Hummingbot Newsletter - February 2024
🚀 Shipped v1.25 Release | 🎓 Announcing Botcamp | 👋 Discord Support Program | 📓 New Bounties Process
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!
🚀 Shipped Hummingbot v1.25 Release
As daily Hummingbot volumes have surged recently to an all-time high of $487M, we are thrilled to present Hummingbot version 1.25.0!
This release features new Connector Guides for Binance, Vega, Hyperliquid, and Polkadex, which make it easy for users to get started running bots on these exchanges with step-by-step instructions that show users how to generate credentials and use them with Hummingbot. Furthermore, we are excited to announce big improvements to the Discord Support Program, which rewards users for supporting other users on Discord by answering their questions. In addition, this release introduces the new Carbon DEX connector, adds Candles support for OKX Perpetual and Kraken, and greatly improves the XRP Ledger connector.
Last but not least, we are in the middle of a huge refactor to the V2 Strategies Framework and added two new sample strategies in this release. When this overhaul is complete, the V2 framework will be more intuitive and flexible for strategy development, paving the way for advanced trading strategies and customization.
Read the v1.25.0 release notes for more information!
📺 February 2024 Community Call
We livestream a monthly community call on our Discord server.
This month’s edition takes place on Wednesday February 29th (4pm GMT / 12am SIN (Feb 1) / 11am EST / 8am PST) and features:
🚀 v1.25 Release Highlights
⭐️ Changes to Bounties Process
👋 Discord Support Program
📓 New Connector Guides
Check out the Hummingbot Calendar for links to these calls and other upcoming events.
🤝 Announcing Botcamp and the Expanding Hummingbot Ecosystem
We’re excited to formally announce Botcamp as a separate for-profit company that provides education and training programs for market makers and algorithmic traders using the open source Hummingbot software framework.
Botcamp's signature product is a 5-week intensive bootcamp that teaches students how to help them build their own custom trading strategies. Since October 2022, Over 200 students across five cohorts have taken Botcamp, and many of the sample scripts in the open source Hummingbot repo were contributed by Botcamp students.
Read the blog post for more info about Botcamp and the other companies in the expanding Hummingbot ecosystem!
👋 Improvements to the Discord Support Program
Hummingbot is a community of algorithmic traders and developers that help each other on Discord. We're excited to announce the following changes to the Discord Support Program:
Public Leaderboard
New Discord Roles
Increased Weekly Payout amount
Adjusted Reward Percentages
Revised Point System
For more information, read the full blog post and check out the current Discord Leaderboard!
💰 New Bounties Process
Hummingbot's bounty system lets sponsors tap into the thousands of quant traders and developers globally who run Hummingbot.
In this release we've revamped the documentation for the Bounties program to make it a lot easier for both Contributors and Sponsors to follow the steps needed to sponsor or contribute to a bounty. See Lifecycle of a Bounty.
Also, see the new Bounty Pricing Guidance page as a guideline to make it easier for both developers and sponsors to agree on a price for external bounties.
👿 Don’t fall for scammers!
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 you or other Hummingbot users, please report it in the #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 via Bounties!