Preview of TGE and documentation including MaidSafeCoin conversion process — call for questions & feedback

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Hi All,

Wanted to give you a preview of the documentation relating to TGE, and importantly the MaidSafeCoin conversion process.

We are keen to get any questions (so we can fill in any gaps and FAQs) along with feedback as we firm things up for tomorrow.

Here are the latest docs covering all things Ant Token plus an updated and slimmed down Node section catering for the post-TGE world.

A few notable omissions are on their way, and will be slotted in as soon as we’ve type them up:

  • The on-the-day process for updating Nodes
  • How emissions work nodes after TGE
  • Specific date and times for BitMart conversion
  • The Token contract address to use when importing ANT to your wallet
  • Process for redeeming Beta Rewards from a Discord Username

So a few more pieces to slot in, but we felt it important to get the MaidSafeCoin conversion guide in front of you in particular.

Please do give us your comments and questions!

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What happens to all the testnet tokens? Do they just stop being relevant or will future testnets/devnets exist that will use it?

Also will we need to do anything to switch to the RC to start earning ANTs?

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Good question! Perhaps those on Sepolia could be used for devlopement and testing… I’ll ask the crew.

The detail on that will be published in due course

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Nice and straightforward

Will the form validate if the signature, public key of the sending wallet and receiving address fit together?

Would somehow be nice to see a green light before hitting send and having to wait a couple of days afterwards to see if one just threw away a pile of coin xD…

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No, there’s no validation I’m afriad. It’s just a straght submission form. So I’d recommend keeping copies of all the info, and also submit your contact details in the last step, if you are comfortable doing that.

Another good Q for the FA.

Ta!

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Receiving address…

On arbiscan we can e.g. See addresses like

0x929f729526a99A23a21B51ce79a4659bDbae56B3

(just copied the first ant recipient that popped up…)

Does it matter if one signs the address with or without the leading 0x? Does the casing matter since it’s just a checksum and depending from where you copy the receiving address it might be all lowercase or that check sum casing style…? (or should it simply match the address style as written in the ant recipient field of the form…?)

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Will ANT tokens be air-dropped to Ethereum Mainnet, or Arbitrum One?
Since amount field is uint256, do we enter the eMAID amount in full tokens with a coma, or 18-decimal integer? Will 1 eMAID be 1, or 1000000000000000000?

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https://docs.autonomi.com/ant-token/converting-maidsafecoin/how-to-convert-maid/from-omniwallet

Send it to this burn address:

BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE

Not a valid bitcoin address

https://docs.autonomi.com/ant-token/converting-maidsafecoin/timeline

The final deadline is February 3rd, 2028

Does this mean native token will be definitely implemented before this date?

Will people be able to convert maid/emaid to native token and skip using ANT?

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I may have missed this bit, but how do the random rewards that are going on now get converted? Also, how will the hosting rewards work?

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@JimCollinson @dirvine

So I can hear it from the horses mouth and in case i missed it if it was officially posted somwhere…

Do I need to have tokens removed from bitmart prior to the TGE to be safe?

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Only remove the emaid if you don’t want them to be converted to ANT. If you are happy to leave them on the exchange (risky for other reasons) they will convert them for you.

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I still it is wisdom for Bitmart to make this known in some form of official messaging, or news. Otherwise it is still trusting Bitmart is understanding correctly and ready to do it and on what timescale

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I agree but imagine the team have had some sort of legal confirmation or they wouldn’t have included that page.

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While this is the ideal we are not directly in control of the communications that come out of BitMart, nor the timing.

If you have any doubts, we’d recommend you withdraw and complete the conversion yourself.

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Could someone explain to me the steps here please?

Ledger (with MetaMask integration)

Ledger is a leading hardware wallet, and is designed for increased maximum security. As such it’s suitable solution for long-term storage of ANT tokens.

It can be used in conjunction with MetaMask to interact with the Arbitrum blockchain, on which ANT operate.

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does anybody know what format the omniwallet signature has?

so how does the message get encoded? how does the output signature get encoded?

…the signature looks like base64 … but the rest is not obvious to me …

ps: and I somehow struggle to validate my own signature because I don’t find a button for it on omniwallet + doesn’t know how to correctly format it

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I agree this is very much unclear.
Instructions go on about adding arbitrium to metamask and adding ANT, without explaining how to link metamask to ledger or anything else.

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It is the basic signing function any wallet will do using your private key to encrypt the message you ask to be signed. The message is decrypted with the btc address.

I am sure a search will find it quick enough. Otherwise look up Ian Colman’s web pages have it somewhere perhaps

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well … Text to bytes can be encoded differently and depending on your location on this planet the pc you have there tends to do it differently (ascii, utf-8, utf-16 (which I think is javascript default … omniwallet is a web wallet … maybe that was my mistake … I’ll check), …), then my trezor offers a “trezor default” signature and an Electrum format … I don’t think it’s as straightforward as you think …

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ah - the one doing the Description missed the leading 1 …

1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE

corrected now in the instructions

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