Announcement on adjustment of the selection cycle of Nebulas Incentive Program Season 1 Nebulas Follow May 23, 2018 · 2 min read

Participants of Nebulas Incentive Program:

Nebulas Incentive Program has received positive response from the developer community since it kicked off. Until now, we have received over 1600 decentralized app (DApp) submissions. We thank the developers for their enthusiastic participation and contribution to the Nebulas ecosystem.

For the two weeks that NIP has run for so far, Sunday before midnight was the deadline to submit DApps each week. From Week 3 onwards, this deadline will be shifted to Saturday before midnight. This means if a DApp is submitted on Sunday, it will be now be considered for review for the following week.

The deadline is being shifted in consideration to Nebulas DApp hackathons, which are often held on Sunday. Since the DApp ranking algorithm takes into account how a DApp performs during the entire week, we want to give these DApps more of a chance to win NAS rewards.

Before this, a DApp developed and submitted to the Nebulas mainnet on a Sunday would not have a lot of time to amass users, grow in popularity, and process transactions. This would impact its performance in our ranking algorithm, and leave it with a slim chance of winning NAS prizes.

Now DApps submitted on Sundays will have a full week to increase their score according to our ranking algorithm.

New weekly DApp selection cycle

One week in the NIP now lasts from Sunday at midnight to Saturday before midnight.

For example, the selection circle of Week 3 will last from the midnight of May 21(Monday) to the midnight of May 26 (Saturday). And the selection circle of Week 4 will last from the midnight of May 27 (Sunday) to the midnight of June 2 (Saturday), and so on.

The announcement time of weekly prize winners remains the same: Every Tuesday the winners of last week’s round of NIP will be announced.

The timing of reward distribution also remains unchanged: Every Friday we will distribute rewards from the previous week. If users do not receive their rewards due to some reason (such as incorrectly filling in their address to receive the rewards), then rewards will be postponed to next Friday, and so on.

Learn more:

Week #2 Winners of Nebulas Incentive Program

Guidelines for Submitting DApp for NIP

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