I know things have been quiet in NFD land, but there's been a lot of hard work under the hood. As an advance notice, I wanted everyone on this thread to know that NFD has entered into a strategic partnership with BTC2Nxt to implement Automated Transactions (AT) into NFD. The way things are going, NFD will implement AT before Qora.
I know that NFD will be lucky if we do, because Qora-the-dev unfortunately got sick: that pushed back the Qora integration of AT. That said, it's in our interest for Qora and others to implement AT too because it will enable truly decentralized cross-chain transactions.

Since we have a habit of not making big splashes until we have something to show, we've been quiet all the time that BTC2Nxt has been working hard to integrate AT. Right now, NFD has AT running on private Testnet! We're testing one of the most useful use cases for AT: the crowdfunding script.
Once we've got the wrinkles out,
we will open up the Testnet to the public. Until then, you might as well keep this "inside tip" under your proverbial hat.

More coming soon...