Application Release 1.1.4 | Hover for a Preview of Profiles

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Alpha Impact

3 min readOct 25, 2021

Welcome back to the article that shines a spotlight on our product updates! This article is a full rundown of what’s new at Alpha Impact, from tools to adjustments. Let’s review application release #1.1.4!

Note: If you’re on the Alpha Impact web app, refresh your browser to get the new updates.

Profile Movements

In addition to deposit/withdrawal records, all funds transfers in and out of SPOT accounts now are shown as ‘INFLOW’ / ‘OUTFLOW’ under the user profile’s movements tab. Followers will also receive notifications of such flow events (above a 1% threshold, to avoid notifications of small/dust referral-based income)

10K Trading Competition

Our new Shrimp trading competition registration with up to 10K in prize pool rewards has launched. Go to our competitions tab or connect your API to join. We empower everyone to show their trading and investing skills!

Hover for a preview

If you’re always curious about traders posting on the Discover page and what their portfolio is like, we’ve got you covered. While scrolling the Discover page, you can now preview a user’s profile, holdings, and performance by hovering over their avatar.

UX/UI Enhancements

UX Enhancements

a) Improve query performance of fetching the top 3 holdings of a trader

b) Auto-refresh application assets on timeout and logout to minimize the burden of manual page refresh of future application releases/updates

UI Enhancements

a) Show appropriate cursor for not-clickable notifications

b) Remove the underline on hovering over traders on the Discover page

c) Rectify incorrect coin icons

d) Display icons for leveraged tokens

Bug Fixes

We’re all about making your experience smooth. Our development team has been quick to react to platform bugs and fixed several issues:

a) Edit media-only post causes error

b) BTC/ETH benchmark data fix for portfolio performance on 12-month view

c) Typo correction on successfully profile edit toast

d) Fix the delete linked portfolio button with a long description

Others

Last, but not least, thanks to our highly organized engineering department, we have developed efficient and organized codebase housekeeping and created a high availability database replication strategy to minimize system downtime.

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.