🧪 Testnet Phase #1 Recap – Integration, Load, and Engine Expansion

Phase #1 was the first structured Testnet week where we focused on one thing: break the pipeline, harden the pipeline, and prove the system scales under real usage across both Testnet-0 (Arbitrum Sepolia) and Testnet-1 (COR #L3).

🔹 Incentivized Manual Testing (E2E + Payments)
- Daily manual testing by community testers across different models and task types
- End-to-end validation: routing → miner execution → validator checks → results
- Exercised both Pay-to-Use (pay per task) and Stake-to-Use (stake-based access / rate-limits)
- General stress-testing across components to surface edge cases early

🔹 Automated Load Testing – 130K+ Tasks Executed
- Automated task jobs ran continuously during Phase #1
- 130,000+ tasks executed, validating stability and throughput under sustained traffic

🔹 Dashboard UI Refinement
- Multiple rounds of UI polish across session/task views
- Improved navigation and usability during high-volume sessions

🔹 #Ollama Engine Support + 65+ Models Live
- Added #Ollama LLM engine support across Testnet-0 and Testnet-1
- 65+ models are now supported (Q1 target: 100+)
- Current limitation is disk footprint: nodes need many models stored to serve on request
- Next up: network-driven model auto-assignment + model-usage-aware routing
- Also added additional embedding models via Ollama to support Validator v2/v3 tuning, since the current embedding stack shows GPU-specific issues on some setups

🔹 SessionQueue Scaling – Read Throughput & Pagination
- Phase #1 load exposed a read bottleneck at high task volumes
- Added missing foundations: precomputed task stats per session + scalable pagination
- Dashboard + Router can now handle large query/read workloads under single sessions

🔹 Corgent Experimental – /delegate + /validate
- First iterations to validate rough E2E behavior and clarify exact requirements
- Established what needs to be strict vs flexible for agent-facing flows

🔹 Router Experiments: #MCP + #x402 + #ERC8004
- #MCP, #x402 and #ERC8004 components are functional inside Router Node today
- Still require refinement and full integration
- These will be re-iterated during Phase #3–#4 to land as router-native primitives

🔹 Roadmap 2026 Docs Ready (Cortensor Network + Corgent)
- Roadmap documentation is now published and aligned for 2026 planning

Phase #1 proved the pipeline can survive both real usage and sustained automated load. Next phases will build on this foundation toward SLA-driven routing, tighter payment flows, and deeper agentic integrations.

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