Networks

Noether trades on the Stellar testnet today and has its contracts deployed on mainnet in guarded mode. This page lists the network configuration you need to connect a wallet, an SDK or your own tooling, how the faucet works, and what the mainnet deployment means right now.

Testnet (live)

Everything Noether serves today, the app, the API gateway and every smart contract, runs on the Stellar testnet with test funds.

Network configuration

The public Soroban RPC endpoint is shared and rate-limited. It is fine for a wallet or occasional reads; if you run high-frequency tooling (a bot polling positions, your own indexer), use a dedicated RPC provider.

Noether endpoints

Contract addresses for the live deployment are generated on Contracts and events; the gateway's GET /v1/health returns the same addresses live.

Test assets

• USDC: the test settlement asset, issued for Noether. All collateral, fees and PnL are denominated in it. On-chain it uses 7-decimal fixed point (raw 10_000_000 = 1 USDC). It has no real-world value and cannot be bridged to real USDC.
• NOE: the liquidity vault's share token, a classic Stellar asset (code NOE) wrapped as a Stellar Asset Contract. Issuer and contract address are on Contracts and events.

Faucet

The in-app faucet at testnet.noether.exchange/faucet gets a wallet ready to trade:

1. If your account does not exist on testnet yet, the faucet page funds it with test XLM through Friendbot.
2. It adds a USDC trustline to your account (a transaction you sign in your wallet).
3. You claim 100, 500 or 1,000 test USDC per claim, up to 1,000 USDC per wallet per UTC day. The limit is computed from your claim history on-chain, and the claim is a payment from the USDC issuer, so it appears in your account's payment history like any other transfer.

See Getting started for the full first-trade walkthrough.

Testnet resets

Because funds are test money, a reset costs you nothing except reconfiguration. Treat any hardcoded testnet address as temporary.

Mainnet (deployed, guarded)

Noether's contracts have been deployed on Stellar mainnet since 2026-10-03 in guarded mode: the market is paused, the vault holds no funds and its deposit cap is zero, and the admin is a 2-of-3 multisig. Since 2026-10-05 noether.exchange serves the mainnet build of the app behind the waitlist gate. Addresses are on Contracts and events. Mainnet parameters:

No launch date is committed; the public opening follows the external audit. What the opening will include, none of it live while the market is paused:

• Higher leverage caps. The deployed risk ladder requires an initial margin of at least 4%, so the contract can never offer more than 25x on any market; since 2026-09-28 every testnet pair runs at that 25x ceiling. Mainnet ships with the same ladder and may launch at a lower cap during the first waves.
• A second independent oracle source alongside Noeracle. See Oracle and price feeds.
• Higher fee-tier volume thresholds. The testnet thresholds ($20,000, $50,000 and $100,000 of 14-day volume) are lowered for testing; the market code records $1M, $5M and $25M as the intended mainnet tiers, to be set at initialization. See Trading mechanics.
• An external audit before launch. See Security and audits.

Next steps

• Contracts and events: the live testnet deployment
• Architecture: how the contracts, oracle and off-chain services fit together
• Developer overview: REST, WebSocket and SDK docs for the gateway