Exploring Dracula Finance Testnet

5 min readApr 19, 2023

Hello mortal,

After the successful presale and the craze around Dracula Fi protocol, we are delighted to announce the launch of our testnet! The testnet intends to help you become familiar with the features offered by the protocol, such as Bribes Bond!

✞RPC Setting for zkSync Testnet

To use Dracula Fi testnet you have to add a custom network RPC to your wallet. Connect your wallet and add the custom network RPC with this link

https://chainlist.org/chain/280

✞Buy and Bridge gETH

In order to participate in DraculaFi testnet, you need to have goerli ETH ($gETH). You can use the official Goerli faucet 👇

https://goerlifaucet.com/

You can buy $gETH and bridge your $ETH to gETH 👇

https://testnetbridge.com/

Then use this official link to bridge your gETH to zkSync (g)ETH 👇

https://goerli.portal.zksync.io/bridge

UPTADE : You can claim gETH directly on our discord. use the command /faucet in #dracula-faucet

We have a #testnet-help channel on Discord for any technical issues.

✞Connect Wallet

Go on https://testnet.draculafi.xyz

To link your wallet click on “connect wallet” in the right left corner.

Once your wallet is connected, you will have this information displayed

N: Follow this tutorial to add zkSync RPC to your wallet and more.

✞Swap

To swap tokens you have to click on “Swap” and confirm the transaction on your wallet.

✞Add LP

By clicking on the “Add Liquidity” section. You will have access to a variety of tokens, and this section will give you a list with all available pairs. The liquidity providers will earn rewards from the pool.

✞Vote

Dracula Fi users can vote in a variety of gauges every week. Voters will earn bribes. (rewards from both tokens on the LP)

✞Lock

To receive veTokens and vote in the gauges. You have to lock your $FANG for a certain period of time up to 4 years. To lock your tokens, click on “Vest” and proceed

The longer you lock, the more veTokens you get, and the whole process results in rewards coming from the bribes.

On top of that, veTokens holders will receive $FANG weekly rewards, starting at 150k $FANG emissions per week with a decay of 3%. For more details please refer to the documentation.

✞Bribe Bonds

Through our bonds, the protocol allows users to buy voting power in a form of veTokens, with a discount of 15% cheaper than the market price. Users will be able to deposit $USDC on the smart contract and receive these veTokens. The $USDC will be used to pay voters on top of every gauge, giving an additional rewards.

The purpose of the tesnet is to make you familiar with the main functions of a DEX ve(3,3), but not only, through that, you will be able to experience and learn how to take advantage of our unique Bribes Bond feature.

N: In the first month, we will redistribute 1% of these $USDC for a community bounty program.

✞Dracula Fi & veTokens

If you experience the gameplay of our discord, you must have taken part in crew3 tasks, we will allocate a percentage of veFANG to Dracula crew3 campaign participants. You will be able to use these escrow tokens to participate in the voting and generate rewards through your voting power.

The testnet is used to give you the opportunity to participate in the development of Dracula Fi ecosystem, you can contribute in many ways and the testnet is one from another.

✞Tide protocol

To collect data and feedback about our upcoming testnet, we will combine the key strengths of Discord and Tide, you will be able to send us your feedback on a dedicated channel on Discord where everyone will be able to exchange, and the feedback will be forwarded to our development team.

Tide will be used to collect the testnet data and reward participants with our tesnet event-based NFT. The NFT will be collected at the end of the testnet on the Arbitrum blockchain (Tide does not currently support zkSync integration).