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Zug, Switzerland, December twenty first, 2023, Chainwire
After the profitable launch of Testnet 1, paving the way in which for the upcoming Streamr Community 1.0 milestone, Streamr is happy to announce the beginning of Testnet 2! This second incentivized testnet, beginning on twenty first December and concluding on eighth January 2024, will see a reward pool of 1.5 million DATA tokens (approx. $104k USD as of 21/12/24) accessible for node Operators to bootstrap a next-generation decentralized knowledge broadcast community.
Key dates and rewards:
- Testnet 1 (accomplished): fifth December – twelfth December (Reward Pool: 1 Million DATA ($69k))
- Testnet 2: twenty first December – eighth January (Reward Pool: 1.5 Million DATA ($104k))
- Testnet 3: fifteenth January – twenty ninth January (Reward Pool: 2.5 Million DATA ($173k))
- Streamr 1.0 Official Launch: February 2024
The best way to take part in Testnet 2
As with Testnet 1, to earn a share of the DATA rewards, individuals will both must obtain the newest model of the Streamr Node and change into an Operator, or just delegate their DATA tokens to a dependable Operator.
An Operator’s nodes observe the protocol rule of correctly forwarding messages to different related nodes with good uptime and ample {hardware} sources to deal with the visitors of the accessible incentivized streams. Delegators assist these operations by offering liquidity within the type of DATA tokens.
Stream Sponsorships are sensible contracts that launch funds over time to Operators (node runners). This technique mirrors service degree agreements (SLAs) in conventional networks, guaranteeing dependable knowledge distribution. The quantity of DATA tokens the Operator stakes on the Sponsorship determines the scale of their share of the token move.
Learn extra on how the varied roles match collectively on this weblog.
Testnet 2 particulars
Testnet 2 will probably be funded with 1.5 million DATA tokens ($104k). These stream Sponsorships will run till the top of Testnet 2, which finishes on eighth January 2024. Node Operator penalties will keep on the similar low degree as in Testnet 1.
Subsequent-gen use instances to unlock in 1.0
The 1.0 milestone marks the fruits of the 2017 roadmap, unlocking the peer-to-peer market forces between Sponsors and Operators in order that distribution is paid for with the forex of the Streamr Community—DATA. This makes the Community totally decentralized, production-ready, and paves the way in which for the group to discover some thrilling new use instances:
DePIN
The 1.0 launch will make the Streamr Community higher positioned to boost the information broadcasting functionality of Decentralized Bodily Infrastructure Networks (DePINs). As DePINs transfer away from centralized knowledge facilities in the direction of a community of particular person contributors, the Streamr Community’s serverless, safe, and scalable design reveals promise to align and supply a platform that helps DePINs to progressively decentralize their tech stack.
Decentralized AI
Streamr additionally has the potential to function a impartial knowledge layer, offering AI with dependable, tamperproof entry to real-time knowledge streams. That is essential for AI reliability, improvement and guaranteeing transparency and security in AI operations. The Streamr Community would possibly additional be deployed in communication and coordination between AI Fashions. These fashions may collect and share real-time insights amongst one another to degree up their collective intelligence. There’s lots to be explored, and with considerations concerning the future risks of AI, verifiable communication by impartial and decentralized networks corresponding to Streamr present promise to contribute in the direction of the mainstream adoption of AI in our on a regular basis lives.
Decentralized video streaming
Behind closed doorways (for now a minimum of) Streams has been testing the scalability and stability of decentralized reside video feeds. Dwell video streaming with a P2P protocol corresponding to Streamr might supply a path to eradicate the necessity for centralized intermediaries used right now to distribute content material world wide. The Streamr protocol permits the reside video feed customers to change into the video feed’s distribution pipeline, which may make for a extra environment friendly, greener and scalable distribution mechanism.
Earlier this yr Streamr streamed the MapMetrics bitcoin reside feed immediately from YouTube. The group guarantees to have extra to share on this observe within the coming weeks.
Get began with Testnet 2
Streamr invitations customers to hitch this journey in the direction of a totally decentralized knowledge financial system. Customers can put together nodes to assert a share of the remaining 5 million DATA tokens and be part of the way forward for decentralized real-time knowledge.
For assist, suggestions, and updates, customers can be a part of the Streamr Discord neighborhood, specializing in the #testnet-general and #testnet-announcements channels.
About Streamr
Streamr is constructing the real-time knowledge protocol of the decentralized internet. This features a scalable, low-latency and safe P2P Community for knowledge broadcasting, supply, and trade. As a part of the imaginative and prescient, Streamr has constructed The Hub—a dApp that champions open knowledge to assist DePin, AI, and Web3 builders decentralize their tech stack with actual time knowledge flows. The Streamr challenge was began by real-time knowledge veterans with backgrounds in algorithmic buying and selling and finance markets.
Contact
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Mark Little
Streamr Community
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