Fuse Ember Testnet Goes Live With 3.9M FUSE Builder Grant Program

Fuse is on its way. The Layer 1 blockchain that’s relaunching as a ZKEVM Layer 2 has moved closer to mainnet with the deployment of its testnet. The Fuse Ember testnet will give third-party developers as well as users a chance to see what the new-look Fuse is capable of – and there are incentives for the Fuse community to get involved too.

Fuse Ember Makes Its Debut

The Fuse community has been waiting eagerly for this moment, which signals that Fuse is now very close to mainnet. In the meantime, there’s serious business to be done on the Ember testnet, and a whole lot of tech to unpack. Just in case devs needed an incentive to start poking around on the Ember testnet, Fuse has allocated a generous 3.9M FUSE in the form of a Builder Grant Program. Create something cool, novel, and useful and there’s a good chance you’ll receive funding to help develop it.

To all intents and purposes, Fuse Ember is a completely different beast to the Layer 1 it’s replacing. Faster, cheaper, more private, more versatile, and generally more suited to the sort of business that Fuse aims to get done onchain, with stablecoin payments featuring prominently. In the era of an L2 for everything, Fuse Ember will be the L2 for payments: B2B, B2C, and P2P.

Payments for the People

Built using the Polygon CDK, Fuse Ember is designed to scale-real-world payments. In practical terms, this means making it easy for enterprises to launch applications that will operate seamlessly whether serving 1,000 customers or one million. Throughput of around 9,000 TPS and network fees that are close to zero will certainly help in the scalability stakes.There’s more to Ember than simply the ability to whizz stables from A to B however. Support for AI agents is one provision, something which is increasingly being found on every self-respecting new chain now. Other benefits that developers will appreciate include full EVM compatibility, cross-rollup interoperability, and account abstraction.

Roll Up for Rollups

One of the partners working with Fuse in developing its new L2 playground is infra specialist QuickNode, whose Rollups-as-a-Service (RaaS) will be utilized for the various benefits these engender. Fast RPCs, reliable uptime, and best-in-class developer tooling are just a few of the perks that RaaS brings to bear.As for what can be done on the Fuse testnet in the weeks ahead, there are tasks to keep devs and users alike occupied. After claiming free testnet tokens from the faucet, users can experiment with transactions, AI agent flows, and account abstraction. Then, as the first testnet dapps come onstream, there’ll be opportunities to dive deeper and actually get a handle on how the Fuse Ember mainnet should feel in production. (Spoiler alert: blazingly fast.)

Fuse has hinted at there being a few surprises in store as its testnet program develops, with the prospect of early adopters being rewarded for their support as the countdown to mainnet commences.

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