Create a faucet for AVO on testnet

[peter-evans]

This will allow developers to acquire AVO for testing on testnet.

Tasks

• Create a faucet for AVO on testnet

Detail

• Could be coded similar to the Avocado wallet interface
• Hosting with github pages could be an issue as the private key to the testnet address would be leaked. Need to discuss options.

Dependent Tasks

#1

[bakaoh]

Hosting with github pages could be an issue as the private key to the testnet address would be leaked. Need to discuss options.

How about make a simple smart contract that developers can call to acquire AVO? That way, we can till make it static and don't have to expose private key, but it requires test eth to call the contract.

[peter-evans]

How about make a simple smart contract that developers can call to acquire AVO? That way, we can till make it static and don't have to expose private key, but it requires test eth to call the contract.

Sounds good. So we would send the supply of AVO to the contract and developers can call a function on it to be sent some?
@agro1986 What do you think?

[peter-evans]

If we make a faucet smart contract first I'll create a new issue for that and this issue can be the web interface for the faucet contract.

[agro1986]

The rinkeby eth faucet isn't a smart contract because there is a logic for user verification on Twitter to combat spam. Basically:

1. Post your wallet address to twitter
2. Give the link of the tweet to the faucet
3. Faucet will verify it on backend and send (and record on DB so you have cooling off period)

As you know, smart contract cannot access the world outside blockchain so we couldn't use that logic, but I think it's interesting to have a smart contract-based faucet also.

@peter-evans perhaps you can make a new issue "Create smart contract-based faucet for AVO on testnet"

Idea for the specification:

• Donators can send AVO to the smart contract
• Users can call any of these methods:
  get1000Avo() // to succeed, the last call from that user must be at least 1 hour ago
  get2000Avo() // to succeed, the last call from that user must be at least 2 hours ago
  get5000Avo() // to succeed, the last call from that user must be at least 5 hours ago

For making the smart contract only, I think a 2 hour bounty reward should be enough

[peter-evans]

@agro1986 Created the new issue here #4

[peter-evans]

Is it still worth having a web based faucet so that there is no prerequisite to acquire ETH?

[agro1986]

yep, we can leave this one open