Rewards Status

Current Distribution Rate

Currently, rewards are distributed at a total rate of 2500 tokens a day. This is split as follows:

80% to all relays (within which 30% of rewards are given purely based on uptime)

20% exclusively to verified hardware relays

With the exception of rewards for uptime, rewards in each pool are distributed based on a relay's consensus weight, which rises with higher bandwidth and also over time. Over the Incentivized Testnet period, the total distribution rate will rise up, with existing reward values expanded and new reward categories added.

Snapshotting

Airdrop System

Currently, relay operators claim Sepolia testnet tokens for participating. They are then airdropped mainnet tokens weekly in accordance to the qualifying tokens claimed. See this Medium article for more information.

The dashboard rewards will not reset in between each airdrop, or prior to the Incentivized Testnet going live. Instead, snapshots will be taken prior to the beginning of the testnet going live, and after each airdrop period. This snapshot information will be publicly accessible, allowing users to infer the number of tokens they are eligible for in the next airdrop.

The snapshots will initially be posted to GitHub, and will later be part of our Rest API.

Reward Prerequisites

Critically, every wallet must hold 100 mainnet $ANYONE tokens for every relay registered (excluding hardware relays), prior to each airdrop to be eligible. Rewards earned by relays that do not fund their wallet before the airdrop may be forfeited.

Upcoming

A non-exhaustive list of proposed and planned features to be added to the rewards system

• Percentage bonus for declared families

• Mainnet $ANYONE lock requirement

• Multipliers and dividers based on geolocation, encouraging more geographically diverse relays

• Rewards for relays with an Exit and Entry flag

The relay reward protocol is also currently being migrated to AO in accordance to the new direction taken by Arweave. This will improve dashboard performance and decentralize the protocol further.