Yes, we have discontinued the Sphinx Dapp Testnet, which was a parallel devnet to our public betanet. This decision was made to streamline our focus and resources on enhancing and making the public betanet feature-complete ahead of our upcoming mainnet launch. So make sure to run your validator nodes and build your dapps/projects on Shardeum Sphinx. You can find the endpoints for betanet here. Get ready for the mainnet launch by running nodes, build dapps and acquire Shardeum’s large user base and help us in stress testing the network in the final home stretch towards mainnet.
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With GUI, you can start running a node with a few clicks of your mouse. Shardeum is one of the first L1 networks to enable user-friendly GUI feature for node validators asides from CLI.
CLI is the only interface used by the vast majority of blockchain networks. It is typically enabled for more advanced users and developers who intend to work with nodes more deeply and technically.
We have announced our Airdrop Phase 1 update that provides high level details into the airdrop rewards for early contributors that include node validators on betanet. The objective of the blog is to supply as many details as possible to our community including eligibility period, criteria overview, types of beneficiaries and seek their feedback to help us finalize the Phase 1 airdrop plan in line with Shardeum’s OCC principle.
While we may not be able to reward every contributor/participant, we aim to provide various other benefits to unrewarded node validators as part of Shardeum’s Early Contributor Program or ECP. The benefits may potentially include priority access to the airdrops of our consenting ecosystem partners, exchange-dependent IEOs, future reward multipliers, preference in future contests and campaigns. Don’t forget to read the blog and provide your feedback.
During betanet the community can operate validator nodes. After mainnet, the community will be able to operate archiver nodes.
Details of the bounties will be announced in Q2 of 2024.
Please report bugs on the Sphinx network here.
The Shardeum Foundation plans to launch grants program in Q2 of 2024. Early adopters that have demonstrated measurable progress in development and community growth on Shardeum’s testnets will be prioritized.
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Shardeum’s leadership will be open to brainstorm and discuss the potential of projects and its GTM strategy soon. These leaders have led and helped world-class projects launch and succeed, and they will be available to help and advise.
You can find and interact with the active projects building on Shardeum in our ecosystem page of the website here
Please list your dapps that you are building on Shardeum here
With over 10,000 validators invariably running nodes, and peaks exceeding 35,000, the network faces unique challenges that is inherent to such a large-scale decentralized system. The transition delays from standby to active validator status are a direct consequence of the high validator count. This is also influenced by the fact that the developers have been building their dapps on Sphinx Dapp testnet (devnet) over the last few months and/or waiting for the betanet to get stabilized.
This prevented the betanet from handling high transaction volumes, thereby restricting the number of validators that could be leveraged at any given time. Also, please be aware that validators are auto-rotated in and out randomly, ensuring a fair and unpredictable selection. This means that the selection is not influenced by the duration a validator has spent in the standby pool or their previous contributions.
Good news is, we have sunset the devnet to streamline our focus completely on Shardeum Sphinx (betanet) and make it feature-ready ahead of the upcoming mainnet launch. You will already see several dapps have re-launched on betanet. We look forward to developers and users/validators to continue stress-testing the network leading up to mainnet. With your understanding and support, Shardeum is poised to provide a linearly scalable, and an affordable L1 smart contract platform for users and developers for the first time ever.
