We are excited to announce today a few things. We are rolling out this weekend some big backend upgrades that will increase our voting efficiency exponentially! This will allow us to continue to expand while we get ready for our next few updates.

## Shadow Support
If you have not seen already we rolled out a Ticket Support system for all our users:

https://shadowbot.us/support/

This will greatly aid in tracking down bugs as well as communication between our team and our great community!

## Shadow Mail
We are currently testing our own email service as well. All Shadow Members will be given an unlimited free (and soon coming decentralized) email account. We will not harvest data, collect data, or otherwise monitor your account other than SPAM filtering. We refuse to sell ads or use your data and are moving to decentralize AND encrypt it, which would make that IMPOSSIBLE. For now Shadow Mail is running on our own mail servers and we are working hard to decentralize the process.


## Shadow Net
As many know already, ShadowBot is becoming just a single feature of a much bigger system, Shadow Book. And we are excited to announce today the beginning phase of our testing of Shadow Net.

## What is Shadow Net?
Shadow Net is a decentralized Peer-to-Peer (p2p) network that will integrate with not only the STEEM blockchain but many other coins as well. All our DAPPS, such as Shadow Book, Shadow Chat, Shadow Market, and more will run on the Shadow Net.

Shadow Net is a revolutionary approach to solving the decentralized needs we all want and have. We have realized that in order to create a true decentralized internet we ALL must begin doing out part. That is why we are excited to announce the beginning test phase of Shadow Net.

## How will Shadow Net be Different than any other ICO or Coin?
Well Shadow Net is NOT a coin. It is NOT a blockchain, at least in the sense that you are used to. Shadow Net is much closer to TOR than a Cryptocurrency. It is designed to link us all together with out the need for a centralized corporation, such as facebook or google.

## Will Shadow Net be Free and Open Source?
YES! All our code will be published on github and we encourage everyone to join the project as we get it ready for the first public commit!

## Why do this?
We all desire a way to communicate in an open and free matter. But the ability to do so is inhibited currently by the way we have our internet configured and the software built to run on it. Our vision is to fix that and make sure the OPEN internet is the ONLY internet in the future!

## How do I keep up to date?
Be sure to follow @shadowbook @shadowchat and @shadowbot