Veil weekly updates: February 25, 2019

A weekly digest of new Veil features and updates.

Notifications

Especially when you’re trading in multiple markets, it’s hard to keep track of all your wagers and positions. So this week we added notifications to make it easier to know all that’s happened on Veil since the last time you logged in. Now you’ll be able to see whenever someone took the opposite side of your wager, when a market you participated in resolved, or when one of your orders was canceled.

New odds formats

While Augur outcome shares are technically always valued between 0 ETH and 1 ETH (learn more about Augur shares in our guide), it’s sometimes hard to understand your potential pay-out when buying a position priced this way. Now Veil supports decimal odds format (i.e. European odds showing your return multiple). You can toggle between odds formats in the Veil header.

DeFi markets

We’ve been really excited to see decentralized finance (“DeFi”) projects like Uniswap and Compound grow. So we thought we’d create prediction markets on how much these projects will continue to grow using Augur scalar markets! Now you can speculate on how much ETH will be locked in either of these protocols by March 16, 2019 (thanks to Jacob and Mike McDonald for the inspiration).

Open orders are back

Last week after we launched our redesign to Veil market pages, one of the most common requests was to re-add the list of open orders to the buy and wager forms. So this week we did. You can now see a summary of the order book when buying a position or creating a wager. Try it out in a market like Will Coinbase delist ETC by the end of 2019?

Reviewing the 91st Academy Awards

Veil listed four Oscars related markets and saw over 160 ETH (~$22k) in trading volume across all of them. If you took a position in any of the markets, you can now redeem your shares for ETH using Veil’s Instant Settlement feature. Here are the markets:

Best performers from last week

Congrats to last week’s best performers: @Noob (+173.84%), @AdamAID (+58.31%), @tr33 (+43.96%), @realDonaldTrump (+42.02%), and @test (+25.85%). Check the live leaderboard at anytime for up-to-date performance.

Veil is hiring

As a reminder, Veil is hiring for product, operations, and engineering roles in San Francisco. See our job postings (yes, it’s a google doc 😉) to learn more. Here’s a Twitter thread on hiring and what we’re looking for at Veil: