Nxt History

May 12th, 2014
The Asset Exchange goes live in block 135,000.

May 6th, 2014
Account Leasing is enabled in block 130,000.

April 28th, 2014
NRS version 1.0.0 is released, including the new client interface.

March 1, 2014
Source code is fully published.

Feb 1, 2014
Genesis account passphrase is discovered! Don't worry, nothing changes for the network.

January 13, 2014
Arbitrary Messages are implemented in version 0.5.4e of the client software and enabled as of block 40,000.

January 8, 2014
BCNext answers a few questions from the community.

January 3, 2014
Source code is released!

January 1, 2014
The Transparent Forging feature is implemented in version 0.4.8 of the client software and enabled as of block 30,000.

December 20, 2013
With the release of software version 0.4.0, the implementation of the alias system is released. The began to process alias requests when the block height reached 22,000.

December 11, 2013
Software developer Come-from-Beyond announces BCNext's intention to release Nxt's source code on January 3, 2014.

November 24, 2013
Nxt is created, and the genesis block reveals that 1,000,000,000 coins were distributed to 73 stakeholders, with the proportion of coins received dependent upon the each stakeholder's portion of the original funcraising total. Nxt's original market capitalization was $800,000USD.

November 18, 2013
Fundraising for Nxt is closed, with 21 BTC raised.

November 14, 2013
BCnext stops posting directly to Bitcointalk.org, and goes underground.

October 19, 2013
Stakeholders vote on which advanced features they'd like to see developed next. "Colored coins" is the winning feature.

September 29, 2013
The very first version of the Nxt software is released by BCNext.

September 28, 2013
Bitcointalk.org member BCNext creates a forum thread announcing Nxt, and asking for tiny donations of Bitcoin to help fund development of the cryptocurrency and determine how to split the initial stake.