Hummingbot Newsletter - May/June 2025
🚀 Shipped Hummingbot v2.6 | 💦 New XRPLiquid Rewards Program | 🎓 Botcamp Cohort 12 Registrations Open |❓AMA with Core Maintainers | 🗳️ Epoch 12 Poll Results
🚀 Hummingbot v2.6.0 is Here!
GM to all the 🤖 Hummingbot users around the 🌎 globe!
We're pumped to announce the release of Hummingbot v2.6.0, packed with major improvements and new features:
🔧 Gateway Refactor Update: We've simplified Gateway's architecture and updated Uniswap, Ethereum, and all Solana DEX connectors (Jupiter, Raydium, Meteora) to a new standard that makes building DEX connectors easier than ever. Community bounties for updating other connectors coming soon!
⚡ 40%+ Faster Backtesting: Thanks to optimized timestamp lookups, your backtests now run lightning fast with reduced memory usage - perfect for testing those complex strategies before going live!
📊 New Statistical Arbitrage Controller: Execute sophisticated pair trading strategies with our new stat-arb controller that lets you profit from pairwise price dislocations while maintaining a delta-neutral position!
❎ New XRPL Connector Guide: Trade on XRPL's built-in DEX with our new comprehensive guide covering everything from auto-bridging to market making with both XRP and issued tokens. Ideal for earning rewards in the new XRPLiquid program (see below).
🔒 Enhanced Connector Reliability: Major improvements to Binance, MEXC, and other exchange connectors mean fewer disconnections and more stable long-running bots - your strategies can run for days without interruption!
💦 Introducing XRPLiquid: Market Maker Rewards on XRPL
We're incredibly excited to unveil XRPLiquid, a new liquidity rewards program on XRP Ledger that will distribute $100,000 in Season 1 rewards to XRPL market makers.
Built by our Botcamp affiliated company, XRPLiquid is the spiritual successor to Hummingbot Miner, which has been rewarding market makers since 2020. But unlike Miner, XRPLiquid is a XRPL decentralized application that leverages native XRPL features like Checks for payouts. You can also earn rewards by trading manually on the XRPL AMM.
High-Quality Markets: Get rewarded for providing liquidity to blue-chip trading pairs like XRP-RLUSD and iBTC-USDC.
Weekly XRP Rewards: Claim reward checks every week based on your trading volume and point boosts.
Both Manual and Bot Trading: Place manual trades on the XRPL AMM, or connect your Hummingbot to XRPL and let it earn rewards automatically while providing liquidity.
Get started at https://xrpliquid.com and turn XRPL market making into a rewarding experience!
☎️ May Community Call Recap
In the recent May 2025 community call, we covered:
v2.6 feature walkthrough - Showcased new functionality and improvements in the latest release
Gateway refactor deep dive - Technical discussion on architectural changes and implementation timeline
Community issue review - Addressed recent bugs and feature requests from Github and Discord
🤖 Botcamp Cohort 12 Open For Registration
Learn Market Making with Hummingbot - September 9-30, 2025
4-week intensive bootcamp covering algorithmic trading strategy development using Hummingbot's V2 Framework.
Program Details:
12+ live online sessions with lifetime recording access
Direct instruction from Hummingbot co-founders Mike & Fede
Demo Day strategy presentation
Official certification upon completion
Early bird pricing ends July 31 - only 13 spots remaining!
Watch the Cohort 11 Demo Day playlist to get a sense of the various types of strategies that you will learn to build:
🍿 AMA with Maintainers Fede & Mike
Our weekly Hummingbot Live sessions continue most Fridays, featuring direct access to the development team. In this episode, core maintainers Mike and Fede discuss the project roadmap, including plans for AI agent integration and upcoming technical enhancements.
The session covers strategic direction, implementation timelines, and answers community questions about Hummingbot's evolution in the algorithmic trading space.
🙋 Epoch 12 Connector Poll Results
Quarterly polls allow HBOT holders to allocate maintenance bandwidth in the form of HBOT bounties toward the connectors in the codebase, as well as decide which connectors should be included going forward.
CLOB CEX Poll (HGP-71):
Binance - 10.3M HBOT (11.24%)
Kucoin - 10.1M HBOT (11.06%)
OKX - 7.4M HBOT (8.09%)
Other connectors: Gate.io (7.3M), Bitmart (6.8M), HTX (6.8M), plus 14 other exchanges collectively received 46.65% of votes.
CLOB DEX Poll (HGP-72):
XRPL - 19.5M HBOT (21.55%)
dYdX - 14.2M HBOT (15.74%)
Derive - 14.2M HBOT (15.7%)
Other connectors: Hyperliquid (14.1M), Dexalot (9.9M), Injective Helix (9.7M), Vertex (8.7M). All 7 exchanges exceeded the 400K threshold.
Gateway DEX Poll (HGP-73):
Raydium - 11.7M HBOT (12.88%)
Uniswap - 11.6M HBOT (12.79%)
Meteora - 11M HBOT (12.12%)
Other connectors: Pancakeswap (9.8M), Trader Joe (8.7M), Balancer (8.6M), Curve (8.6M), Hydration/Polkadot (6M), Sushiswap (5.6M), Jupiter (4.1M), Carbon (3.8M), Quickswap (688.6k), ETCSwap (400k).
Allocation Changes
A 3M HBOT pool has been allocated to maintenance for each poll based on vote share. Unlike prior polls, every exchange receiving 400K+ HBOT votes is granted HBOT maintenance funding. Exchanges that received less than 400K HBOT votes are slated for removal from the official Hummingbot and Gateway codebases.
View updated allocations: HBOT Tracker
👿 Security Reminder
We've noticed increased scammer activity, particularly around fake HBOT token sales. Please remember:
We never DM users first
We never sell or airdrop HBOT tokens
The only way to get HBOT is by completing bounties
Report suspicious activity in our #scam-reports Discord channel
Happy trading! 🤖
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