Application Release 1.1.3 | Selective Copy Trading Updates

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Alpha Impact

4 min readOct 9, 2021

The past 2 weeks have been very busy, with our engineering team working hard to release this technical update. We’re also excited to confirm that copy trading is launching in November.

Before discussing the technical update we will share some other updates with the community:

A Community Product Demo

This past week, our co-founders, Hayden Hughes and Austin Chaird, shared a demo of our platform. Check it out here.

Now for the technical updates:

Copy Trading Update

After 7 months in development, we’re excited to announce that the back-end logic for selective copy trading is 100% complete! The back-end trading logic is very complex and we’re currently doing rigorous penetration testing. The front-end logic is being finalized, with the UI for Selective Copy Trading being nearly completed (we’ve tested it in the office and done actual copy trades… whether we bought SHIB or not is highly classified ;)

We’re also hard at work integrating the back-end logic with the front-end logic, and we’re very excited to announce that Selective Copy Trading will be launching in November! At the rate, we’re going there’s even a chance it could be a spooky Halloween with copy trading.

We wish to take special note of our hard-working tech team who have successfully completed the back-end copy trading logic.

Say it with a GIF & tag me

Want to express yourself, but can’t figure out the right words? Our GIPHY integration is now complete, and you can click the GIF button to find the perfect GIF for any season or emotion. We’ve also launched mentions, meaning you can tag friends by using @username, just like other networks.

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UX updates

We’ve optimized the mobile view for the announcement section of our website, and made it easier to click through to a trader’s movements and trades. We’ve also removed some redundancies around clicking on deleted users and portfolios, ensuring that our users have a consistent trading and browsing experience.

Landing on a non-existing user profile page via mentions or notifications now shows a ‘user does not exist page. The announcement list mobile view has been fixed. The feedback regarding an unattractive underline feature while selecting notifications and content within notifications has been removed. There is also handle notifications that involve deleted user and handle cases where user click on the notification that involves deleted portfolio.

Bug Fixes

This month marked a milestone for bug removal, and we’ve optimized issues relating to hashtags, and more. These optimizations were a number of small issues that have now been resolved and we would like to thank our Beta Testing group chat which has been instrumental in supporting us with ongoing feedback.

Some bug fixes for this patch include fixing multiple hashtags squashed together, resolving the issue of certain users not showing up in search results, activation email spacing issue, removing the gap between username & social count on user profile when a bio contains only empty spaces. Lastly, trimming extra white spaces from search text.

About Alpha Impact

Crypto Made Easy.

Alpha Impact is a social trading platform designed to bring trust to crypto trading. Whether you want to automatically copy an expert trader or you’re already a crypto trader and want to build and monetize your following, we’re building the infrastructure to take the guesswork out of crypto trading.

Traders on the Alpha Impact platform are some of the top-performing traders in crypto. In good markets or bad, our traders are incentivized to share their trades and trading strategies through the Alpha Impact platform. Finally, a place where users can filter through the noise and learn about crypto trading from experts with a visible track record. What’s even better is that traders have an incentive to share their investment thesis, analysis of the market, and the reasons behind their trades.

We share our fees with traders, meaning that there is finally an incentive for expert traders to share their activity and views with crypto enthusiasts and beginners.

Built by experts from the traditional finance space, our philosophy is to empower everyone to become a crypto trader. Whether you’re a beginner wanting to learn from an expert, or an expert wanting to get paid, we’re here to democratize access to this industry, one trade at a time.