Aligning Incentivized Testnet Emissions - What, Why, When?

An update to confirm that the Gemini 3 incentivized testnet reward pool growth switched from 0.1% per week to 0.05% per week as planned on Wednesday 10th July (2024-07-10). The exception to this is the 6 days during phase 2 of the Mini Space Race back in February.

Please note that rewards are not partitioned by the network they accrued on. This, our last incentivized testnet, has been run across three networks. It started on Gemini 3f, ran through Gemini 3g and is planned to end on Gemini 3h as detailed in the roadmap we recently published.

During these three networks, the reward pool has been growing continuously. As per the rewards clarification provided previously, a participant’s share of that reward pool will be calculated against the block and vote rewards earned across all incentivized block ranges of these networks together. The value will be proportional to the total number of block and vote rewards earned by all farmers in those incentivized block ranges.

Hopefully that makes things crystal clear.