Weekly Questnet Update: April 6

A 12-way tie for first in our availability contest, an upgrade next Thursday, and more

Hi All —

Some updates below as we’re now in the midst of the April challenge. A few topics to go over this week:

• Upgrade scheduled for Thursday, April 16 at 9:00 am PT
• Rankings after 10 days of the April Availability Challenge
• Sentry Nodes — try them out, tell us what you think

Network upgrade on Thursday, April 16 at 9:00 am PT

The next upgrade will take place on Thursday April 16. Please hold the time and plan accordingly as this could impact your availability score ranking!

We’ll send a link out with specific instructions and documentation next week so you’re all prepped.

April Availability challenge: 12-way tie for first!

We’re kicking off the April challenge with a 12-way tie for first place and a very close game, especially amongst the top 30! You can see the first-place folks below and a complete leaderboard here.

With a competition this close there’s plenty of time to pull ahead. But how? ATTACK each other and take over the lead (and then report how you did it here). Also be ready to go when our upgrade begins next week.

Note: That this leaderboard is as of April 9 around 10am PT and ONLY counts Best Availability starting April 1, so it may be different than what you see on broader leaderboards.

Sentry Nodes

We’ve seen a few of you start to use sentry nodes and many have already provided feedback (thank you!).

This is a tool we’d really love to stress test before Mainnet so would love to get more of you using them, telling us what’s broken, and asking us any questions you may have in the docs about them. Documentation here: Sentry Node Architecture

A note of course that we really want to reward participation and engagement, so assume that good feedback will lead to good rewards as well :).

Developer stories

We don’t do this often in this channel, but I wanted to share a bit about some of the developers we have working on our network. Linked here is a piece about a team at Mt. Sinai and the work they’ve been doing with the Oasis Network to share Biomedical Data securely. It’s very cool and just one of many examples of what is possible on a decentralized network with confidentiality baked in. We’ll start sharing more of these with you all as time goes on as it’s been super exciting to see the kind of things devs are doing on the network!

Thank you as always for your help!

Anne