Anyone Protocol has officially launched its long-anticipated relay incentives program, allowing individuals to earn its cryptocurrency token $ANYONE by contributing their bandwidth to the network.

This marks the beginning of a significant expansion of the Anyone privacy routing network. With over 4000 nodes operated in the network by its community in the pre-incentive stage, the Anyone Network is already one of the largest onion routing networks. This development positions Anyone Protocol to grow into one of the largest networks across the nascent DePIN sector. 

In a recent announcement on X (formerly Twitter), Anyone introduced its “Incentivized Testnet,” launched its rewards dashboard, and revealed a new distribution mechanism built on Arweave. Relay operators can now connect their wallets to view hourly rewards, manage relays, and claim tokens. Although rewards are currently claimed on Sepolia Testnet, they will convert 1:1 into real $ANYONE tokens through weekly airdrops.

An accessible approach to crypto mining 

Unlike traditional crypto mining, which demands high-powered hardware and significant energy consumption, Anyone Protocol offers a simpler alternative. Relay operators run the Anyone client on existing hardware and earn tokens based on the bandwidth they contribute. There are no costly licensing fees or virtual miners, as seen in other projects like Aethir Cloud.

Those interested in running a relay and participating in the incentivized testnet can check the Anyone documentation. 

In anticipation of rewards, and reflecting the strength of the Anyone community, the number of active relays in their network has skyrocketed, increasing by over 100% in the past 30 days. With over 3500 active relays, they have over 50% of the number of active relays as the Tor network. This growth can be seen from popular explorer such as DePINHub. 

But Anyone aims to go beyond Tor’s niche. Anyone has expressed a far more mainstream vision for their network – taking the security of onion routing technology and applying it in a far more usable way. From mobile and desktop VPN apps to an SDK that any app can use to route through the network, Anyone Protocol aims to make trustless privacy seamless for every internet user. 

Anyone Dashboard Live

The introduction of the Incentivized Testnet sees the next iteration of the relay dashboard going live. 

With the first version of the Incentivized Testnet, users can register relays and earn rewards from a pool that emits 2500 tokens a day. Over the course of this testnet period, the total token emissions will ramp up to 10,000 tokens a day, which at current prices could support over 20,000 relays!

Besides running a relay and registering it to the protocol, the only other requirement is to lock 100 testnet tokens for every relay. This can be claimed from the Anyone Faucet. All operators must hold 100 mainnet Anyone tokens in their wallet per relay to be eligible to receive the airdrop rewards. 

In addition, the network is supplemented by proprietary hardware – The Anyone Router. The se ‘hardware relays’ can earn their own exclusive bonus rewards from a dedicated pool, and all relays can earn additional tokens for keeping their nodes consistently running without downtime over consecutive days. 

The Anyone Dashboard is one of the most decentralized and censorship resistant dApps in web3. Hosted on the Arweave permaweb, the dashboard frontend is stored on the Arweave blockchain, and accessible from over 200 AR-IO gateways. The most common path to access is to visit website, but the numerous backups ensure that it remains redundant and harder to censor.  

Next Steps 

As the Incentivized Testnet matures, according to a recent Medium article, the number of rewards available will ramp up. Additional incentive variants, such as multipliers for certain geolocations, will also modify the types of relays and behaviours incentivized within the network. 
To find out more about running a relay, join the Anyone community Telegram.

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