Daedalus: difference between testnet and shelley-testnet

[engineering_stork]

I am a developer with some experience on other blockchains but I am new to Cardano.

Is the current “testnet” (the one with the faucet) not running shelley? Is there a way to check the chain id with daedalus (assuming this would be the proper way to tell the difference)? Is mainnet running shelley or byron? Again, is there a good way to be able to tell?

[rdlrt]

@engineering_stork

Is the current “testnet” (the one with the faucet) not running shelley?

Testnet as well as Mainnet are both past Byron and are currently on Allegra (post shelley era thay allows for token locking).

When executing commands against the node using CLI, you could only work with them when using --allegra-era

[engineering_stork]

Ah, that makes a ton of sense, thank you! Is there a place that shows all previous protocols and the differences between each of them?

[engineering_stork]

This looks like what im looking for:

What exacty are 'Allegra and Mary' eras?

– | The era after Byron is the Shelley era. ---- The Shelley ledger and block type itself is parameterised by an era-- parameter, which is in its turn parameterised by the crypto used.type ShelleyEra c = Era.Shelley c – | The era after Shelley is Allegra, the illegitimate daughter of Byron. ---- In this era, we introduce time locks and miscellaneous fixes for the Shelley-- era. ---- TODO #2668 Change this to the proper Allegra eratype AllegraEra c = Era.Shelley c – | The era after Allegra …