Active PIVX.Ninja - Testnet

[Alexxiy]

Title: PIVX.Ninja - PIVX Testnet Maintenance & Development
Name: pivxninja-testnet
Term: 3 Cycles
Cycle Amnt: 15000 PIVX
Total Amnt: 45000 PIVX
Author: Alexxiy
Receiver: Alexxiy
Address: D7w1tei3fcoUReh25W6owyGRe4HVhXqaKZ
Created: June 18, 2026
Status: Active
Vote hash: 08835ff98f460cf4900bf65bad23bce62df2a039f92b35b23a1718663a609a21

PIVX.Ninja - PIVX Testnet Maintenance & Development
https://testnet.pivx.ninja

Overview
The PIVX.Ninja team is seeking funding to maintain, scale, and actively support PIVX Testnet infrastructure. A robust, highly available test network is the bedrock of safe ecosystem expansion, allowing developers to build, test, and deploy decentralized applications, wallet integrations, and protocol updates without risking real mainnet capital.

Unlike typical proposals that request funding for speculative concepts or future milestones, the PIVX.Ninja team operates on a "Deliver First, Fund Second" philosophy. We have already completely built out, deployed, and launched a comprehensive suite of Testnet tools. This proposal is strictly to help cover the ongoing operational infrastructure costs, system administration, and continued scaling of these already live services over the next 3 cycles.


Commitments & Standards
The PIVX.Ninja team is committed to ensuring high-availability uptime (99.9%) across all deployed public services. We pledge to maintain open communication channels with developers, external integration teams, and the general community. Routine infrastructure status updates, performance statistics, and software upgrades tracking the core repository will be communicated transparently via updates on the Telegram.


Completed Work & Current Infrastructure
We have built and currently operate a fully functional sandbox ecosystem for PIVX developers. The following components are already live and publicly accessible:

Testnet Block Explorer: A block explorer dedicated entirely to the PIVX Testnet. This enables seamless tracking of test transactions, address and network monitoring.
MyPivxWallet (MPW) for Testnet: A complete test-facing deployment of the accessible web/light wallet interface. Developers and users can easily create transactions for any kinnd of testing for the blockchain-related app (payment tracker, payment processing).
Testnet Faucet: A reliable, secure faucet system to distribute free test tokens to developers and community members on demand, ensuring a friction-free onboarding experience for anyone trying to build on top of PIVX.
20 Testnet Nodes: To guarantee network stability, block validation consensus, and accurate replication of mainnet peering behavior, our team currently runs and maintains 20 independent Testnet nodes.


Future Scaling & Budget Breakdown
While the network is stable today, maintaining a multi-node, multi-service architecture incurs tangible, recurring monthly infrastructure costs. Over the course of the requested 3 cycles, the requested 15,000 PIVX per cycle will be allocated toward:

Node Expansion: Upgrading and increasing the current pool of 20 nodes to a higher number to guarantee maximum decentralized topology and prevent single-point-of-failure routing issues during intensive protocol stress testing.
VPS & Dedicated Hosting Fees: Covering bare-metal or high-performance VPS environments required to handle simultaneous database reads/writes for the Explorer, continuous API queries, and protection against malicious script spamming on the Faucet.
Maintenance & DevOps Overhead: Routine system administration, security hardening, log analysis, tracking upstream PIVX Core daemon updates, and deploying rapid patches to ensure the test suite mirrors near-production scenarios perfectly.


Why Vote YES on PIVX.Ninja?
This proposal represents zero risk to the DAO budget. The tools are not drawings on a roadmap; they are live software that the community can use right now. By backing the PIVX.Ninja infrastructure proposal, you are voting to directly protect, sustain, and expand a production-ready testing ground that is vital for every developer, exchange integration teams, and auditor in the PIVX network.

We look forward to receiving community feedback, addressing any technical questions, and continuing our work to make PIVX development as seamless as possible.

 

[Eric_Stanek]

This proposal is interesting, but I have questions and concerns.

1. Testnet should be 'official'.

It is really cool that you guys have done what you have so far. But, we have no clue who you are, and your GitHub profiles are not visible with the exception of Alexxiy, for which I only see 2 crypto related commits, for BlockBook, and nothing else.

Don't get me wrong - we absolutely want to see our Dev team grow, and anything to help build the PIVX ecosystem is welcome. We've got a bunch of apps that span various technologies. So, there is room for most any good Dev to get involved. But, we are dealing with people's money here - so the sooner you start interacting with the Dev Team, the faster TRUST can be developed. That is crucial. Please join the Labs Discord and introduce yourselves. Link is here: https://pivxla.bz/


2. What version is your testnet going to be?

The Core Team is gearing up to launch a testnet, to support the testing of v6.0. If you are running v5.6.1, then that creates an issue. It could cause the v6.0 testnet to constantly fork.


3. Are you aware of v6.0 DMN Quorum requirements?

Last I heard, there needs to be a minimum number of nodes on testnet running IPv4, IPv6, and Tor to support Quorum for DMN. I do not recall the exact numbers, but it is WAY more than 20 nodes - for each protocol.


4. Budget is TIGHT right now!

I know that the PIVX Team is getting ready to submit a proposal for v6.0 testnet infrastructure. Obviously, we are going to want to see that funded first.


My personal position:

Depending on the above points, your proposal may help - or hinder. I will wait for feedback from the PIVX Team before deciding if I am going to support this proposal. Having said that, if this proposal ends up failing, please do not consider it a rejection. The pass/fail ONLY states if funds are to be paid out or not. Those that vote may be HAPPY to see you get involved in PIVX, but perhaps want to see trust built first, or that maybe you maintain a testnet AFTER we have released v6.0. Sometimes it is possible to know such details from comments here, but many MNOs never comment so it is often a guess.

Good Luck!