Announcing Game of NFTs — Incentivized Testnet is Open for Registration!
Dear Cosmonauts,
Phase 1 of the Game of NFTs is open for registration! This is the 4th Public Incentivized Testnet event for the Cosmos Hub.
Validator and developer teams will be testing Interchain NFTs across multiple chains — IRISnet, Stargaze, Juno, OmniFlix and Uptick!
Announcing Game of NFTs 🎮
The Game of NFTs is a two-phase interchain event that intends to thoroughly test out the underlying Interchain NFTs (ICS-721) technology through incentivized testnets (phase 1), and build innovative and vanward dApps on top of it through a hackathon (phase 2).
This is a joint effort proposed by Bianjie and brought to you by Interchain Foundation, Cosmos Hub, IRISnet, Stargaze, Juno, OmniFlix, Uptick, and multiple interchain developer communities.
Today we’re thrilled and proud to announce the start of Game of NFTs — Registration for Phase 1 opens now! 🎉🎉
What are Interchain NFTs?
Interchain NFTs are coming to life with the ICS-721 specification, spear-headed by Bianjie, a long-term technical contributor to the Cosmos network and IRISnet. The Interchain NFT module for IBC brings the connectivity and interoperability already enjoyed by fungible tokens to NFTs, creating all new surface areas for developers and artists to unleash their creativity.
We’ve already seen Cosmos SDK and CosmWasm implementations, and the Game of NFTs will activate interest from the wider interchain community to build around this technology.
In the first phase of the Game of NFTs, we will test out the capabilities of the Interchain NFTs before its mass deployment on mainnets. Experiment with a cross-chain NFT marketplace, or digital objects that utilize cross-chain data. Participants get the chance to test ICS-721 both SDK and Wasmchains and build confidence with the protocol.
20,000 ATOM Rewards for Phase 1 Winners!
Phase 1 of Game of NFTs is the incentivized testnet where participants will rigorously test Interchain NFTs features and compete to win rewards which were funded by the Cosmos Hub community pool via Prop#94.
Rewards will be distributed based on the point system and allocated to winners who have completed tasks and submitted an entry for dedicated awards. There will be a series of testing tasks and dedicated awards revealed on the GitHub page.
Please note that employees of Organizer Teams (IRISnet, Stargaze, Juno, Uptick, OmniFlix) are eligible to participate, but ineligible for rewards. (There may be more organizer teams involved in Phase 1 in the future. This rule would apply to their employees too.)
How to join?
If you are interested in joining Phase 1, the first step is to sign up and submit your team information in the Registration Form.
*Please make sure you meet the entry requirements before submission.
Next, you will be added to the Cosmos Network discord channel based on the information you provided, in order to start coordinating your participation in the Game of NFTs. Please make sure you are in the Cosmos Network Discord.
The incentivized testnet is scheduled to kick off on March 1st, 2023, competing in about 3–4 weeks!
Get Prepared for Phase 2: The Interchain Hackathon!
Aside from organizing teams, a number of communities like Ark Protocol and Design DAO helped improve the work and contributed in various ways. As proposed, there will be a hackathon following the completion of Phase 1 of the Game of NFTs event, which will engage more interchain developer teams as well as institutions such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), HashKey Capital, and IDG Capital.
This hackathon will mainly focus on discovering and building dApps regarding Interchain NFTs that integrate more intuitive functions for the community and users to explore.
More details of the Phase 2 Hackathon, including the overview, sponsor challenges and key dates will be released in follow-up notices and blog posts, please stay tuned!
