We are incredibly excited to announce tentative dates for our Space Race to activate mainnet rewards! As well as marking the live launch of the Autonomys Network Mainnet Phase-1, the Space Race is a pivotal event that guarantees our consensus is robust from the start.
As the number of farmers and total amount of plotted space on the network grows, our Proof-of-Archival Storage (PoAS) consensus becomes increasingly secure. The Space Race is designed to ensure this happens as quickly as possible by establishing decentralized consensus across the network before rewards are activated.
Farmers’ participation is crucial to the success of the Space Race as they contribute the storage and computational resources needed to bootstrap the live network during our most critical cold-start period. The Space Race will be a global, community-driven effort, with farmers racing collectively and collaboratively to achieve the target amount of space pledged. The entire network’s health, stability and future scalability relies on achieving secure consensus, and our farmer community’s contribution ensures the Autonomys blockchain is secured by real, decentralized participation.
The Subspace Foundation launches the network and infrastructure on a launch party call with a Proof-of-Time (PoT) seed ceremony. Genesis Data seeding commences, enabling farmers to join the network, plot, and sync their nodes via instructions shared with the community.
The Space Race starts when data seeding is complete, the initial solution range is set, and the target amount of pledged storage is announced via a community event, allowing farmers to begin producing blocks (farming). Farmers that plot the first sectors on mainnet are eligible for the highest rewards on our issuance curve once they’re enabled.
Mainnet rewards are automatically activated (and farmers start earning $AI3) when the Space Race target is reached — announced via an ad-hoc async community event. As the community will determine when we hit the target, it could happen at any time post-Phase-2, meaning we cannot accurately provide a date for this up-front.
Farmers can watch the community’s progress towards the Space Race target via our awesome community plot-o-meters, and check their $AI3 rewards (converted from tSSC) earned across our series of incentivized testnets via the Astral Rewards Checker. A detailed paper explaining the initial utility of our native $AI3 token is forthcoming.
The Space Race to launch Mainnet Phase-1 is what we have all been waiting for, and is the culmination of so much hard work from the Autonomys team and community (not least our dress-rehearsal Mini, Nano and Micro Space Races over the last year).
Stay tuned to our announcement channels for further details on how to join the Space Race and ensure your nodes are ready. For more details on the Space Race, consult our forum post.
Onwards, Autonauts!
The Autonomys Network — the foundation layer for AI3.0 — is a hyper-scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing high-throughput permanent distributed storage, data availability and access, and modular execution. Our deAI ecosystem provides all the essential components to build and deploy secure super dApps (AI-powered dApps) and on-chain agents, equipping them with advanced AI capabilities for dynamic and autonomous functionality.
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