###### tags: `acala`

# Acala Update & Mandala Fest...

# Mandala Festival 🎉 Prize Drops

The Mandala Festival will **start on 5th March (GMT+12)**, and give out **approx. 100,000 ACA & 5,000,000 KAR** (Karura Canary Network token) to festival-goers and contributors.

The Acala network tokens - ACA will be minted in full on genesis with a fixed supply of 100,000,000. A portion of the ecosystem allocation will be deployed to support this festival 🎉 Upon Mandala TC-2, the `airdrop` module will record two new balances: ACA and KAR, which can be used to claim the prize tokens on Karura Canary network and Acala mainnet.

This festival marks the beginning of fostering a great Acala community, whether you are a node runner, an end-user, a blogger, a developer, a thinker or a curious, there is something just for you. In summary, the festival consists of

* PART I: Time-limited Candy Drops
- A. Candies for Running a Node | 05-MAR-2020 - 26-MAR-2020
- B. Candies for Using Acala | 05-MAR-2020 - 26-MAR-2020
- C. Candies for Blogging Acala | Ends 31-MAR-2020
* PART II: Timeless Prizes
- A. Prizes for Coding
- B. Bounties for Runtime Bugs
- C. Bounties for UI Bugs

## PART I: Time-limited Candy Drops

### A. Candies for Running a Node | 05-MAR-2020 - 26-MAR-2020

#### WHEN & WHAT
A candy draw will be held **at UTC 00:00 each day** for **3 prize winners**.

#### HOW MUCH
Each prize is comprised of: **55 ACA & 2,777 KAR** (Karura Canary network token)

#### HOW TO JOIN
1. Run an Acala Mandala Full Node
1. Docker image is available, so it takes no time to get it up and running. But if you are **online more often than not**, then there is a **higher probability of winning**.
1. Refer to [this guide](https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/Acala/wiki/4.-Maintainers) for more details

#### PRIZE GIVING
1. Prize tokens will be dropped to your node's `libp2p` address
2. Please keep a safe copy of your libp2p node-key: `/chain_data_path/chains/mandala2/network/secret_ed25519`
3. Copy node-key from docker to host:

sudo docker cp containerID:/chain_data_path/chains/mandala2/network/secret_ed25519 ./

### B. Candies for Using Acala | 05-MAR-2020 - 26-MAR-2020

#### WHEN & WHAT
A candy-draw will be held **every Friday** for **116 prize winners**
- **10 top accounts** with maximum gain or loss will be awarded
- **106 lucky accounts** will be drawn from all qualified

#### HOW MUCH
Each prize is comprised of: **66 ACA & 3,333 KAR** (Karura Canary network token)

#### HOW TO JOIN
1. Become **top accounts with maximum gain or loss**, think leveraged trading with borrowed aUSD will be awarded
2. Any accounts that have completed **minimum of 20 meaningful transactions** on Acala will qualify for candy draw
- including using stablecoin loan (via `honzon` module), decentralized exchange (via `dex` module), participate in auctions (via `auction` module)
- Excluding balance or currency transfer transactions
3. You can use [Acala DApp](https://apps.acala.network/) or [Acala Console](https://console.acala.network/)
4. [Get Started Here](https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/Acala/wiki/1.-Get-Started)

#### PRIZE GIVING
1. Prize tokens will be dropped to your transacting account
2. Please take appropriate measure to backup your account

### C. Candies for Blogging Acala | Ends 31-MAR-2020

#### WHEN & WHAT
**20 prizes** (10 from [Medium](medium.com) and 10 from [Bihu](https://bihu.com/)) will be selected **within a week after 31 Mar**.

#### HOW MUCH
Each prize is comprised of: **666 ACA & 33,333 KAR** (Karura Canary network token)

#### HOW TO JOIN
1. Submit a blog to either [Medium](medium.com) or [Bihu](https://bihu.com/) regarding the Acala Network.
2. The article must **include your Acala Mandala Address to receive prizes**.
3. Submit the article link to [Acala Riot Channel](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#acala:matrix.org) with **keyword CANDY_BLOG**
4. The blog must be original.
5. It is judged by the quality of the article and how many likes on the platform.

