igneum/docs/plans/testnet-go.md

Igneum public testnet: the go checklist

Prepared 5 October 2026 by the infrastructure and consensus engineer for the 19:00 BST (18:00 UTC) opening. State of every line as of 16:05 UTC. Nothing mines until the owner says go; the seeds hold the chain at height 0.

What runs now

Piece	Where	State at 16:05 UTC
igneum-testnet-1 seed 1	seed1.testnet.igneum.network = 195.201.35.33, Hetzner cx23, Nuremberg (nbg1), Debian 13	up, unit igneumd active, p2p 26811 open, 2 peers, height 0, sink = genesis
seed 2	seed2.testnet.igneum.network = 5.161.232.205, Hetzner cpx21, Ashburn (ash), Debian 13	up, 2 peers, height 0
seed 3	seed3.testnet.igneum.network = 5.223.52.210, Hetzner cpx22, Singapore (sin), Debian 13	up, 2 peers, height 0
Public JSON-RPC	https://rpc.testnet.igneum.network (seed 1: nginx, Let's Encrypt, 20 req/s per address with a burst of 40, 20 connections per address, bodies to 256 KiB, then rpc-filter.py on 127.0.0.1:8545, then the node's EVM RPC on 127.0.0.1:26890)	live: eth_chainId = 0x116e (4462), eth_blockNumber = 0x0, net_version = 4462; admin_peers and igneum_submitProofRecord refused with -32601
DNS	deSEC (ns1.desec.io, ns2.desec.org), A records for the three seeds and rpc.testnet, TTL 3600	all four resolve from the authoritative servers
Firewalls	igneum-testnet-seed (22, 26811, icmp) on all three; igneum-testnet-rpc (80, 443) on seed 1 only	applied
The node binary	igneumd 1c19441d (fork branch testnet-infra), built on PC 1 by build job build-20261005-154330 (WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04, glibc 2.39), sha256 a9ea25f8ada29e3ee1dfc2ccced4e088a56237511be75d5d80f7bb7a72414b10	on every seed as /opt/igneum/bin/igneumd
Mining	none	nothing mines; no --enable-unsynced-mining, no miner process anywhere on the testnet

Each seed's start-up log, identical on the three:

Fees on igneum-testnet-1: pgas table v1, B_p 120000 pgas, S_p 30000 pgas, floors 100000000000 wei per gas and 10000000000000 wei per pgas; calibrated v1 from DAA score 0
Consensus params digest: b7d8c915f20f5af261e69e7f4aa9c3d03a9c4a462174776502b63fa1e9ec8447 (exchanged in the p2p handshake; a peer with another digest is refused)
igneumd/2.1.0
[igneum-exec] genesis 87617621714af1bf33bd17f291f90a7e0bff760a669bba53083ea8c0f7cbd840 executed: chain id 4462, registry at 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000210

health.sh shows synced=False on all three: that is the no-blocks state (a node is synced once it has blocks past genesis), not a fault. The check: cd infra/seed-nodes && NET=testnet ./health.sh.

The genesis, final

Field	Value
Network	igneum-testnet-1, chain id 4462, address prefix igneumtest, ports 26810 (gRPC), 26811 (p2p), 28810 (wRPC JSON), 26890 (EVM JSON-RPC)
Coinbase message	igneum-testnet-1 | 2026-10-05 | coins here have no value | resets are announced ("proposed, not final" dropped before the first public node)
Timestamp	1,791,158,400,000 ms = 2026-10-05T00:00:00Z
Bits	0x1d100000
Hash	87617621714af1bf33bd17f291f90a7e0bff760a669bba53083ea8c0f7cbd840
Merkle root	44acfc40b1c6647011510f3c39ddb7606f979df92ad26a2914de56e44610efad
Consensus digest	b7d8c915f20f5af261e69e7f4aa9c3d03a9c4a462174776502b63fa1e9ec8447
Fees	CALIBRATED_V1 from DAA 0
DNS seeders in TESTNET_PARAMS	seed1.testnet.igneum.network, seed2.testnet.igneum.network, seed3.testnet.igneum.network
--netsuffix	defaults to 1 under --testnet

The proposal's hash 52a3e6a9... is void: it hashed the old message. Any node built from a fork commit before 1c19441d has the old genesis and never completes a handshake with the seeds (different genesis, different digest).

