Post🧪 Testnet Phase #2 — Wrap-Up Recap (Rewards Complete)

🧪 Testnet Phase #2 — Wrap-Up Recap (Rewards Complete) Testnet Phase #2 is now officially wrapped - and reward/prize distribution is complete. Phase #2 delivered what we wanted: a stable baseline, meaningful self-managed L3 progress, and a stronger trust + routing foundation to support the more agentic direction of Phase #3. ✅ What We Completed in Phase #2 🔹 Stable baseline achieved - Network/background tasks held steady enough that Phase #2 stats became real signal (usable for routing, not noise) 🔹 Self-managed COR L3 is live as a real track (Testnet-1a / Arbitrum Orbit) - Completed apple-to-apple L3 comparison and stood up Testnet-1a as the self-managed COR L3 environment - Shifted migration + load-testing weight toward self-managed L3 so results are actionable 🔹 Routing filters upgraded using real metrics - Moved toward “earned routing priority” using reliability/behavior/consistency signals - Added QuantitativeStats + QualitativeStats as secondary filters to improve routing quality beyond simple uptime 🔹 Validator engine experiments rolling out (#Ollama + embeddings) - Started deploying Ollama judge models + multiple embedding variants - Reduced environment-specific validator issues while improving scoring consistency + throughput across mixed CPU/GPU setups 🔹 Agent-facing router surfaces expanded - Live + exercised: /delegate v1/v2, /validate v1/v2, and /factcheck - Bardiel dashboard now has mock/example datasets for agent-side iteration (more real data + refinement coming) 🔹 ERC-8004 mainnet agents registered (Corgent + Bardiel) • Corgent + Bardiel are now registered as ERC-8004 mainnet agents backed by the Router Node MCP/prototype stack 🔹 Self-managed L3 ops playbooks completed - Produced ops playbooks for self-managed L3: backups, snapshots, recovery flow, disk space estimates 🔹 Pre-mainnet environments progressed - Pre-mainnet setup/env work is in place - deeper mainnet-identical experiments land in Phase #3 📌 Where Phase #3 Goes From Here Phase #3 is more agentic + router-node iteration: we’ll keep tightening /delegate + /validate surfaces (and likely add more agent-focused endpoints), and we’ll run pre-mainnet experiments on the self-managed L3 setup designed to be identical to mainnet. Thanks to all node operators and testers who made Phase #2 productive end-to-end. https://x.com/cortensor/status/2028040657877815459