1,000,000 PHA: Announcing 1605 Race, GK Workshop, and Bounties
On Nov 5, 1605, a group of Catholic conspirators plotted to destroy the Houses of Parliament in order to spark a revolution in England. It was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter and failed, which led Guy Fawkes to be arrested and tortured to death. The introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act then enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot’s failure. After decades, however, it is now known as the Guy Fawkes Night which carries a spirit of rebellion and dystopia, with the seed of anarchism and religious liberty spread to the command people. In 2005, V for Vendetta sets the Gunpowder Plot as V’s historical inspiration, and present a feast of revolution in the fictional 2020.
When it comes to 2020 we live in, there’s hardly such a drastic conflict between the people and a monarchical government. After WWI and WWII, we value peace and religious liberty as civils in most democratic countries across the world.
But the new totalitarianism is corrupting the liberty we gained through fights and feats: the monopolization of data. As the Internet magnates develop, we are handing in more and more of our data to one or two of them, willingly or unwillingly, as they are able to control more and more of our choices according to the analytics of our preferences. Websites and apps are becoming a new form of habitats where people live and communicate, while it’s occupying more and more space and time of our real lives. But can we still be human and treated as human while we are nothing but 1-or-0 binaries in the databases?
Data is the crown of new emperors and queens. One who dominates the data dominates the empire. We are slaves of our own data, driven by the desire of socialization, handing in the whip — more new data — to the landlords, and will never escape from spam emails and prank calls for the rest of our lives.
It’s time to light the fire of the liberty of data ownership. Phala names our miner race on testnet Vendetta after “1605”, not only to be in memory of Guy Fawkes, but also to lead a new revolution of data protection: we should be able to disagree with the Privacy Policies while using apps, and cancel the authorizations that we don’t feel safe with, and discontinue the data analytics when we don’t want to be analyzed.
Privacy maketh man. We are calling and hoping to build a network with SGX-devices, to replace databases with a decentralized confidential computing platform, to fight against the data monopoly and fight for our rights of taking back our data whenever we want.
And here comes the 1,000,000 PHA, for the opening of the revolution.
I. 1605 Race
Race Ranking Page: https://poc3.phala.network/dashboard/
Vendetta is the last stage of Phala testnets, a milestone that marks Phala’s development is close to its perfection. It brings the most important function to the public: the Mining module.
On testnet Vendetta, you can register an SGX-supported device as a Computing Node (a miner) to gain PHA by offering your storage space and computing power. To practice a stress test on Phala Network, we designed this race to encourage the registration of devices.
WHEN
Nov 27 — Jan 1, 2021
PRIZE POOL STAGES
RULES
- Run a Phala miner node according to the tutorial.
- Mining points are named “🔥Fire” and can be mined according to the mechanics written in Phala Roadmap and Phala Economics Whitepaper. One can earn 🔥Fire through simply being online or completing the computing tasks randomly distributed by Phala network. The total amount of online prizes are fixed and equally shared by all online miner, but the computing prizes will only be distributed to the task recipients according to staking amount and device scores they own. Online Prizes: Computing Prizes = 1 : 1. (If there were 100,000 Fire per day, it would be 50,000 : 50,000).
- Computing power points are named “🎇Power” and will be according to how many cores your device has. The total 🎇Power of all devices will decide the final prize pool stage (500k/600k/700k/800k).
- Each time the prize pool breaks into the next stage (say, from 500k to 600k), there will be a 🎁Firedrop. The Firedrop will randomly add a certain amount of 🔥Fire to 5% of the online devices to help them increase their rankings and prize ratios.
- How much you can share from the final prize pool: the ratio of “the 🔥Fire you own / the total 🔥Fire of all devices”.
- PHA prizes of the 1605 Race will be dropped to your Phala account on pre-mainnet Darth Vader. Vendetta accounts can be migrated to pre-mainnet as well.
- You may set 1 Phala address as the recipient of miner profits though, each miner will need a unique Phala address accordingly as the identity of registration.
Case:
If 12,000,000 Fire were mined when the event ended and Antonia mined 60,000 Fire, and if the final prize pool were to be 800,000 PHA, she would receive 60,000 / 12,000,000 * 800,000 = 4,000 PHA.
GET STARTED
- 1605 Race Real-time Ranking: to be updated by Nov 27
- Miner Setup: https://wiki.phala.network/en-us/docs/poc3/
- Test token: https://forum.phala.network/t/how-to-obtain-tpha-on-testnet-vendetta/1254
- Check your node: https://telemetry.polkadot.io/#list/Phala%20PoC-3
Note that the network will be RESET before the race starts and it will be upgraded. Please re-register your miner node after the race starts and ensure your miner node is working well and has been upgraded to the latest version.
II. GK Workshop
Gatekeepers (GK) are crucial to Phala Network and play crucial roles in block production and keystore management. It’s similar to Polkdaot validators but with a requirement of SGX-supported devices.
