Hummingbot Newsletter - August 2023
🚀 Shipped v1.19 Release | 🤖 New Features: Dashboard and the V2 Strategy Framework | ✈Hummingbot Asia Tour |🎓 Botcamp Cohort 5 Demo Day | 👨💻New Website | ⚖️ Proposed Epoch 6 Governance Changes
Published each month when we ship a new Hummingbot release, this newsletter serves a regular dose of updates about our latest features 🤖 upcoming events 🎉 and announcements from our global 🌐 community!
🚀 Hummingbot v1.19.0 release
We are very excited to ship the August 2023 release of Hummingbot (v1.19.0)! This update introduces an advanced arbitrage component, an enhanced fixed grid script building upon the previous strategy, and the migration of the Injective connectors to a pure Python interface. This means they no longer need Gateway, but it also brings support for delegated accounts. Additionally, for Gateway, we've integrated a brand-new connector, Plenty, rooted in the Tezos blockchain.
Read the v1.19.0 release notes for more information.
🤖 New Features: Dashboard and the V2 Strategy Framework
At a Stanford Blockchain Conference (SBC) side event, our co-founder Mike shows how Dashboard allows you to deploy, monitor, and fine-tune your bot trading strategies from one centralized interface. In addition, he explains how our new composable strategies framework allows users to backtest and optimize their strategy using Dashboard.
In this video, CTO Fede demonstrates how to use Hummingbot’s new strategy framework utilizing composable components to create a market making strategy and discusses how this approach can enable you to backtest and optimize these strategies.
✈️ Hummingbot Asia Tour
We believe that these new capabilities make Hummingbot a powerful open source framework that institutions can build a range of trading strategies and systems. In September, Mike and Fede will be in Asia for the Token2049 conference to demo the new capabilities above to the community, targeting token projects, trading firms, and individual power users.
Hong Kong: Sept 7-8
Manila: Sept 8-12
Singapore: Sept 12-16
Bali: Sept 16-20
If anyone is interested in meeting us and seeing an in-person demo, please email operations@hummingbot.org to schedule a meeting.
🎓 Botcamp Cohort 5 Demo Day Recap
We recently celebrated the conclusion of our fifth Botcamp cohort with Demo Day, an event where participants showcased the custom trading scripts they developed throughout the intensive six-week online course.
In one of the Botcamp Cohort #5 Demo Day presentations, Danny explains how he integrated ChatGPT into Hummingbot to help you generate a strategy configuration file based on your prompts, and then shows how you can deploy that strategy as a live directional trading bot!
For more information, please watch this playlist which shows more script examples.
👨💻New Hummingbot website
The Hummingbot website has been redesigned to be more user-friendly with unified design! We hope that you enjoy the new design!
Also, the Hummingbot blog and Botcamp pages are all integrated into the website that will make it easier and convenient for community members to explore the contents in one place.
☎️ Community Call Recaps
Moving forward, we will livestream 1 community call on our Discord server:
Community Call: release highlights, governance voting, and community demos
How-To Call is discontinued so we can focus on creating more contents for Hummingbot Botcamp to make it more valuable for students
Check out the Foundation calendar for links to these monthly calls and other upcoming events. Below are the recordings for the recent two calls.
🎓 Botcamp Monthly Cadence Starts in October!
We are thrilled to be starting the next version of Botcamp starting in October. We have made some changes, designed to:
Make Botcamp more affordable
Add monthly bot battles to hone our skills together
Optimize the program for users with full-time jobs
Teach members to use Dashboard to create V2 Strategies, lowering the barrier of entry for non-developers
Incorporate data science and machine learning
Summary of Changes
At the start of each month, we will hold a Botcamp live session that teaches a new concept or strategy and answer questions from members
Near the end of the month, Botcamp members can join a bot trading competition that tests how well they can run their bots
Members can access a private Github strategy repo, 30+ hours of Botcamp course and 1:1 mentor sessions
Pricing: $200/month for individuals, $500/month for teams
Content Schedule
Oct 2023: Introducing the V2 Strategy Framework
Nov 2023: Creating V2 Directional Strategies
Dec 2023: Creating V2 Market Making Framework
📊 Deploying Hummingbot Dashboard on AWS
This video shows you how to deploy the latest version of Hummingbot Dashboard on AWS, SSH into it from your local machine, and create/deploy multiple trading bots.
Dashboard is an new open source application layer that aims to make it easier to create, backtest, and deploy Hummingbot instances at scale. We encourage community members to try it out and give us feedback!
⚖️ Proposed Epoch 6 Governance Changes
Since the end of the Epoch 5 polls, we have engaged in comprehensive internal discussions aimed at enhancing the governance process for the next epoch.
These are the main topics that we deemed important:
Focus Polls on Connector Voting
Add concept of Bounty Allocations
Change Governance Parameters
For questions, discussions and suggestions, please visit this thread on Discord.
Please read this blog post for more details on the proposed changes for Epoch 6.
❌ Don’t fall for HBOT scams!
Finally, we have seen reports of scammers DM-ing users on Discord, Twitter and other channels advertising fake HBOT token sales, as well as bot spammers that impersonated the names & profile of Hummingbot Foundation team members.
If you see anyone trying to scam Hummingbot users, please report it in the new #scam-reports Discord channel.
Hummingbot Foundation has never conducted any pre-sale or sale of HBOT tokens, and anyone purporting to offer HBOT tokens is a scammer.
The only way to get HBOT tokens from the Foundation is to earn them.