# Testnet III: Ascraeus

## <mark style="color:red;">Ascraeus is</mark> <mark style="color:red;"></mark><mark style="color:red;">**officially closed on 04/30/25**</mark>

## About Ascraeus

Departing from Mons Huygens, the moon’s highest mountain, OORT's third testnet lands on the northernmost and tallest of the three large aligned Tharsis volcanoes on Mars, Ascraeus Mons.

## Ascraeus Testnet Objective

Ascraeus is dedicated to evaluating the [OORT DEN](https://www.oortech.com/edge) tokenomics and network performance.

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OORT Decentralized Edge Network (OORT DEN) is one of the flagship products of [OORT](https://www.oortech.com/), the data infrastructure for the next billion Web3 users. OORT DEN is an edge network that makes Web3 applications faster, more secure, and easier to scale.
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## New Features in Ascraeus

* New tesnet token, $CCNA
* $CCN <> $CCNA exchange pool
* New blockchain explorer, more transparency
* New mining module with [Deimos](https://docs.oortech.com/oort-den/den-edge-nodes)


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