Veil weekly updates: February 18, 2019

A weekly digest of new Veil features and updates.

Market pages v2

We’re excited to share a refresh of our market pages. We’ll give a rundown of the changes below, but you can check out the new UI on any binary or categorical market. So what’s new?

The new design focuses on the market question, trade history, and key actions: (1) buy Yes (or For) at the best price, (2) buy No (or Against) at the best price, or (3) create a wager at your own price. Wagers are a new concept, and we’ll cover them shortly.

Everything else about the market is below the action box. You can navigate between four tabs: Details, Wagers, Portfolio, and Outcomes (if the market is categorical). The Details tab includes metadata about the market, like who created it and its resolution source and information. Wagers shows all your wagers and Portfolio shows your position in the market.

An example Wagers tab. View What film will win Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards?

You’ll notice that if you go to a scalar market, it’s not supported in the new UI. We found that the majority of users who trade in scalar markets use Veil’s Pro UI, so we’ve decided to only allow scalar market trading through Pro. Our goal is to make the new market pages as intuitive as possible and to encourage simple betting (i.e. put some Ether on one of the outcomes at the best price available). If you’re doing more sophisticated trading, you should be using Pro.

Introducing Wagers

Wagers are a new concept we’re launching in conjunction with market pages v2. Wagers are like limit orders—you pick your own odds and the wager stays open until someone takes it or you cancel it.

A really cool feature of wagers is that they’re shareable (see this wager as an example). When you make a wager, Veil now gives you a link that you can send to a friend or post on social media. Wagers productize the common “I’ll give you X odds” behavior we’re all used to. Now when someone says that, ask them to create a wager, grab the link, and take the opposite side.

Orders list

You can now view all your orders in one place (across all Veil markets). This view has been one of our most requested features, so we’re happy to finally launch it! Check out your orders here, or click your account icon in the top right corner of the Veil app and then click on “Orders.”

New Veil.js version

Last week we deployed a new version of Veil.js, our Typescript library that wraps the Veil API. The new version includes updated 0x libraries, a new method for fetching user orders by status, and a new user balances API. Experiment with Veil.js by building a market making tradebot (review our sample tradebot here).

Best performers from last week

Congratulations to @sanderking (+43%), @MorePortfolioAnalyticsStatsPlease (+42%), @basta2020 (+30%), @tr33 (+24%), and @modulo (+15%) for being our top performers last week.