OpenBazaar marketplace says it's set to ‘grow again from the ashes’
The decentralized marketplace OpenBazaar appears set for a comeback after it was shut down over two years ago, according to a number of social media and GitHub updates.
A GitHub repository on the collaborative software development site shows progress as recent as April 12 on building a new version of the marketplace which was shut down in 2020.
Brian Hoffman, the former project lead at OpenBazaar and CEO of OB1 — the for-profit company which developed its software — tweeted on April 9 of the progress made on a “new” version of the marketplace saying it is “getting more interesting by the day.”
Hitting 1,000 lines of code on the new @openbazaar repo. This is getting more interesting by the day.
In the replies, Hoffman was asked how the marketplace would be different this timegiven that due to financial issues and poor user growth, OpenBazaar was forced to shut down.
Hoffman replied speaking of “freedom of exploration” and inferred that outside influence had contributed to its initial downfall.
I’m letting it go where it goes. No investor input or outside influences. Freedom of exploration.
The first hints that OpenBazaar would be launching a comeback came in a tweet from Hoffman on March 28, where he linked OpenBazaar’s GitHub page that showed he’d been working on a new version of the marketplace in the programming language Rust.
https://t.co/NrJy7OqKJJit's begun... pic.twitter.com/FkOOVNsc8c
Just hours later OpenBazaar’s official account also posted a Tweet, which said “it is now time to grow again from the ashes,” and that “work has begun.”
work has begun. we will need recruits. we will need your ideas, your thoughts.
Adding to the evidence that the marketplace appears likely to relaunch, the OpenBazaar website currently bears the
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