Enigma Developer Update, February 16th, 2018:

Video Sneak Preview of the Enigma Data Marketplace

Greetings to all! As we continue our work on the Enigma privacy protocol, we want to update you on our simultaneous development of the protocol’s first established use case: the Enigma Data Marketplace.

Last week we announced the launch of the Enigma Data Marketplace on Ethereum’s Ropsten testnet. Currently, the Data Marketplace smart contract that governs the selling and purchasing of premium datasets on the marketplace is undergoing a security audit. When the results from the audit come back — after incorporating any recommendations that result from the audit — we will proceed to deploy the Enigma Data Marketplace on mainnet, thereby completing Phase 1 of the Enigma roadmap.

The Enigma Data Marketplace — powered by ENG utility tokens — initially serves Catalyst, our professional platform for data-driven cryptoasset algorithmic trading. As the current smart contract is deployed on Ropsten, it is powered by test-ENG tokens, analogous to how test-ether is the currency on testnet. Yet, as test-ENG are not publicly available, the Enigma Data Marketplace is not accessible to our user community until it is deployed on mainnet.

In the interim, and having all the marketplace functionality already implemented and fully working in the latest release of Catalyst (version 0.5.3 as of this writing), we are excited to show you a preview of how the data maretplace works for participants. The below videos will give you a sense of how you will be able to become either a data provider (marketplace seller) or a data subscriber (marketplace buyer).

Data Providers

We have broken down the video preview in two parts. The first part below presents the Data Marketplace from the data provider side. In ten minutes, we demonstrate how to go about registering a dataset and publishing data for that dataset on the marketplace. Catalyst provides a command-line interface (CLI) that guides you through that process.

In this first part we register a dataset (github) that we have curated at Enigma that captures statistics (commits, forks, stars…) from the main GitHub repository associated to each of the top 100 cryptoassets by market capitalization — and we make this data set available on the Enigma Data Marketplace.