Enter the Adversarial Testnet Arena
Stress-test Aztec's decentralized future. Slash bad actors.
Propose, attest, and govern — the training wheels are coming off.
Fully Decentralized From Day 1
Aztec is bringing programmable end-to-end privacy to Ethereum, powered by a fully decentralized, permisionless network of sequencers and provers. Adversarial Testnet is designed to test all the decentralization mechanisms to ensure the network is fully in the hands of the community.
Slashing
Slashing on Aztec is a critical security mechanism that allows validators to penalizes others who fail to stay online or attempt malicious activity. For Adversarial Testnet, all the slashing mechanisms are being tested to prepare them for real-world conditions and ensure unreliable validators are removed quickly and fairly.
Governance
Aztec's decentralized governance system is being put to the test—where validators take full control of proposing, voting on, and executing network upgrades. Testing of the full governance system ensures that the community can steer the protocol's future and is ready to launch the first fully decentralized L2 on Ethereum.
Perform Like a Pro
Utilize a community-built dashboard to track your validator performance. Claim your node to show off your performance with your X handle and username.
Permissionlessly Join the Validator Set
Use ZKPassport to verify your humanity and join the validator set - all without revealing your identity. ZKPassport utilizes zero-knowledge proofs to prove you hold a valid passport without your passport info leaving your phone. Once verified, you'll be added to a daily queue that will let 75 verified validators in daily based on on order in line.
Gather in the Town Square
The Adversarial Testnet will include product milestones to test slashing, governance upgrades, and network resilience. For each milestone, you can compete in mini contests that will recognize top node operators based on performance metrics like attestations, uptime, and epoch proofs — with rewards like community shoutouts and node hardware.
