# ䷐ Taiko Alpha-2 Testnet is Live | Incentivized Testnet for node runner $TKO 🪂”

**Published by:** [crazyDrops☄ ](https://paragraph.com/@crazydrops/)
**Published on:** 2023-03-24
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@crazydrops/taiko-alpha-2-testnet-is-live-incentivized-testnet-for-node-runner-tko

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“The current $ARB airdrop is bringing joy to many individuals and why not? It’s a $1000+ airdrop 💸. It’s essential not to miss out on another airdrop that could occur in the next 2–3 months.” • What is Taiko ? Taiko is a decentralized Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup. It enables easy deployment of dApps on its network while maintaining security levels similar to Ethereum and offering lower transaction fees than on the L1 chain. Taiko is a community-driven that operates in a decentralized and permissionless manner. It relies solely on Ethereum public data and allows anyone to run a node, and any proposer or prover can participate. As a Type 1 ZK-EVM, Taiko is built on the Privacy & Scaling Explorations team’s work at the Ethereum Foundation, specifically on ZK-EVM circuits. Here is first a bit of background on how Taiko works: Matt Finestone | 3body.eth @finestonematt First a bit of background on how Taiko works to show why this is important: On Taiko's ZK-EVM, finality is reached as soon as an L2 'block' (list of L2 txs) is proposed to Ethereum L1. This is because the state transition is deterministic at that point. 63 1:29 PM • Nov 4, 2022 @vitalikbuterin Quote on this : vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin Withdrawals from ZK-EVMs can sometimes be done with lower latency than proof generation, because you can prove specific claims: * past state X is valid * no txs from account A after X, therefore * you can still withdraw coins you had in state X Fascinating work by @taikoxyz! Matt Finestone | 3body.eth @finestonematt At @taikoxyz, it is our view that proof generation time is not the most important thing to currently optimize for, and we trade off faster proof gen. in favour of a maximally Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup. There's a recent idea that may make this belief hold even stronger 1,481 8:41 PM • Nov 4, 2022 Team And funding Taiko is co-founded by Daniel Wang, who is the founder and former CEO of Loopring. And there is no information about funding but team said they are “well funded” • Testnet In February Taiko give a POAP as a reward to Alpha-1 testnet users and now Taiko Alpha-2 is live, user again able to do certain task +++ anyone can run Taiko node • Reward On the alpha-2 testnet, the Taiko protocol will allocate and distribute proof rewards in $TTKO tokens to the prover. At the end of the testnet reward period, these $TTKO tokens can be redeemed for USDC. The reward budget for provers is set at up to 50,000 USDC, ⎘ “We already did this type of task in Aleo and ironfish incentivised testnet now time for Taiko…..” • What to do now ? Configure your wallet: ⏤ Go to : https://chainid.network ⏤ Add “Sepolia” and Taiko (Askja testnet) to wallet ⎘ “Connect your wallet search above network click “Add chain”.” • Receive testnet tokens from the faucet ⏤ Request sepETH faucet ‘Alchemy’ : https://sepoliafaucet.com ⎘”other faucets provider in sepolia are pk910, RockX,Quecknode etc. just search sepolia faucet on google for more” ⏤ Connect your wallet to https://bridge.a2.taiko.xyz/ ⏤ now select $HORSE from the dropdown, and click “Faucet”. ⏤ and do same for $BULL token ⏤ Bridge $ETH sepolia to Taiko A2 ⏤ And also bridge $BULL and $HORSE ⏤ Connect your wallet to https://swap.a2.taiko.xyz/#/swap ⏤ swap $bull to $horse and vice verse…. ⏤ Add liquidity to pool ⏤Providing feedback or share any bugs you come across on this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdD9J8_dl2spOg7kHPAyzRSrfityz80WKtZ0APCNjq-dO8PTg/viewform ⎘ “Above task is not incentivised, if you want to join a incentivised testnet you have to run a node” • Run a Taiko node in Phase-2 Before you dive into this check minimum system requirements: ⎘ “I’m using digitalOcean vps for free (need credit card or PayPal) or you can use vultr (it’s also give you free credit but only credit card is accepted)” ⏤ Create another Droplet (DigitalOcean) ⏤ Choose Region and Ubuntu as image ⏤ Create root password ⏤ Inter Hostname then “create droplet ⏤ open console “Access Console” ⏤ Click “Launch Droplet console” to access it ⎘ “After successfully assess console, past code one by one, for all different VPS users… ” ⏤ update if required sudo apt update ⏤ install and setup Docker: curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh sudo sh get-docker.sh ⏤ install docker Compose : sudo curl -L “https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)” -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose ⏤ Clone Taiko file git clone https://github.com/taikoxyz/simple-taiko-node.git ⏤ Create new Screen screen -S taiko ⏤ change directory cd simple-taiko-node ⏤ Configure your node: cp .env.sample .env vim .env ⎘ “if your screen like that ?” ⎘ “Now we need Sepolia L1 endpoint and Websockets, for that…” ⏤ Create Account on Alchemy : http://alchemy.com/?r=3292de2320f ⏤ Go to Dashboard Click on “Apps” dropdown and then “Create app” ⏤ Select Ethereum and sepolia Testnet and “create app” ⏤ Open app and click on “View Kays” ⏤ Copy your HTTPS and WEBSOCKETS and save it in notepad ⏤ Again open console ⎘ “if you are not in Configure process open your screen screen -r taiko “ ⏤ inter your HTTPS and Websocket that I did in image (For do this hit “i” in kayboard to insert) past your HTTPS after L1_ENDPOINT_HTTP=and WEBSOCKET after L1_ENDPOINT_WS= ⏤ Enable Prover Replace false to true in ENABLE_PROVER= ⏤ And finally inter PROVER_PRIVATE_KEY (your meta#mast private kay) for that create now wallet 👇 Create new burner wallet ⏤ Open wallet click “create account” ⏤ name it and click on “create” ⏤ Click on three dot then “account details” ⏤ Export private key and copy it ⏤ Open Console again and past your private key after : L1_PROVER_PRIVATE_KEY= 🗒 Note : your private keys will be different for every account but seed phrase will be same in meta#mask wallet ⏤ hit “esc” escape to exit insert mode ⏤ Inter :wq! To save and quite this ⏤ start node docker compose up -d ⎘ “After this process, it will install and start synchronizing.” You can view your node logs by docker compose logs -f and view the prover image’s logs docker compose logs -f taiko_client_prover_relayer • Official Guide : https://taiko.xyz/docs/guides/run-a-node Testnet announcement : https://mirror.xyz/labs.taiko.eth/A6G6TNN-CXDAhl42k_bNHg_20fyGcT0xH-LBBSOPNzU You can also Deploy a contract on Taiko : and build Dapp : taiko.xyz/docs/guides/bu… 🗒 deploy contract and build Dapp is not necessary you can skip this…. hope you like it 💗 👏 collect it free ⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤ ䷐ Follow CrazyDrops to never miss next #Alpha and #Airdrop ⼻Subscribe on Mirror for step to step guide https://mirror.xyz/crazydrops.eth ⚓︎ Follow me on #Lens I will share some update here https://lenster.xyz/u/crazydrops.lens ⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤⏤

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