Today the Tenzro testnet went live.
Much of the digital world runs on a small number of very large providers. That is efficient most of the time. When one of them has a bad day, mail, files and the business systems built on them stop together, because they all depend on the same place.
Tenzro is built the other way round. It is a network for compute of every kind, where AI inference, compute, storage and data are roles of the same network. Work is served by many machines rather than one owner, and it is settled on one network. A workstation, a GPU server or a small board can each take part.
What is running
The network started on 13 November 2026 with four validators. Each of them signs with a key held in its own hardware: the TPM of the machine it runs on. No validator key exists outside that hardware.
The same rule holds for every node. A machine proves who it is with a key in its TPM or Secure Enclave. A machine without one, such as a small board, can keep its identity key in another machine's TPM through a key holder, approved by its operator's passkey.
Governance on the testnet runs on short periods: a proposal is voted on for 24 hours and enacted after a 4 hour timelock. That is how new validators are admitted after the start.
Install a node
Release 0.2.1 is published for Linux on x86-64 and on arm64 (with a CUDA build for NVIDIA machines), for Windows with an NVIDIA GPU, and for macOS on Apple silicon and Intel.
On Linux and macOS:
curl -fsSL https://downloads.tenzro.com/install.sh | shOn Windows, in PowerShell:
irm https://downloads.tenzro.com/install.ps1 | iexThe installer picks the build for your machine and checks it against the signed list of hashes before it installs anything.
Check what you downloaded
Every file in the release is listed in SHA256SUMS, and that list is signed with the Tenzro release key. The genesis file and the launch manifest that pins the release are in the same signed list, so a node operator can check that the network they join is the one that was published.
The steps are in Verify your download.
Join
On this release a new node joins by replaying the chain from its first block, which is quick while the chain is young. Joining from a snapshot of a recent state comes in an update.
A node can join as an operator and serve compute, storage or data, or follow the chain and use it as a participant. Running a validator takes a stake and an approval by governance. The guide to the roles is Becoming a Tenzro operator, and the install steps are in the install guide.
Updates arrive the same way the release did: signed, checked before they are applied, and rolled back automatically if a new version does not start.
