Announcing Kovan — A Stable Ethereum Public Testnet
1 min readMar 6, 2017
The ten organisations that collaborated on Kovan testnet are:
- Digix — Asset Tokenisation Platform
- Etherscan — Ethereum Block Explorer
- Parity Technologies — Developer of the Parity Ethereum Client
- Attores — Smart Contracts as a Service Provider
- Maker — Stablecoin Platform
- OneBit by TenX — Real world payments with Blockchain Assets
- Blockchain Industries — Blockchain Consultants
- MelonPort — Digital Asset Management Platform
- Nivaura — Financial Instrument Issuance and Administration Technology
- GridSingularity — Decentralized Energy Data Application Platform
In line with the Morden and Ropsten naming convention, Kovan is named after a metro station in Singapore — home of Digix, Attores and TenX — where the initial proposal for the Kovan public testnet was drafted at the SGInnovate co-working space. For information on connecting to the live Kovan testnet and using the faucet service, please read the configuration guide at, or join the gitter channel for support.
