Pearl is Live

As August comes to a close, we're pleased to announce that Pearl, the latest test network for Gno.land, is live. Pearl, the next iteration after Sapphire, is a new chain, not a hardfork. Notice: Pearl is an experimental test network.

As it was with Sapphire, no state carries over from the previous testnet, so balances, realms, and registered names all start at zero. To participate, you'll have to receive GNOT from the faucet and re-register your names.

Chain Details

Chain ID: pearl-1
Release tag: chain/pearl
85 curated packages at genesis
3 founding validators with operator keyed valoper profiles, namespace enforcement (r/sys/names) live from block 1
3 pre-funded faucet accounts
Protocol-level test transfers enabled
Genesis built from the repo's examples/ tree in about a minute, booting in seconds
Code baseline: master c04f8793d, 25 commits ahead of Sapphire's baseline
Target commit: c4c72fdd2
Full release comparison: sapphire...pearl
Release candidate PR: #6091

At 3 validators weighted 60 power each, one validator going offline sits exactly at the one-third halt boundary. This has been accepted for launch and will be addressed as additional validator partners join.

What's New in Pearl?

The headline addition in this release is genesis vesting accounts. The genesis builder now supports a configurable list of vested accounts, where continuous schedules unlock linearly and delayed schedules unlock as a cliff. Malformed entries, duplicate accounts, and invalid schedules are all caught and rejected before any node runs, and vesting account creation is now exercised on every build. Pearl ships with ten vested test accounts covering the full schedule matrix, including accounts already fully vested at genesis, several linear unlock windows, cliff schedules, a future start date, and one schedule straddling genesis itself.

Breaking / Consensus Relevant Updates

Inert-package flow completed, including a MsgRun allowlist and delegated params (#6088, #6093)
AddPackage now type checks production files only, while test files are stored and syntax parsed (#6025)
Three separate cases where coins could be lost or over-authorized around the send envelope are fixed (#6062)
GovDAO allowlist lockdown, proposal page escaping, and executor disclosure (#6068)
Per-file Go version now pinned in the consensus type-check (#5978)

VM Correctness

Type-switch with a sole case nil: fixed (#5766)
Clause-local names on switch fallthrough (#6056)
goto out of nested loops (#5963)
Map composite-literal keys inside for loops (#6037)
ComputeMapKey now metered on the realm-restore path (#5710)
Unsupported tilde operator now rejected at parse time (#6057)

Performance

Size-aware encode, decode, and render paths (commit acd01fa29)
Runtime blocks recycled through a per machine pool (#5813)
Vestigial Defer.Parent dropped (#5856)

New Features

grc721 core rewritten on the Token/PrivateLedger/Teller axis, with stackable metadata, royalty, and enumerable extensions (#6072, #6073)
GnoVM chain params reader API (#6094)
p2p: config.P2P.Seeds wired into the switch (#6023), plus a dial loop backoff fix (#6054)
New audit pattern harness with executable security pattern fixtures (#5835)

Genesis + Binaries

genesis.json — verify with sha256sum before use:

c45fe60c8c8a1f859d9e4d5aad7ce4d100ff0eb78302e71318ba0de481a8dc91  genesis.json

Prebuilt gno, gnokey, gnoland, and gnoweb binaries for darwin/linux × amd64/arm64, with a CHECKSUMS.txt covering every asset
Do you want to regenerate genesis or join as a validator? See the Pearl deployment docs

Validators

Please refer to the Pearl validator guide to join as a validator. Further announcements will be made in the testnet announcements channel on Discord.

Disclaimer

Tokens on Pearl testnet have no real world value, and participation is for testing purposes only.

Tags: #gnoland #ecosystem #updates #pearl #community #blog

Written by ryanlee19 on 27 Aug 2026

Published by g1manfred47kzduec920z88wfr64ylksmdcedlf5 to Gno.land's blog