Unofficial PulseChain Documentation

This page contains technical and developer documentation about PulseChain blockchain network and some of the projects running on PulseChain. This documentation is created by community independently on the PulseChain development team with the intent to simplify onboarding of new developers and blockchain projects and to support the development community. You can contribute to this documentation through PulseChain Docs Github Repository.

PulseChain is a full state for of Ethereum 2.0 with 10 seconds block time. Native token of PulseChain is Pulse (PLS). Smallest unit of PLS used to referred as Beat (PLS to Beat is the same as ETH to Wei).

PulseChain Mainnet launched on in May 2023. Active Testnet version is v4.

If you are interested in development for PulseChain you can contact developers in the PulseDEV Telegram group.

Consensus, Validators and Fees

PulseChain uses same consensus as Ethereum 2.0 and implements EIP-1159.

Validators & Staking

Validators and stakes from are managed through a set of smart contracts. PulseChain’s default user interface for this is dApp which is dedicated for each version of the PulseChain:

Mainnet and Testnets history

Official documentation for the PulseChain Mainnet is available in the Gitlab repository and PulseChain Testnet is available in another Gitlab repository.

Testnet uses tPLS as the currency symbol for the native coin.

Mainnet

Basic information:

  • Block time: 10 seconds
  • Block gas limit: 30,000,000
  • PulseChain Block Explorer: https://scan.pulsechain.com/
  • PulseChain Beacon Explorer: https://beacon.pulsechain.com/
  • Last Ethereum pre-fork block: 17232999
  • Chain ID: 369
  • Public RPC endpoint: https://rpc.pulsechain.com
  • Public WebSocket endpoint: wss://rpc.pulsechain.com
  • Canonical staking deposit contract address 0x3693693693693693693693693693693693693693

Testnet v1

Testnet v1 was switched off, was replaced with v2.

  • Last Ethereum pre-fork block 13224745
  • Chain ID: 940
  • Public RPC endpoint: https://rpc.testnet.pulsechain.com
  • Public WebSocket endpoint: wss://ws.testnet.pulsechain.com

Testnet v2

Testnet v2 was switched off, was replaced with v2b.

Basic information:

  • Last Ethereum pre-fork block 13224745 (same as v1)
  • Chain ID: 940
  • Public RPC endpoint: https://rpc.v2.testnet.pulsechain.com
  • Public WebSocket endpoint: ws://ws.v2.testnet.pulsechain.com

Testnet v2b

Testnet v2b was switched off, was replaced with v3.

Testnet v2b added:

  • PLS and PLSX balances
  • PulseX DEX

Basic information:

  • Block time: 3 seconds
  • Block gas limit: 30,000,000
  • Last Ethereum pre-fork block: 14360999
  • Chain ID: 941
  • Public RPC endpoint: https://rpc.v2b.testnet.pulsechain.com
  • Public WebSocket endpoint: wss://ws.v2b.testnet.pulsechain.com

Testnet v3

Testnet v2b is deprecated, was replaced with v4.

Consensus was replaced with native Ethereum 2.0 one.

Basic information:

  • Block time: 10 seconds
  • Block gas limit: 30,000,000
  • Faucet to get 10 tPLS: https://faucet.v3.testnet.pulsechain.com/
  • PulseChain Block Explorer: https://scan.v3.testnet.pulsechain.com/
  • PulseChain Beacon Explorer: https://beacon.v3.testnet.pulsechain.com/
  • Last Ethereum pre-fork block: 16492699
  • Chain ID: 942
  • Public RPC endpoint: https://rpc.v3.testnet.pulsechain.com
  • Public WebSocket endpoint: wss://ws.v3.testnet.pulsechain.com
  • Canonical staking deposit contract address 0x3693693693693693693693693693693693693693

Testnet v4

Basic information:

  • Block time: 10 seconds
  • Block gas limit: 30,000,000
  • Faucet to get 10 tPLS: https://faucet.v4.testnet.pulsechain.com/
  • PulseChain Block Explorer: https://scan.v4.testnet.pulsechain.com/
  • PulseChain Beacon Explorer: https://beacon.v4.testnet.pulsechain.com/
  • Last Ethereum pre-fork block: 16492699
  • Chain ID: 943
  • Public RPC endpoint: https://rpc.v4.testnet.pulsechain.com
  • Public WebSocket endpoint: wss://ws.v4.testnet.pulsechain.com
  • Canonical staking deposit contract address 0x3693693693693693693693693693693693693693