The maidsafe platform is progressing nicely. Here's the latest Dev update from May 24:
https://forum.safenetwork.io/t/maidsafe-dev-update-24th-may-2016/9392
The next phase of testing should start later this week or early next week with a whole new Crust backend implementation - bringing us from 2 threads per connection to one thread for the entire process. Exciting times coming up.
Have you heard of Maidsafe? If not, check them out. Either way I'd love to hear what you think.