Back to collectionDecember 6 Is Fixed; Mainnet Moves to “Around the New Year”
The Odyssey’s second phase was still using daily tasks to stress the testnet. A daytime report said the testnet had handled 1.4 million transactions per day for two consecutive days. The same announcement also placed the stress test alongside the project’s path: the testnet had exceeded one million transactions in a day, which officials called one of the largest testnets in the industry’s history and attributed to an experience requiring neither a wallet nor gas fees.
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The Odyssey’s second phase was still using daily tasks to stress the testnet. The community awaited Sentry sale details and pressed for a mainnet date. Reading from the schedule he had recorded on October 6, the narrator saw “when can it launch?” and “when must people pay?” becoming two different questions.
A daytime report said the testnet had handled 1.4 million transactions per day for two consecutive days. Late that night, officials released the tokenomics and the full Sentry sale explanation at once: sales would begin on December 6. License keys could be bought directly on the official site; the first would cost roughly USD 300 in ETH, with settlement through Arbitrum, and prices would rise as more were sold. Sentry network rewards could be staked or traded. According to the hardware notes, a laptop had been tested with dozens of keys without problems; equipment, bandwidth and electricity costs were far lower than for nodes in other ecosystems. Anyone intending to buy more than 100 keys at once was asked to make contact in advance, and the foundation would try to accommodate them.
The same announcement also placed the stress test alongside the project’s path: the testnet had exceeded one million transactions in a day, which officials called one of the largest testnets in the industry’s history and attributed to an experience requiring neither a wallet nor gas fees. Offchain Labs was the technical partner, Ex Populus the game partner, and the foundation led the ecosystem; Tencent and LayerZero appeared on a list of parties in talks. Yet the mainnet wording had shifted from the precise “December 15” recorded on October 6 to “around the New Year” on October 25, when several third-party games were expected to launch with it. The sale date, by contrast, was fixed at December 6. To the narrator, this meant that alongside the question of whether the code would pass its checks, the key price, purchase decisions and reward expectations would now enter everyone’s calculations. The exact mainnet date remained unsettled.