Public Testnet

The testnet is the public infrastructure for developers. It runs on top of the beta releases of IOTA software and runs a faucet to easily get tokens for testing.

Public Infrastructure

The IOTA Foundation currently provides the following public load-balanced testnet endpoints:

• Node API: https://api.testnet.shimmer.network
  • Example info endpoint: https://api.testnet.shimmer.network/api/core/v2/info
  • Available routes: https://api.testnet.shimmer.network/api/routes
  • Health endpoint: https://api.testnet.shimmer.network/health
• MQTT: wss://api.testnet.shimmer.network:443/api/mqtt/v1
• Faucet Info API: https://faucet.testnet.shimmer.network/api/info
• Faucet Enqueue API: https://faucet.testnet.shimmer.network/api/enqueue
• Chronicle API: https://chronicle.testnet.shimmer.network

These endpoints have MQTT (via WebSockets and raw TCP) exposed and offer the HTTP REST API (according to this specifications TIP-25, TIP-26 over TLS.