Psst... Our final testnet is coming!
Titlis will Launch Next Week
Dear Community,
We hope you all had a terrific holiday break! The HOPR team has been hard at work preparing some big news and developments. If you participated in our December mini-testnet, Mainz-alpha, you’ll already know that a larger incentivized testnet is coming (more below). But perhaps you didn’t also know that this will be our last before mainnet? 👀
Keep reading… but more importantly: please stay tuned as we will have a lot more to share with you very soon. January is going to be a VERY important month for HOPR and the community.
What a Long, Strange Trip…
You’ve given us the space to run an unconventional and dynamic series of testnets. This has transformed how we want to engage with you, our community. Your feedback has been invaluable in developing HOPR, and we’ve enjoyed the symbiosis that’s been formed while doing the ‘gamified’ testnets. So… this news is a touch bittersweet:
Titlis, coming next week, will be our last testnet!
Titlis will run for 48 hours only from Tuesday 12th 3PM CET to Thursday 14th 3PM CET. We will have an onboarding guide available to get everyone set up who wishes to participate on Monday 11th.
Any users that participated in Mainz-alpha Testnet in December just need to turn up on Tuesday. If you kept your node (as you should have) you’ll be ready to participate! Please reuse this node.
Who, What, When, Where, Why?
You / Titlis Testnet / January 12th / Here
And… why, you ask?
Titlis Testnet will be incentivized via a total prize pool of 400,000 HOPR tokens! We’ll have all the details in a ‘Guide to the Titlis Testnet’ post which will be coming to the blog on Monday.
While HOPR tokens are certainly enough of a reason to participate, there is something much, much bigger on the horizon as well. News is coming soon on this, but suffice it to say: Show up. We have plans within plans.
Where the HOPR Protocol Stands
If you’ve been along this journey with us from the start, you’ll know just how far HOPR has developed as a product. If not, you may have seen the earlier iterations of HOPR in one of the node-gaming sessions from our early testing. Or perhaps you’re only joining us now.
No matter, it is a great moment to reflect on the developments to the HOPR protocol and network, so here is a recap of the more major milestones thus far:
Continuous integration and deployment of HOPRd, HOPR Bootstrap nodes and general testing on local and cloud servers. HOPR’s dev team optimized our pipeline to ensure we can release new versions on demand, while automatically funding these nodes and running test actions on them to ensure all releases satisfy our demands.
The HOPR protocol was successfully deployed across multiple Ethereum-compatible chains such as xDAI, Matic and Binance Smart Chain. Our smart contract developer Steven Nonis deployed for the first time ERC1820 registries across these chains to support our ERC777, an extension of ERC20 that supports snapshots on token data.
The HOPR team created hopr-connect, a libp2p transport module able to handle NAT traversal connections, while supporting reconnection over our relay nodes (i.e. bootstrap nodes). Robert Kiel isolated the network capabilities of the protocol into an open-source library able to be used by anyone in the libp2p ecosystem.
HOPR was among the first blockchain projects that designed an out-of-the box solution for non-technical users. The HOPR PC, a hardware computer, brings a HOPRd node into the home of any user with an internet connection, powering the decentralization movement. The team will continue to push HOPRd to ensure it is ready for our incoming mainnet release so HOPR PC users can quickly be onboarded.
Alongside the protocol, the team is showcasing the capabilities of the protocol by implementing a REST consumable API, showcasing its capabilities via chat bots across multiple platforms. José Aguinaga demonstrated some of the scalable capabilities of the ecosystem in our Community calls and online demos that relied on the HOPR protocol.
You’ll be able to see the fruits of this progress when you participate in the Titlis Testnet next week. And remember, participating in this testnet is particularly important, because it will give you access to so much more than tokens.
We’re so excited for what’s coming next.
Yours,
The HOPR Team