TINKER TESTNET

Why not on Kusama? When and how will be launched?

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5 min readMar 15, 2022

InvArch held its 1st Twitter Space (Full Audio Record) as a Community AMA. This article covers the questions and answers regarding the Tinker Testnet that is about to be launched.

Why Tinker won’t be a Kusama Parachain?
After the Introduction was a big topic why the team decided not to launch the Tinker Testnet on Kusama even if the Twitter pool was clearly for it.

However, Dakota Barnett (InvArch Founder) pointed out that it wouldn’t be a Testnet. Instead, it would be an entire Canary network, and it would turn into a kind of a beast of its own.

The poll was overwhelming, and the team didn’t anticipate strong community support. However, Kusama has a lot of fun and excitement, and Dakota truly loves so many projects there, and it is known that many founders have built successful pair teams in the Kusama ecosystem.

The reason for revaluing the question was Polkadot’s security over the speed you’ll see with Kusama. Security is essential, actually working in the realm of IP and IP authentication. But the beauty of it is that InvArch can deploy on Polkadot and, in the future, tap in and extend the functionality seamlessly to Kusama via XCA over bridges, extending cross-chain authentication over bridges to the ecosystem. So it will provide the Polkadot level security and extend that to the speed of the Kusama ecosystems for developers and teams there. So there will be no, features or utilization lost.

Additionally, it would become a significant task to maintain a second parachain. It’d be a lot more stressful on the dev team, as many projects have already experienced. An extra parachain on Kusama requires a lot of dedication, resources, attention, and focus. The team wants to keep these qualities for the mainnet; staying on track like that is the most resourceful way for us to go. So they utilize their resources just focusing on building class security on Polkadot and extending outward that way.

If the team deployed on Kusama, there would have been a test token, the $TNKR token. It would have been separated as to not affect the token price prior to the Polkadot slot auction.

We would assume that a Kusama parachain would bring on more supporters. Still, the beauty of Web3 and interoperability is that InvArch will be able to do all this regardless of where we initially start. The goal is to have that one main protocol and extend this protection and IP minting functionality throughout the entire ecosystem, all Web3, eventually one day all Web3. That would be cool.

Finally, launching Tinker on Kusama would rush development in some aspects. For example, it wouldn’t be wise for us to fully deploy InvArch until it has everything with XCA over bridges ready to go, which would be a considerable pushback.

When Tinker will be launched?
The target date to launch Tinker: March 25th to March 31st, 2022.
The Testnet will be deployed wether in Polkadot’s testnet set Rococo or Westend.

Which functionalities will be available?
Co-Founder and Sr. Rust Engineer Gabriel Facco de Arruda provided the following answer during the AMA:

You guys should be able to test it soon. And we’ll be looking into documenting everything, every kind of use case that can be tested for the Tinker testnet because we would like to see people actually try real use cases on it. So that’s why we’ve been taking some time to get it done. Because we don’t want to have just basic functionality, we want to have it so that you can properly test how you would use its full functionality of the main net. So, we will have everything, from minting IPs to running Smart IP, and that’s why we wanted to get this polish for the first Testnet.

In other words in the first launch of our Tinker Testnet, individuals will be able to anticipate the following:

IP File and IP Set minting: be able to mint your files, create IP Sets, put IP Sets into other IP Sets (IP Subsets), etc.
IP Set Replication: the ability to replicate IP Files, IP Sets, and have those replications linked which will make it easier to track your files (think of forking repository)
Basic SmartIP Functionality: the ability for IP, for Smart IP FIles to own themselves; in the future we are going to have the IPVM (Intellectual Property Virtual Machine), where there will be the ability for function calls to take place on IP for IP to call functions on other IP, thus creating a decentralized environment for IP Files, IP Sets, and so on.

This is what you can expect in regards to Tinker —the InvArch team invites everyone to “break it in” to the best of their ability and to have a fun experience.

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