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Contents:
Happy New Year - Vega 2022
Vega+ Ambassador Program - Applications Open Soon
Sticker Competition - Winners & Rollout
ERC20 Bridge - BTblock Security Audit
ETHDenver 2022 - Sneek Peek
DeFiCon NYC - A Recap of Events
Regular Events Return - Next Week
Number go up, buidlrs get down 🔗! Here’s the latest on Vega:
1. Happy New Year - Vega 2022 📆
My my, was 2021 not the craziest year for the crypto industry? Take a step to look back and you’ll see the emergence of entirely different sectors that barely made a dent this time last year: NFTs, Gaming, The Open Metaverse, and so on. Meanwhile, innovation was rapidly taking place in the nascent DeFi space! Vega is ecstatic to be innovating in this lane, with much progress made in realising the goal of creating an entirely decentralised derivatives exchange that allows for anyone, anywhere, to partake in the process of permissionless market creation 🌌.
With the heavy lifting completed in 2021, this year is looking like a massive year in the Vega History Books. With the launch of Restricted Mainnet, 2022 will likely be the year of Alpha Mainnet, followed by the full v1 Mainnet with Unrestricted Trading! From there on, the derivative products will get more and more sophisticated, with the ability to trade all kinds of exotic instruments 🤯. Thank you for being with us for the ride, here’s to Vega and the community around it as we waltz into a year where anything is possible!
2. Vega+ - Applications Will Open Soon 📨
What’s that? Vega has an ambassador program? Wen can I get in?? 🎟️🎟️🎟️
If you watched the Community Call last week (first of 2022 🐣), you’ll have seen some talk of an ambassador program 👀. Applications will open next week or the week after and things begin after ETHDenver in February (26th onward). Initial details are below -
3. Sticker Competition - Winners & Rollout 🌚
Dear Winners (and Runners-Up),
Please submit one last Pull Request to the Community Repo with your ERC20 Address so that we can verify that it is you and send your 25 $VEGA per sticker (& 10 $VEGA for runners-up that made it to Phase 3). Thanks to those that have already!
NOTE: We will NOT publicise your address (the PR will be REJECTED). It will only be used to send the reward!
To confirm, we are expecting addresses from:
Winners: MaraieleS_07, MinaLeg3nd, poetra_sdk, sotillojj, victxx, w124eth
Runners-Up: dead_m0r0z#1685, ghazni, TuDaMun, Jiang, DTIV, TheUprightOne
Head here to ask questions & please try out the winning stickers in Telegram/Discord!
4. ERC20 Bridge - BTblock Security Audit 🚨
One of many - the Vega ERC20 Bridge has now been fully audited by BTblock and has passed with no major security issues!
Don’t take our word for it, read the full report → LINK ←
5. ETHDenver 2022 - Sneak Peak 🏔️
I heard Team Vega are doing something big at ETHDenver this year? 🤔 Tell me MORE!
Hackathons, Merch, Swag, and much more is currently being cooked in the Vega Kitchen 🍇 for ETHDenver 2022 🤤! Here’s a sneak peek of the hackathon backpacks that are currently in production:
We’ll let you know more as we get closer to the event! In the meantime, if you haven’t yet, make sure to submit an application to have a chance of receiving a free ticket!
6. DeFiCon NYC - Recap of Events🗽
Just before the Winter Break, I flew across the pond to moderate a panel on Marketing & Community Within DeFi on behalf of Vega! The conference went well and the feedback was overwhelming, to view it you can view the live stream recording OR wait until next week for the individual YouTube Videos.
DeFiCon 2.0 will happen March 25th - 26th; we recommend paying them a visit if you’re around NYC!
7. Fairground Jam & Research Office Hours 📺
The regular weekly Vega events will be back from next week:
🔍 Research Office Hours - Every Wednesday, 12pm GMT, Vega Discord
🍯 Fairground (Testnet) Jam - Every Thursday, 6pm GMT, Vega Twitch
🐣 And that’s the game, strap in for 2022 🐣
-Daigan 🍊(+ Jake)