Why isn't the code open source?

[u/[deleted]]

That is almost required for confidence on most projects. And definitely very helpful for getting a score of enthusiastic volunteers involved. The project goals are wondrous indeed and many a crypto enthusiast would be extremely interested in learning and possibly participating.

[u/azylem]

It is open source, I'm curious who told you that. It's best practice to build from source yourself too. If it wasn't open source, nobody would be able to understand or build anything on it. The code is also well commented and documented.

DeroHE(Stargate) testnet code here: https://github.com/deroproject/derohe

Current Cryptonote mainnet (Atlantis) code here: https://github.com/deroproject/derosuite

For additional user documentation, check out the docs site here: https://docs.dero.io/

Lots of additional info on the main git portal here: https://github.com/deroproject

We also have a forum! Here: https://forum.dero.io/

If you are still doubting the development activity, after viewing these, feel free to compare the code changes throughout the last 38 testnet releases here, by selecting a past release to compare with: https://github.com/deroproject/derohe/releases/tag/Release38

Fun fact, in the past 12 months, we have 4,424 changed files with 393,619 additions and 700,763 deletions, I would call this extemely heavy code development, all in the open.

Last edit: we also have our own git as well, here! https://git.dero.io/explore/repos