Announcing the Namada Mainnet Release Candidate and the Namada Mainnet Security Program
The Namada Mainnet candidate release has just been published and is ready for community review. Join the discussion on the Namada forum.
With the publication of the mainnet release candidate, we are also launching the Namada Mainnet Security Program, a program to reward individuals and organizations for finding security-critical bugs in the Namada protocol.
The Namada Mainnet Release
The Namada mainnet release is the protocol version related to this proposed decentralized mainnet launch roadmap. This release comes with the core protocol features required to traverse all five phases.
We are confident that Namada can be launched by the community with this release. Starting with Phase 1, genesis community members will be able to stake NAM to secure the network, create governance proposals (such as those needed to succeed each of the proposed mainnet phases), and vote on governance proposals.
The development of the Namada protocol started in 2022. The Namada protocol code and its specifications have been open-source since Day 1. Ever since, the ecosystem has grown a lot, and the protocol wouldn’t be where it is today without the help of many folks including Knowable, Informal Systems, Heliax, and the hundreds of validator operators that have been relentlessly testing the protocol.
The mainnet release is a result of years of internal testing and red teaming by the developer community, external audits – as well as many private, public, and incentivized testnets, such as the Shielded Expedition, where more than 10,469 pilots (validator operators) and 129,238 crew (individual network) participants signed up.
Members of the Namada community have signaled an interest in leading the launch together with the other validator operators and contributors. Our understanding is that the Namada community intends to continue to red team and test the mainnet release, and when there is rough social consensus that the software, the parameters, and the token balances are mainnet ready, the community will coordinate the launch of the Namada mainnet.
Although the Foundation stewarded the code to the highest industry standards, Namada and its software are new and experimental, so participants should take care not to risk more than they are prepared to lose. A mainnet environment is unique from any kind of testnet environment, and despite numerous audits and red-teaming efforts, there are no guarantees that the protocol will behave exactly as expected.
During the initial phases, adjustments, upgrades, and enhancements might be needed and will be brought by the Namada community of validators, developers, users, enthusiasts and believers that continue to test and use the network.
The Namada Mainnet Security Program
In conjunction with this release, the Namada Mainnet Security Program (NMSP) initiative is being set up to help support efforts to ensure that Namada is a secure protocol and network. The NMSP will reward teams and individuals for discovering and reporting new, security-critical bugs in the Namada protocol.
The Namada Mainnet Security Program
The Namada Mainnet Security Program (NMSP) is an initiative to reward teams and individuals for discovering and reporting new security-critical bugs in the Namada protocol.
All security-critical Namada designs and implementations are covered by the NMSP. We are committed to working in good faith with anyone who believes that they have found a bug in the Namada stack.
Find more information about the NMSP on the Namada website.
Discuss the Mainnet Release – Join the Namada Community Forum
We hope to see the Namada community reviewing and testing this release candidate before deciding to launch mainnet, and so we welcome any feedback on the protocol as well as any submissions to the NMSP.