Enigma has released a statement announcing that they are launching the Enigma Data Marketplace. It is the first announcement of what the team behind Enigma hope will be a fantastic year, with a number of major milestones met.

Throughout the last few months, the Enigma team has been talking with the community, building up partnerships and creating a foundation from which they hope to release the Enigma privacy protocol, helping to solve the problems of scalability and privacy as blockchain becomes more popular. 

The announcement of the Data Marketplace is the next step towards creating the complete ecosystem that Enigma craves. It is believed that a decentralised marketplace for data is a key element to a scalable and secure privacy protocol for blockchain. 

The marketplace will be powered by ENG utility tokens, serving the professional data-driven platform (Catalyst), which is used for trading and investment opportunities for cryptocurrencies and assets. The protocol is in development, but Enigma invites data curators, investors and crypto-traders to join the community of users already experiencing what it has to offer.

2018 certainly looks to be a big year for Enigma as it looks to take a huge step forward in its quest for a secure and scalable blockchain protocol.