Take your seats and fasten your seatbelts — the evan.network mainnet is ready to fly!
It's now been almost a year since we’ve launched the evan.network testnet. With this, our goal was to gain experience in different topics with the focus on building a blockchain infrastructure that can be used and simultaneously operated by companies. To get there we had to answer a lot of questions.
How open must the structure be? What level of encryption is required? How do we create stable transaction costs? And many more.
Today we are happy to inform you that we have successfully launched the evan.network mainnet. On February 15 on 10:48 UTC the first block on the evan.network mainnet was written.
Probably the biggest difference to testnet is that with mainnet we support blocks with a maximum of 60.000.000 Gas at a block time of 3 seconds. The chain also has a focus on neutrality with an authority concept where new signers are included with a voting mechanism and also an open governance system which is managed and owned via smart contracts.
Launching a new public authority blockchain is not as easy as pressing “START” and then all is done. You have to organize and manage all authorities which should be included as a validator of blocks and set up the infrastructure with necessary monitoring and events. Additional security mechanisms must be ensured and you have to define how your chain should work and act.
Because once you start it, you can’t undo it.
The start was out of public scope to test the stability and integrity of the chain with the new block sizes. Also, we had to deploy and integrate our enterprise services on the newly created chain.
The initial phase of the mainnet took us about two weeks to test our deployed services for stability. The tests of all enterprise services were successful and now we’re going to the next phase with the onboarding of additional authorities on the network. Initially, we’re focusing on onboard 10 different authorities validating transactions and signing blocks.
In the next weeks, several customer projects will move from the testnet to the mainnet and go productive with their use case on evan.network.
The launch consists not only the blockchain. Also, the decentralized storage to store your assets which are referenced on the deployed contracts went live. These files are stored with a redundancy factor of 5 to ensure the decentralized availability to nearly 100%. To pay the used storage different payment channels manage the microtransactions on the chain.
You can now create your profile on the evan.network mainnet for free on https://dashboard.evan.network and look around what’s been done so far.
Btw. our testnet switched to https://dashboard.test.evan.network.
If you want to interact with evan.network mainnet, you must buy some EVE’s to pay your transactions. EVE is the evan.networks internal token and represents a right to use the services provided by the network. Unlike similar Blockchains the EVE is defined to be stable and is traded neither publicly nor anywhere else.
Here are some technical facts about the mainnet for the techies.
- Name: evan.network core
- PoA Engine: AuRa
- Step duration: 3 seconds
- Block Gas Limit: 60.000.000
- Network ID: 49262 (0xC06E)
- Chain ID: 49262 (0xC06E)
- WASM Activation: 0
- Homestead: 0
- Byzantinum: 0
- Constantinople: 0
- Petersfork: 0
Informational URLs for the mainnet:
Ethereum Network Status
Status of the authority nodes for the evan.network mainnet
status.evan.network
And the full spec file:
https://github.com/evannetwork/core-config/blob/master/core.json
We’re excited to officially launch our mainnet to the public world and start the journey with you!
Check out the latest news about the evan.network here.
