Update 3.0 went live yesterday we now have chest shops, we also added an automated donation system that will be set up soon.
How to make a shophttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RySW-nea3tY#wsNews
Many people are unsure what is going to happen when 1.8 is released, all I can say is our main world will hopefully stay the same. Of course I realize people want to explore new areas like ravines, rivers, npc villages and Strongholds so we are adding two new worlds that will be generated after 1.8 is released. To teleport to these worlds you will have to go to the Hub.
One of these worlds will be a Wilderness and the Other will be a adventure/RPG world, that we can hopefully hold events in.
I'd also like to mention that next month we are getting major upgrade to the server this will hopefully kill of any lag on the serve.
Up from 8gig to 24 gig.We are also planning on bringing back the Nether at some stage since Notch is making the Nether more interesting, that of course will be awesome.