Testnet competition

[mesozoic-technology]

This pull request is dedicated to exposing the contracts in a testnet competition.

This will include

• Refinement of the oracle mocks to occlude the feed data as much as possible in order to afford a fair playing ground for community involvement.
• Scripts to deploy the testnet suite and perform any potential future actions required by the competition

[mesozoic-technology]

For a successful testnet competition this pull request is fairly complete.

The only things remaining is an exhaustive deploy script and a choice.

Which is, should any interesting behavior with regard to dynamic caps be included to occur somewhere along the duration of the competition?

If so, then we will need to synthesize a liquidity feed that performs these various behaviors. Vanishing liquidity, thin liquidity, thick liquidity, ect.

This seems fairly doable.

[mesozoic-technology]

Another thing to consider is how much the future information of the testing competition should be occluded from view.

I have taken the mock and made the public state private, which will prevent a moderately technical user from interrogating the future prices.

But what about a very sophisticated user who could look directly at the patricia tries?

Are more strategies to occlude this information desirable? Are they easily doable?

One answer is to supply the price information manually using a bot. New prices could be added periodically. I have several thousand ETH on Kovan and could fund this. That doesn't quite get beyond the possible problem, though. The original transactions could be interrogated.

Alternatively, it could simply be a friendly game.

[mesozoic-technology]

A solution occurred to me in the commit reveal pattern. Simply, the oracle mock is constructed with a method that asserts the hash of incoming data matches, in order, a previously committed hash.

That allows the oracle data to live on a centralized repository but sustains the guarantees that it was not changed after the start of the contest.

This occludes the data from those not associated with this process, who will have to be trusted to not look or to sit the competition out.