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Testnet changelog

October 2026: mining platform on the testnet

Section titled “October 2026: mining platform on the testnet”
  • Mining projects are live. Projects with signed manifests, ProjectRegistry, per-project vaults, committee sortition from validator-attested snapshots, validator finality with random audits (10 %), per-project reward epochs (receipt v2) and Merkle claims.
  • Contracts on Sepolia (deployed at block 11870176): NECTA test token, NECTA faucet, ProjectRegistry, ProjectVaultFactory, Staking. Addresses: GET https://testnet-rpc.necter.network/ → chain.contracts.
  • Public API at testnet-rpc.necter.network (JSON only) and the miner relay at wss://testnet-rpc.necter.network/v1/relay. The mining store is at testnet.necter.network.
  • Gasless actions: bonding (with NECTA permit), unbonding, withdrawals, payout changes, claims, project registration and consensus versions are relayed by the Hub.
  • Necter Miner 1.0.0: macOS universal DMG and Android APK released; CLI/daemon for servers with an optional password- and TLS-protected remote dashboard; embedded wallets with BIP-39 recovery phrases.
  • Reference project: Hash Chain Lab (hashchain-lab), scheduled every 60 seconds with committees of 3.
  • Runtime: deterministic stack limit injected into every module (+12 gas per executed function call); module.wasm limit raised to 12 MiB so interpreter-based (JavaScript, Python) modules fit.
  • Testnet decisions: NECTA-only faucet (1,000 per address per 24 h; no ETH faucet); developer enrollment verified automatically; missed-SLA penalties are reputation-only; validators operator-approved.
  • SDK packages are installed from source; registry packages are coming soon.
  • POST /v1/execute and task submission are not open to arbitrary browser origins; call them from a backend.
  • hivejs getModule() uses a legacy path the RPC host does not serve; use GET /v1/modules/{address}.
  • Creating a project vault needs a developer transaction (a little Sepolia ETH).