The Insolar TestNet was launched in January 2019 and in its version 1.0 managed to fulfil expectations in demonstrating a throughput of over 10,000 transactions per second (tx/s). The second and current version, TestNet 1.1, was optimized and external participants were invited to join the network to test the stability of the network when nodes outside of Insolar’s control are deployed.

TestNet 1.1 exceeded expectations by demonstrating a throughput in excess of 19,000 tx/s in a network of 20 nodes. Since then, external participants in the form of leading educational institutions and private companies have joined the TestNet. Let’s take a closer look at three of the universities who have deployed an Insolar node.

UC Berkeley

During Insolar’s participation in Berkeley’s Blockchain Xcelerator Program, the university opted to deploy an Insolar node and become part of the TestNet. UC Berkeley is the number one public university worldwide and ranked second nationally in the US for blockchain educational institutes. The node has been deployed by the California university’s Blockchain X-Lab as part of the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.

York University

York University in Toronto, Canada, was one of the first external participants in the Insolar TestNet. The university is home to blockchain.lab, an innovation center for blockchain education and research. The research center is involved in blockchain-based projects with the United Nations, Canada’s Ministry of Agriculture and Don Tapsott’s Blockchain Research Institute and was recently nominated for an award, recognizing their research to leverage blockchain to push the boundaries of new business models.

University of Sibiu — Connected Intelligence Research Cente

The Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (ULBS) is a public university in Romania, with a distinguished engineering faculty. The university is one of the oldest Romanian universities with a tradition of over 225 years in higher education and partnerships with over 100 universities all over the world. The Connected Intelligence Research Center (INCON) within ULBS is made up of a team of academic researchers and industry professionals with the mission to conduct interdisciplinary research and innovation activities in the field of engineering human-centered smart systems. INCON runs an Insolar node on a virtual machine allocated from one of it’s dedicated data centers.

Following the TestNet

Insolar’s TestNet 1.1 demonstrated that the network is able to remain stable and process transactions with the participation of external nodes. This bodes well for the launch of the Enterprise Platform SDK and MainNet launch on September 30, 2019.

The MainNet will be a public blockchain network which anyone can join and open a wallet. Initially, all nodes will be held by Insolar, with external nodes allocated at a later stage.

The Enterprise SDK Platform is a code that will be released for businesses to launch their own Insolar networks. This will be separate from the MainNet and is intended primarily for private network usage. However, we are building the solution to allow the construction of hybrid networks, in which public and private Insolar networks are able to interact.

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