Topaz is Live

We’re pleased to announce that Topaz, the latest test network for Gno.land, is live. Topaz is the next iteration after Test13, and it is a new chain, not a hardfork. Notice: Topaz is an experimental test network.

Because no state carries over from Test13, balances, realms, and registered names all start at zero. You’ll have to receive GNOT from the faucet and re-register your names. Test13 will sunset within the next 24 hours.

Chain Details

Chain ID: topaz-1
90 curated packages at genesis
2 founding validators, namespace enforcement (r/sys/names) live from block 1
10 pre-funded faucets
Unrestricted token transfers
Code baseline: master 959cefd91, 133 commits ahead of Test13

What’s New in Topaz?

Breaking / Consensus-relevant Updates

fix(grc20)!: token id decoupled from symbol (#5908)
secp256k1 validator keys no longer supported (#5949)
package name must match the last path element at addpkg (#5048)
cockroachdb/apd replaced by math/big.Rat in the VM (#5867)
type-check + preprocess gas now metered at AddPackage/Run (#5892)

VM Correctness

Notable fixes from the large batch of gnovm fixes are:

interface-bound method dispatch (#5737)
embedded field/method lookup (#5721, #5739)
deterministic type-check verdicts (#5893)
tuple assignment order (#5790)
map-delete object reclaim (#5882, #5899)

New Features

sub-realm identities via realm.Sub(subpath) (#5890)
mempackage storage split into prod and test blobs (#5891)
vesting accounts PoC (#5840)
tm2 p2p address book (#5861)
concurrent ABCI queries via snapshot isolation (#5431)
gnoweb package overview source doc (#5572)

Genesis / Operator Tooling

loud genesis-replay failures (#5924)
GnoTxMetadata provenance fields (#5925)
unified genesis signature-skip for replay txs (#5926)
gnogenesis fork provenance, tx patching + inspect (#5927)
valid, payable fork valoper-seed output (#5928)
gnogenesis verify -skip-signature-check (#5944)

Genesis + Binaries

genesis.json (verify with sha256sum)
Prebuilt gno, gnokey, gnoland, gnoweb binaries for darwin/linux × amd64/arm64

Want to regenerate genesis? See here.

Validators

Please refer to this link to join Topaz as a Validator. Once your validator is up and synced, you will have to register your valoper profile again with the same operator address you used in Test13. This enables us to add you directly to the Topaz valset. The team will soon announce on Discord when Test13 will sunset in order to simplify the validator migration process.