The Enigma and Catalyst brands are being separated so each can fly higher on their own. Come see our new looks and read more announcements!

Greetings to all in the Enigma community! The team has been hard at work on development and we’re happy to say that we remain on track for our protocol testnet release this quarter.

If you’re unfamiliar with our project, here’s a short description:

Enigma is a blockchain-based protocol that uses groundbreaking privacy technologies to enable scalable end-to-end decentralized applications. With Enigma, “smart contracts” become “secret contracts,” where input data is kept hidden from nodes in the Enigma network that execute code. Without this functionality to protect sensitive data, blockchains and smart contracts are either useless or not truly decentralized. Enigma’s unique technology is the missing piece to building a decentralized future.

We’ve also been preparing for our trip to New York Blockchain Week, where our CEO Guy Zyskind will be making an announcement at Consensus. We’ll also be hosting a great meetup with our good friends at Zilliqa.

But before all that, we have an important bit of news to share about Catalyst — our powerful algorithmic crypto trading platform and the first application built to run on the Enigma protocol. Catalyst is powered by the Enigma Data Marketplace, which allows users of Catalyst to subscribe to cryptofinancial data sets contributed by data providers.

Catalyst is an algorithmic trading library for crypto-assets written in Python. It allows trading strategies to be easily expressed and backtested against historical data (with daily and minute resolution), providing analytics and insights regarding a particular strategy’s performance.

Our data marketplace and Catalyst are just a couple of applications that are made possible by Enigma’s technology. Enigma can enable thousands of truly decentralized applications for finance, identity, credit, healthcare, and many other industries that cannot use dApps due to their current failure to protect data privacy.

Over the past months we have come to see that for both Enigma and its applications such as Catalyst to flourish, each must have their own established and separate identities. So, to clearly differentiate the powerful Catalyst crypto trading platform from Enigma, we’ve decided to give Catalyst its own standalone brand, social channels, and homepage.

In addition, we are making some changes to our Enigma channels. This includes migrating the Enigma Reddit to /r/EnigmaProject and renaming our Telegram supergroup to @EnigmaProject.

Note: this has no impact on our ENG token. It’s just a cosmetic change!

Read on for more details!