Swarm of Duty is Completed Successfully!
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Swarm of Duty is Completed Successfully!

Dear community,

We’re delighted to announce the completion of the Swarm of Duty validator competition, ended at block height 385,079. We are grateful to the 200+ validators for upholding a secure and stable TestNet throughout the competition.

While we are auditing the data and results, here are some quick stats that highlight your achievements:

220 participants.

128 (58%) maintained a perfect power uptime while 193 (88%) achieved more than 50% uptime!

32 achieved 100% voting participation with no missed blocks!

Four iterations (upgrades) of the Testnet during the competition.

One network stall occurred, and prompted a massive security improvement to Bluzelle’s architecture.

Three network crashes occurred. This led to Bluzelle discovering a critical bug in Tendermint! We might qualify for a Tendermint bug bounty ourselves.

Throughout the iterations, we have worked closely with our community validators as well as the Cosmos+Tendermint team to identify and resolve a wide range of issues. We built from scratch our own explorer, CENSUS, that reflects the data on blockchain more accurately. Most importantly, we created a brand new sentry security model that is highly innovative (first ever in all Cosmos blockchains), as a result of issues we ran into, and assistance from community members.

We will release a more detailed report about our Swarm of Duty TestNet event very soon.

Rewards Calculation

We designed the program strategically by setting up four different reward categories. With a guaranteed minimum amount, we encouraged the community to participate. Meanwhile, they are also incentivised to compete for top rankings to earn additional.

As mentioned in the stats above, 32 participants achieved 100% voting participation and 128 achieved 100% power uptime. These are extraordinary metrics and they merit more rewards. Therefore, our team has decided to increase our rewards pool for Category C from 300,000 BLZ to 500,000 BLZ. The detailed allocation is described below.

In total, we are giving out more than 1.4 million BLZ tokens as appreciation of our community for your tremendous support.

Next steps

Claiming competition rewards

We are in the process of verifying the results from the blockchain and calculating rewards for each participant. We will put it up in public once this is done in the next few days. At the same time, you need to claim your rewards through this form. You would need to submit:

BLZ Ethereum address for receiving rewards

Your validator operator (valoper) address (the 54-digit address starting with “bluzellevaloper”)

Upload your priv_validator_key.json file. You can find it under the ./blzd/config folder. This is a testnet-only private key, so it is not an issue here. In a production/mainnet environment, do not ever share your private key with anyone.

Deadline for submission: 6 July UTC 00:00

Link to submission: https://bit.ly/31OLJxI

Claiming Bonu$ rewards

Please be reminded that you need to submit proof if you are claiming for any Bonu$ rewards, which include proof of setup, attacks, and any other contributions to the TestNet event (refer to previous update). The amount of rewards will be determined by the Bluzelle team on a case-by-case basis, due to the highly variable nature of these accomplishments.

Deadline for submission: 6 July UTC 00:00

Submission: send your proof to @blz_yy on Discord https://discord.gg/KbDVsxE

Stay on the TestNet

We’d like to say a huge thank you to all of the Swarm of Duty participants who have contributed to making our TestNet event a huge success! As Mainnet is approaching, we highly encourage you to stay on the TestNet and keep updated on what’s happening. Those who do so will be given some exclusive treats by the team including (but not limited to):

Special rewards and bounties

Priority access to our Mainnet

So, please stay on!