The planned exercise is designed to assess stability under extreme conditions, with users warned to expect congestion, higher failed transactions, pricier gas and slower block production.
Arc said it will run a load test on its testnet on July 8 to evaluate how the network performs under extreme conditions. The team warned that the exercise could temporarily disrupt normal activity, with possible network congestion, higher transaction failure rates, increased gas fees, longer block times and brief pauses in block production. Such stress tests are commonly used to identify bottlenecks and measure resilience before broader deployment or heavier usage.