test.network is the public testnet site for XE, an open-source Layer 1 protocol for decentralized compute and networking. It is built and operated by XE L1 Ltd., a UK company (registration number 17245674), and everything on this site — the node, the CLI, the wallet, the explorer and these docs — is published under the GPL-3.
XE gives every account its own block chain — a block lattice rather than a single global chain — so transactions are parallel, settle in about three seconds and carry no fee. XE is the native asset and the only one that carries voting weight; XUSD, the stablecoin that will price compute, is specified but not issued on this testnet. On top of the ledger sit signed peer-to-peer chat over libp2p, a multisig-governed state chain for network parameters, and a compute market in which a provider leases a real VM to a consumer and the lease is escrowed, attested and settled on-chain.
The protocol is designed for people and machines alike: an autonomous agent can hold an account, draw from the faucet, pay another agent and, once leasing opens, rent compute — all through the same JSON HTTP API that every node exposes and that this site documents in full, including an OpenAPI 3.1 description at /openapi.json.
XE is pre-1.0 and this is a testnet under active development, so the site is deliberately honest about what works. Today you can build the node, join testnet-0001, create wallets, receive 1,000 XE per account per day from the faucet, send, receive and burn XE, read everything through the REST API and SSE streams, and chat between accounts with signed messages. Compute leasing, XUSD issuance, SSH into leased VMs, GPU compute, end-to-end encrypted messaging and dispute arbitration are built or designed but not yet testable. The testnet may be wiped at any time, and XE on it has no monetary value.
The purpose of the testnet is to be broken: a phased bug bounty pays in native XE at mainnet launch for findings against the active phase, and top bug hunters and heavy users are recognised on mainnet. The mainnet project itself lives at xe.network; this site covers the testnet only.