You don’t have to stake for your GK node though, you will need nomination (staking) from other users to help you pass the on-chain voting.
GK node places are limited and are unlocked phase by phase, and they will earn profits from the inflation profits of Phala network (about 5% / year). After Phala mainnet launches, there will be only 100 GKs as Phala expects.
Thus on testnet Vendetta, we are not pursuing the quantity of GKs, but the quality: how many people there are who truly recognize Phala and value Phala’s concepts and vision.
We increased a little bit about the requirement of a GK who will be nominated and supported by Phala team to expect a group Phala believers to join and introduce Phala to more people.
WHEN
Nov 27 — Jan 1, 2021
PRIZE POOL
100,000 PHA
GK PLACES
21
GET STARTED
- Register a GK node on Phala Network (tutorials will be updated by Nov 27);
- Fill in this form with how you have contributed or are willing to contribute to Phala community;
- Submit your contribution to antoniayang@phala.network when it’s closing to the end of the event;
- You will receive PHA prizes according to your rank👇.
- You can check all the contribution records and ranking results at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EB5VRuqOJIDlwNjjvNjuVI-PJDJtb0wJZLX87l1e7Vo/edit#gid=1548114772
GK RANKING
NOTE THAT on testnet Vendetta, You might not be elected as a GK even if you have successfully set up a GK node without nominations from Phala team.
Please do remember to submit your contribution and related proofs (links, screenshots, etc.) to Phala team before the end of the event or else you may not receive your ranking and PHA reward even if you were elected. And your reward will be equally shared by other GKs.
🙋♀️🙋♂️support: Antoniaiaiaiaiaia#2727 in https://discord.gg/sCxM9Pw | @ylylenlen on Telegram
III. Phala Building Bounty
Also, we prepared gifts for geeks, artists, Youtuber, and community builders as well.
WHEN
Nov 27 — Jan 1, 2021
PRIZE POOL
100,000 PHA
HOW TO
- Join this board via https://trello.com/invite/b/19M89GXx/5dd1cb2b76b8e5a7e62f0815960d72c6/building-phala-together
- There are several types of tasks. Each type of them is tagged with points.
- Create a Phala account according to this tutorial. And Comment on the Trello list with links and your Phala address. If you hope it to be private, you may send it to antoniayang@phala.network. Each participant shall only submit with one Phala address.
- Once your submission is recognized, your points will be recorded at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EB5VRuqOJIDlwNjjvNjuVI-PJDJtb0wJZLX87l1e7Vo/edit#gid=0.
- The more points you earned, the more PHA you will receive according to the ratio of “your points/total points”.
Case:
If Antonia earned 6,000 points by the end of the event, and the total points were to be 15,000, she would receive 6,000/15,000*100,000 = 40,000 PHA.
Resources
Phala Presskit (logo, fonts, QR codes): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YWFoiWNmxjVraQibIQyLB9HdgZhjBt0l/view?usp=sharing
IV. Bug Bounty
Right, Phala Bug Bounty is live. And the prize of it would be UNLIMITED 👩💻.
As Vendetta is the final version of Phala testnet, it is important that all functionalities and user experience work well.
The detail of Bug Bounty will be introduced later in another doc. For now, we only accept 3 types of bug submission:
HOW TO
sysops@phala.network
RULES
- Do not reveal the problem to others until it has been resolved,
- Make sure that your findings are actually a bug or security vulnerability and within our infrastructure and/or code repositories. Missing or misconfigured SPF, DKIM, DANE, Headers, open directories, external code, etc. do NOT qualify in 99% of cases and will be denied. Vulnerabilities where you can access servers, execute code, etc. do qualify for report submission.
- Do not take advantage of the vulnerability or problem you have discovered, for example by downloading more data than necessary to demonstrate the vulnerability or deleting or modifying other people’s data,
- Do provide sufficient information to reproduce the problem, so we will be able to resolve it as quickly as possible. Usually, the IP address or the URL of the affected system and a description of the vulnerability will be sufficient, but complex vulnerabilities may require further explanation.
RESPOND AND REWARD DISTRIBUTION
To be updated.
Resources
Video tutorials of relevant operations will be updated soon on Youtube.
- Testnet Vendetta: https://poc3.phala.network/
- Phala Dark Wallet: https://app.phala.network/en
- Node Setting Tutorial: https://wiki.phala.network/en-us/docs/
- Beginner Tutorial (for now): https://forum.phala.network/c/howto/26
- 1605 Race Ranking: TBC
- Vendetta Explorer (Subscan): TBC
- Propose your questions: https://forms.gle/RWWf6RUEaEWXR3xz5
About Phala
A Substrate-based confidential smart contract platform that aims to build a novel, privacy-preserving, and powerful decentralized computing network. A Web3.0 believer. Polkadot-parachain-to-be. 2 Web3 Foundation Grants: pLIBRA & W3A.
