Good evening everyone 👋 Happy bonfire night! 🎆

Adam:

Hi folks!

Joseph:

First up, node payouts for 2021 to date have started processing. If you have had a Host running, look out for an email from the team asking you to confirm the XE address you want to use for the payouts. If you want to confirm the veracity of the email, reach out to one of the community admins.

Adam:

Last week we talked about the XE testnet faucet. As you may have seen from the new public builds and deploys channels, there has been quite a bit of faucet activity going on today. And I’m happy to announce that it is now live and ready for use on the XE testnet explorer: https://test.network/ 💥

The XE Automated Faucet is very similar to the Rinkeby Ethereum faucet. You tweet your XE wallet address, and then paste the URL of the tweet into the faucet. The request will be queued and subsequently processed. Each request is worth 2500 XE and can be performed once per day at most.

See this transaction from a short while ago: https://test.network/transaction/6e3baa248dc0b5ccf2456fbf01abb612ac2e1f15943617be3df5ddc925e478ba

(Pro tip: click the tweet link and simply replace the generated xe_0000… address with your own!)

If you don’t have a testnet XE wallet, be sure to create one using the testnet wallet: https://wallet.test.network/. If you have any questions, just let us know in the new testnet-support channel.

In addition to this, we’ve also open sourced the Faucet codebase, as we move further towards our vision of open source development. You can find the repository here: https://github.com/edge/faucet

Joseph: