Houston Testnet: A Retrospective
As the Houston Incentivized Testnet is coming soon to an end, it’s time we looked back on what the past 7 months of work from our community and BUIDLers have brought and meant for Blast API.
Disclaimer: The text below is based on logbook excerpts found aboard the Blast API ship shortly after the Houston Testnet mission concluded. Some passages were torn or illegible and thus have not been reproduced. The author seems to have participated in the program but has yet to be identified.
5th of August, 2022
When I received the confirmation that I would take part in the Houston Testnet program, at first I was really excited. I knew that my place in this lineup of space explorers bore, besides an exciting prospect, the greatest of responsibilities. We’ve been told that the program would run in three phases — The Launch, The Orbit and The Landing. Each phase more challenging than the other, each cycle more promising and revealing than the previous, our objective, while simple, announced itself to be titanic: test, secure and even maybe improve the mothership that would carry us onwards to the next generation of Web3 infrastructure
30th of August, 2022
Launch Phase — what a start! With nodes onboarded in the first couple of days since our arrival at the building site, getting to know the ship benefited from an uninterrupted flux of insights and innovations. We started the Launch Phase with 32 Node Providers and a total of 40 nodes. I was shocked to see how professional everybody has been approaching this challenge. The team also introduced a new feature to the ship: the Staking Pool management, staking functionality and claiming rewards.
Read the rest of the entries in the Houston Testnet logbook on the Blast Blog.
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