Pangaea is the name given to Earth’s first and best-known supercontinent, long before tectonic plates did all their shuffling around to create the planet we live on today. You could say that Pangaea is the ultimate example of a ‘borderless’ environment and evidence that we were all ONE in the beginning.

We are launching Pangaea — an experimental game for thousands of people to interact with the Harmony network, test the limitations of our technology and have lots of fun while earning rewards. Pangaea is created purely for experimental purposes. It will have its own currency for playing and bookkeeping.

The goals of Pangaea:

Test Harmony’s upcoming core protocol milestones and updates such as staking smart contracts and resharding, on a network of all external nodes

Set-up and onboard a vast number of nodes, ready to jump into the mainnet, through collective knowledge building and competitions

number of nodes, ready to jump into the mainnet, through collective knowledge building and competitions Identify and award community members who help secure Harmony network and are willing to go the extra mile by taking on leadership roles in our validator community

Who can participate?

EveryONE — the more the merrier! To create a fully secure, permissionless, and sharded blockchain we need lots and lots of nodes. If you’ve previously thought running a node was too technical or expensive, this is a great opportunity to give it a go.

There are several paths to participate:

Player:

If you want to get your hands dirty and play with the network, this is the way to go! Become a node, learn on the go, secure Pangaea and get the chance to become a node in Mainnet with its stake sponsored by Harmony.

In addition, you will win prizes for maintaining superior network performance during the game.

Technical requirements:

Minimum of 2 cores, 8G RAM, 50G hard drive

AWS m5a.large or equivalent from other cloud provider

Go ahead and claim your spot in Pangaea here.

Mayor:

A big part of this experiment is unlocking ideas and resources lying untapped within our community. So we’re giving you full autonomy to do just that! Here are some ways to become a Mayor of Pangaea and start earning rewards:

Create and share content

Support newbie players

Spread the word on social media

Join the core Pangaea team at Harmony

Or anything else you can think of — surprise us with your ingenuity and leadership skills!

Join our Discord channel #pangaea to start sharing ideas.

Watch for upcoming news and challenges on our twitter.

Gambler:

For the more competitive parts of Pangaea Phase III, we are designing a ‘betting game’ for $ONE holders to participate in. Lock your tokens on Binance DEX, place your bet and win more $ONE tokens.

More details of the betting game will be announced in further blog posts.