Post🧪 Testnet Phase #3 Starts Now

🧪 Testnet Phase #3 Starts Now Testnet Phase #3 is now live. Phase #3 pushes Cortensor from “trust-layer hardening” into economic + agentic hardening - payments/staking become production-shaped, rewards become more repeatable, and router surfaces move closer to agent primitives. 🔹 Privacy feature v0.5 Router key distribution (ACL/signature checks) + dashboard privacy module + dedicated sessions marked private/public 🔹 Payments (SessionPayment “production shape”) Tune unit costs/rebates/surcharges + expand pricing metadata + improve cost attribution + failure handling 🔹 Dynamic pricing activation SLA / depth / redundancy-aware fees via SessionPaymentTable + consistency + manipulation-resistance checks 🔹 Staking-to-use Quotas → auto-deduction + usage buckets + cadence + anti-abuse guardrails (dashboard-visible) 🔹 Rewards (semi-automation) Push reward outputs (CSV) further end-to-end to remove more manual steps (human still final send/batching) + keep tuning level params (capacity/breadth) 🔹 Router surfaces (agent-ready) Iterate /delegate + /validate v3/v4 with policy hints, tool traces, retries/fallbacks + explicit redundancy/consensus attributes + expand factcheck/new endpoints 🔹 Bardiel dashboard + regular test jobs Keep views stable across schema changes + scheduled smoke/regression jobs so examples stay fresh 🔹 Pre-mainnet experiments Mainnet-identical dry runs: ops/reliability, cost mechanics, payment/staking/reward flows, agent-facing behavior 🔹 Self-managed L3 as primary track (Testnet-1a) Ops hardening + runbooks (backups, snapshots, disk estimates) + validate procedures under real incidents 🔹 ERC8004 agent workflows Corgent + Bardiel iteration via router MCP/prototype stack (real agent-facing trust rails) 🔹 Gas profiling iteration Measure deltas vs Phase #2 baseline + keep trimming writes/log spam for mainnet viability 🔹 PyClaw (router-aligned local agent runtime) Phase #3 = design + alignment for Phase #4 implementation/dogfooding 🔹 Core Docs Testnet Phase #3: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/community-testing/testnet-phase-3 PyClaw – local-first agent runtime design: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/products-and-agents/pyclaw /delegate & /validate – next router-node agentic surface - v3: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/products-and-agents/corgent/delegate-and-validate-v3-spec-explicit-redundancy-and-consensus - v4: https://docs.cortensor.network/community-and-ecosystem/products-and-agents/corgent/delegate-and-validate-v4-spec-programmable-consensus-and-receipts Private / Encrypted Inference v0.5: https://docs.cortensor.network/technical-architecture/data-management/private-encrypted-inference/v0.5-contract-backed-acl-for-dedicated-private-sessions-session-based-only https://x.com/cortensor/status/2033399448152490114