Sphere by Horizen Testnet

Latest Version: v1.13.0-testnet

This version of Sphere by Horizen is running on Testnet, only Testnet ZEN can be transferred. All on disk data directories and wallets are separate from the Mainnet version of Sphere by Horizen. Sphere by Horizen Testnet can be safely installed side-by-side with the Mainnet version.

For a list of changes implemented in this version, please view the changelog.

User manual: https://horizenofficial.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZEN/pages/714604770/Sphere+By+Horizen+User+Manual

About

Sphere by Horizen Testnet is envisioned as a launching point for Horizen services. The latest version hosts wallet functions with the following features:

• Full client with both transparent and private transactions

• Lite client with transparent transactions

• Support for creating and displaying Mainchain to Sidechain Forward Transfer transactions on Testnet

• Support for displaying incoming Sidechain to Mainchain Backward Transfer transactions on Testnet

• The wallet is deterministic, meaning if you lose your account, you can restore cryptocurrency funds through a user-friendly process involving a unique 24-word phrase

• Secure messaging with full client version

• Ability to switch between a full or light client

• Ability to run a full node

• zen-cli restricted terminal for advanced wallet users

• Batch withdraw funds from multiple addresses in a single transaction

• Batch split funds to multiple addresses in a single transaction

• Sweep funds from private keys

• More features coming soon!

Operating System Support Policy

• Windows: Windows x64 Desktop versions currently supported by Microsoft are targeted for compatibility, at the time of writing this includes Windows 7 ESU, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
• MacOS: MacOS versions currently supported by Apple are targeted for compatibility, at the time of writing this includes macOS High Sierra, macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina
• Linux: Debian Stable and Ubuntu versions in support are targeted for compatibility

Recommended system specifications for running in full mode.

• Available memory 4GB (RAM + swap).

• Intel Haswell architecture CPUs (or AMD equivalent) and newer.

• Due to the size of the blockchain at this point we would recommend keeping a minimum of 30GB of storage space free. This requirement will increase over time with blockchain growth.

Installation instructions

• All installers are available here https://github.com/HorizenOfficial/Sphere_by_Horizen_Testnet/releases/latest

• For Windows, download and run the .exe installer package and follow the standard windows installation procedure.

• For macOS, download and run the latest standard macOS package

  macOS packages have the ".dmg" file extension.

  Please install as you would any other non-app store macOS package by launching the file (double click) and moving the app to your Applications folder via the installer window.

• For Linux we supply both .deb packages for Debian systems and also a standalone AppImage to support other Linux based distributions.

  ".deb" images can be opened and installed via a graphical package manager should you have one installed.

  You may also install via the terminal for example.

  $ sudo dpkg -i example_file_name.deb
  

  AppImage files are self-contained and can be launched by firstly making the AppImage file executable via

  $ chmod a+x example_file_name*.AppImage
  

  And then run

  $ ./example_file_name*.AppImage
  

Licensing

• Use of the software and services is provided pursuant to the following Terms of Use

• Disclaimer Horizen is committed to user privacy. Sphere by Horizen (the “Service”) does not store or collect data that can be attributed to any individual user. The Service includes a Horizen news feed that is served from an NGINX web server. The logs from this web server are fed to our Matomo web analytics platform, which by default anonymizes user data. The Service does not include a tracking code from Matomo and only ingests web server logs. The news feed server logs are deleted after import into Matomo and the visitor ID is anonymized. The service also includes up to date coin price metrics from a Horizen hosted api server. This is served from an NGINX web server. The logs from this server are NOT sent to matomo and are deleted on rotation. These logs are NOT used for tracking in any way.