Stage 5: Pre-launch

📡 Step 1: Integrate with DEX & Governance

Before your DLP goes live, ensure that it’s whitelisted for trading on Vana’s DEX and included in relevant governance processes.

✅ Key Actions

• DEX Whitelisting: To list your DLP token on Vana’s DataDEX (powered by Uniswap), contact the Vana team for whitelisting. This ensures your token can be traded and provides liquidity to support buy-ins under VRC-14.
  • 📧 Contact: Reach out via Vana Builders Discord.
• Governance Considerations: While optional for launch, you may choose to define governance policies for your DLP to enable voting or data monetization changes in the future.

📣 Step 2: Marketing and Community Building

Building a successful DLP isn’t just about smart contracts and data processing — it’s about engaging a strong community of contributors and consumers.

🎯 Goal

• Build awareness and attract both data contributors and data buyers.
• Create incentive mechanisms that sustain long-term participation.

❓ Questions to Consider

• Who are your early adopters?

  Are they individual users, AI developers, or data consumers?

• How will you keep contributors engaged?

  Consider using loyalty programs, tiered rewards, or gamification to maintain ongoing participation.

• Which channels will you leverage?

  Use Twitter, Telegram, industry forums, and AI/crypto communities to engage your audience and create awareness.

🔎 Step 3: Test, Verify & Launch on Mainnet

Before launching on mainnet, comprehensive testing and verification are required to ensure contract security, query reliability, and token liquidity.

🎯 Goal

• Confirm that your DLP complies with VRC-14, VRC-15, and VRC-20.
• Test query access, data refinement, and token buy-ins in a real-world environment.
• Ensure that your token liquidity can handle daily buy-ins without high slippage.

✅ Key Actions

1. Testnet Deployment
   • Deploy to Moksha and test data queries, proof-of-contribution, and token functionality.
   • Simulate a variety of query conditions and ensure refinement logic produces valid results.
2. Mainnet Launch
   • Deploy your DLP Smart Contract and DLP Token on the mainnet.
   • Verify your contracts on Vanascan to ensure public visibility and compliance.
3. Liquidity Setup for Token Buy-Ins
   • Seed enough liquidity in your DEX pair to prevent excessive slippage during VRC-14 token buy-ins.
   • Monitor initial liquidity performance and consider adjusting if slippage exceeds 2% during buy-ins.
   • Tip: Aim for at least $10,000–$50,000 of initial liquidity to handle moderate buy volumes.
4. Simulate Query & Data Usage
   • Test queries in a TEE environment and confirm that data retrieval and decryption work as expected.
   • Validate payments and fee collection to ensure compliance with onchain query logic.
5. Liquidity Dry-Run
   • Perform a small-scale liquidity dry-run to test VRC-14 token buy-ins.
   • Confirm that your pool can absorb buy-ins without causing significant price fluctuations.
   • Action: If slippage exceeds 2%, add additional liquidity to stabilize the pool.