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Contents:
Community Call #35 - Engineering Roadmap & Governance
Forum Action - Niche Markets
Vega at ETHCC - Speaking and Attending
Crypto 101 - Barney on Air
Oracles and Settlement - Blog
Emoji & GIF Community Competition - The Results
🌱 roots down, time to sprout 🌱 Here’s the latest at Vega:
1. Community Call #35 - Engineering Roadmap Spotlight 🔬
First Tuesday of the month, 5pm BST, Vega Protocol YouTube Live
1 month on from the genesis of trading on Alpha Mainnet, this community call takes a quick look back and a long glance forward. Daig (me) covered the public engineering roadmap (LINK) as well as the usual insights into what’s coming next for the Vega Community. If you’re curious, the embedded link to watch is above 😌.
2. Forum Action - Niche Markets? 🌭
The Vega Forums, sometimes referred to as the Governance Forums, are where all the longer-form discussion takes place, often ending in legitimate proposals to improve/amend the protocol in some way. This is driven by the community and the latest discussions are worth a little examination:
Metamask Support? - LINK
DOGEUSDT? - LINK
3. Vega at ETHCC - Speaking and Attending 👨🎨
And it's that time of the year again - time for EthCC 23 in hot & sunny Paris! After the exciting presence, we had last year, this year promises to be just as thrilling, but in different ways! Madalina will be speaking on stage at EthCC on the UX track, you might already be familiar with the topic “Psychology of UX in Decentralized Exchanges”! EthCC is also very famous for its side events and, no, they’re not all parties 😋.
Eden Block will be hosting the very first BUILD SERIES, and Barney has been invited to discuss open and permissionless DeFi. Following this, he will be making his way to the Blockchain Oracle Summit!
Some of the Vega team members, including Daig and Edo, will be on the ground at the conference. We look forward to connecting with fellow attendees and sharing exciting updates with you throughout the event ✌️
Easter Egg: Community-made Cheth Mate Vega side event montage 🪺
4. Crypto 101 - Barney on air 📻
Barney is back for more action, this time on the Crypto 101 Podcast. The episode discusses how crypto will change money as the internet did for communication and covers how Vega supports traders via permissionless market creation. On this one, Barney also had a chance to explain in detail Vega’s approach to decentralisation… After all, we’re uncompromisingly decentralised 💓
5. Oracles and Settlement ⌛️
TL;DR
Oracles play an important role within Vega, as they are utilised at market termination & settlement to determine the final closing price and settle all positions
Oracles need to be sourced from reliable and trustworthy data sources to ensure the community is operating in a fair trading environment
Vega has defence mechanisms to help the community identify potential malicious actors, but ultimately in a permissionless environment it is the responsibility of each trader to DYOR when assessing whether to trade in a market with a given oracle
Traders may opt to reduce their exposure as settlement approaches to manage their risk and avoid heavy exposure to the settlement price
Longer term, the Mainnet V1 roadmap includes the addition of Ethereum Oracles which will enable a wider range of markets and more regular settlement
6. Emoji & GIF Community Competition - The Results 🏅
GM Vegabonds, last week the Alpha Mainnet GIF & Emoji Competition ended & we’re now excited to announce the winners as voted on by a subsection of the Vega Team and Senior Ambassadors!
The top prize goes to @icryptosystem followed by @risk22, @leshaasav & @jpegrun.
Check out the other winning entries → LINK ←
🌇 And they said successor markets were on the horizon, and so onward they continued 🌇
- Edo 🥝 + Daigan 🍊