Today we’re excited to share that the Taiko alpha-3 testnet, Grímsvötn, is live! This is the next step on the road to a decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-EVM, and this testnet will be critical in testing much of the network design and components.

Relative to alpha-2, the most prominent changes are:

• New protocol economics design and implementation

• Proposers AND provers are permissionless (alpha-1 had permissionless proposers, alpha-2 had permissionless provers)

• L3 implementation: inception layers

Let’s cut right to it: this testnet focuses on the decentralized part of our decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-EVM. Or to be more specific, permissionlessness that can tend towards decentralization. The big thing to test here is how proposers and provers interact with each other and with the protocol, driven only by protocol economic incentives.

The other big thing to test is deploying Taiko on top of Taiko as an L3, something we submit is maximally simple owing to the reusability of the type-1 design. We refer to this as “inception layers”.

To jump right in and get to testing, transacting, deploying, or proposing and proving, see the guide:

https://taiko.xyz/docs/guides

To learn more about this testnet, please read on.

Today we’re excited to share that the Taiko alpha-3 testnet, Grímsvötn, is live! This is the next step on the road to a decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-EVM, and this testnet will be critical in testing much of the network design and components.

Relative to alpha-2, the most prominent changes are:

• New protocol economics design and implementation

• Proposers AND provers are permissionless (alpha-1 had permissionless proposers, alpha-2 had permissionless provers)

• L3 implementation: inception layers

Let’s cut right to it: this testnet focuses on the decentralized part of our decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-EVM. Or to be more specific, permissionlessness that can tend towards decentralization. The big thing to test here is how proposers and provers interact with each other and with the protocol, driven only by protocol economic incentives.

The other big thing to test is deploying Taiko on top of Taiko as an L3, something we submit is maximally simple owing to the reusability of the type-1 design. We refer to this as “inception layers”.

To jump right in and get to testing, transacting, deploying, or proposing and proving, see the guide:

https://taiko.xyz/docs/guides

To learn more about this testnet, please read on.