๐ก๏ธ Validator onboarding is open.
Now they can become part of the network for real: applications for the Orbinum Testnet validator set are open.
Testnet validators are the ones we will know. Uptime, responsiveness, how a node behaves when the network is under load, none of that can be assessed from an application form. It is earned by running one. The operators who secure testnet are the operators we will turn to first for mainnet.
๐ What it takes:
๐น A server with dedicated CPU, ZK verification runs inside block execution
๐น Session keys registered on-chain
๐น Your node visible on telemetry, this one is required
๐น An email to [email protected]
๐ https://t.co/BVooQQ4tCF
We also rewrote the node documentation from scratch. Everything about running a node now lives in one place, whichever role you want:
๐ https://t.co/emteWbUIeC
๐ To everyone already running a node: this is the step we told you was coming.
#Orbinum #Testnet #Validators #Nodes #Infrastructure #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Docker #Mainnet #BuildInPublic
๐ Orbinum: runtime + SDK migration shipped.
Runtime first: validator onboarding moved off-chain, and registering an EVM relay address is now self-service with proof of key ownership. Relay fees are attributed by dispatch origin instead of a call argument, there's no field left for someone to rewrite and claim a fee they never paid for. That's the groundwork for onboarding community validators.
SDK next, and this is the bigger one. Every secret now derives as a sibling branch of the master key instead of a chain. Before, the key that FINDS your notes descended from the key that SPENDS them, you couldn't hand out one without the other.
Separating them unlocks:
๐น Watch-only wallets, a viewing credential that cannot spend, enforced by the type system
๐น Granular upgrades, spending keys, payment slips and viewing keys can now evolve independently
๐น Payment slip recovery
That last one: a slip is sealed toward the recipient, so the sender never held a readable copy. Send it, lose it, note gone. Now your wallet recovers the public facts from chain and seals a fresh envelope with identical contents, without ever reading the original.
You can re-share any note you've ever sent. And sender history is exact, not inferred from "inputs minus change minus fee".
Nothing extra goes on chain for any of it.
โ ๏ธ Breaking identity change: notes are committed under an owner key, so re-deriving orphans them. Unshield before upgrading.
๐ฆ https://t.co/h30uUHEYW5
#Orbinum #Testnet #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Validators #SDK #BuildInPublic
We're excited to announce that Beldex has secured a new round of funding, led by @Sigma_VC and supported by leading venture capital firms.
This investment will accelerate product development, ecosystem growth, and our vision of building privacy infrastructure for Web3.
๐ก Orbinum Testnet: infrastructure update.
We have been working on network architecture and node infrastructure to improve stability, and we just expanded Orbinum's own validator infrastructure with additional nodes.
More validators means more fault tolerance: the network now keeps finalizing even if one of them goes down.
๐ https://t.co/8ed23aU1pX
And thank you to everyone already running a node with us. Several community nodes are on the dashboard right now, and validator onboarding is getting closer, those nodes will officially become part of the Orbinum network.
๐ ๏ธ Not running one yet? Spin up your own RPC node and test against the real network:
๐ https://t.co/4vVy9ZwC4e
Copy an .env.example, fill in a few variables, docker compose up.
#Orbinum #Testnet #Validators #Nodes #Infrastructure #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Docker #BuildInPublic
๐ก Orbinum Testnet telemetry is live.
Our nodes are up and running on the new setup, all of them deployed from node-deploy. See them here:
๐ https://t.co/8ed23aU1pX
Block height, finalized blocks, peers, propagation time and location, live for every node on the network.
๐ ๏ธ You can run one too.
Validator onboarding is coming. In the meantime, spin up your own RPC node and test against the real network:
๐ https://t.co/4vVy9ZwC4e
Copy an .env.example, fill in a few variables, docker compose up. The image ships from GHCR and the chain spec is already in the repo, so there is nothing to build. Your node joins the testnet and shows up on the dashboard next to ours.
Spin one up and tell us what breaks.
#Orbinum #Testnet #Validators #Nodes #Infrastructure #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Docker #BuildInPublic
โก Four weeks of Orbinum Testnet.
Week three doubled down. Week four kept the pace:
๐น 400,000+ blocks produced
๐น 132,000+ transactions, up 45% from week three
๐น 244,000+ commitment leaves in the Merkle tree, up 58%
๐น 91,000+ ORB in the shielded pool, up 36%
Four straight weeks of compounding growth. The shielded pool has grown every single week since day one, and the tree is now 244K leaves deep.
๐ Four weeks. Zero interruptions. And that's on you.
Every transaction you send, every note you shield, every bug you report tells us something we couldn't learn any other way. Real usage at real scale is what exposes the rough edges, and you've been finding them for us week after week. That feedback is going straight back into the protocol: faster flows, smoother wallet experience, fewer surprises. This is exactly what a testnet is for, and it's why Orbinum will reach mainnet solid instead of hopeful. Thank you for building it with us.
