It’s official! Our first public testnet is live.

The port from Scala to Rust is complete!

Highlights:

• Any validator can propose, with no coordination
• Validators can go down and come back. When one of four equal validators stops, the others keep finalising at 75% of stake.
• Dynamic validator set. The whole lifecycle runs on chain: observer → trusted → bonded → active → withdrawing → paid out.
• Consensus across continents. The testnet runs four equal validators on two hosts, one in New York and one in Amsterdam, so every 3-of-4 quorum crosses the Atlantic.

Dive into technical details on Github.