With just a few weeks left for the Testnet Developer Incentive Program, the Nebulas team has been able to gather invaluable data about Nebulas Rank and Developer Incentive Protocol. This is all due to the dedication of community developers who have participated in the program which will help us improve Nebulas NOVA for the pending mainnet release. Thank you!

This week, we saw a shakeup within the top rankings. Our past two week first place winner slipped into second place with a new smart contract taking over the first position netting them 229.6254 NAS! In total, this week saw 9 smart contract addresses receiving NAS rewards. Congrats to all!

This past week also saw a large difference with the blockchain statistics as well. While this week saw more new smart contracts being submitted than compared to last week, the total number of transactions and new on-chain addresses significantly dropped. These vast differences show us that the algorithms developed can cope with varying changes to the network.

Thank you to all who are contributing and we look forward to seeing what you develop once DIP goes live on the Nebulas NOVA mainnet on April 2, 2019. The future of blockchain is coming!

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