Elrond has launched its mainnet on July 30, along with a new DeFi app, staking and a raft of new features followed by a successful testnet with more than 1,500 nodes in 29 countries, and 50 shards, running with a peak of more than 260,000 transactions per second. Its ERD token has been on fire this month in anticipation to the long-awaited launch. https://t.co/RCpTGbhfXG — elrond (@ElrondNetwork) July 30, 2020 Elrond aims to achieve global scalability for money moving market

With Ethereum 2.0 final testnet set to be released on August 4, developers have released the validator launchpad. On July 27 Ethereum blog published that the research team behind ETH 2.0 has announced the release of the validator launchpad for the multi-client testnet Medalla. Announcing the #eth2 validator launchpad (testnet version).https://t.co/G0y4itoJzA — Ethereum (@ethereum) July 27, 2020 The launchpad is part of the testnet launch stage, prior to Phase 0, in which the

In a July 6 update, the official TON development group on Telegram announced that it would be discontinuing its support of the test network for TON by next month. The remaining of its TON validators will be turned off by August 1. The TON official recommended network participants save all their relevant data and stop their testing processes. Despite the testnet being set to shut down less than a month from now, network participants will still be able to continue their experim

Blockchain-based decentralized data storage solution Filecoin unveiled its incentivized testnet recently, complete with a competition, prior to its mainnet launch. Filecoin’s test network will host a three week mining contest worldwide, with 4 million of the project’s FIL tokens up for grabs as prize funding, In an act of network experimentation. Calling #miners from all over the 🌍. Get ready for Filecoin's testnet incentives program — compete to earn global and regional poo

AVA Labs is planning to distribute 2 million tokens in its final testnet before the project’s full launch in summer. “Denali Testnet” will serve as the final stage of the AVA network testing before AVA’s mainnet launch. On May 29 AVA Labs announced that the new testnet will allow each validator to earn up to 2,000 AVA network’s native tokens. AVALIDATORS ASSEMBLE! The Denali Incentivized Testnet is here 🙂 Check out the challenges + rewards. You will need to be a bit more ha

OKEx Pool, a comprehensive mining pool built upon cryptocurrency exchange OKEx, announced that it has joined an Ethereum 2.0 testnet as a Proof-of-Stake validator as announced by OKEx on April 29. Topaz is the only completed testnet of ETH 2.0 mainnet configuration. The launch is a key action before ETH switches its consensus algorithm from PoW (proof-of-work) to PoS (proof-of-stake). #OKExPool: Shout out to #ETH2 public testnet, Topaz Testnet, for a very successful launch 🎉

Nym Technologies, a blockchain startup based in Switzerland invites general public in the user testing of its next phase mixnet platform. At a time when the world is fighting against mass-surveillance in the name of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the privacy infrastructure provided by the platform provides a massive relief against protection to such ill activities. Invited users will be requested to run the mix-nodes on Nym’s testnet. Mixnet will be formed by a global networ