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# Prater testnet: what you should know
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- The Prater launchpad is live here (use it to make a deposit): [https://prater.launchpad.ethereum.org/en/](https://prater.launchpad.ethereum.org/en/)
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- To run a Prater node after making a deposit, [update Nimbus](./keep-updated.md) and then execute `./run-prater-beacon-node.sh`
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The latest Eth2 testnet, [Prater](https://twitter.com/Butta_eth/status/1374383003011452937), is open to the public.
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Prater's objective is to ensure that the network remains stable under a higher load than we've seen so far on mainnet -- the genesis count for Prater was 210k (almost double the size of the Beacon Chain Mainnet).
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To elaborate a little, we want to make sure that the network is able to function properly with considerably more validators: increasing the number of validators increases the state size, increases the amount of work done to process that state, and increases the number of messages being gossipped on the network; blocks also become fuller, which explores a new kind of constraint as clients need to optimise better for attestation inclusion.
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