Community Update #9
Wendy grows up, Community Call #2 and Hack, Create and Launch a Market Workshop
Sharing updates from the Vega ecosystem and sometimes slightly beyond. To chat, learn and discuss more join us on Discord, Vega Forum and Twitter.
Wendy is launched!
As the DeFi ecosystem grows, so does the importance of protocol security. Vega Blockchain Researcher Dr. Klaus Kursawe has updated Wendy 🧚🏼♀️, a blockchain implementation that provides anti-frontrunning protection, solves for MEV, and ensures fairness. The new and updated whitepaper can be viewed, downloaded, and reviewed here. To answer further questions about Wendy, the good little fairness widget, we're holding an AMA 27th October 5pm BST. Add it to you calendar. Klaus will also be presenting this at the Advanced Financial Technologies ‘20 conference this Wednesday - sign up here.
Tamlyn at Liquidity 2020
Vega represents a huge shift for the ownership economy of financial markets. With the market creation via governance feature, anyone can propose to launch a market with built-in sustainable economic mechanisms. Tamlyn demonstrated this for the first time yesterday at Dystopia Labs Liquidity 2020 conference. If you missed it, register here and you can watch the recap of her presentation, alongside all the other talks (which I can highly recommend)!
Hack, Create, and Launch a Market
If you want to dive even deeper into how to launch a market on Vega, join the Hack, Create, and Launch a Market workshop this Thursday at 6pm BST. This is set to be 1 hour-long and led by Vega’s own trader-in-residence Tamlyn. In the session, you'll learn how to connect to the Vega APIs and together we'll propose, vote, and launch a market! This of course also means you'll get access to the Vega Testnet and full suite of docs. Sign up here.
Docs improvement
Over the past week, we've been improving our documentation to help testnet users get started with the APIs. The Using Vega's APIs section has in-depth information on the different APIs we provide. Excitingly, there's an ever-increasing set of API How-tos to guide you through running different API calls. These are backed by links to working samples on a public GitHub repository, available as Python and Shell scripts. JavaScript samples are coming real soon. 💻 Please reach out on Discord or the Vega Forum if you have any Vega API integration queries.
Access to documentation is currently limited to people who have been onboarded to the Vega Testnet. If you haven't been onboarded yet, sign up to the list, or join the Hack, Create and Launch a Market workshop.
Community Call #1
For those that missed our first Community Call, you can rewatch the update here where we cover the latest from Vega Core, Research, and more. This will be a fortnightly event wherein you'll get to hear the latest and greatest going on at Vega, from Vega. To sign up for next week's call, follow this link!
This Week in Crypto
For a digestible recap of the week just gone coupled with the top Twitter threads and conversations in crypto, check out the Vega forum every Monday. This week features the 911 on Filecoin's Mainnet launch, a recap of venture deals in crypto in Q3, and a hot take on the FCA's new UK crypto derivatives regulations.
Cheers,
Christina :)