After nearly three years in development, we’re thrilled to announce the first in a series of Bisq 2 beta releases. Watch the video below to understand why we’re building Bisq 2 and what’s in it for you. You’ll learn what’s available now and what lies ahead for both Bisq 1 and Bisq 2. Getting started with Bisq 2 is easy: Get Bisq 2 from the downloads page Try the new Bisq Easy trade protocol Share your feedback in the integrated p2p group chat Note: If you’re already running Bisq 1, carry on! Bisq 2 is a separate application and will install and run alongside Bisq 1 without issue ..read more

This post summarizes the results of Cycle 21 of the Bisq DAO. Summary Cycle took place between blocks 665,347 and 670,026 Calendar dates: 09 January 2020 - 10 February 2020 32 proposals 6 reimbursement requests 3 parameter change requests (2 for the routine trading fee update; other one is explained below) 23 compensation requests 281 votes cast 81,096.64 BSQ issued for compensation (282,197.20 BSQ was issued in total, of which 81,609.04 was for reimbursing arbitrators and 119,491.52 was for user-initiated reimbursements) 9,381.22 BSQ was burned through fees (9,473.22 BSQ was burned in ..read more

Results of Cycle 20 of the Bisq DAO were invalidated because voting nodes could not establish the required 80% supermajority consensus on the prevailing data view, ostensibly because of Tor issues that surfaced in the last few blocks of the cycle. Summary Cycle took place between blocks 660,667 and 665,346 Calendar dates: 09 December 2020 - 09 January 2021 22 proposals 3 reimbursement requests 2 parameter change requests (trading fees) 17 compensation requests All proposals failed to be approved or rejected. No BSQ was issued. Stakeholders will make new proposals in Cycle 21 for both C ..read more

This post summarizes the results of Cycle 19 of the Bisq DAO. Summary Cycle took place between blocks 655,987 and 660,666 Calendar dates: 08 November 2020 - 09 December 2020 28 proposals 2 reimbursement requests 3 parameter change requests (2 for the routine trading fee update; other one is explained below) 23 compensation requests 195 votes cast 77,826.87 BSQ issued for compensation (99,043.51 BSQ was issued in total, of which 19,629.90 was for reimbursing an arbitrator and 1,586.74 was for user-initiated reimbursements) 11,637.83 BSQ was burned through fees (77,637.83 BSQ was burned i ..read more

This post summarizes the results of Cycle 18 of the Bisq DAO. Summary Cycle took place between blocks 651,307 and 655,986 Calendar dates: 04 October 2020 - 08 November 2020 32 proposals 5 reimbursement requests 2 parameter change requests (trading fee update) 2 generic proposals 23 compensation requests 243 votes cast 56,159.73 BSQ issued for compensation (105,725.58 BSQ was issued in total, of which 27,934.70 was for reimbursing an arbitrator and 21,631.15 was for user-initiated reimbursements) 8,040.37 BSQ was burned through fees (120,040.37 BSQ was burned in total, of which 112,000 w ..read more

Bisq v1.5.0 was just released, and it’s quite a notable update. SegWit Integration Completed Bisq v1.4.2 introduced segwit addresses for funding and withdrawing, meaning you could send funds from an external wallet to a bech32 address in Bisq and withdraw funds from Bisq to an external bech32 address. While this was a huge step forward, trade transactions didn’t use segwit, and no Bisq transactions took advantage of fee optimizations enabled by segwit. Bisq v1.5.0 completes the integration by implementing segwit across the trade protocol and implementing segwit fee optimizations, saving users ..read more

This post summarizes the results of Cycle 17 of the Bisq DAO. Summary Cycle took place between blocks 646,627 and 651,306 Calendar dates: 02 September 2020 - 04 October 2020 33 proposals 4 proposals for bonded roles 3 reimbursement requests 26 compensation requests 162 votes cast 60,864.42 BSQ issued for compensation (148,558.50 BSQ was issued in total, of which 21,407.20 was for reimbursing an arbitrator and 66,286.88 was for user-initiated reimbursements) 9,745.05 BSQ was burned through fees (53,745.05 BSQ was burned in total, of which 44,000 was from proof-of-burn transactions that c ..read more

This post summarizes the results of Cycle 16 of the Bisq DAO. Summary Cycle took place between blocks 641,947 and 646,626 Calendar dates: 02 August 2020 - 02 September 2020 25 proposals 1 proposal to change a parameter 24 compensation requests 263 votes cast 58,383.68 BSQ issued for compensation (79,985.25 BSQ was issued in total, of which 9,850.6 was for reimbursing an arbitrator and 11,750.97 was for user-initiated reimbursements) 10,511.67 BSQ was burned through fees (76,511.67 BSQ was burned in total, of which 66,000 was from proof-of-burn transactions that consisted of BTC trading ..read more

Bisq hit 70,000 trades all-time in August 2020. The past 12 months have been particularly interesting: there were well over 2,000 trades per month for every single month, with many months at or over 3,000 trades. This sort of sustained trading activity is unprecedented for Bisq. In the past 12 months (from August 2019 to August 2020) there were more trades on the network than in the 36 months before that. Now that the monthly numbers have been big enough for long enough, it might be interesting to take a look at some trends in trading activity over the past 12 months. TL;DR The following findi ..read more

This post summarizes the results of Cycle 15 of the Bisq DAO. Summary Cycle took place between blocks 637,267 and 641,946 Calendar dates: 07/01/2020 - 08/02/2020 33 proposals 2 generic proposals 2 proposals to change a parameter 4 reimbursement proposals 25 compensation requests 368 votes cast 61,566.31 BSQ issued for compensation (169,784.38 BSQ was issued in total, of which 80,284.40 was for reimbursing an arbitrator and 27,933.67 was for a user-initiated reimbursement) 7,962.94 BSQ was burned through fees (72,062.94 BSQ was burned in total, of which 64,000 was from proof-of-burn tran ..read more