An awesome must-have toolkit and a protocol for the Genesis launch. This toolkit provides a launch protocol for cosmos-based networks, recommended workflow and necessary tools for genesis.json compilation. Also, it contains a crisis protocol.

The network launch is a complex process with many dependent factors. It starts with developing distribution and do not end with the first block of the network. This repo is at the same time example of a working launch process we practice. It does not pretend to be some unique method for launch by all projects but the experience saved here is very useful for future great projects.

• Launch protocol
• Workflow
• Tools
• Network params
• Distribution params
• Points of truth

In general, the protocol has three zones:

• Genesis preparation
• Network and contracts running
• Finalization

The Genesis preparation zone is about collecting addresses for distribution, distribution parameters, network parameters, and genesis transactions. All collected data is integrating into genesis.json by the network_genesis.json template.

Also, this zone is about setupping DAO as a governance entity.

The network and contracts running zone is the stage between block #1 of the launch network and the latest block of the network. The latest block is defined by the result of the takeoff donation round. In other words: the latest block should be after all of pending DAO commitments. This zone is defined as a danger zone because of a possible fault risk of network, contracts, all both of them.

This zone contains three major events:

• Deploying the web app for interacting with the network and DAO functions
• Takeoff donation round starting
• Deploying the contracts for the Auction
• Tokens distribution

The finalization zone should be available only after tokens distribution (as pended commitment). The main event of this zone is mainnet preparations done.

1. Develop your distribution for the launch. This is the most important step in this guide. What is the total genesis supply? Which communities should be involved? How to distribute tokens? What's the method for distribution you want to use? How many tokens you want to distribute to the foundation, team, donors, inventors and so on. Our example you can see at distribution directory.

2. According to your distribution set up the cyber_distribution.json and manual_distribution.json files with necessary values. More about that at distribution directory.

3. Set parameters for the network. At the params directory you can open a discussion for the great params decision. Put all params inside network_genesis.json.

4. Select a set of tools for genesis accounts preparation. This story about communities gifts, if your distribution includes the gifts for communities (like ours). There are two ways to include the group of addresses in the genesis file:

• With genesis-generator-tool built-in method (quadratic function)
• With custom method

In the first case, you just need a .csv file with addresses and native chain balances. The genesis-generator tool will parse distribution files and apply the quadratic function to this group.

Notice. The addresses should be converted into the your-network format. For details visit provided converter.

In the second case, you can calculate the balances as you want, and the genesis generator tool just inserts it in the right format. But you should carry about the distribution sum by yourself. This sum should compare with value at cyber_distribution.json. More technical details at the genesis-generator-tool.

5. After you prepared all the files you need to move it to genesis-generator-tool/data and start the genesis generation.

• The Game rewards tools for calculating rewards after incentivize game
• ETH and Cosmos to Cyber converter. ETH -> cosmos-based addresses converter and cosmos-based -> cosmos-based converter
• ETH gift distributor for collecting ethereum non-contract addresses with at list one outgoing transaction on a given blog height
• Cosmos gift distributor for parsing cosmos addresses from state exported file on a given blog height
• Urbit gift distributor for collecting Urbit entities on given block height, getting their owners and distributing gifts.
• Genesis generator for generating genesis file
• Data exporters for exporting data from the network. Now available exporting cyberlinks by account on given block height

The network paramas available at params README

The distribution paramas available at distribution README