Veil Launches On Ethereum Mainnet

Paul Fletcher-Hill is the CEO at Veil and in a blog post published today, January 16th, they have announced that the new peer-to-peer prediction market Veil has launched on the Ethereum Mainnet.

The company describes itself as “a peer-to-peer trading platform for prediction markets and derivatives on Augur.” The platform provides users with the ability to bet on a range of prediction markets on a peer-to-peer basis as well as trade of various different digital assets using leverage.

Through the firms Medium blog posted today, users on Veil will no be able to buy and sell five times the amount of leveraged digital currencies, bet on who will get an academy award, speculate on the Ethereum gas price and hash rate and they will be able to trade GRIN which is the new native token from Mimblewimble on the platform.

Veil is only listing a select few markets as a part of the launch on the Ethereum Mainnet. In addition to this, the company is looking to keep its listed markets limited to the “right markets”. With this in mind, it has implemented a feature to let users nominate an Augur market for the Veil platform in which users will be able to input an Augur market ID for listing approval.

The platform charges a one percent fee on all trades and a one percent settlement fee for users who elect to use the Instant Settlement feature.

Mainstream

Prior to this announcement, Veil has said that it “is designed to bring Augur mainstream”. All prediction markets found Veil are shown as Augur markets on Ethereum. Nevertheless, Veil has made a few improvements to the Augur experience to make prediction markets easier to access to more mainstream users.

As reported by BTC Manager, the platform firstly looking to “leverage the 0x protocol to make trading faster and cheaper by reducing the number of interactions with the Ethereum blockchain. Trade cancellations, for example, happen off-chain.”

Secondly, Veil wants to provide instant settlement to make sure that the users will get paid faster. Augur, on the other hand, has a decentralised oracle system which ensures that prediction markets can properly come to a solution but this can take several weeks. “Veil did not conduct an ICO to fund the development of its platform. Instead, the Cayman Islands-based company raised funds during a seed investment round from the likes of Paradigm. Sequoia Capital, and 1confirmation.”

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