🧪 Phase #6 Starts Now

The final development phase before Testnet is live.

We're entering a 1-week grace period. Most nodes are already migrated to DevNet7 with a few still finalizing. Once migration completes, stats will reset and tasks will run across the network to confirm stability.

What's in Phase #6:
🔹 Node Level Rewards
- Base rewards introduced by tier (3 levels)
- Linear level bonus on top

🔹 Memory Index & GPU Benchmarks
- General dynamic model loading, switching, reporting & NodePool matching
- Stress testing all supported models (CPU + GPU: incl. LLaMA 3.x, DeepSeek)

🔹 SessionPayment Integration
- Full contract ↔ contract payout flow
- Real-time event trigger validation

🔹 Regression – Refactored Sessions
- Session & SessionQueue data isolation fully live
- Backward compatibility + regression testing

🔹 Oracles & Canary Testing
- Multi-region shards monitored across CA, UT, OH
- Canary rollout on DevNet7 + Testnet-0/1

🔹 Privacy Prototyping
- Early privacy-preserving sessions & queues prototyping
- Full evaluation deferred to Testnet due to limited user data in DevNet

🔹 Validator Expansion Prototyping
- Extending Validator v1 with quantitative (embedding/distance) + qualitative (LLM scoring) checks
- Prototyping PoI & PoUW modules; full rollout during Testnet

🔹 Hackathon #2
- Launches one week after Phase #6 start
- Focused on real-world apps, integrations, and agent tools
- Double rewards pool compared to Hackathon #1
- Draft/WIP: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/hackathon/hackathon-2

🔹 Testnet Stress Testing
- Run existing hackathon apps & demos on Testnet-0/1
- Validate user task flows and cross-env stability

📄 Full details: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/community-testing/closed-alpha-testing-phase-6

📍 Network DevNet7 Stats: https://dashboard-devnet7.cortensor.network/stats/network

🌉 L3 Bridge: https://cortensor-testnet-1-32ph80a02h-01acc12814e9cea3.testnets.rollbridge.app

🔎 L3 Explorer: https://testnet1.explorer.cortensor.network

💬 Join the community: https://discord.gg/cortensor

👉 The last dev phase before Testnet – stability, scaling, and trust features all under test.

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