{"id":429011,"date":"2020-06-30T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=429011"},"modified":"2020-07-01T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:28:30","slug":"charles-hoskinson-admits-cardano-incentivized-testnet-voting-process-wasnt-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/cardano\/charles-hoskinson-admits-cardano-incentivized-testnet-voting-process-wasnt-ideal\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Hoskinson Admits Cardano Incentivized Testnet Voting Process Wasn’t Ideal"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Cardano’s Shelley mainnet on track for rollout on July 29th, 2020<\/a>, the incentivized testnet (ITN), which ran from November 2019 to June 2020, has served its purpose.<\/p>\n

IOHK CEO, Charles Hoskinson put forward his case to retain the ITN<\/a> as a parallel chain. He suggested the ITN infrastructure could become a rapid testing environment for Cardano.<\/p>\n

However, this then creates additional problems such as how to incentivize ITN stake pool operators to keep going, as well as concerns over it competing with the main chain.<\/p>\n

The community would decide by way of a community ballot. IOHK laid out the process in a forum post<\/a> by saying, “one vote to create the possibility, a second to decide.”<\/p>\n

In the first instance, ITN stake pool operators and testnet participants will be asked if they wish to extend the incentivized testnet rewards into July while a second vote, for ADA holders, will take place in July.<\/p>\n

“we are inviting our existing ITN stake pool operators to vote to confirm that they wish to see the continuation of an incentivized network.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But poor execution of the process meant the weekend vote failed to trigger the set participation threshold of 30%.<\/p>\n

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The vote has ended at 7:13pm UTC. <\/p>\n

Thanks to all the participants, even if it seems that we didn\u2019t reach the necessary participation threshold of 30% of the ITN active stake (short by 2%)<\/p>\n

We all learned a lot from this first community consultation\ud83d\udd96#Cardano<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/HucY1dyx49<\/a><\/p>\n

— Romain Pellerin (@rom1_pellerin) June 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n