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Vega closes $5m raise 🔥
The round was led by Arrington and Cumberland DRW and also included support from Coinbase Ventures, ParaFi Capial, CMT Digital, CMS Holdings, Three Commas, GSR, SevenX Ventures, and ZeePrime Capital. The DeFi Alliance also joined as an investor alongside Stani Kulechov, Mona El Isa, Do Kwon and Loi Luu. We're so excited to welcome them all into the Vega Community as we continue the journey of creating fair, capital-efficient decentralised market infrastructure. Check out this blog to learn more about the raise.
Vega's Road to Mainnet 🚧
2021 is set to be a fast-paced and exciting year for supporters of Vega as the perpetual question of 'wen mainnet' will finally be answered. Exact dates are not given but instead a roadmap of the types of features and releases that the community can expect. Two recurring themes for 2021 are to ship code and double down on openness and community participation. Check out this blog by Vega founder Barney where he dives into the details of liquidity mining, staking, token plans and more.
Bootstrapping Vega’s Validator Ecosystem
As the Vega mainnet comes closer it's also timely to discuss the approach to transitioning from a Testnet to a fully decentralised network, secured and governed by delegated proof-of-stake. Given the Vega Network uses Tendermint for consensus layer there is a trade-off between number of validator nodes and latency and transaction throughput. We intend to solve for through gradual decentralisation, meaning at launch there will be between ten and twenty validators and this number will gradually increase alongside the technical capabilities of the network. To learn more about the desired traits of network validators and how to get involved check out this blog.
Deconstructing_Vega 🔨
Meet the new event series unravelling the concepts behind, underneath and tangential to the Vega Network; Deconstrucing_Vega. Each session sees a builder deconstruct a particular concept, tool or idea. The event are streamed on the Vega Community Twitch and can be found later on the Vega Youtube. So far Margins and Vega Wallet has been covered and Staking is happening later today and Market Creation scheduled for next week. Check out this blog by Daigan for the complete overview.
Community call 🌱
Vega Community Call #8 is happening next Tuesday at 4pm GMT. We'll hear from Barney as he goes through the Vega roadmap and take questions from the community. Add the call to your calendar here.
Try the Vega Testnet
Getting on the Vega Testnet just became even easier with the genesis of @wallet-bot. DM him !hosted-wallet or write that in the #general or #testnet channel in the Vega Discord to receive wallet credentials, or of course run your the Vega wallet yourself. If you want support or learn about the Vega Testnet join the weekly Vega Testnet Jam.
-Christina 🌸