Hello to the Enigma community! We have an exciting announcement to follow up our recent publication of our roadmap — our biggest release yet.

Last month, we announced we were launching the Enigma Data Marketplace. Decentralized data marketplaces are considered one of the “killer apps” for the Enigma protocol, as they require data privacy to function properly and safely. On today’s blockchain-based platforms, we cannot protect the privacy of data while still allowing the data to be used in smart contracts. Enigma is going beyond blockchain and creating a new kind of protocol — one that will help us realize the full potential of decentralization.

As we boldly go where no project has gone before, our vision is to create solutions that provide new functionality and enable truly decentralized applications. The initial release of the Enigma Data Marketplace is our first major step towards this goal.

We are happy to announce that our data marketplace contract is now live on the Ethereum mainnet.

The audit of our data marketplace contract was successful with no major issues found. The on-chain logic for the marketplace is coded in smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum network, and is operated directly with Enigma tokens (ENG). In this first implementation, all data sets are provided off-chain by several providers, and storage is managed independently from the logic embedded in the smart contract. As our protocol remains in active development, we will be moving elements of our data marketplace to the Enigma protocol over time.

This launch is a significant milestone for our team, our partners, and our community. Please read on for more details — and to learn what’s next!

More About The Marketplace

The Enigma Data Marketplace is a powerful platform that matches data providers and curators with data consumers who wish to subscribe to their datasets. As Enigma’s priority with all our products is to establish real utility for the community, our first release and launch focuses on cryptofinancial datasets.

These datasets are provided by Enigma as well as third parties. The datasets can then be consumed by crypto investors and traders on Catalyst, our platform for data-driven cryptoasset trading. Traders use ENG tokens to subscribe to datasets and incorporate the data into their trading algorithms. Data providers receive this ENG in return for making their data available.

Initial Enigma-curated datasets that are available on the marketplace include:

Historical market cap data for tokens

Circulating supply data for tokens

Trading volume data for tokens

Github activity data for projects

We are also announcing launch partners for our marketplace that are providing high-quality cryptofinancial datasets for subscription to the community as a part of this Enigma Data Marketplace release. They include:

Kaiko — Trade and order book data

InfoTrie — Social sentiment data

NapoleonX — Bitcoin trend following signal data

WhaleSupplies — Twitter follower and token holder data

Dany Volk — Google Trend and historical price data

For more information on these and other datasets, including schema and key metrics, please visit our data marketplace forum.

Read our full data marketplace documentation here.

If you are a data provider interested in contributing your own data sets to the marketplace, please read our provider documentation.

Alongside this data marketplace release is an update of Catalyst to version 0.5.8. If you are a crypto trader or investor and you are interested in using our marketplace and Catalyst, please join our trader community on Discord, post on our Catalyst forum, and read our documentation to get started. We’re all waiting for you!