ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Artela has announced the launch of its public testnet on January 8, 2014. The first phase of the testnet will support Aspect programming, the public testing of Artela EVM, and the initiation of the validator incentive program.Artela will also hold a series of developer activities around the testnet. The first phase of the Artela testnet will publicly test Artela's two core technologies, Aspect programming and Artela EVM, and provide the tools and documentation needed for building dApps on the testnet. Artela will also release multiple end-to-end use cases to guide developers in building innovative applications based on Aspect.