Battle of Nodes: Onchained — Prize Pool Increased to $60k & Registration Extended
- $20k added to the prize pool & Registration extended until Friday 12 June
- 1700 nodes connected to our network & 3 Attacks foiled by our protocol
- 6.689 peak TPS with 1M transactions in dry-run test
- Latest patch is a Mainnet Release Candidate
Our announcement of the incentivized testnet event has brought 1700 nodes to the network in only 6 days. We are therefore increasing our prize pool to $60k to keep the stakes high throughout the competition. There remains high interest from people which did not have enough time to set up their nodes, and as such, we are extending the registration period until Friday 12 June.
The dry-run has started on Thursday with 1.000 nodes connected to the network. 700 more nodes have been added since, with leading staking pools such as Binance on board, and many global participants joining on the fly, as they successfully performd the staking transactions.
Our Genesis Staking partners Helios Staking, Staking Agency, The Palm Tree Network and Viastake, together with the endlessly resourceful community leaders Frank & Margaritapaws, have been manning the battle-stations in the Onchained War Room — coordinating support activities and working around the clock to set everyone up properly.
Several of our other partners, such as Binance, Everstake, Tailpath, Easy2Stake & others are already in, with more setting up their nodes for battle as we speak.
We tried asking for a truce until everyone settled in, but the battle lust got the better of some eager participants. Three attacks have been performed against the network. Two happened over the weekend, and one on Monday. The attacks tried to overwhelm the network with large amounts of data circulating between the nodes, in an attempt to stop them from reaching consensus or passing on transactions. All this to no avail, as the network won’t go down that easy. A word of congratulations goes to all who have successfully defended by setting up your nodes and maintaining them perfectly.
To save the best for last: the patch that will reset the current testnet and kick off Battle of Nodes: Onchained is a mainnet release candidate. This means that the released code is feature complete, and the only changes we should expect to it before the minting of the Genesis Block, will be in the form of tweaks and bugfixes.
While you’re here, you can create an Elrond wallet here, try the blazing fast transactions for yourself, or dive into our blockchain explorer here.
We are extremely proud of these achievements and invite you all to join us & test them for yourself. You can claim your spot in the Battle of Nodes: Onchained by visiting the site, and secure a piece of Elrond blockchain history.
The Elrond Mainnet launch only happens once, make sure you’re part of it.
⚔ See you on the battle #fiedl 🛡
