# kaal:claim:3931933-010

**Claim.** Detailed and easy to follow operator documentation produced by the early testnet community drove participation up to roughly 950 nodes running on the network, with around 200 nodes rewarded each week.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- early Casper testnet days

**Source quote.**

> early testnet community created detailed and very easy-to-follow instructions for the testnet node operators, which resulted in around 950 nodes running on the network and around 200 nodes were rewarded each week.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake* (2021), Testnets as remedies to platform centralization, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `55a71cdfceb96fadefba1f2fed9563b588825378c91aff644ee7faaccdf31204` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Hybrid%20Secure%20Proof%20of%20Stake.pdf

**Topics.** corporate-governance

**Keywords.** casper-network, testnet, documentation, node-participation, onboarding

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