AnarchyNet is a pared down test-version of our mainnet. It will continue to grow and evolve as we continue to develop pieces of the puzzle. It is currently running on Amazon Web Servers, using the bare-bones consensus models we currently have in place, but these will be refined further as we continue to build out our governance models. Right now we are operating with a 4–4–4 setup- 4 masternodes, 4 witnesses, and 4 delegates. The masternodes are fully sharded, but the delegates are fixed. The next step will be to create the governance system that allows mutability between nodes.

How can I use it and what does it do?

The testnet is free to use. You can try it out for yourself here. It uses a new token called Dark Tau. You can of course send Dark Tau, as you could with the old testnet, but what we’re really excited about is the first version of the smart contracting system which is now live. With AnarchyNet, you can now try out our smart contract language and submit new smart contracts and transact against them. Guides on how to develop and deploy these will be coming in January.

If you would like to obtain Dark Tau to test. Come join us in our Telegram, and speak with one of our awesome community members or team members.

This is primarily going to be a sandbox for developers to play with. You can experiment with our development language, Seneca, which is a subset of the Python language. If you currently code in Python, this will look familiar to you.

What’s Next?

With the coming weeks being Christmas and New Years, and having met a very large milestone with the launch of AnarchyNet, we are happy to offer our team a well-deserved vacation for the next two weeks. During these weeks, we will not be posting development updates.

Our team will be back at 100% starting on January 7th, 2019. Once back, we will get to work on the next important phase of development. We will be working on:

AnarchyNet and Seneca documentation

Tutorials for developing simple and advanced smart contracts for our ecosystem

Bug Bounties for AnarchyNet

An official Dark Tau faucet

Continued development of governance and consensus protocols

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