Mainnet/Testnet/Previewnet

The different types of networks

There are a few different networks available in Hedera that all serve a specific purpose.

Mainnet

Mainnet can be considered 'Production'. This is the live network that uses real money, and is where your users will be interacting with the production versions of your applications.

Testnet

Testnet is a pre-production environment meant to test your applications against. Testnet gets updates before Mainnet, so you can verify your app still works with the new changes before they get released.

Testnet does not use real money for transactions - you can set up a developer testnet account here which will give you 10,000 hbar per day to play with.

Previewnet

Previewnet is where the bleeding edge of updates get deployed, most people dont use this.

You can read more about the different networks here.