Lava Network · Public Testnet

A testnet secured by real validators, not marketing.

Lava is a decentralized blockchain in active development. Before mainnet, we're running a public testnet where community validators help us monitor uptime, stress-test consensus, and surface bugs. Create a validator account to track your participation on the live dashboard below — all figures are pulled directly from our Firestore ledger, nothing here is simulated.

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Validators
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Total Network Uptime
Our Mission

Blockchains are too slow to feel real-time. We're fixing that.

Lava is being built from the ground up around one target: transaction finality in under 0.5 seconds — fast enough that sending value feels as instant as sending a message. Every validator running on this testnet is helping us stress-test consensus and networking under real conditions, so that by mainnet, speed isn't a compromise — it's the default.

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Target Transaction Finality

How validator tracking works

01

Create a validator account

Sign up with an email and password. Your password is handled entirely by Firebase Authentication — Lava never stores or sees the raw value.

02

Run your validator client

Your uptime is measured by your own validator app or extension while it's actually running — not by keeping a browser tab open. Real activity, real numbers.

03

Climb the leaderboard

Rank, total network uptime, and online-validator counts are all computed live from Firestore queries — no placeholder numbers, ever.

Roadmap

PHASE 1

Public Testnet

Community validators help stress-test the network, report bugs, and build up verifiable uptime history. You're here now.

PHASE 2

Validator Client v1

A published, verifiable validator client that reports real activity directly — no browser tab required to stay counted.

PHASE 3

Mainnet & Rewards

Testnet participation and uptime history feed into how early mainnet rewards are considered for active validators.