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Testnet

Everything gets proven on testnet-10 before it touches real money. That's not a suggestion — it's how every serious covenant project on Kaspa works, and test KAS is free.

The network

The current public test network for covenant work is testnet-10. It runs the same post-Toccata rules as mainnet, so a covenant proven there behaves the same with real funds.

Test funds

The community faucet at faucet.kaspanet.io dispenses test KAS (it sits behind a bot-check, so open it in a normal browser). If it's dry or down, the developer channels of the Kaspa Discord are the reliable fallback.

Connecting a node

Run your own rusty-kaspa node with --testnet, or use the public node network's resolver endpoints, which follow this wRPC pattern:

https://<resolver>/v2/kaspa/testnet-10/tls/wrpc/borsh

Wallets that support custom RPC (KasWare among them) can be pointed at a testnet endpoint the same way.

Seeing your work

kascov.io serves testnet-10 as well as mainnet — covenants, KCC-20 holdings and trades are all inspectable there, which is how you verify a deploy did what you meant.

Checked 2026-09-10: kascov.io responds and serves testnet-10; the faucet exists behind bot protection (couldn't be exercised by this site's checker); the resolver URL pattern is as documented for the public node network. Anything that stops being true shows up in the site's link checks.