Here’s a summary of new features and updates from the last week.

Mainnet and seed round announcement

Last week we announced our upcoming Mainnet launch (scheduled for Tuesday January 15, 2019) and seed round from Paradigm, Sequoia, and 1confirmation.

The launch will feature cryptocurrency derivatives, Ethereum network gas price and hash rate markets, Grin markets, and Academy Awards markets. We’re incredibly excited to launch Veil on Mainnet and hope you give it a try!

Early signup now live

As part of our launch announcement, we opened up early signup for Veil on Mainnet. Sign up, connect your Ethereum wallet, and fund your account now to be ready for the launch.

Note that Veil will not immediately be available to users in the United States, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, the Crimea region, any OFAC-embargoed nations, or any other jurisdiction where applicable law would prohibit you from trading derivatives or cryptoassets using the Veil platform.

Categorical markets UI update

Veil now supports categorical markets—markets with many winner-take-all outcomes. We’ve updated the market UI to be compatible with these new markets, and you can see an example with the new Academy Awards Best Picture market in the Veil alpha on Kovan. Technically, categorical markets on Veil are implemented as groupings of Augur binary markets, so we can add new outcomes over time.

Categorical markets in Veil: https://kovan.veil.co/market/best-picture-2019

@VeilMarketBot community project

@veilmarketbot, a twitter bot that posts new markets created on Veil, launched. It’s the first community-contributed product built on top of Veil using our API. Congrats to @conlan on the great work!