Preparing for the Anyone Incentivized Testnet
The Anyone Incentivized Testnet and Dashboard will go live shortly. This will mark the network transitioning to an incentivized state, allowing any relay operator to earn mainnet $ANYONE tokens through the distribution protocol.
The distribution will start out at 25% of the eventual rate — operators will be able to connect to the dashboard and see the distributed rewards on our Arweave L1, and claim them on Sepolia Testnet. Operators are then airdropped mainnet tokens weekly 1:1 with the testnet rewards redeemed.
Through the testnet period, as features are load-tested and audited, they will be integrated with the rewards. From family requirements and geolocation multipliers to locking of mainnet $ANYONE, the rewards will ramp up as our protocol matures!
Read on to see the specific details for how this process will unfold, and what you can do to prepare.
Rewards
The protocol will start out distributing a total of 2500 $ANYONE tokens a day divided between relay operators based on the logic of the distribution protocol. They will be allocated in the following ratio:
80% of tokens are reserved for all relay operators, including relay hardware.
20% of tokens are distributed exclusively to hardware operators as a bonus reward.
The daily reward distribution rate will ramp up as features go live and the network expands. This period will allow us all to better understand the bottlenecks to network performance and diversity, and adjust incentives accordingly.
Every relay operator can see the tokens distributed from the dashboard. These tokens are not immediately sent to your wallet; instead, they accrue on the Arweave L1, and need to be manually claimed from the dashboard. These are then claimed as Sepolia $ANYONE tokens by redeeming from the dashboard.
The testnet $ANYONE rewards redeemed by a given wallet address in each week forms the basis of a weekly 1:1 airdrop in mainnet $ANYONE tokens, barring any issues or bugs with specific relays. Rewards not redeemed in one week can be redeemed in a future week to count towards the next airdrop.
While the initial requirement for relays will be to lock a Sepolia testnet $ANYONE token, all operators must hold 100 mainnet $ANYONE tokens per relay to qualify for airdrop rewards. Note that the airdrop is based on testnet ANYONE tokens claimed, not the total balance in your wallet; thus, interaction with the faucet has no bearing on airdrop rewards.
Registering to the Protocol
For all relays already operating, the key requirement is to specify your wallet address from the anonrc. If you have not done this already, check out the guide here for how to do so.
Relays that are correctly configured and in consensus will show up on the dashboard when the specified wallet is connected, alongside live statistics on its performance.
Initially, users do not lock mainnet $ANYONE tokens. Instead, they claim Sepolia ETH and Sepolia $ANYONE tokens from a faucet (to be released alongside the dashboard), and lock 100 testnet tokens on the dashboard per relay.
Another feature that will be available from the testnet launch is the ability to Delegate a Lock for another operator. This lets you specify an unclaimed fingerprint and the operator’s address, and lock tokens on their behalf. There are currently no additional incentives for doing so.
Relay rewards are then claimed en-masse (not per-relay) from the ‘Home’ tab of the Anyone relay. The reward claim and locking process both require Sepolia ETH for gas fees, both of which are received by interacting with the upcoming faucet.
Family Declaration and other Operator Standards
It is critical that you declare your relay family — all relays you have administrator control over, as well as follow the other requirements from the recently announced Operator Standards. Currently, declared relay families must share a singular ETH wallet.
Hardware
Correctly configured hardware relays will auto-register to the dashboard, without requiring the lock of Sepolia $ANYONE tokens.
It is critical for all hardware operators to complete the following steps ahead of participation in the protocol:
- Populate your ETH wallet address from the Relay Control Panel.
- Update your relay to the latest version through USB from docs.anyone.io/hardware/updates, so that your hardware can post its authentication payload the protocol
- Identify your NFT ID and fill this within the field in the Relay Control Panel, and ensure you hold the RELAYUP NFT in the same wallet declared in the control panel.
Note that your hardware will not register to the protocol until you declare your NFT ID from the Relay Control Panel!
From release, hardware relays will gain tokens from both the relay-wide pool and the hardware bonus pool.
About the Dashboard
The Anyone Protocol Dashboard is the most decentralized DePIN dApp in the space! Hosted entirely on the Arweave permaweb, the dashboard can be served by over 200 AR-IO gateway, making it highly censorship resistant and widely available. All information is read from Arweave data, and state is calculated locally on the client based on the cumulative distributions since the dashboard was last opened. Hence, when opening the dashboard from a browser for the first time, it spends a little longer reading back the distribution history for your relays. This serverless design will also enable the dashboard to exist as a hidden service within the network in the future..
The dashboard and faucet URLs will be exposed to our community prior to the incentives launch.
Rollout Features
As the protocol onboards operators and the network grows — both in total relays and in usage, new features and requirements will roll out.
Most prominently, the total rewards distributed daily will ramp up from an initial 2500 tokens to the ‘base’ distribution rate specified in the tokenomics paper of 10,000 tokens.
The lock requirement, currently set against a Sepolia $ANYONE token, will also transition to mainnet $ANYONE tokens within the incentivized testnet.
Other rollout features will include a small multiplier for declaring relay families, reward variants based on the ‘density’ of relays within a specific geolocation, rewards specifically for maintaining consistent uptime and more as specified within the Tokenomics.
Conclusion
In building the largest privacy network in the world, community participation, testing and incentivization is key. The incentivized testnet allows relay operators to be duly rewarded for their contributions to our network, whilst reducing vulnerabilities to potential attacks. A combination of community testing and formal audits will gradually bring the protocol into its entirely automated, mainnet, state.
We’re excited to open up the next stage of the protocol for Anyone!