Branches and commits (nothing pushed, nothing merged)

Repository	Branch	Head	What
node fork (vendor/igneum-node-testnet-infra, from release-0.3.6 2b6d23ef)	testnet-infra	1c19441d	final genesis message, hash and merkle root; --netsuffix default 1; the three DNS seeders; igneum_testnet_identity and test_genesis_hashes updated
app repository (igneum-wt-testnet-infra, from master 23d11d5)	testnet-infra	358e565	infra/seed-nodes: NET=testnet profile, seeds-testnet.tsv, dns.sh, rpc/ (filter, unit, nginx site), node/install-rpc.sh, install-rpc-from-mac.sh, ports from seed.env, glibc check, debian-13 images, quoted env values; tools/build-job.mjs forwards --node-tests/--app-tests and its watcher reads the SUMMARY wherever it sits; docs/testnet/README.md final genesis; this file
app repository (igneum-wt-testnet-app, from testnet-infra 9fa2bb3)	testnet-app	c00df85	the app's network setting: Packaged.network/peers/public_rpc, Network enum with the testnet's ports, seeds and node directory, Runtime::from_env_and_packaged, the dashboard's chain label testnet-1 with the public RPC on its tooltip, the testnet node keeps its DNS seeders; packaged-config.sh IGNEUM_PACKAGE_NETWORK (default testnet; the fleet's devnet builds pass devnet)
app repository (igneum-wt-testnet-wallet, from wallet-v1 a238781)	testnet-wallet	fe6e5e8	igneum-common: Packaged.network, TESTNET_PUBLIC_RPC, chain_id, effective_public_rpc; the wallet engine reads the effective URL; the wallet's packaged config follows IGNEUM_PACKAGE_NETWORK

Tests: kaspa-consensus-core and igneum-app suites on PC 2, build job build-20261005-155547, both exit 0 (cargo's own status; the relayed log keeps only the last test result line). cargo test -p igneum-common on the Mac: 27 passed (the crate is not in the PC build inputs). The packager's self-test: all checks passed on both branches. cargo check --tests of the app on the Mac: clean.

