Testnets
By Michael Gushansky
The Akashian Challenge Live Stream: This Friday May 22nd
With participants from around the world, The Akashian Challenge is set to be the largest testnet since Cosmos’ Game of Stakes.
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By Maly Ly
The Akashian Challenge Phase 1: Eridani Release Announcement
With 211 Teams and 91 Active Validators (for 64 spots at Mainnet), The Akashian Challenge is now the largest testnet in the Cosmos hub since Cosmos’ Game of Stakes.Last week, our testnet withstood an AWS outage that brought down the centralized cloud (and internet). It also weathered a massive zero fee transaction attack.
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By Maly Ly
The Akashian Challenge Phase 1: Sirius Release Update
With 3,000,000 AKT rewards and Supermini prizes at stake, the competition is heating up as we enter Sirius, the second release of Phase 1.
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By Michael Gushansky
The Akashian Challenge Phase 1: Centauri Release Update
With 185 registrants from around the world and 3,000,000 AKT at stake, The Akashian Challenge Phase 1 is underway!
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By Maly Ly
The Akashian Challenge Incentivized Testnet LIVE
Node Operations today. Phase 1 is the start of our three phase incentivized testnet challenge that will take place over the next eight weeks, with 3,000,000 Akash Tokens (AKT) at stake, and special prizes like our Akash Supermini. Use your technical and strategic prowess to out-maneuver opponents on your way to ultimate victory!
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By Maly Ly
The Akashian Challenge Token Rewards & Prizes Schedule
Last Thursday, we announced open registration for The Akashian Challenge, our incentivized testnet. With a sprawling challenge that encompasses three phases over eight weeks, and massive token rewards-- 3,000,000 Akash Tokens (AKT) or 3% of the 100,000,000 AKT that will ever be pre-mined at genesis--, the competition has attracted registrations from individuals and teams from around the world. Inspired by ecosystem projects from our partners and friends, such as Cosmos Game of Stakes, Solana Tour de Sol, and Kava Founder Rewards, The Akashian Challenge enables us to strengthen the scalability, security, and usability of our platform, and help us grow a vibrant and robust community.
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By Greg Osuri
Announcing The Akashian Challenge: Incentivized Testnet
Akash means “open space, sky” in ancient Sanskrit. As a decentralized system, and the world’s first distributed peer-to-peer open cloud computing marketplace, our aim is to materialize the vision of an open cloud that’s as boundless and free as the sky.
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By Michael Gushansky
Announcing Our Founding Member Challenge Winners & Leaderboard!
Four weeks ago, we launched the Akash Founding Member Rewards Program for early contributors to Akash’s testnet and community. The program involved 3 progressively difficult challenges along with bonus challenges, and contributors joined from all over the world, including the U.S., Korea, Japan, China, Europe, India, and South America.
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By Michael Gushansky
Congratulations to Founding Member Challenge Contributors! Still Time to Join for 5500 Akash Tokens!
Congratulations to our Founding Member Challenge Contributors! With one week left to go, we’re excited to announce all those who have completed our Akash Founding Member Rewards Program 3 Challenges so far, and we encourage those who haven’t yet, to join now–you still have time!
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By Maly Ly
Announcing Our Third Founding Member Challenge!
Congratulations to those of you who completed the first two challenges of the Akash Founding Member Rewards Program! Today, we’re excited to announce the third and final challenge.
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By Maly Ly
Earn 1,000 Tokens and the Akash Founder Level 2 Badge!
Thank you for participating in the Akash Founding Member Rewards First Challenge! For those of you just tuning in, the Akash Founding Member Rewards Program is for early contributors to Akash’s testnet.
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