Probably one of most apparent changes is that we offer different color schemes: for now, you can choose between our “day” and “night” themes based on your personal preference.

No trading platform would be complete without depth of market and volume indicators, so this was on the top of our feature list. Check it out in the images above.

We’ve also adjusted the font and color scheme to be more readable, as well as improved the responsiveness and optimized the experience for smaller screens.

The “Place Order” button on limit order panel now reads “Place Buy Order” or “Place Sell Order”, to more clearly indicate the consequential action. Some of our testers have indicated they accidentally created a sell order instead of a buy order and vise versa.

Additionally, we’ve created a scrolling panel with order summaries, so there is more room for the order form and order book.

There are now discrete price columns on My Orders/My Trade History with Pretty Number format, for a more detailed, intuitive history log.

Lastly, we’ve also added a pending indicator for wrapping/unwrapping ETH and unlocking tokens for trading.

In-App User Education and Activity Feedback

In addition to our UI changes, we’ve added some additional user education mechanisms, including tooltips, more informative error messages, and better on-boarding tutorials. We’re also actively working on making notifications more obvious.

More detailed logging has enabled us to notify users of events and errors relating to their activity on the platform in a more fine-grained manner. For example, we now warn against crossing the market, and indicate in more detail why some corner-case orders are removed.

As of now, we’ve refined our methods for explaining and guiding users through more rudimentary actions, such as wrapping ETH, unlocking tokens for trading — as we’ve realized since this isn’t required on other exchanges, we’ll need to provide some customer education on this front. Along these lines, we’ve been developing better MetaMask integration support — as users have to authorize each token for trading.

Unfortunately, the Kovan test network was acting up during our testing period — it had been providing inconsistent balance information to our application, which had resulted in some orders incorrectly being removed from the order book. Thus, we put stopgap measures that will decrease the impact of this.

We realize this is going to happen as Ethereum experiences growing pains as it scales to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding ecosystem. We’re actively seeking out preemptive measures for gracefully handling delays and irregularities, so the user experience is not impacted significantly.

Support Documents

A few testers requested support documentation and an FAQ list, and we’ll be creating this for future users. Here we’ll explain advanced features as well as the more rudimentary ones. We’ll also provide more detail on various error messages.

The Aqueduct Protocol and Developer Tool Kit

We’ve been asked by several beta testers about when they will be able to programmatically trade on our platform. The answer lies in our development of Aqueduct - a protocol, SDK, and set of smart contracts, which will allow not only programmatic trades on the platform, but also real-time liquidity and fee sharing across a network of partner relays using state-of-the-art payment channels.

Aqueduct is currently pre-alpha while we test early integration with a couple of partner relays. We expect to release a public beta version early next year.

What to Look Forward To

We’ll be focusing on mobile support, hardware wallet support, and additional charting capabilities in the near future, as well as a streamlined ‘first time trading’ experience and additional UI components to show a high level market/account overview.