Aptos(APT) Incentivized Testnet Update

Eligibility Requirements and Registration

In order to participate in the incentivized testnet, participants must demonstrate the ability to configure and deploy a node as well as provide certain identifying information (name, residence or domicile, date of birth, etc.) and pass sanctions screening. On May 13th, the team will launch a web portal that contains a registration page, instructions on how to configure and deploy your node, and node and registration status pages.

Participants, Success, and Rewards

AIT1: Decentralized Startup

• Number of participants: 100
• Success criteria
  – Successfully startup node and pass liveness checks within 24 hours
  – Availability more than 95% of all time
• Reward (non-US participants only): 500 Aptos tokens per successful participant

AIT2: Staking

• Number of participants: 100–500 nodes
• Success criteria
  – Successfully startup node and pass liveness checks within 24 hours
  – Availability more than 97% of all time
  – Within the top 75% of consensus participants (consensus votes)
• Rewards (non-US participants only):
  – Top 3 voter nodes get 5000, 2500, and 1000 Aptos tokens, respectively
  – 500 Aptos tokens per successful participant

AIT3: Governance and upgrades

• Number of participants: 1000
• Success criteria
  – Successfully startup node and pass liveness checks within 12 hours of nodes start time
  – Availability more than 97% of all time
  – Successfully participate in a standard network upgrade, 2 day response time
  – Successfully participate in a hotfix network upgrade, 12 hour response time
  – Within the top 75% of consensus participants (consensus votes)
• Rewards (non-US participants only):
  – Top 3 voter nodes get 5000, 2500, and 1000 Aptos tokens, respectively
  – 500 Aptos tokens per successful participant

AIT4: Dynamic validator topology

• Number of participants: 1000+
• Success criteria
  – Successfully startup node and pass liveness checks within 12 hours of nodes start time
  – The rest of the criteria is still being decided
• Reward (non-US participants only): 500 Aptos tokens per successful participant, additional rewards under consideration