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The Piccadilly Circus Games Have Concluded
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The Games are on!
Autonity is an EVM based public blockchain for decentralized derivatives clearing.
Autonity’s mainnet launch is on the way with the go-live of Autonity testnets Bakerloo and Piccadilly!
To celebrate this milestone, Autonity has launched a set of challenges for the Autonity community called the Piccadilly Circus Games Competition.
Ready to take part?
You can enter the competition in any game round and take part in as many of the tasks as you want. It’s never too late to join in, but of course you can learn more and perhaps collect more points if you enter early!
The Games run on the Piccadilly testnet over a sequence of rounds; see Game Structure on this page. Awards are offered for each Round.
To take part, just:
- Sign up - see Register and get going. You can join in any Round of the Games; don’t wait for a round to finish!
- Choose what to take part in - check out the challenges in the current round - Round #6.
- Connect with the community. Join the Autonity Discord, the main social hub of the Autonity community, for discussions about the game and Autonity in general; and follow the project on X (formerly Twitter…) so you don’t miss any key announcements!
The primary goal of the Games is to bring together many different members of the Autonity community in a competitive game setting that is challenging, fun and a productive addition to development and testing efforts working toward mainnet launch.
Whether you’re an Automaton already, or a visitor just checking the project out, the Games are open to all who are up for the challenge!
Register and get going
To enter the competition, simply complete the registration form and get setup in just a few easy steps.
See the Quick start page for how to register and get going!
When you’re set up, check out the Round #6 challenges, and connect with the community!
Game Structure
- 6 sequential game rounds
- Multiple categories of tasks across those rounds
- You tackle tasks in each round to win points
- The top
Nparticipants (by points) in each task challenge win Awards Tributes that will distributed after the upcoming Autonity Mainnet, which will happen at some point after the conclusion of Game Round 6.
Each round consists of a set of tasks across categories that contribute to different dimensions of the Autonity project. Every task targets a particular aspect of the Autonity protocol and the tasks change each round, so the Games are dynamic and evolve over time.
Game Rounds
Details of each game round’s tasks and start/end dates are released before the round begins. There will be intermissions of some days between each round, a period which will sometimes include a protocol upgrade of the Piccadilly testnet.
The Piccadilly Circus Games Have Concluded
Please note that the games have now finished. You are viewing an archived version of the site.
For game round results, see the Hall of Fame.
- Round 1 – Start: March 15th 2023 12:00:00 UTC, End: April 12th 2023 12:00:00 UTC (4 week duration)
- Round 2 – Start: April 24th 2023 00:00:00 UTC, End: May 22nd 2023 00:00:00 UTC (4 week duration)
- Round 3 – Start: June 5th 2023 00:00:00 UTC, End: July 17th 2023 00:00:00 UTC (6 week duration)
- Network reset: a new Autonity Go Client release brings in a validator oracle network, accountability and slashing functionality, and tokenomic mechanisms.
- Round 4 – Start: December 13th 2023 00:00:00 UTC, End: January 31st 2024 00:00:00 UTC (7 week duration)
- Network reset: a new Autonity Go Client release brings in low-level protocol optimisations.
- Round 5 – Start: March 12th 2024 00:00:00 UTC, End: April 23rd 2024 00:00:00 UTC (6 week duration)
- Network reset: a new Autonity Go Client release brings in low-level protocol optimisations.
- Round 6 – Start: June 26th 2024 00:00:00 UTC, End: August 7th 2024 00:00:00 UTC (6 week duration)
Interested in the previous rounds? See the game archives here
Tasks & Points
Points are earned by game participants for successfully completing tasks.
| Bug Bounty | A community bug-bounty programme rewarding the discovery of bugs in software and docs. |
| Community Incentives | A set of community development awards, covering social media. |
| PnL Challenge | Transact and trade! Take part in stake delegation, borrow, and trade on- off-chain to find αlpha and top the leaderboard. |
| Validator SDP Challenge | Run and maintain a validator node on the Piccadilly testnet and participate in a Stake Delegation Programme (SDP) challenge |
| Open the Door | Deploy and operate a node as a public RPC endpoint. |
| Education Tasks | Create content for the Autonity community. Develop video, blog, and infographic educational content. Contribute to the awesome-autonity resource collection. |
| Develop Tooling | Create tools for the developer community. Develop tooling in multiple categories: deployment automation, development, data visualisation, trading, AI. |
| Develop Use Cases | Develop use cases for the Autonity community. |
The number of points a participant earns for completing a task is determined by the task’s scoring rule, which incorporates factors such as the task’s difficulty, value to the project, and quantitative or qualitative features of the participant’s performance in completing the task.
Participants can take part in as many task categories as they like. You can view the overall progress of the competition on the game’s Leaderboards.
Points & Awards
For each task there is a fixed award amount and number of winners. The winners are those who have accumulated the most points in that task at the end of the game round. After each round ends, the award winners for that round are determined based on the scoreboard and the winners are announced.
Award winners receive Award Tributes. Up to 1,000,000 Award Tributes are allocated to the Games. Award Tributes are convertible to the Autonity stake token NTN after Autonity’s mainnet Launch.
Awards will be distributed only to those participants who can at the end of the Games cryptographically prove ownership of the Autonity account registered at the beginning of their game participation and who complete a KYC/AML process. Awards are attributed on a basis of an individual party that has passed this process, not per entries on the scoreboards. More information on this can be found in the T&Cs.