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Applications open: Add Movement to Lava Mainnet

Incentivized Public RPC

Lava Foundation

Oct 24, 2024

Lava is supporting the Movement

Gmove.

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Movement is fast becoming one of the most popular blockchain communities. Soon, you'll be able to say: I use Lava to access Movement.

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Lava is a 4-sided marketplace where infrastructure Providers offer services such as RPC, to dapps and wallets on any chain. RPC is essential for your onchain experience. For example, when you make a transaction or check your wallet address, you make RPC requests.

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Lava rewards contributors, called Champions, for expanding the network's coverage to new chains and services. Champions are open-source contributors who define APIs and compute costs in a JSON-file specification ("spec"). The list of existing specs on Lava is here. Stargaze and Evmos Champions were recently selected.

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Every month, new chains are added to Lava. Submissions are now open to become the Mainnet Champion for Movement.

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Deadline for Champion submissions is 29 October 2024. Follow Lava Discord for any changes to this deadline.

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Champions are responsible for:

Writing the specification for a new chain to be supported on Lava
Making a proposal to Lava governance to ratify the spec
Maintaining the spec by adding new APIs and keeping track of updates from the chain
Supporting RPC providers by answering questions, providing updates and making guides

How to apply

NOTE: Movement Mainnet is not yet live. This spec is for Movement testnet and should first be launched on Lava testnet.

Step 1 [YOU ARE HERE] - Submit your application for review

Check out the guide in our documentation about how to create a spec: https://docs.lavanet.xyz/spec
Submit a PR with your Movement spec to https://github.com/lavanet/lava-config.
Put your Discord username in the PR
Put your Lava address(es) in the spec
Champions earn a % of Provider rewards every time the Provider uses the spec.
- In your application, you should add your desired % commission of LAVA tokens. Lava Foundation will vote yes for your proposal and support various % commission rates based on the below:
  - +1% - support and running a Provider on testnet
  - +1% - creating a spec from scratch (inheritance is only worth 0.5% and is mandatory if possible)
  - +1% - benchmarking CU and timeouts
  - +1% - providing active support to Providers, if more than 20 providers are retained over 3 months
  - +2-3% - if an ecosystem creates an incentive pools based on your referral
500 words on why you are a good fit to be the champion for this spec and chain
- E.g. “I’m an active validator on Movement, I contribute code, I helped on Lava testnet, this is my plan to support Movement on Lava."

Once your application has been reviewed:

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Step 2 - We will let you know if the Foundation will support your proposal to Lava governance. Of course, you are free to create a proposal without prior communication with the Foundation, and the token holders will vote.

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We strongly suggest consulting with the Foundation before making your proposal on-chain.

You can learn how to submit a proposal here.

Deadline to apply

Champions have until 29 October to submit their PR.

Rewards

Lava tokenomics has been designed carefully to incentivize key contributions to the network.

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RPC providers are paid LAVA and tokens from supported blockchains e.g. ATOM token. Champions earn a % of Provider rewards every time the Provider uses the spec.

Earn LAVA and other tokens from the incentives pools every time the spec is used - forever.
- E.g. if you are the champion for NEAR RPC - you will earn LAVA and NEAR when a Provider serves NEAR RPC over Lava.
N.b. Champions can be replaced via governance vote.

You can learn more about rewards for Champions in our tokenomics: docs.lavanet.xyz/token.

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