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Join the OriginTrail community in building the internet scale DKG V8 and earn TRAC rewards |
As with former updates, the launch of the new version 8 of OriginTrail DKG is a joint effort of the OriginTrail community, driven by an incentivised testnet system. The goal of the V8 incentivised testnet is to ensure security, scalability and usability for all ecosystem participants in a joint test environment, before releasing the new version to the DKG mainnet.
With the incentivised testnet, we will co-develop the V8 technological components, constantly measuring performance of individual services, testing the new features and scalability improvements, improving user and developer experience and ultimately reaching maturity for a production release on the mainnet. As always, development is done in an open source manner, however avoiding the usual "tragedy of the commons" of open source development by incentivising all eligible contributors with a total incentive pool of 1 000 000 TRAC tokens.
There following four categories of contributions and their incentive pools are indicated below.
| Incentivised Activity | Required technical level | Reward Budget |
|---|---|---|
| Staking & UI testing | Low | 50 000 TRAC |
| Running core nodes | Medium | 100 000 TRAC |
| Bug submissions & Code contributions | Medium | 100 000 TRAC |
| Building Paranets (inception program for Builders) | High | 750 000 TRAC |
{% hint style="info" %} Incentivised testnet rewards are subject to the V8 terms and conditions {% endhint %}
The V8 testnet incentivisation will go through a "3 layer" process, each layer introducing new functionality.
In the first layer the core network infrastructure is established running the new V8 core nodes, which form the backbone of the DKG network. As features such as batch minting Knowledge Assets, random sampling and others are gradually rolled out on the network, the core nodes will generate useful telemetry data on the V8 testnet operation, which will be sent to the core development team and for which the community will be incentivised.
Each node contribution will be assigned a score, which is based on the activity of each node. Simply put, the more "a core node is being used", the more telemetry data it will generate, and the higher the node score. The most "rewarding" operation is publishing Knowledge Assets, which triggers the most activity on the network.
If you would like to run a V8 testnet core node, head over to this page.
{% hint style="info" %} The core node incentivisation program of the V8 testnet has completed, read more about it here {% endhint %}
To build on the DKG V8 and test out it's AI features, we have recently introduced DKG V8 Edge Nodes, designed to run neuro-symbolic, privacy enabled AI on the DKG on various edge devices, with high customizability for builders. Builders looking to build on the DKG can join the DKG Edge Node inception program, which provides a pool of 750k TRAC tokens for teams launching their paranets with DKG Edge nodes on both the DKG V6 or V8 Mainnet, with tokens exclusively used to publish Knowledge Assets to their paranets.
Once the core infrastructure is established and V8.0 mainnet launch, we will proceed with the security layer features deployment and testing, including the new Staking UI. Once live, you will be able to contribute by testing out the system and be eligible for rewards for your on-chain activity.
{% hint style="info" %} The best way to stay up to date with the current status and updates of the incentivised testnet, join the dedicated OriginTrail #v8-discussion Discord channel. {% endhint %}
{% hint style="success" %} To check the current progress of the incentivised testnet, head over to the Incentivised testnet website {% endhint %}