Paseo is Polkadot's testnet. It is decentralized, community run and stable! Paseo is for Parachain teams and dapp developers to build on. The below guide will show you how to interact with the testnet as a developer, infrastructure provider and as an end user.
The network is funded by the Polkadot Treasury for operation and maintance since 2024. These are the treasury proposals that have helped maintain Paseo running:
- https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/464#e5af1f3c-8e7d-4f1f-b6a0-d1dab9f05c23
- https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1487
Paseo is for Parachains and dapp builders to build and test their applications ontop of a stable testnet. Another testnet exists: Westend. Which hosts all protocol testing. While Westend can be less stable it is the environment to test new protocol changes while they are being prepared for quality control and later release.
- https://paseo.subscan.io/
- https://paseo.statescan.io/
- EVM contracts: https://blockscout-passet-hub.parity-testnet.parity.io/
Users are welcome to test governance related features. However, most priviledged operations are executed via a priviledged key controlled by the maintainers of the testnet.
There is always ongoing work being made to the testnet. The work is kept in public repositories, namely:
- https://github.com/paseo-network/paseo-active-submissions
- https://github.com/paseo-network/paseo-chain-specs
- https://github.com/paseo-network/passet-hub
- https://github.com/paseo-network/runtimes
- https://github.com/paseo-network/support
Changes to the network are covered by raising a PAS (Paseo Action Submission). Similar to EIPs these are to document changes to how the network will progress. Anyone is able to raise a PAS for review by the maintainers of the network. The raised PASs can be found at:
All actions made on the relay chain, will need to be made in $PAS
- Faucet -> https://paritytech.github.io/polkadot-testnet-faucet/
- Guide on how to interact with the faucet -> https://medium.com/p/8c2fbe45b603
Are you a team deploying on Paseo that wants to make their tokens availabe on the fuacet for builders? Please reach out by opening a support issue at:
Please read -> https://github.com/paseo-network/paseo-action-submission/blob/main/pas/PAS-1-onboard_infrastructure_providers.md
Q. How do I obtain coretime in Paseo ?
One can obtain coretime in Paseo by participating on coretime sales, just like in production. After getting some tokens from the faucet one can easily participate in sales via: https://app.regionx.tech/?network=paseo
Q. I want to test new Polkadot features that aren’t yet on Polkadot, can I do this on Paseo?
Only after they have been included in a runtime release by the polkadot fellowship. One of they key ways to keep Paseo stable is by only deploying code that has been deemed of certian quality by the Polkadot fellows.
Q. Who is managing Paseo ?
The maintainers of the testnet is a distributed group of contributors taking care of the testnet runtimes and its infrastructure. The exact list can be seen at: https://github.com/paseo-network/paseo-action-submission/
Q. Are there any SLAs for incident management?
Yes, find them at: https://github.com/paseo-network/paseo-action-submission/blob/main/pas/PAS-2-core-support-model.md
Q. Will it be possible to access the logs from the Relay and System chains?
Yes, most infrastructure providers send logs to a centralized logging service that can be accessed at: https://grafana.paseo.site/
Q. I am a bit lost or I need further support, what do I do?
The best way of contacting the involved contributors are:
- Open an issue at: https://github.com/paseo-network/support
- Join the public paseo matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#paseo-testnet-support:parity.io
Please join this public Matrix channel in order to get the latest updates about Paseo network:
https://matrix.to/#/#paseo-announcements:matrix.org
Please join this public Matrix channel in order to reach out to the team and other involved players of the Paseo network:
https://matrix.to/#/#paseo-testnet-support:parity.io
The chain-specs for the Paseo Relay and its system chains can be found in the following repository:
