After a few delays building those childhood pre-birthday excitement feels—and just a little bit of tension—we have successfully launched our final beta network, and with it the Ethereum data payment system, aka ERC20 integration.
While it will make integration with the wider financial ecosystems easier, cheaper, and faster, the build-out itself was no mean feat. But we are pleased to see it out there, and those wallets filling with attos. Yes, that’s right, we have 18 decimal places of divisibility now too!
And what’s more, you no longer need a Discord account to participate in the remainder of the Beta Rewards Program, nor the launch next week either — just an Ethereum wallet address.
If you want some pointers on getting set up and rolling with the new system, and getting your wallet connected to your nodes, we’ll be running a step-by-step walkthrough at our Discord Stages event today at 20:00 UTC.
General Progress
A plethora of updates from all across the team, including:
A new autonomi CLI that uses EVM payments and replaces the previous safe CLI.
Plus, a new autonomi API to replace sn_client with a simpler interface.
Both the node, node-manager and Launchpad now use EVM payments.
The node also now runs without a wallet, increasing security and removing the need for forwarding.
Data is of course now paid for through the EVM smart contract. Payment proofs are not linked to the original data.
Network Royalties have been removed.
Range Based Search ready for sybil protection — ready to go.
In addition, an exciting update introduces a major new feature combining the power of the scratchpad data type, with a smattering of the EVM integration, to access the Vault. Users now only need keep hold of a single key (the EVM key) to access everything Autonomi-related:
register secret key (encrypted in the vault).
previously uploaded data addresses (encrypted in the vault).
previously uploaded register addresses (encrypted in the vault).
Well done team Autonomi for the huge work and brave steps on getting this EVM integration done.
The removal of network royalties is a big change. I look forward to hearing the reasoning for this… I am pleased about it in terms of taking things closer to a pure market for decentralised data, and in terms of forcing the network towards decentralised development as the foundation will only have its initial stash to work from, not ongoing, potentially huge royalties as the network grows. While it may mean that there’s less funding for ongoing ecosystem development, with the ‘new internet’ with easy micropayments, hopefully that won’t be needed once things get going.
Also neat to see that if I understand correctly, an EVM key can give access to users’ stuff on the network… smooth!
I expect teething problems due to the scale of changes, but today’s release a huge step forward, and I’m excited to see how it plays out… hopeful it won’t be insanely expensive to do anything on the network due to Arbitrum fees
Absolutely… getting exciting! But, we must stay clear (so that newcomers don’t get the wrong idea) that this ‘launch’ is the start of the launch process and initial tokens & data stored will only be temporary, with the real tokens & permanent data uploads planned for January 2025
Launchpad crashes on Ubuntu 24. It started out fine. I reset the nodes and it won’t open. It tries to and then I see a brief error and the window closes. I’ve tried clearing the safe node directories and this does not help. No version of launchpad will start on this computer now. How do I get this to work?
Thanks for this update! I hope the format changed only temporarily, probably due to everyone busy with the Public Beta. I hope you eventually get some rest you deserve
This reminds me about Application / Developer rewards. Is there something on the horizon?
My issue seemed to entirely with resizing the terminal window that Launchpad was running in.
If I stick to using it full screen it seems OK - apart from no attos yet from 14 nodes.
