A custom L1 blockchain built from scratch in Rust. HotStuff BFT consensus, libp2p networking, Ed25519 cryptography. No forks. No shortcuts.
Everything you need to interact with the Vela testnet
Browse blocks, transactions, and validators on the live testnet explorer.
Generate a wallet, send and receive VELA tokens, and view your transaction history.
Get free testnet VELA tokens to start experimenting with the network.
Read the source code, open issues, and contribute to the Vela Network project.
Purpose-built infrastructure, every layer written from scratch
A pipelined three-phase BFT protocol that achieves consensus in linear message complexity. Tolerates up to f Byzantine faults with 3f+1 validators, providing deterministic finality every round.
Peer-to-peer networking powered by libp2p with Gossipsub for block and transaction propagation, mDNS for local peer discovery, and Noise for encrypted transport.
All transactions and consensus votes are signed with Ed25519. Addresses are derived from public keys, providing a secure and compact identity scheme with fast verification.
Blocks are persisted to disk using sled, an embedded database. On restart, the node replays all blocks to reconstruct the world state and resumes from where it left off.