public testnet

The NetCoin front door.

Start keeps the beginner path simple while still making every public NetCoin surface reachable: wallet, pay, faucet, explorer, downloads, docs, operators, merchants, developers, governance, security, treasury, and labs.

Open wallet Create payment link Search Explorer

First five minutes

Create or unlock a wallet.
Save the seed phrase somewhere offline.
Request faucet coins.
Send a small test payment or create a Pay link.
Paste the txid or address into Explorer.

WalletNon-custodial browser wallet for receiving, sending, contacts, activity, and local profiles. PaySimple payment requests, links, QR-friendly flows, and receipts for normal users. FaucetRequest public-testnet NET. Faucet coins have no real-money value. ExplorerSearch addresses, transactions, blocks, mempool, peers, and fee estimates. DownloadInstall from GitHub, launch a local wallet, run a node, or mine from your own hardware. CommunityQuestions, ideas, bounties, contributor coordination, and public discussion.

For regular users

Keep these together: Wallet, Pay, Faucet, Explorer, Learn, Download, and Community.

Wallet Pay Faucet Learn

For merchants

Merchant stays separate from Pay because it needs invoices, POS checkout, reporting, refunds, API keys, and webhooks.

Merchant hub API Docs

For builders

Developers, API, docs, SDK notes, app-layer examples, status, and release checks live in the builder path.

Developers Docs Status

For operators

Node runners should use Network, Status, Security, and Download for seed health, versions, checks, and setup.

Network Status Security

For governance

Community remains informal. Governance and Treasury are separate for formal proposals, roadmap decisions, and grants.

Community Governance Treasury

For labs

Experimental markets and app-layer demos live in Markets Labs so the beginner wallet/pay path stays clean.

Markets Labs Safety notes

Pay basics

For normal users, Pay is just a payment link: address, amount, memo, and receipt. Merchants who need invoices, API keys, webhooks, refunds, or reports should use Merchant.

Open Pay Merchant tools

Community basics

Use Community for public discussion, questions, ideas, bounties, and contributor coordination. Use Governance only when an idea needs a formal proposal or vote.

Open Community Governance

Network and node ops

Operators should use Network for public seeds, versions, peers, mining, service health, and the new read-only public seed check tool.

python tools/check_public_network.py

Network hub

Build with NetCoin

Builders should use Developers/API for endpoint docs, SDK starters, webhooks, app-layer examples, and local development notes.

Developer hub

Security baseline

NetCoin is educational public-testnet software. Never share a private key or seed phrase. Verify downloads, keep admin tools private, and treat self-hosted services as test systems.

Security center