Hi everyone! It’s been a busy time for the Enigma team since our last update, and we continue to work hard to scale Enigma and Catalyst. Here is the latest:

Catalyst Development

The team of developers at Enigma has been working closely with our active community of Catalyst users since we released our last major update with version 0.3. Thank you for all of your feedback and testing!

Over the past three weeks we have been focusing on expanding our documentation, addressing the bugs that our community has been identifying and responding accordingly with six minor releases.

We expanded full support across MacOS, Linux and Windows installations, as well as adding support for Python 3, in addition to the existing Python 2.7 implementation. A good portion of the issues that have been bubbling up relate to the pricing data that Catalyst curates and bundles from our supported exchanges. Although the APIs that the exchanges make available are fairly solid and well-tested, we have found some holes and inconsistencies in the underlying data. We have introduced a variety of error checks and exception handling routines that result in increased stability and reliability for our code base.

Through extensive testing of both back-testing and live-trading modes, we have reduced the commission and slippage values to account for lower volume transactions seen in some of the altcoins. We also addressed a significant issue that affected the ability to place sell orders in the simulation, thereby biasing the performance of trading algorithms being tested on the platform.

As we continue to document and consolidate the current set of features that Catalyst provides — for an overview, refer to the announcement of our 0.3 release — we are scoping out the next set of features to introduce in future releases, as well as building and executing partnerships that maximize the value of Catalyst. Stay tuned!

Enigma, Live and in Person

At the beginning of the month, the Enigma team went down to Cancun for Devcon 3. It was an incredible, inspiring experience for all of us, and it’s clear many members of the Ethereum community felt similarly. We met many new wonderful people and look forward to continuing these relationships!

Our CEO Guy Zyskind spoke about Enigma in the morning on November 3rd to a packed room of developers. Some great pictures from the event:

Full house for Guy’s talk!

After the talk — strong interest in Enigma!

Not content to stop at the Western Hemisphere, Guy also presented at Calcalist’s Fintech Conference in Israel a few days later. Calcalist is Israel’s leading daily financial newspaper, and we were happy for this opportunity to speak about Enigma and Catalyst with a great and growing community.

We’ll be continuing to attend events and conferences over the coming weeks and we will share as much media as we can! Next is a Meetup in Chicago on November 13th, where Head of Growth and Marketing Tor Bair will present on Enigma and Catalyst to the rapidly expanding Chicago blockchain community.

Thanks for your continued support of our team and project! Please stay tuned for more developments :)