🧪 Testnet Phase #2 - Recap

Phase #2 delivered a stable baseline, real traction on the self-managed L3 track, and measurable progress on the trust layer (PoI/PoUW) + observability - plus the groundwork for more agent-ready router surfaces going into Phase #3.

✅ What We Completed in Phase #2

🔹 Network stability held as a usable baseline
- Background/network tasks stayed stable enough that Phase #2 stats became real signal (good enough to drive routing decisions)

🔹 Self-managed COR L3 is now live as a real track (Testnet-1a / @Arbitrum Orbit)
- Completed the apple-to-apple L3 comparison and stood up Testnet-1a as the self-managed $COR L3 environment
- Migration + load-testing momentum shifted toward self-managed L3 so results aren’t theoretical

🔹 Routing filters upgraded
- Added QuantitativeStats + QualitativeStats as secondary filters to improve reliability/behavior/consistency weighting (not just uptime)

🔹 Validator engine experiments shipped and rolling out (#Ollama + embeddings)
- Started rolling out Ollama judge models + multiple embedding variants
- Reduced environment-specific issues while improving scoring consistency + throughput across mixed CPU/GPU setups

🔹 Router Node surfaces expanded for agent workflows
- Live + exercised: /delegate v1/v2, /validate v1/v2, and /factcheck
- @BardielTech dashboard now includes mock/example datasets to validate delegation/validation UX end-to-end (more iteration next phases)

🔹 #ERC8004 mainnet presence established (Corgent + Bardiel registered)
- Corgent + Bardiel are now registered as #ERC8004 mainnet agents backed by the Router Node MCP/prototype stack

🔹 L3 ops hardening + playbooks completed
- Built an ops playbook for self-managed L3 including backups, snapshots, and disk space estimates (plus recovery-oriented runbooks)

🔹 Pre-mainnet environments progressed
- Pre-mainnet setups/environments are now in place (deeper dry-run experiments next)

📌 What Phase #3 Will Focus On

🔹 More agent-ready Router Node iteration
Phase #3 shifts more toward agentic readiness - tightening and expanding the router surface so agents have better primitives to build on (more iteration on /delegate, /validate, factcheck, and likely additional endpoints needed for agent workflows).

🔹 Commit to the self-managed L3 path
We’re now aligning around the self-managed $COR #L3 @Arbitrum Orbit track as the forward path. Phase #3 will treat this as the primary environment for deeper testing.

🔹 Pre-mainnet experiments (mainnet-identical setup)
During Phase #3, we’ll run pre-mainnet experiments designed to be identical to mainnet configuration, so we can validate costs, ops, reliability, and agent-facing flows under realistic conditions before going live.

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