Introducing Sanford — the IDEP Network Incentivized Testnet

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4 min readOct 30, 2021
Incentivized Testnet Sanford with over 600,000 IDEP in prizes 🎁.

We are excited to announce that IDEP Networks incentivized testnet Sanford will be officially launching on November 20, 2021 at 6 PM UTC. The final testnet before mainnet launch with over 600,000 IDEP tokens as incentives for network participants

Since the launch of our testnet Denali a few weeks ago we have seen an explosion in users taking our testnet for a spin, as of writing this article there are over 400 Denali validators! We appreciate the high level of interest and activity in the network! We want to show our appreciation to all of our early adopters and testers by offering some awesome, early access to IDEP, the native utility token of IDEP Network.

Sanford, the IDEP Network’s Incentivized Testnet, is a network with an emphasis on competition and testing aimed at practical, real-world settings before the mainnet Antora launch in Q1 of 2022. Winning participants will share a prize pool of over 600,000 in IDEP rewards 🎁. To join Sanford as a Validator, Tester, or Builder and to participate in events and challenges, you will first need to fill out a submission form that will allow us to identify you. All requests should be processed within 24–48 hours. Relevant questions can be submitted to our support team at hello@idep.network.

Although Sanford is open to the public only those participants, who completed the participation registration form and are officially approved prior to November 18 will be able to earn rewards in Testnet Sanford.

🌎 Overview:

Launch Date:- November 20, 2021 at 6 PM UTC

End Date: December 18, 2021 at 6 PM UTC

Duration:- 6 weeks

Structure: 3 time based phases and 3 stand-alone events.

Mainnet Total Rewards:- 600,000 IDEP

🏁 Goals:

Why we are doing this:

Prepare Validators and train Developers 🏃‍♂️

Prepare validators to be ready for mainnet and teach them the basics. Rally developers to try building something cool.

Grow Community 🤝

We want to create the best community possible from all over the world. A diverse validator group leads to a strong decentralized network.

❗️Reward Rules:

  1. IDEP Team will be releasing bi-weekly tasks a few days before the launch of the upcoming phase, each task will have a specified IDEP reward.
  2. Registered and participating validators will be rewarded with 5% of the tokens earned from validator rewards during the Incentivized Test Network 6 week period.
  3. Developer created DApps on the Incentivized Test Network, depending on the utility and the transactions, will be rewarded with the IDEP tokens on the mainnet. (more info on this soon, we promise)
  4. Rewards earned during Sanford will be vested for 1 year with the countdown starting with Antora’s launch.

Stand-alone Events:

Stand-alone events will not be limited to phases and will last the entire 6 weeks of the event.

🎁 Game of Uptime — Produce the longest consecutive number of blocks in Sanford and receive an ultra-rare 1 of 1 3D NFT.

🎁 Uptake Hackathon — Create a front end for the Uptake NFT module and enter for a chance to win 50000 — 100000 IDEP. (Only 1 participant will win)

🎁 Validator Royale — The top 10 validators who propose the most number of blocks will be eligible to receive a 100k IDEP delegation for 1 year from the IDEP Foundation if they create a validator during mainnet with a minimum of 20000 IDEP.

Verification:-

  1. All sanford event announcements will be relayed to the community through our discord server
  2. To participate you must fill out the application completely and tweet @idepnetwork with your discord ID with a message statingVerifying to participate in the incentivized test-net Sanford and await a response from the team in the discord server. Note: IDEP Team may choose to disqualify you from joining the incentivized test-net competition for any reason.
  3. If your application is approved, IDEP Team will give you a Sanford role in discord.
  4. For every task completed, users need to submit the transaction hash and the event details. Then, the transaction hash will be verified against the user and the rewards will be calculated by the IDEP Team. Each Phase will have a form that the participant will submit to the team. (More information on this will be released shortly.)
  5. All the rewards will be added to a smart contract and user will be able to query the balance.

Phases

Beginning November 20 and running through December 18 2021, each of the 3 phases will run for a total of two weeks.

Phase 1: Onboarding & Staking Dynamics.

Phase 2: IBC

Phase 3: Smart Contracts

For Each Phase

  1. Each phase will kick off on Saturday at 6pm UTC and ends in two weeks on Sunday at 6pm UTC.
  2. The IDEP Network team will announce the start of each phase in the Discord #node-discussion channel.
  3. Make sure you understand the task list and relevant documentation links.
  4. Work on the list of tasks
  5. Have questions? Ask in the #testnet-sanford channel on discord.
  6. In order to receive points for tasks completed, each node must submit a complete task submission form each phase in our discord.

Tasks

Each phase will provide two types of tasks to participants to complete.

🛠 Technical Tasks:

Learn what it takes to run a validator, deploy a smart contract, and mint NFTs. Compete against other validators in building useful tools, like automations, scripts

📣 Community Tasks

Provide feedback and support to the community by creating content including testimonials, video reviews, social sharing, twitter posts and more. Community tasks are counted only if atleast one technical task is completed for the phase.

Follow up articles will be published in the coming weeks with more details, for now please will out the signup form and join our discord. We hope to see you November 20! 👋 🪐⚛️

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