NEM Foundation will spend on structural transformations more than $ 8 million

Community-sponsored non-profit organization NEM Foundation has published a financial and structural reorganization plan .

On February 20, the organization decided to allocate 210 million XEM coins (approximately $ 8.7 million) from its reserves. The first tranche of $ 25 million XEM (just over $ 1 million) will be aimed at "creating processes and structures for the new NEM Foundation concept that will be product and revenue oriented." The entire amount will be spent until February 2020.

In addition, the organization will cut staff by eliminating some economically redundant posts. The NEM Foundation noted that the project had financial difficulties due to bloated staff and duplication of functions, inconsistency in determining key performance indicators (KPI), inefficient cost accounting and low ROI.

In 2018, the number of employees of an organization present in 20 countries reached 150 people. As part of the restructuring, 88 employees of the NEM Foundation will be dismissed (69% of the total staff).

The NEM Foundation will create a “transformation work group” that will work on short-term tasks, review KPIs and report on the work done weekly and monthly.

Among other things, the organization intends to attract technical specialists to expand the capabilities of the existing NEM development toolkit, as well as add support for Python, PHP and Unity in addition to Javascript and Java.

In the near future, the launch of the blockchain engine Catapult , which is designed for private and public networks, is planned.

“The technology allows you to do what no other blockchain is capable of ,” said Jeff MacDonald, the acting technical director of the project.

Recall the serious financial difficulties of the NEM Foundation became known in January .

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