Where Have All the Augur Users Gone?

The day Augur launched it breezed into the rankings of top ethereum dapps by daily active users - but the momentum didn't last long.

Released on July 10, Augur allows users to create and bet on prediction markets tied to real-world events, such as World Cup games, elections and - unfortunately - murders.

It's worth noting that dapp userbases are uniformly tiny with Augur and CryptoKitties each boasting around 300 users on the day in question.

Over the following weeks Augur has shed users and slipped in the rankings.

It's up for debate how useful that metric is, but the Augur community plainly has user numbers on its mind.

The project's Discord forum was mulling the topic at the time of writing, and the question of whether Augur has "Failed" was broached at least once.

Global, a site that displays Augur markets and data, thinks the issue goes deeper than UX or FIFA's schedule.

Global has rolled out a new feature, which lets users sort through open Augur markets by liquidity.

According to the feature - which is based on a closed-sourced algorithm - 33 open Augur prediction markets currently have at least 10 ether in liquidity and four have at least 250 ether in liquidity.

Whatever the current trends in user numbers, Augur has been live for less than a month, and Krug, for one, is willing to be patient.