Stagenets: Testnets on Steroids

Testnets are unrealistic.

They're graveyards that lack meaningful user activity, resulting in unrealistic on-chain state where DeFi protocols, oracles, and other infrastructure don't behave like they do in production. This creates a major problem when building apps that rely on real ecosystem behavior.

For example, imagine you're building a smart contract vault that provides liquidity to a Uniswap pool to earn yield. On a typical testnet, the Uniswap pool has no users, there are no swaps, and your vault earns nothing. You deploy it, set it up… and nothing happens.

You could try simulating swaps yourself, but you'd need to replicate real trading patterns, generate fake volume, and find reliable token faucets (good luck with that). This lack of realism affects testing all type of apps that interact with other parts of the ecosystem, for example:

• Vaults relying on trading volume for yield
• Arbitrage or liquidation bots relying on real market events
• Defi strategies that depend on real-time authentic conditions - balances, rates, oracle prices, etc…

Enter Stagenets

Mockchain's Stagenets are private testnets that bring production realism to your development environment. They sync to historical mainnet state and replay relevant transactions, just like a live chain. They also simulate DeFi protocols, bridges, oracles, and other smart contract infrastructure.

All of this creates a testnet that mirrors production conditions — following mainnet state, executing real transactions, with third-party applications running exactly as they do in production. This enables you to easily validate your contracts under lifelike conditions, giving you confidence in their performance pre-deployment.

Let's go back to the Uniswap vault example. Your Stagenet replays all real swaps from the Uniswap pool, your vault earns yield from those swaps, in real time, and you see exactly how much it would have earned on mainnet. Much more useful.

Superpowered Testnets

Beyond ultra-realistic blockchain conditions, Stagenets come with a suite of tools to make building smart contracts easy.

• GitHub CI/CD — import new contract versions on push and auto-track their deployments
• Contract Dashboards — dedicated dashboards with tailored tools and detailed analytics
• Developer Tools — enhanced explorer, unlimited faucets, and more

All of this makes Mockchain the best place to quickly and easily build smart contracts with confidence.