Get Test ASE

TL;DR

Test ASE is free and has no monetary value. It exists for testing, building, and running a testnet validator. There are three ways to get it:

• Airdrop dashboard. Sign in at airdrop.asentum.com, link your wallet, and use the faucet drip. Each drip sends 5 ASE to your linked wallet.
• Validator installer. The VPS one-liner and the CLI node onboarding flow fund the validator bond automatically. No manual faucet step.
• Operator desktop app. Setting up a new validator inside the app funds it from within the app.

The faucet is available through the airdrop dashboard to signed-in users with a linked wallet, and automatically during validator onboarding. There is no public HTTP faucet endpoint and no faucet page on the explorer.

From the airdrop dashboard

1. Open airdrop.asentum.com and sign in.
2. Link the wallet you want funded. The Chrome extension is the quickest way to connect one.
3. Click Faucet drip on the dashboard.
4. 5 ASE lands in the linked wallet within a block or two. Check the balance on explorer.asentum.com.

5 ASE covers a lot of testnet gas. It does not cover a validator bond (500 ASE minimum); for that, use one of the onboarding paths below, which fund the bond for you with a one-time 600 ASE drip per address. That covers the minimum, which makes you a validator candidate. A seat in the 100-seat signing committee needs stake above the current cutoff (currently about 1,350 ASE; see the explorer's validators page), so signing and earning needs more ASE than the drip alone.

During validator onboarding

The VPS one-liner and the CLI node onboarding flow both fund the validator bond automatically. After the node syncs, the installer requests the bond amount for your validator address, waits for it to land, then signs and submits the bond transaction. You do not need to visit the dashboard first.

If the funding step stalls, the installer retries on its own. See the troubleshooting section of the validator guide if it still has not landed after a few minutes.

From the Operator app

The Asentum Operator desktop app funds a new validator from within the app. On the "Not staked" dashboard, click the fund button; once the balance shows, enter your password and stake. The same 60 minute limits apply.

Rate limits

• One request per 60 minutes per IP address.
• One request per 60 minutes per wallet address.
• Dashboard drips are 5 ASE each. Validator onboarding requests the bond drip (600 ASE) once per address.

Need more for a stress test? Email hello@asentum.com with your use case and we can fund you manually.

Testnet only

Test ASE is not transferable to mainnet. When mainnet launches, the genesis distribution is set independently: testnet balances do not carry over. Mainnet ASE has to be acquired through the actual token distribution.