Date: December 13, 2021

Participants: Alex, Anthony, Sam

Quick Summary: Engineering Standup & Answering Questions regarding the first week of the testnet

Notes:

Key Points:

• We are going to be providing community updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in Discord
• Users who submit PRs and are accepted over the testnet will be paid a bounty of 500 Aleo credits per PR
• Focused on launching mining pools, we will have those out ASAP
• First 3 mining pools will be incentivized with 31,250 Aleo credits (to be paid out when mainnet launches)
• Anyone who is in the top 5 or gets into the top 5 of miners currently on the leaderboard, you need to register with the Aleo team
• Aleo Economics Blogpost to be out by the end of the week
• Reminder: Do not cheat the testnet!

General Notes:

Questions:

• When will the pool be released? Can you solo mine?
  • It is impossible to solo mine
  • currently no exact date but pushing to get it out as quickly as possible
• Why can’t I find any blocks?
  • there are optimizations that we are going to implement and share with the community
  • mining pools should help with that as well