Hey everyone, the cryptocurrency market as a whole has been taking some topsy-turvy turns, and I just wanted to give a quick update on where our developmental heads are at and which way Quarry is moving.

So far, we’ve been largely unaffected by the downturn in blockchain. For the last few months, since the beginning of November, we’ve been running an experiment. Essentially, we wanted to test how much we could drive the Quarry community by incentivizing growth through in-app activity and redeeming ROX for ETH. While we can’t argue with the results, that this type of promotion definitely increases installs and drives the community forward, we’ve found that negatives far outweigh the positives and that the direction this drives towards is not one in which we would like to go.

For these reasons — and a few others — we will be discontinuing the withdraw and ROX for ETH functionality in the Quarry app, effective immediately. We will honor currently pending withdraws (those dated before January 15th).

In future updates, we will be pivoting in a new direction, one that is more centered around building an intrinsically motivated community focused on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency news.

As a little teaser and to clue you all in on what that direction will be, our biggest goal is the development and completion of ROX as a trad-able token. The symbol may change, since the ROX symbol is already taken, but the rest will remain mostly the same.

Stay tuned, and here’s to 2019 being the year of the Quarrior!

🎺 CALLING ALL STEEMITEERS! 🎺

Another super-cool feature is finally ready in Quarry from Token Block Friends.

Cross-post from steemit: Available now!

That’s right, we’ve gone and done it. Using SteemConnect, we’ve created a way for steemit users to get a leg-up in Quarry and cross-post from their accounts! This allows for a number of perks, namely bypassing the 1000 ROX post requirement and allowing for easy cross-posting of steemit account content.

Here’s how you do it:

First, simply navigate over to the ‘Account’ tab, and tap on the 3rd button that’s labeled:

‘Get ROX for STEEM POWER’

From there, you’ll see a new screen detailing all the information related to this feature. Tap on ‘Continue’ which will open web view of the SteemConnect page. Here, you need to submit your steemit username and your posting key OR your private key. Heavily recommend using your posting key! Checkout a guide for quickly finding it, here.

What you get — the Perks:

1. Unlock posting and receive 1000 ROX;
2. Post directly from steemit into Quarry;
3. Get ROX for your STEEM POWER (SP);
   • 100 SP or less: +1000 ROX for every 10 SP
   • 101 – 1000 SP: +1000 ROX for every 20 SP
   • 1001 SP or more: +1000 ROX for every 50 SP

THE FINE PRINT

Bound steemit accounts cannot be unbound or linked to any other Quarry account. All ROX generated will be LOCKED and cannot be traded nor exchange.

LOCKED ROX? What are those…

Some big changes are coming down the pipe for how quarriors can use their influence inside the app. Having more ROX when up-voting will determine a number of new outcomes when deciding which posts should receive the most out of the reward pool.

More on that later.

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!

Bind your steemit account today!

If you’ve never created a steemit account, you can do so here.