# Announcing Namada Public Testnets

By [Shabay.tori⛩️ (💙,🧡) (📦,💫) ⚙️ | Sui Global](https://paragraph.com/@shabay-tori-sui-global) · 2023-01-05

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In preparation for mainnet, the implementation of the Namada protocol needs to be tested by as many network operators and other users as possible. To facilitate this, a series of public testnets will be launched that anyone can join. The Namada protocol is a proof-of-stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy. Namada deploys zkps to enable a unified shielded set and shielded transfers for arbitrary assets that are created on Ethereum or fast-finality chains that are IBC-compatible.

Over the last months, the Namada protocol’s release cadence has been stabilised to a biweekly release schedule and multiple releases have been continuously tested by a group of very early Namada validators\*, including the current private testnet that deploys the Namada protocol `v0.11.0`.

\*Special thanks to Namada’s early validators including Wicklow, [ZK Validator](https://twitter.com/ZKValidator), [Simply Staking](https://twitter.com/SimplyStaking), [Papers](https://papers.ch/), [P2P](https://twitter.com/P2Pvalidator), [Node Guardians](https://twitter.com/nodeguardians?lang=en), [Nocturnal Labs / Maven11](https://www.nocturnallabs.org/), [Lemniscap](https://twitter.com/Lemniscap), [Knowable](https://twitter.com/vKnowable), [Figment](https://twitter.com/Figment_io), [Everstake](https://twitter.com/everstake_pool), [Cosmostation](https://twitter.com/CosmostationVD), [CMCC](https://twitter.com/CMCC_Global), [Chorus One](https://twitter.com/ChorusOne), [Binary Holdings](https://twitter.com/binaryholdings), and [B-Harvest](https://twitter.com/B__Harvest)!

In preparation for mainnet, the implementation of the Namada protocol needs to be tested by as many network operators and other users as possible. To facilitate this, a series of public testnets will be launched that anyone can join.

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*Originally published on [Shabay.tori⛩️ (💙,🧡) (📦,💫) ⚙️ | Sui Global](https://paragraph.com/@shabay-tori-sui-global/announcing-namada-public-testnets)*