#### PRIZE GIVING
1. **Include your Acala Mandala Address in the article for receiving the prize**
2. Prize tokens will be dropped to the account included in the article
2. Please take appropriate measure to backup your account

## PART II: Ongoing Rewards
### A. Prizes for Coding
#### ELIGIBILITY
Anything built with or on top of Acala that inspires you and excites you. This could be bots, DApps, services, tooling...

Please provide the following

1. Clearly articulate the problem and solution
2. Complete at least a proof-of-concept runnable code
3. Provide appropriate documentation
4. Put your Acala Mandala Address inside your code repo e.g. in README
5. Submit your code to [Acala Riot Channel](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#acala:matrix.org) with **keyword CANDY_CODE**

#### REWARD
Each prize will be **at least 1,000 ACA and 60,000 KAR**, more can be awarded depends on coolness, significance, usefulness, quality, and other aspects the Acala Engineers may see fit.

The total prize pool is **capped at 40,000 ACA and 2,000,000 KAR**, and Acala reserves the right to extend it further.

#### PRIZE GIVING
1. Please allow 2 weeks upon submission for review.
2. Prize tokens will be dropped to the address provided inside the code repo submitted.
3. We may fund the project further where it seems fit.

### B. Prizes for Runtime Bugs
#### ELIGIBILITY
Help identify bugs in Acala mainly for this repo https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/Acala

Generally, a bug that poses significant vulnerability or causing systemic defects would be eligible.

1. Submit the bug to [Acala Riot Channel](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#acala:matrix.org) with **keyword CANDY_RUNTIME_BUG**
2. In the bug report, provide as much information as you can, including a description of the bug, its potential impact, steps for reproducing it
3. Also, include your Acala Mandala Address for prize giving

#### REWARD
Each prize will be **at least 300 ACA and 16,000 KAR**, more can be awarded depends on significance, usefulness, quality, and other aspects the Acala Engineers may see fit.

The total prize pool is **capped at 16,666 ACA and 833,333 KAR**, and Acala reserves the right to extend it further.

#### PRIZE GIVING
1. Please allow 1 week upon submission for review.
2. Prize tokens will be dropped to the address provided in bug submission.

### C. Prizes for UI Bugs
#### ELIGIBILITY
Help identify bugs in Acala mainly for this repo https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/honzon-platform

Generally, a bug that poses significant vulnerability or causing systemic defects would be eligible.

1. [Acala Riot Channel](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#acala:matrix.org) with **keyword CANDY_UI_BUG**
1. In the bug report include as much information as you can, including a description of the bug, its potential impact, steps for reproducing it
2. Also, include your Acala Mandala Address for prize giving

#### REWARD
Each prize will be **at least 66 ACA and 3,000 KAR**, more can be awarded depends on significance, usefulness, quality and other aspects the Acala Engineers may see fit.

The total prize pool is **capped at 2,000 ACA and 100,000 KAR**, and Acala reserves the right to extend it further.

#### PRIZE GIVING
1. Please allow 1 week upon submission for review.
2. Prize tokens will be dropped to the address provided in bug submission.

Festival-goers and contributors, have fun, learn & break things, and behold & catch the candies 🎁

*Thanks to our community for helping us avoiding bad names~

## Stay Updated with Acala
Website: https://acala.network
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AcalaNetwork
Medium: https://medium.com/acalanetwork
GitHub: https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/Acala
Riot: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#acala:matrix.org

## About Acala
[Acala - a first-of-its-kind decentralized finance consortium](https://medium.com/acalanetwork/acala-powering-cross-blockchain-open-finance-applications-on-polkadot-abb6075a6edf), with a vision to create cross-chain open finance infrastructure for the Polkadot ecosystem. The Acala Network is a dual-protocol network, with a decentralized cross-chain capable multi-collateralized stablecoin protocol - Honzon, and a trust-less tokenized staking liquidity protocol - Homa. Acala aims to bring stability and liquidity to the crypto world and beyond.

The Acala Stablecoin Project is proudly supported by the Web3 Foundation