Public network / Real integration
Use the Soul of Satoshi public testnet
The SOS public testnet connects the wallet, explorer, validators, privacy prover, faucet, staking, and Sepolia bridge. It is a rehearsal environment for integration and adversarial testing. Testnet tokens have no monetary value and network state may be reset when protocol changes require a new genesis.
Public testnet is live. Mainnet is not live.
Wallet
Browser-based, local keys
Transactions
Transparent and opt-in shielded
Consensus
Stake-weighted BFT
Bridge
Bidirectional Sepolia canary
What to test
Create or restore a wallet, protect the recovery phrase, request faucet funds, send a transparent transfer, stake or delegate, and inspect the resulting block and transaction in the explorer. Users with a controlled prover can also exercise shield, private send, and unshield.
- Wallet creation and 24-word recovery.
- Faucet cooldown and receipt handling.
- Transparent transfer, mempool, finality, and explorer indexing.
- Shield, private send, unshield, scanning, and prover authentication.
- Sepolia deposit and withdrawal bridge paths.
What useful feedback looks like
A strong report includes the release version, operating system, exact action, expected result, observed result, timestamps, transaction hash when public, and redacted logs. Never publish a seed phrase, private key, note secret, bearer token, or server credential.
Public issues are tracked in the sos-node repository so deployment failures, faucet behavior, and documentation gaps remain visible to other testers.
Testnet expectations
Availability and compatibility can change during hardening. A testnet reset is not a loss of mainnet funds; it is a deliberate tool for changing consensus law safely. Release notes and genesis identifiers are therefore part of every serious test result.
Questions
Common questions
Do SOS testnet tokens have value?
No. They are testing units and must not be sold or represented as mainnet assets.
Can the testnet reset?
Yes. A consensus-breaking protocol change can require a fresh genesis. Recovery phrases remain useful for deriving the same wallet keys, but testnet balances are not guaranteed across resets.
Where should bugs be reported?
Use the public sos-node issue tracker and remove all secrets before attaching logs or screenshots.
Primary sources
Last reviewed: 2026-07-21