The Final Approach

6 min readApr 30, 2024

“Success flourishes only in perseverance — ceaseless, restless perseverance.” — Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron

SkyBridge Testnet Update

It has been a long time since we last spoke! Firstly, we would like to apologize for the delays in preparing Aviator SkyBridge for public testing. While we have not published a release date and intend to launch the testnet as a surprise, we would love to provide some updates, as well as to thank you all for your patience as we work to make SkyBridge the best it can be!

Our team has been making excellent progress in preparing for public testing. Over the past few weeks, our development team has made several enhancements to how SkyBridge operates to maximize the quality of the user experience. We know dearly that our Aviators are hyped for a release date, and while we are not sharing an exact date today, we can say that the SkyBridge testnet will become available for public testing any day now. Our developers are ready to close out the last necessary items for immediate release.

The testnet will feature a demo of the initial UI of SkyBridge and give testers the ability to try out the application and provide feedback for our team to resolve. Please note that the UI is not final, and we will be completing an entire redesign of all our websites within the near future.

Advanced users will be able to directly interact with the smart contracts on Sepolia Etherscan and Sepolia Basescan to try advanced transactions and attempt to seek out bugs or issues that need to be addressed before mainnet release. Features and detailed documentation will be rolling out during the testnet period, so expect frequent updates to the smart contract and documentation wiki as enhancements and adjustments are made from community feedback.

Testnet AVI tokens will be airdropped to all current AVI holders when the testnet goes public. Testnet AVI has zero cash value.

Following the testnet phase, SkyBridge mainnet will be deployed and AVI will become available for trading on Base. Remember, there are no token migrations. We will never ask you to migrate your tokens, connect to any verification app, execute any transactions, or ask for your secret recovery phrase. AVI will remain available on the Ethereum mainnet perpetually, as well as be available for trading on Base upon public mainnet launch. AVI shares the same supply across all supported chains: no new AVI tokens will ever be created.

During our testnet, our team will update our project Whitepaper to include all new SkyBridge material.

SkyBridge Protocol Changes

As we’ve been testing and experimenting with SkyBridge on the Sepolia testnet, we have decided to make a few changes to how the protocol works for the end user!

There is now no protocol or liquidity fee for standard (slow) withdrawals!
Proxy contracts will be used to make the bridge upgradeable over time without impacting token support.
Withdrawals have been modified to require multiple signatures. This is necessary for both standard and Supersonic withdrawals.
For enhanced security, Supersonic support for SkyBridge-deployed tokens is now toggled manually. This may change in the future.

Hacken Audit Completion

As you may have already heard, earlier this month we received our SkyBridge Audit results from Hacken. We are proud to announce that we received a perfect 10/10 security score! Hacken identified a total of 3 findings within our SkyBridge Contract. All 3 of the findings identified have been resolved and approved by Hacken. Check out the audit results provided by Hacken below.

For further review of the full Audit Report completed by Hacken. Click here: Full Audit Report

SkyBridge Bug Bounty

The SkyBridge Bug Bounty program partnered with Hacken will begin as soon as we open the SkyBridge testnet to the public. This Bug Bounty will run indefinitely which will allow hackers to to continuously look for any bugs even after mainnet. Prizes will be paid out in stablecoins to avoid AVI price impact. Prizes will range from starting at $500 and topping out at $15,000 based on the severity of the findings. With each bug found within the code, a prize will be awarded depending on its severity.

This is a great opportunity for those in the community with coding skills to stress test our system as much as possible. This will allow us to make any final touches or fixes before the launch of SkyBridge Mainnet. When identifying any code errors or bugs, it’ll be reported through Hacken’s Bug Bounty Portal for review.

If you have any questions in regards to the SkyBridge Bug Bounty, please email us at contact@aviator.ac. Someone from the development team will be happy to assist you!

Summer Aviator Arcade Game Jam

With the upcoming launch of SkyBridge mainnet, we will be edging closer to the testnet of Aviator Arcade. The Aviator Team is currently preparing for our next Game Jam Event to coincide with the Aviator Arcade Testnet. We will invite various styles of game developers to create custom games or already established games to the Game Jam event. These game developers will have a chance to win a monetary prize for their game submitted based on the voting from the community.

There will be two prize pools, a Grand Prize and a Minor Prize.

Grand Prize

This requires the game developers to launch their game on Aviator Arcade testnet. This will allow community members to test out the game developer game as well test out the functionality of Aviator Arcade. Documentation will be provided when the time of the testnet is launched for the Arcade. This requirement will make it easier for developers to deploy their game when the mainnet of Aviator Arcade is deployed. Game Developers who launch on mainnet will receive 45% per playthrough. There will also be an extra 5% bonus for game developers if they launch their game within the first 90 days of Aviator Arcade launch.

Minor Prize

This will have no special requirement to participate in the Game Jam Event. If you are a game developer, you’ll just submit your game creation on Itch.io. With this option, we will still encourage game developers to enter the Grand Prize option for the higher value prize, in addition to the benefit of generating 45–50% per playthrough upon the launch of mainnet.

The prize amounts are still to be determined.

Game Jam Timeframe

The Game Jam event will run for several weeks while we have Aviator Arcade being tested on testnet. The AVI team thinks this will be an appropriate amount of time for both game developers and community members to test out the functions and become familiar with the platform before mainnet.

Once the testnet is concluded, this does not indicate mainnet will launch immediately afterward.

Voting

Voting for the Aviator Arcade Game Jam Event will be done through our DAO on snapshot.org/aviator-dao.eth. This will encourage AVI Community members to be actively involved in what they want to see on our Aviator Arcade platform.

If you are interested or know of a game developer who would like to participate, please reach out to one of the Admins on Telegram or our Discord server! We would be happy to answer any questions you may have concerning the Game Jam or Aviator Arcade. For more information, you can also check out the Flightpaper on pages 10–13 for Aviator Arcade.

More information to come as we close the start of the Aviator Arcade Game Jam event!