The go: what Josh presses, in order

#	Step	Who presses	State at 16:05 UTC
1	Seeds up at height 0, peered, the public RPC answering	nobody (done)	DONE: three seeds, 2 peers each, RPC live
2	Merge testnet-infra and testnet-app to master; the fork's testnet-infra into release-0.3.6 (or the release branch the 0.4.0 cut uses)	the release engineer, on Josh's word	NOT DONE: branches ready, nothing merged
3	Cut 0.4.0 from testnet-app (tools/ship-app.mjs 0.4.0 --node vendor/igneum-node-testnet-infra ...); the Mac DMG, the Windows installer through the PC build job; the packaged file must say "network": "testnet" (the default)	the release engineer	NOT DONE: the packager writes the testnet by default; the fleet's devnet update, if any, needs IGNEUM_PACKAGE_NETWORK=devnet
4	The prover's fee-table mirror at CALIBRATED_V1 (proving/igneum-prove/core/src/config.rs, pgas.rs; docs/plans/release-0.3.6.md section 5 step 6): on the testnet fees are v1 from genesis, so a prover with the prototype table produces shard statements the node refuses. Needed before the first testnet proof, not before the first block	the execution engineer	NOT DONE
5	History rewrite (docs/plans/history-rewrite.md, G14: the 40 commits with a personal name)	Josh, then the repository goes public	NOT DONE
6	Repository public (gh repo edit igneum-network/igneum --visibility public)	Josh	NOT DONE
7	Downloads public: the 0.4.0 manifest in the downloads folder, publish-manifest.sh --deploy	the release engineer	NOT DONE
8	The site's buttons: the download section points at 0.4.0, site/wallet.html carries https://rpc.testnet.igneum.network and chain id 4462 in place of the placeholder, the terms card (#testnet-terms) stays; node site/build.mjs, push to master (Vercel deploys)	the site agent	NOT DONE: the placeholder is still in site/wallet.html
9	Announcement text	Josh	PLACEHOLDER: "Igneum testnet-1 is open. Coins here have no value. Resets are announced seven days ahead. Download: igneum.network. RPC: rpc.testnet.igneum.network, chain id 4462." (Josh's words replace this)
10	The first miner: one app on the testnet (PC 1 or PC 2 with the 0.4.0 build, or igneumd --testnet plus igneum-miner --network testnet by hand) produces block 1; the seeds relay it, health.sh shows blocks=1 on all three, synced=True	Josh says go, the miner-community lead starts it	NOT DONE: nothing mines until the word
11	Watch: NET=testnet ./health.sh --watch, the RPC's eth_blockNumber, the DAA after 600 blocks (the launch difficulty 0x1d100000 is sized for a few hundred MH/s)	the infrastructure engineer	ready

Legal is out of scope here (Josh: "all but legal").

Cost

Item	USD per month, net (Hetzner API, 5 October 2026)
seed 1, cx23 nbg1	6.49
seed 2, cpx21 ash (4 GB; the only 4 GB type in the US at this price)	37.49
seed 3, cpx22 sin	30.99
three primary IPv4	1.80
total	76.77 net, about 92 gross; billed hourly, 20 TB traffic included per server

A cheaper US seed is cpx11 (2 GB, 20.49), rejected because the node keeps up to four 256 MiB lottery caches once the chain has epochs; the unit's MemoryMax=3200M would not fit. The devnet seed (igneum-seed-1, 6.49) is untouched.

What was not done, and what to watch

Item	Note
The explorer	not built; the public RPC serves the wallet and MetaMask
site/wallet.html RPC placeholder	still a placeholder; step 8
The Windows WSL verifier wrapper, the prover's table mirror	docs/plans/release-0.3.6.md section 7; step 4 above
The app's Windows side	testnet-app compiles on the Mac and its suite passed on PC 2 (Linux); the Windows build is the 0.4.0 cut's job
Seeds and proofs	the seeds run no proof verifier (verifier: Off); they relay and hold the chain. A seed never includes proof records, which is fine for a seed
Build inputs zip	build-inputs.zip on the downloads host is ONE file for every agent: a second agent's push between a job's publish and its fetch fails that job's sha256 check. Both testnet jobs fetched the right zip (verified by sha256 before each fetch); the hazard stays until the zip carries the job id in its name
glibc	a PC-built Linux binary wants glibc 2.39 (Ubuntu 24.04); the seeds are Debian 13 (2.41) for that reason, and provision-seed.sh now refuses a binary the seed cannot run. The Mac's zig cross-build (glibc 2.36) stays the route for a Debian 12 host

How to redo any part

cd infra/seed-nodes
NET=testnet ./health.sh                                   # one line per seed
NET=testnet ./dns.sh --check                              # the four A records
NET=testnet BUILD_WHERE=cross ./provision-seed.sh seed2.testnet   # re-install the node from infra/cross/out (a new binary)
NET=testnet ./install-rpc-from-mac.sh seed1.testnet       # the public RPC again (idempotent; certbot keeps its certificate)

The node binary for the seeds: node tools/build-job.mjs run --node /Users/joshm/Projects/igneum/vendor/igneum-node-testnet-infra --target ae432dc7 --targets linux --no-tests then node tools/build-job.mjs fetch <id> (lands in infra/cross/out/).