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Dumb question: what incentives exist for validators to process blocks on test networks like Goerli and Sepolia?

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it doesn’t feel lucrative or stable enough to be the whole answer

Can't you sell testnet ETH, though? https://testnetbridge.com/

Testing the network and their infra

You don’t need super strong incentives to keep a p2p network running smoothly. BitTorrent is a great example.

Infra companies testing their stuff, or validators learning how to validate

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Once a testnet currency is given value, with an easy and reliable bridge to ETH for instance, a validator on that testnet can be slightly incentivized to produce and process blocks in order to make money but it's mostly an unexpected and undesirable side-effect. Value on a testnet has a lot of bad consequences.

There are little to no incentives for the general public to process blocks on testnets. Those networks are provided mostly for free by the EF and the broader Ethereum community for testing. It's a public good.

Imagine you want to start staking on mainnet and want to practise handling your node, keeping your system up to date and the general setup. So you use a testnet first.

Its something for enthusiasts. There are no meaningful monetary incentives