Variational Announcements

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here Maintenance mode turning on in around 15 minutes. Will be a longer deploy focused on some major system improvements.

Stay tuned for updates in this channel.

Note: this release will require clearing all account/trading data on testnet. You will be required to relink your wallets and create fresh accounts. As usual, we've snapshotted your past activity, so your contributions to testnet will be safe.

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here Deploy starting!

New announcement from 0xmgb in Discord:

Hi @here, competition NFTs have been sent out!

1. The **top 100 competitors by PnL** have been sent a competition 2 top 100 NFT. There were *100* Competition 2 Top 100 NFTs sent out.
2. **All competitors who claimed from the faucet at least 3 times**, regardless of final PnL, have been send a competition 2 participation NFT. There were *3617* Competition 2 Participation NFTs sent out.

Hold on to these NFTs! (they're soulbound so you don't have much of a choice 😉 )

New announcement from 0xmgb in Discord:

Another small note -- gotten some reports of impersonators on Discord, both of me and Lucas (LVS). Stay vigilant -- try to avoid communicating over Discord where possible, and verify everything with my Twitter @ 0xMGB or Lucas's Twitter @ variational_lvs.

New announcement from 0xmgb in Discord:

The second Omni Testnet Trading Competition has officially come to a close!

**1st:** 0xee6be24226223d8a89e41e1cb49f8ee3fb0503ab
**2nd:** 0x00000082bc916568cb4479d3a218dafa60ebba25
**3rd:** 0x6de115a3db519009665856115467f4e6250bfcda
**4th:** 0x73697bc0259e0edb7302ff96358dd9e1a2c13c28
**5th:** 0x7a27f6cae90184a9a67294bb0df9d77390dbc6c1

If you won, DM either @ 0xMGB or @ variational_io on Twitter to provide KYC information and receive your winnings.

Thanks everyone for participating! This competition was a fantastic test for our stability + UX, and we've gotten lots of good feedback to work with. We're gonna take some time to implement some changes and new features, and then do another trading competition very soon!

PS: NFTs will be distributed soon -- today or tomorrow ❤️

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New announcement from 0xmgb in Discord:

We're going live for a Twitter Space with Arbitrum in a little over 30 minutes!

Set your reminders and make sure to join our biggest Twitter Space yet 👀

https://x.com/arbitrumcore/status/1850557354720309467

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New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here Maintenance complete! Back to the grind 🚀

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here Maintenance going on for 15mins or so to add some anti-bot protections 🤖 . Will post when complete.

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here Done with maintenance! Platform is back up, now with beefier infra behind it. 🥩

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here Maintenance flag is going on for infrastructure upgrades. Will post when complete.

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here Planning a release this evening US Eastern Time around 7:00pm (23:00 UTC). The platform will likely be inaccessible for 30-60 minutes as we upgrade some core infrastructure.

New announcement from 0xmgb in Discord:

@here brief maintenance happening now, will message in here when complete 🫡

New announcement from 0xmgb in Discord:

@here we're back online -- our node provider is currently experiencing some instability, so we may need to go back into maintenance again if that worsens. For now, happy trading!

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here ^ Flag is off now! Back to business as usual

New announcement from 0xmgb in Discord:

@here We're aware of some issues with transfers (deposits + withdrawals) and are in the process of performing some upgrades to address it. Turning maintenance mode on for a bit!

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@hereAll set for now, trade away! We'll be monitoring and (as per above) continuing to work on a few performance improvements over the coming week.

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here Turning on maintenance mode to investigate a few reports of pending accounts/orders taking longer than expected. Will issue updates when available.

New announcement from variational_lvs in Discord:

@here We are aware of the congestion/performance issues on testnet--specifically around certain users running into delays when linking new wallets.
These issues will be resolved in mainnet but this week we will perform some upgrades to help address them. We're seeing 20x higher load this competition than last. Keep testing! 🚀

New announcement from 0xmgb in Discord:

@here Brief announcement regarding the trading competition:

1. **There is no reason to bot testnet.** We can and are easily identifying multiaccounts/bot farms, and will remove all accounts associated with them from any trading competition rewards or mainnet rewards.
2. **We're aware of an issue with liquidations.** TLDR on the issue is that if your margin no longer becomes enough to maintain your positions, positions will be liquidated relatively randomly instead of liquidating the worst-performing position(s) first. A fix for this will be going in ASAP.

Next leaderboard update coming soon 🫡 Thanks everyone for your participation so far!

New announcement from 0xmgb in Discord:

@here first leaderboard update is now live in https://docs.variational.io/