testnet-1 — The First One (aka "The One On The Boat")
Pre-release
The testnet that is now live showcases the core features of the Witnet protocol and its blockchain as depicted in the Witnet whitepaper. Namely, it allows for decentralized and trustless retrieval, aggregation and consensus-building around datapoints from multiple online sources by using a game theoretic scheme that creates incentives for a subset of nodes in the network elected through a cryptographic sortition algorithm to perform such tasks without tampering with the data.
This testnet, which is already live and publicly available for anyone to join, is conceived as a sandbox for proving the robustness of the protocol and experimenting addition of new features.
In our road to to taking Witnet into the mainnet stage, we will be making subsequent releases of the testnet. This will allow us to keep the current pace of innovation and ship radical improvements without having to deal with backwards compatibility.