We had an excellent session on Discord last night in which our newest team member QA (quality assurance) specialist Victor (@vphongph) introduced himself. “My job is about breaking things so it’s fun!” he said, which was a little worrying. Then he clarified: “In my case QA is about ensuring the product works and won’t fail.” Phew. We answered your submitted questions (plus some extras since @rusty.spork clicked the start button an hour early - that’s a lot of dead air to fill 😅....

Thanks to all who attended Discord Stages on Wednesday where @bux and the team answered some of your questions. For those who missed it here’s a summary. Quotes and emissions The initial plan was to distribute approximately 54,000 ANT tokens per day, selecting 100 random nodes every minute and awarding each with 0.38 ANT. Recently, retrieving quotes from the Network has taken significantly longer. As a result, the reward interval was extended from one minute to two minutes, and we compensat...

Well @everyone we are here at last, the end of pure R&D and the beginning of a real life usable network. As 2025 begins we start it in a very different place to the last, I have seen all sorts of emotions, from all sorts of people, but nobody can say that we have not made progress and most can hopefully now believe that the vision we share can soon start to be realised, with the public launch of the network. As Autonomi makes it’s first baby steps, they may well be some wobbles, but we will add...