🧪 Testnet Phase #3 Starts Now

Testnet Phase #3 is now live.

Phase #3 pushes Cortensor from “trust-layer hardening” into economic + agentic hardening - payments/staking become production-shaped, rewards become more repeatable, and router surfaces move closer to agent primitives.

🔹 Privacy feature v0.5
Router key distribution (ACL/signature checks) + dashboard privacy module + dedicated sessions marked private/public

🔹 Payments (SessionPayment “production shape”)
Tune unit costs/rebates/surcharges + expand pricing metadata + improve cost attribution + failure handling

🔹 Dynamic pricing activation
SLA / depth / redundancy-aware fees via SessionPaymentTable + consistency + manipulation-resistance checks

🔹 Staking-to-use
Quotas → auto-deduction + usage buckets + cadence + anti-abuse guardrails (dashboard-visible)

🔹 Rewards (semi-automation)
Push reward outputs (CSV) further end-to-end to remove more manual steps (human still final send/batching) + keep tuning level params (capacity/breadth)

🔹 Router surfaces (agent-ready)
Iterate /delegate + /validate v3/v4 with policy hints, tool traces, retries/fallbacks + explicit redundancy/consensus attributes + expand factcheck/new endpoints

🔹 Bardiel dashboard + regular test jobs
Keep views stable across schema changes + scheduled smoke/regression jobs so examples stay fresh

🔹 Pre-mainnet experiments
Mainnet-identical dry runs: ops/reliability, cost mechanics, payment/staking/reward flows, agent-facing behavior

🔹 Self-managed L3 as primary track (Testnet-1a)
Ops hardening + runbooks (backups, snapshots, disk estimates) + validate procedures under real incidents

🔹 ERC8004 agent workflows
Corgent + Bardiel iteration via router MCP/prototype stack (real agent-facing trust rails)

🔹 Gas profiling iteration
Measure deltas vs Phase #2 baseline + keep trimming writes/log spam for mainnet viability

🔹 PyClaw (router-aligned local agent runtime)
Phase #3 = design + alignment for Phase #4 implementation/dogfooding

🔹 Core Docs
Testnet Phase #3: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/community-testing/testnet-phase-3

PyClaw – local-first agent runtime design: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/products-and-agents/pyclaw

/delegate & /validate – next router-node agentic surface
- v3: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/products-and-agents/corgent/delegate-and-validate-v3-spec-explicit-redundancy-and-consensus
- v4: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/products-and-agents/corgent/delegate-and-validate-v4-spec-programmable-consensus-and-receipts

Private / Encrypted Inference v0.5: https://docs.cortensor.network/technical-architecture/data-management/private-encrypted-inference/v0.5-contract-backed-acl-for-dedicated-private-sessions-session-based-only

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