Want to verify the numbers yourself? Everything is public:
๐ https://t.co/JHgrtueWEV
Check the Overview and ZK Pool sections. Live blocks, transactions, leaves, and pool size, all on-chain, all verifiable.
#Orbinum #Testnet #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Crypto #EVM #Blockchain #DeFi #Community #Milestone #Scaling
๐งพ Payment Slips for private transfers.
Private transfers just got easier to receive. When you send from your Private Vault, you now get a payment slip, share it, and the recipient imports their funds instantly. No chain scanning on their side.
How it works:
๐น Make a private transfer from your vault
๐น A payment slip is generated with the transfer
๐น Share it with the recipient, any channel you like
๐น They import it and the funds appear. Done.
The slip holds only what the recipient needs to detect the note, no spending keys, so it grants nothing on its own.
๐ How payment slips work โ https://t.co/UFxgSoVrDB
๐Try it โ https://t.co/x7O5krYAdR
Private by default. Instant by design.
#Orbinum #Testnet #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Wallet #BuildInPublic
๐ค Talisman ร Orbinum - fully integrated.
Substrate connection is live. Connect your Talisman wallet to Orbinum and go private: shield, transfer, unshield, straight from the wallet you already use.
Huge thanks to the @wearetalisman team for accepting our collaboration request and working with us on exactly what we were looking for: a secure way to bring the Substrate ecosystem into Orbinum.
New here? Four steps and you're in:
๐น Download Talisman โ https://t.co/iQ6hfpM2lz
๐น Create a Substrate address in the wallet
๐น Grab free ORB from the faucet โ https://t.co/aqOzn0zkJ4
๐น Connect & try it โ https://t.co/x7O5krYAdR
Full detail for the curious ๐
๐ https://t.co/QiNaYhDK7P
#Orbinum #Talisman #Substrate #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Crypto #Wallet #Blockchain #DeFi
The first screen you open matters.
It shouldn't just show markets.
It should show where attention is moving.
Who's buying.
What conviction is building.
Which conversations matter.
Markets are only half the story.
๐ก๏ธ 1,000 RTs. Faster than we expected.
The draw just doubled: 10 winners ร 1,000 $ORB Credits.
Still open. Shield any amount on testnet, reply with your hash, you're in.
Never shielded before? Two minutes:
๐ฐ Faucet: https://t.co/aqOzn0zkJ4
๐ How to shield: https://t.co/DNo0wWbZAO
๐ก๏ธ Shielded Pool: https://t.co/x7O5krYAdR
Closes Monday, August 10 - 00:00 UTC. Go break the link.
#Orbinum #Testnet #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Crypto #Giveaway #Community
๐ Unshield to any address.
Withdrawals used to land in your own wallet. Now you pick: paste any Substrate (SS58) or EVM address.
The proof always treated the recipient as a public input, the interface was the part that assumed it was you. Shield from EVM, withdraw to Substrate. Or the reverse.
Note: the destination is public on-chain. The pool keeps your history private, the exit is visible. A fresh address keeps it that way.
โก Three extra on-chain quests
Shield, private transfer, and unshield now each have an optional counterpart, 15 credits, 3 per week, once per day.
They don't touch your streak, so missing one costs nothing. Each needs its own transaction.
๐น Faucet now drips 5 ORB, down from 10. Same 24h cooldown. More testers, same tap, better it keeps flowing than runs dry.
๐น Seed Sale is closed. $0.014 was the earliest price there will ever be. Thank you to everyone who came in early.
The testnet keeps running. Credits still convert at mainnet.
๐ https://t.co/5Ra4JUfNCQ
๐ https://t.co/aqOzn0zkJ4
๐ https://t.co/JHgrtueWEV
Privacy you control, all the way to the exit.
#Orbinum #Testnet #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Crypto #EVM #Blockchain #DeFi #Quests
โ๏ธ Runtime upgrade live on Orbinum Testnet.
Multi-Tree Forest is shipped. The 1,048,576-note ceiling is gone.
When a Merkle tree fills up, the network seals it and opens a fresh one, automatically. Sealed trees keep a permanent root, so every note inside stays spendable forever. No caps, no migration, no action needed from you.
Zero changes to circuits or transaction formats. Your wallet didn't need an update. It just kept working
๐ Where we stand: 88,000+ commitments, 8.4% of the first tree. The first rollover is roughly a million notes away, we built it before we needed it, which is the only time worth building it.
Privacy that stops scaling stops being privacy. This one doesn't stop.
๐ https://t.co/y4AC4WyymL
#Orbinum #Testnet #ZK #Privacy #Web3 #Crypto #EVM #Blockchain #DeFi #Scaling #Milestone