A List of Ongoing Incentivized Testnets You Should Know About.
A list of ongoing incentivised testnets among both already tradable and non-tradable assets. The Incentivized Testnet is the process of testing the product to make sure it will work properly upon launch. During incentivized testnet users, participants, validators or contributors are rewarded and those coins will become tradable upon launch.
- Polkadot
Kusama is an early, unaudited and unrefined release of Polkadot. One percent of DOT tokens at Polkadot genesis have been reserved as an eventual incentivisation grant to Kusama’s stakeholders and community. The precise mechanics of this have not yet been finalised.
Read more: https://kusama.network
2. Cosmos
In preparation for the launch of the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) module, Cosmos has launched its second challenge: Game of Zones.
Read more: https://cosmos.network/goz/
3. Cardano
Cardano’s Shelley testnet has been launched in December 2019. ADA holders already staked more than 11B ADA coins.
Read more: https://staking.cardano.org
4. Matic
Matic incentivized public testnet event Counter Stake is live since November 2019.More than 3M MATIC tokens will be shared with the winners and participants of the contest.
Read more: https://matic.network/counter-stake/
5. Elrond
Elrond has launched a public testnet event Battle of Nodes with a $50.000 prize pool in October 2019. Anyone can join the competition by running a node even on a personal computer without minimum staking requirements. While running a mainnet node will require staking of 500K ERD.
Read more: https://battleofnodes.com
6. Near Protocol
One percent of NEAR tokens at NEAR genesis have been reserved as an incentive to NEAR Stake Wars competitors.
Read more: https://nearprotocol.com/stakewars/
7. Coda
Coda is launching Genesis token distribution program with 6.7% of the tokens as rewards. Program prepares participants to become the network’s first block producers upon mainnet launch that is expected to be released this year.
Read more: https://codaprotocol.com/genesis
8. Oasis
Oasis Network has released its first Public Testnet in November and launched a staking competition and a number of community engagement activities with a total prize pool of 1% of total tokens.
Read more: https://medium.com/oasis-protocol-project/the-oasis-public-testnet-is-live-e1a04f4dfc22
9. Solana
Solana’s incentivized testnet event — Tour de SOL is active since February 2020.
Read more: https://solana.com/tds/
10. Celo
Started in December 2019, the Stake Off event will run in three phases with each phase focusing on testing a different part of the network.
Read more: https://medium.com/celoorg/announcing-the-great-celo-stake-off-12eb15dd5eb0
11. COTI
COTI has launched its TestNet node operators incentive plan in January 2020 with rewards for validators, testers.
Read more: https://medium.com/cotinetwork/testnet-node-operators-requirements-and-incentive-plan-ba2a752def
12. Meter
Meter’s Incentivized testnet challenge — Warring Stakes offers the opportunity to participate in the network by putting a validation and mining skills to the test for a chance to win mainnet MTRG tokens.
Read more: https://www.meter.io/warringstakes/
13. NuCypher
NuCypher has launched its incentivized testnet in January 2020. As part of “Come and Stake It” activity NuCypher will reward stakers with 1% of initial NU tokens with 6 month lockup period.
Read more: https://blog.nucypher.com/come-and-stake-it-incentivized-testnet/
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