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Hummingbot Architecture - Part 1

Introduction

Hummingbot is a modular framework for building highly reliable, and high performance trading bots. While the official Hummingbot package already allows you to run high frequency trading strategies on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges, the underlying framework is freely extensible for building custom strategies, custom market connectors, and more.

In this blog post, we will discuss some of the key architectural features in Hummingbot, and the rationales behind their designs.

Introducing the Perpetual Protocol Connector and Strategy

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We're thrilled to announce a new partnership with Perpetual Protocol, an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange of perpetual contracts for any asset. With this partnership, Hummingbot users will be able to earn arbitrage profits from reconciling price differences between Perpetual markets and spot markets.

The Perp connector is included with the v0.37.0 release of Hummingbot that will be shipped on March 8, 2021, along with a new perpetual-to-spot arbitrage strategy.

Since we launched the perpetual market making strategy, a new strategy to exploit arbitrage profits between perpetual and spot markets has been highly requested by our community. This new strategy allows users to arbitrage price differences between the perpetual contracts exchanges, such as perp.exchange powered by Perpetual Protocol and Binance Futures, and other Hummingbot supported spot exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase Pro, and Huobi.

  • in Miner
  • 9 min read

Hummingbot Miner: Year 1 Recap!

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Hummingbot Miner turns 1 year old!

The Hummingbot Miner platform has been live for one year! When we launched Hummingbot Miner on March 3, 2020, we kicked off a new and sustainable way for issuers to source liquidity for their tokens. It was a data-driven approach for rewarding a decentralized group of market makers for providing liquidity and harnessing the collective trading power of communities.

We are thrilled that over the past year, the platform has provided liquidity for 18 different token issuers, with 1,622 unique miners participating and earning rewards. Our decentralized market making community created order book depth and liquidity that resulted in $837mm of traded volume across the various liquidity mining campaigns!

Interview with Liquidity Miner MrBig

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During the past nine months since we launched liquidity mining, we witnessed great participation from our ever-increasing miner community. Together, we’ve reached one milestone after another. In this post, we introduce one of our top liquidity miners, MrBig1964, to you. Hope you can learn something from him!

MrBig1964 is one of our Eagle Club members, who has been trading cryptocurrency and Forex for years. In his interview, he emphasizes the compounding effect of daily small profits (0.6-0.7% in his case) and suggests fellow traders do stay calm and do not be greedy.

Disclaimer: Not financial advice. All views expressed in this interview are the interviewee’s and do not represent the opinions of hummingbot.io. Hummingbot does not guarantee nor claim to guarantee profits.

  • in Miner
  • 4 min read

NEM Liquidity Mining Case Study

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Summary

Over the past few weeks, we have seen great participation from NEM liquidity miners and exceptional XEM token performance. With liquidity mining, NEM is able to introduce the project to a broader trader community and motivate individual traders to promote its token liquidity. During a little over 1 month of the liquidity mining campaign period, 142 distinct individuals have participated and earned rewards as of December 15th, 2020. They accounted for as much as 11% of total XEM trading volume on Binance, and as much as 50% for the XEMETH trading pairs.

This result has demonstrated Hummingbot liquidity mining’s ability to not only help long-tail token projects graduate from its league but also well serve and add great value to Top 20 projects like NEM. Both the Hummingbot and NEM communities feel excited about the result, and will continue working hard on the ongoing success of the campaign.

Partnering with Balancer

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We're incredibly excited to announce a new partnership with Balancer, a leading Ethereum decentralized exchange, that allows Hummingbot users to earn arbitage profits from reconciling differences between Balancer and other exchanges.

The Balancer connector is included with the v0.33 release of Hummingbot that ships today, along with a new amm-arb strategy.

This new strategy allows allows users to arbitrage price differences between automatic market maker (AMM) protocols like Balancer and other Hummingbot supported exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase Pro, and Huobi.

  • in Academy
  • 11 min read

Liquidity Mining in Hummingbot vs DeFi - Part 2

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While we wrote the original whitepaper and coined the term “liquidity mining”, the concept recently became popularized in DeFi with the emergence of Balancer, Curve.Fi, and, despite being late to the game, Uniswap, who recently introduced token distributions to the original Automated Market Maker (AMM) concept.

Our version of liquidity mining and that of DeFi share the same objective: finding an efficient way for token issuers and protocols to provide liquidity for digital assets. Token liquidity has long been a problem in the cryptocurrency market due to the large and growing number of token assets, exchanges, and exchange protocols, meanwhile there has only been a limited number of sophisticated (and expensive) hedge funds and market makers that could serve the markets.

Hummingbot Miners and AMM liquidity mining both take a decentralized, crowd-sourced approach to market making. They allow the general public, not just the professional market makers, to participate in providing liquidity for digital assets.

One important way in which they enable this is by creating frameworks for compensating a decentralized group of market makers.

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  • 12 min read

What is Inventory Risk?

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Hello again Hummingbot community!

Today we will start to talk about what I consider the most important factor that is part of all types of trading operations: risk and risk management.

As one of the biggest investors of our time once said:

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." ~ Warren Buffett

Source: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/40644

All kinds of financial operations have varying degrees of risk, and market making is no different.

While it seems more exciting to imagine and project future gains and fantasize about being the next Warren Buffet, the reality and less glamorous part of investing, and arguably the most important part, is trying to figure out what can go wrong and how to mitigate losses that can result.

There is a lot to cover about risk and risk management, but today we will focus on one major risk related to market making: inventory risk.

Here is what we’ll cover in today's article:

  • What is inventory value?

  • What is inventory risk?

  • How to mitigate inventory risk with Hummingbot

  • in Academy
  • 13 min read

What is Cross Exchange Market Making?

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Welcome back to our Educational Center, where we aim to help you to learn more about market making, arbitrage, and everything related to algorithmic trading.

Today we will talk about one of the core strategies that can be used with hummingbot: cross-exchange market making.

The objective of this article is to help you understand:

  • What is the cross-exchange market making strategy?
  • What is the difference between cross-exchange market making and arbitrage?
  • How is cross-exchange market making different from pure market making?
  • Why and when should I use this strategy?