The purpose of the alpha testnet is to make our blockchain development public.

While the testnet is in alpha, the network will reset and start from a genesis block at a frequent rate, as it allows us to publish new features and updates at a faster rate, and so community delegates and developers can get a feeling for the ecosystem before the mainnet is released.

The development of new features will take place on branches in the official Github repository and on private repositories (before being publicized), depending on the type of feature.

A testnet NOS faucet will be released in the future, allowing the community to run nodes, vote, and stake and transfer NOS in a more decentralized manner.