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Dodgems - did you get rekt?
The Fairground incentivised games are off to the races. Dodgems, the trading game tracked a secret, historical market and was open for 6 days last week. The game came to a finish, the 25 winners selected, multiple bugs found and in addition everyone who placed a trade was awarded a surprise 12 tokens! To check whether you made the top and how you can claim your tokens see here. For a recap of the game, what’s coming next and where we are at with Fairground check out the most recent Community Call with Barney. And don’t forget to tune into the weekly Fairground Jam to learn something new about Vega Fairground and get support. Last week Witold covered liquidity provision (as seen in the video below) and this week we’ll be covering price monitoring. Add it to your calendar here.
Klaus on MEV: an Op-ed in The Defiant
Miner Extractable Value (MEV) is a hotly debated topic in DeFi, and according to Vega Blockchain Researcher Dr. Klaus Kursawe has the potential to kill, or at least stunt the growth of DeFi. In last weeks edition of the Defiant Klaus penned an op-ed piece sharing describing the rise of MEV and how we can potentially solve for MEV by introducing a concept of ‘fairness’ into protocol design. To read the piece see here and to learn more about how Klaus has designed and implemented this at Vega through Wendy, the Fairness Widget check out this talk.
Vega Team in the News
The speed of both innovation and adoption of DeFi is no longer being ignored by TradFi who’s acknowledging the market opportunity it represents. Vega’s Tamlyn Rudolph hosted a panel just about this at CogX alongside reps from Synthetix, Centrifuge and more. Check it out here. Vega’s Barney Mannerings have also been sweeping the news outlets with two awesome podcasts talking about all things Vega. Listen here to Barney on Delphi Digital where he dives into Vega’s design, capabilities and incentive structures. For another take on Vega and the future of decentralised derivatives check out Barney on the Pomp podcast here!
Vega Builders Club
The second edition of Vega Builders Club, the club bringing together devs building on Vega including bounty and hackathon winners, is happening today in the Vega Discord stage at 7pm BST. The group will dive into how to use gRPC with Vega. Add it to your calendar here.
- Christina 🌸