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: operational_state: healthy, sync_phase: live, peer_count: 2, and a chain head that's currently, well, live. The home page shows the latest block height in real time, updating every 3 seconds.

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, Bridge code is launch-ready (Python prover signs real keys, rotation digest aligned to Solidity, drill runbooks corrected). What's pending is operator-SSH labor (~1 day), not engineering: live Drills 1/3/4/5 + end-to-end round-trip on Sepolia.
• 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)