We’re proud to announce that the Rocket Pool 2.0 v1 Beta will be starting in a few weeks, on the 24th September, 2019 00:00 UTC. The beta site will be running from https://beta.rocketpool.net, open to the public and will run for a month at the least. All you’ll need to participate is a browser with the latest version of MetaMask, some testnet ETH to stake, and RPL if you want to run a smart node in the beta. Both ETH and RPL will be freely available from a testnet faucet on the site when the beta begins.

All participants in the beta will receive some RPL, our main utility token, after the beta has concluded. We’ll be assigning 10,000 RPL to the beta which will be divided among all unique participants who deposit some testnet ether into the beta while it’s running, either as a regular staker or node operator. Hooray!

For those of you who have been following Rocket Pool for a while, you’ll know this isn’t our first beta, even though we’re calling this v1. This time last year, we were running our first beta for the previous version of Casper, which was a smart contract on mainnet, before the pivot to the new beacon chain approach. Rocket Pool has evolved greatly since then, but if you fancy a walk down memory lane, you can see the results from that 2 month long beta in our recap post after it concluded.