How to Use Soneium Minato Testnet

We’re excited for you to mint our nsASTR on Soneium’s Minato Network. You can mint the nsASTR on Minato via two ways:

1. Deposit on testnet L1 chain, which in this case is Shibuya.

2. Deposit on testnet L2 chain, which in this case is Minato.

In either case, you deposit your ASTR token from the chain of your choice, and mint nsASTR on Minato.

Here’s a quick guide on how to mint nsASTR from both the chains. Let’s dive in.

How to mint nsASTR from Minato

Step 1: Get Sepolia ETH. Bridge to Soneium Minato.

As a first step, you need to get Sepolia ETH. And bridge it to Minato. Here’s how to do it.

Head to the Alchemy faucet. Enter your wallet address. And click on “Send me ETH”.

Check your wallet to confirm receipt of Sepolia ETH.

Now, head to the Soneium-Minato Bridge. Connect your wallet. And transfer the desired amount of ETH.

Now you have ETH in your wallet to process transactions on Minato.

Step 2: Get testnet ASTR from faucet.

Head to the Neemo Finance app. Click on “Faucet” in the top-left corner of the screen.

Click on "ASTR on Minato".

The requested ASTR will be added to your wallets! Remember to collect some ETH on Minato as well for gas.

Step 3: Stake your ASTR.

Head to the Neemo Finance app. Select the “Minato” network from the top-right dropdown.

Enter the amount that you wish to stake. And then click on the “Stake” button to process your stake.

Once done, click on “Add nsASTR to MetaMask” button in the bottom-right corner. This will add the nsASTR to your MetaMask wallet.

Congratulations, now you have minted your nsASTR on MetaMask!

How to mint nsASTR from Shibuya

You can mint nsASTR by directly depositing SBY on Shibuya, which is testnet L1 for Astar Network. Note, however, that on our app your SBY tokens are treated as ASTR tokens. In the back-end, we simply treat your ASTR as SBY. This allows you to test out liquid staking on Shibuya!

Let’s understand how you can stake ASTR on Shibuya chain.

Step 1: Collect testnet SBY.

Head to the Neemo Finance app. Connect your wallet. Click on the “Faucet” in the top-left corner of the screen.

Step 2: Stake your ASTR/SBY.

Remember that on the app, we treat your SBY tokens as ASTR. So instead of SBY, you’ll see ASTR.

Enter the amount of ASTR/SBY you wish to stake. Select how you want the nsASTR to be minted on Soneium Minato.

You can select between:

• Lazy Mint, and

• Instant Mint

With Instant Mint, you’ll see the nsASTR tokens added to your MetaMask instantly. Note that to access those tokens, you’ll need to switch to Minato Network.

Once the transaction is processed, you can verify that nsASTR tokens have been added to your wallet.