What is Tour de Sun ’22 (TDS22)? In an effort to encourage the geographic and hardware diversification of the Solana network, Solana Foundation is adding a new incentive program called Tour De Sun ‘22
TDS22 offers performance-based incentives for eligible validators to run their testnet node in a selection of high-quality data center locations around the world.
Why is Solana Foundation doing this? Hosting companies & cloud providers have different policies applicable to the operation of blockchain software on their infrastructure. These policies may vary over time and across jurisdictional boundaries.
To facilitate the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana network, it is essential that the Solana network & community not become overly reliant on any single service provider or location.
Incentives offered through TDS22 & the existing Server Program encourage more validators & RPC operators to access infrastructure suited to the requirements of the Solana network.
These relationships also help establish mutually beneficial connections between traditional hosting companies and Solana’s global community.
By correlating the incentive amount to a Testnet validator’s performance, we envision that more validators will be encouraged to learn and adopt better performance and monitoring practices for their nodes, resulting in a stronger operator population on Mainnet Beta.
This incentive is available to a limited number of validators receiving stake from Solana Foundation on Testnet, even if an operator is not yet eligible to receive stake from Solana Foundation on Mainnet Beta.
Solana hopes that this incentive will encourage more active engagement of the Testnet validator population who otherwise might choose not to run a node on Mainnet Beta until they are eligible for stake from Solana Foundation.
Investors were very bullish on Solana DeFi; however, many of them lost their Solana after FTX disintegrated. While many believe Solana is dead – TOUR DE SUN ’22 looks like a reason to be hopeful.
Extreme losers with Solana Defi state, “Nobody cares about this ghost chain the only one that cares is the rest of the Holdings by FTX that’s locked up in staking this project was a ruse stop tweeting nobody cares.”
Solana Breakpoint in Lisbon from November 4 through 7, 2022 looks like a new beginning.
“It’s impossible not to be bullish after being at the Hacker House & Breakpoint and seeing everything that’s being built.”
Despite investors wondering what is happening to the price and many of them desperate, developers are doing their best to bring in progressive developments.
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