diff --git a/content/setup/marketplace.md b/content/setup/marketplace.md index ade6ca6c..592fe3c1 100644 --- a/content/setup/marketplace.md +++ b/content/setup/marketplace.md @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ If you want to set up and run a marketplace in the Ocean network, then at a tech 1. Develop a marketplace application (app). 2. Run your marketplace app in production. -**Note: In the early days of the Ocean network, there won't be many marketplaces or publishers, so marketplaces will often also act as publishers.** +**Note 1: At the time of writing (late November 2018), it was _possible_ to start developing a marketplace, but very challenging. We anticipate that it will become much easier in December 2018, especially once the docker-images scripts and Docker Compose files are refactored.** + +**Note 2: In the early days of the Ocean network, there won't be many marketplaces or publishers, so marketplaces will often also act as publishers.** ## Develop a Marketplace App @@ -39,16 +41,11 @@ Of course, you could always write your own Squid library in the language of your ## Run Your Marketplace App in Production -Before running your marketplace app in production on the Ocean Mainnet, you may want to test it on the Ocean Testnet. -The Ocean Testnet is similar to the Ocean Mainnet. -The main difference is that there is less risk on the Ocean Testnet. +Before running your marketplace app in production with the Ocean Mainnet, you may want to test it with an Ocean Testnet. +The Ocean Testnets are similar to the Ocean Mainnet. +The main difference is that there is less risk on the Ocean Testnets. -**Note: At the time of writing, the Ocean Mainnet hadn't gone live yet, but the Trilobite Testnet was about to go live.** - -Some technical differences between local testing and connecting to a live external test/mainnet are: - -- Local Keeper nodes (Parity user nodes) must connect to the live network of Keepers. -- Your Aquarius and Brizo instances must connect to the live Ocean Secret Store network. +**Note: At the time of writing, the Ocean Mainnet hadn't gone live yet, but the testnets were about to go live. See [the page about testnets](/concepts/testnets/).** Of course, there are many other things that must be handled for live production apps: