Betanet is a temporary test network, pure and simple. It is intended to provide a final, large-scale stress test of the protocol that will be offered

Radix Betanet is Live - Quickstart Guide

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Betanet is a temporary test network, pure and simple. It is intended to provide a final, large-scale stress test of the protocol that will be offered to our community as the basis of the first version of the Radix public network (called Olympia).

Betanet is not the beginning of the official public Radix ledger or the official XRD token – that’s the Olympia mainnet. Unlike mainnet, the Radix team will have ultimate control of the betanet network, and we will be shutting it down shortly before the release of Olympia mainnet. That means that all assets stored on betanet will vanish. In other words, all tokens and transactions on betanet are just playing with “funny money” and nothing will be carried over to the main network (where everything will be forever immutable).

So basically betanet gives us a couple of months of real-world network operation and bug smashing – and gives our community the chance to get familiar with all of the ways that you will be able to participate on the mainnet to come.