On October 16th, Yala announced in a post on the X platform that its testnet is now live. Through the Yala testnet, users will be able to deposit YU, manage their positions, and pledge YU to earn points. Previously, Yala completed a $8 million seed round of financing, led by Polychain Capital and Ethereal Ventures.
Fractal Bitcoin said in a post on X that its testnet phase reset has been completed and the public testnet has been officially launched. Meanwhile, Fractal nodes are now open-source and OP_CAT have been successfully activated. In addition, brc-20 on Fractal will be activated at block height 21,000 (block height is expected to reach 21,000 in around 7 days). Only inscriptions inscribed after this block height will be considered valid.
On July 27th, crypto consumer app Abstract announced the launch of its testnet, powered by ZK Stack and running as L2 on the Ethereum Sepolia testnet. Developers can use this testnet to test applications and ensure smooth operation before the Abstract mainnet goes live later this year.
On July 24th, Base announced the launch of proof-of-failure on its testnet, allowing anyone to raise or challenge L2 status proposals without permission. This move is a fundamental step towards decentralization for Base. Base also plans to add security boards to its contract upgrade keys to further decentralize. Base will continue to work on building a more decentralized ecosystem to enhance the scalability and transparency of Ethereum.
The Ethereum L2 network Movement posted on X that its testnet is about to be launched.