Testnet welcome

The Syntarie testnet runs on three Hetzner Cloud validators in Falkenstein, Helsinki, and Nuremberg. RPC is publicly reachable, faucet is live, chain advances ~1–2 blocks/sec.

This page is a friendly intro. If you just want to install + send a transaction, jump to the Quickstart.

Network identity

Public RPC endpoints

Three validators expose HTTP RPC on port 19100. Any of these works for read queries; the faucet endpoint is only on nbg-1.

Bearer token

Write routes (/faucet, /tx, /intent/* writers) require a bearer token. The testnet token is public — no security expectation on a public testnet:

Authorization: Bearer UIBsO3tav34ABrYq0sSbUcNXlAGMy5DEuRvZskzFLGkMOoyK

Read routes (/status, /account, /fee/*) need no auth.

Quick health check

curl http://91.99.102.167:19100/status

Expected: chain advancing past height 154,000, operational_state: healthy, sync_phase: live, peer_count: 2.

What works today

• Send and receive transfers between addresses
• Query account balances and chain status
• Schedule intent-based transactions (composed transfers, conditionals)
• Read the audit-fix code that just shipped (SECURITY-1 closure, bridge launch enablers)

What doesn't work yet

• Bridge round-trip to Base — Solidity contracts are deployed on Sepolia, but the live Drills 1/3/4/5 + the end-to-end round-trip haven't been executed. Operator-SSH labor, ~2 days.
• Block explorer — no public web UI for browsing blocks/txs. You can query individual addresses via /account. Out of v1 scope.
• No SLA on uptime — these are shared cloud machines for testing. Restarts and brief outages happen during deploy cycles.

What you should know about your wallet

• Your private key lives in a 32-byte file. Whoever has the file controls the funds.
• The testnet may be wiped and restarted. Your address survives in the file but the balance doesn't.
• This is self-custody by design. Syntarie servers do not hold your keys.

Status reference (2026-04-26)