keep an eye on it here: https://github.com/Heat-Ledger-Ltd/heatledger/releases. Not sure if the wallet will be updated too today, but keep an eye on it here: https://github.com/Heat-Ledger-Ltd/heat-ui/releases