Introduction to Taraxa Testnet
Introduction to Taraxa Testnet#
Taraxacum aphrogenes is a species of dandelion that grows in Cyprus. And continues in our alphabetical series of testnet upgrades named after species of dandelions.
Goals of Aphrogenes#
- Provide an initial demonstration of the unique properties of the Taraxa protocol
- Generate valuable network data at increasing scale
- Attract a larger audience of community members of interested parties
Join the Network#
Technical requirements#
- A Mac or Linux shell environment
- curl with ssl support
- Digital Ocean or AWS account or a local ubuntu machine with 2 cores, 30GB of RAM
Installation#
Installing is quick an easy. Follow the instructions on node install.
Whats NEW is in Aphrogenes release…#
- Improved procedural stability
- Persistent state for node
- More efficient memory usage
Features of Taraxa testnet…#
- DAG layer for fast block generation and transaction inclusion
- PBFT layer for fast finality and concurrent schedule generation
- EVM integration (preliminary)
- Scripts to check balance and send money
Whats coming to our testnet in future release…#
- A block explorer to visualize DAG, block confirmation, and the unique properties of Taraxa
- Metamask wallet integration
- Improved documentation of RPC APIs
What is not in Aphrogenes…#
- Concurrent EVM
- Smart contract RPC API support
- Robust VRFs and VDFs
- Economic model for fees and block rewards
What Aphrogenes is not…#
- Production ready
- Robust
- Complete
- Optimized
- Safe against malicious attack