Sharing updates from the Vega ecosystem and sometimes slightly beyond. To chat, learn and discuss more join us on Discord, Vega Forum and Twitter.
All about Wendy
Security issues such as front-running and MEV are issues facing all projects aiming to create fair and secure marketplaces. Vega's blockchain researcher Klaus Kursawe has developed a solution to this; namely Wendy the Good Little Fairness Widget, who's recently seen some improvement and so become 'Wendy Grows Up'. Klaus published a piece aptly named 'Bringing Fairness to Blockchain' where he sheds some light on the background of these problems, why they're so prevalent and a proposal how we can remove this critical roadblock. If you still have questions head over to our forum and dig into last weeks AMA with Klaus.
Introduction to Vega by Marcin Pawel
Vega's offering is fairly complex and covers a lot of ground from capital market software to reference UIs to multiple APIs, yet Marcin Pawel, a key community member has written an excellent analysis of Vega. This includes an overview of the team, his experience onboarding the Vega Testnet and what lies ahead; the thorough piece makes a convincing case for living up to the title of most interesting up and coming DeFi project.
ETHOnline Winners 🎉
Huge congrats to the winners of our first ever hackathon challenge! First prize went to Bitcoin Bill who was behind Vega Markets Explorer and blew us away with originality and some really awesome liquidation charts. He was closely followed up by the team behind Darth Vega and Blockhead. Check out this blog I just posted for a recap of our involvement at ETHOnline alongside more details about the winning projects. If you missed it, I can also highly recommend checking out Barney's AMA with ETHGlobal that took place last week.
Get involved with Vega
Our community calls are off to a strong start and we'd love to have you join. The next one will take place on Tuesday 10th November @ 4pm BST. Sign up here. If you miss them, they're always available on our Youtube channel.
Next Thursday, we're running another onboarding session to the Vega Testnet with Tamlyn Rudolph so if you want a hands-on session getting you all set up and place your first trade sign up here.
Lastly, but not least - we're hiring! Are you a skilled Trading Systems / Financial Engineer keen to solve problems related to financial trading and distributed system? Look here.
-Christina 🌸