Artela officially announced that it will launch a public testnet on January 8th, 2014. The first phase of the testnet will support Aspect programming and the public testing of Artela EVM, and launch the validator incentive program.

Artela stated that it will carry out a series of developer activities around the testnet in the future. The first phase of the Artela testnet will publicly test the two core technologies of Aspect programming and Artela EVM, and provide tools and documentation needed to build testnet dApps. Artela will also release multiple end-to-end use cases to guide developers in building innovative applications based on Aspect.