With just one week left in the testnet Developer Incentive Program, the competition is staying strong. After completion of the program, Nebulas NOVA along with DIP(Developer Incentive Protocol) and its native asset reward system will go live on the mainnet giving developers a substantial reason why to choose Nebulas for their DApp deployment.

This week saw a impressive showing from the first place smart contract address which received nearly the entire weekly reward.

Looking at the statistics, we saw a rise in the number of newly deployed smart contracts from last week and a higher single day transaction count. We also saw a reduction in the average daily transaction count and number of new addresses on the testnet. Due to the impressive showing from the first place address, less addresses received a NAS reward as well.

The testnet DIP program is going well and we are happy to see the algorithm is coping with the data variance from week to week. Once NOVA goes live on the mainnet, we will continue to monitor the data and adjust accordingly. In the future, via the Go Nebulas platform and the Nebulas Council, the community will have a say about the algorithm and how it should be tuned. If you have not yet done so, be sure to visit go.Nebulas.io for a list of active projects from the developers and within the Nebulas ecosystem. Be sure to participate in the discussion and choose a project you would like to participate in.

Are you a developer?

To get developers started and receive incentives, Nebulas will be running the Developer Incentive Testnet Program until March 31,2019. In addition, developers will be testing NR, DIP and NBRE!

So, get started today and claim 5 Testnet tokens daily at https://testnet.nebulas.io/claim/ (tokens can be used to test any smart contracts on the Nebulas testnet blockchain).

Remember, this program is just the beginning! Once the testnet program is complete, Nebulas NOVA will be deployed to the mainnet and developers can earn $NAS just by choosing the Nebulas Blockchain for their DApp!

The Leader Board

Nebulas recently updated its web explorer and have also included a “DIP leaderboard” so everyone can follow along and see the data for themselves. Be sure to check it out at https://explorer.nebulas.io/#/testnet/dip-leaderboard