Kusama provides a live environment for testing upgrades, parachain deployments, and economic experiments before they reach Polkadot. It offers shared security, staking, and governance mechanisms that closely mirror the Polkadot relay chain.
Kusama
NetworkA canary network for Polkadot that runs the same codebase with faster governance and higher risk tolerance.
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Definition
Kusama provides a live environment for testing upgrades, parachain deployments, and economic experiments before they reach Polkadot. It offers shared security, staking, and governance mechanisms that closely mirror the Polkadot relay chain.