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Epoch 3 Polls Recap

Epoch 3 polls prioritizes maintenance of exchanges, strategies, and issues in the Hummingbot codebase

Recently, we finished the first set of Polls, a new initiative that lets HBOT holders decide how the Foundation allocates its engineering bandwidth and developer bounties across the components in the Hummingbot codebase. We believe regular Polls will ensure that we can continually improve the aspects of Hummingbot that are the most important to the community.

Below, we summarize the results of the Epoch 3 Polls and outline the changes we'll make over the next quarter.

Hummingbot 2023 Governance Roadmap

Specifics on our governance roadmap for 2023, Epoch 2 retrospective, and Epoch 3 changes.

In our last governance post, we summarized Hummingbot Foundation's progress since we launched the HBOT governance token one year ago, as well as the lessons that we've learned about how to structure the governance process. In particular, the Foundations plans to start regular monthly Polls to allow HBOT users to decide how the scarce maintenance bandwidth would be allocated across various exchanges, strategies, and issues in the Hummingbot codebase.

As a follow-up, this post provides more specifics on our governance roadmap for 2023. This post also serves as the retrospective for Epoch 2 and outlines changes for Epoch 3.

Changes to Hummingbot Maintenance and Governance

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Almost exactly one year ago, Hummingbot Foundation launched the HBOT token as an experiment in decentralized governance over a publicly shared, community maintained open source project.

Inspired by Linux, we believe that a bazaar-style, distributed model of software development, powered by a decentralized, community-owned governance token, would allow us to maintain and grow a large, complex, open source codebase like Hummingbot.

Highlights

Here are some of our proudest achievements over the past 12 months:

  • Executed 220+ governance proposals on our Snapshot governance portal, an average of 4.7 votes per proposal and a 92% acceptance rate. We believe this spread fairly represents what Hummingbot is today: an organic, global community of quant traders and developers who use different aspects of a shared, modular codebase.
  • Awarded more than 40 developer bounties to 20+ unique community developers for fixing bugs, adding new CEX/DEX connectors, strategies and other enhancements to the codebase (see HBOT Distributions in HBOT Tracker)
  • Held 23 weekly developer and community calls, with agendas and recording links posted in the pm repository
  • Launched the public Hummingbot Reported Volumes dashboard to report real-time aggregated volume metrics from Hummingbot users. Over the past 3 months, Hummingbot users have generated $6 billion in trade volume.

Gate.io Trading Competition: Results and Retrospective

Last month, we partnered with Gate.io to organize a Trading Competition for the Hummingbot community. The goal was to conduct an experiment to see if these types of promotions would be mutually beneficial for the Hummingbot community and the exchange itself.

Here are the results of the competition, which ran for one month from October 10 to November 10:

  • 408 average weekly participants
  • $10.2M total traded volume
  • $4,991 in total fees to Gate.io

Hummingbot V1 Strategy Coding for Dummies

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by Ben Smeaton

Hi! I've been using Hummingbot for about a year on and off and wanted to give an overview on how to actually go about defining your own strategies. I got into market making because of a hobbyist interest in python coding and I was at that time tinkering with buying and selling shares automatically on the stock market which was incredibly unsuccessful.

Hummingbot is very accessible for hobby coders due to its mainly python-based code base and the fact that its all open source (Meaning you can play around with the code). It's pretty easy to scrape together your own strategies although it�s taken quite a lot of trial and error to get there myself! I wanted to give a basic idea of how you can go about doing this in the simplest way possible.

How to Trade Crypto

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by Tsalkapone

Crypto trading has been in a frenzy lately and many investors are looking for ways to participate in the crypto market. There are several ways to gain profit from cryptocurrency and various methods to do so. If you exclude crypto mining from the equation, which is a whole different method of crypto-acquiring process, the steps that one would need to follow to enter the crypto market are the following:

  • Make an account in a crypto exchange
  • Determine your trading method
  • Fund your account
  • Pick a token to invest in
  • Analyze marketing trends and indicators
  • Choose your strategy

In this topic we will elaborate each of the steps mentioned above presenting the main aspects that a new trader should take into consideration before making a decision.

Tips for Handling Different Market Conditions

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by Owen Hobbs

In numerous ways, markets can resemble the waves of the ocean. Both have peaks, bottoms, and ultimately return to a midpoint or sea level. The approach one takes to navigate the waves is largely dependent on the weather or market conditions affecting them. In this article, we are going to discuss a few of the ways someone using Hummingbot could navigate the various market conditions such as ranging, uptrend, and downtrend.

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Basic Concepts of Crypto Trading

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Order Book

An order book is the list of orders that an exchange uses to record the interest of buyers and sellers for a particular financial market. A matching engine uses the book to determine which orders can be fully or partially executed.

Example of an order book on AscendEx where the prices in red indicate sell orders and the prices in blue indicate buy orders.

Introducing the Hummingbot Governance Token: HBOT

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HBOT Tokens empower holders to decide how the Hummingbot codebase changes over time through voting on proposals.

As announced in this October post, CoinAlpha has established the Hummingbot Foundation (the "Foundation"), a new, independent open source foundation that will enable a decentralized, community-led software development model for Hummingbot, an open source toolbox for building crypto trading bots.