In regards to the first bullet, I think its all hands on deck. The DP community itself needs to be engaged and penetrating everywhere possible. Alternatively, the community needs to raise funds to pay for an actual community manager and related marketing expenses. Either the community puts their resources to contribute to the effort, or they actually do the work themselves to build the user base. I don’t feel its wise to raid the foundation fund to pay for it. That fund needs to be protected to ensure that the platform exists, and that necessary updates are developed and implemented. In addition to the above, I would love to see the new crop of Community Directors actively work on community engagement and put the time in to make that happen.
Another thing we desperately need is a modernized interface - new wallet / block explorer primarily. This is another expensive proposition and we don’t see any devs stepping forward to work on it. This is something that would improve the user experience and would likely bring in more people because the learning curve on using the platform would be shallower with an improved UX.
At the moment, a listing on Coinmarketcap and Coingecko are not possible - we’re approaching both one last time to make the case that the true “owners” of the platform are the current foundation and that the domain is in fact dogeparty.net instead of dogeparty.io. Unfortunately, due to the fact that XDP was listed on those exchanges back in the day, they refuse to acknowledge the update in ownership/domain. The reason we paid to have XDP on VinDAX was to gain a listing on coinmarketcap/coingecko, not knowng at the time that this roadblock would exist.