Infra · Movement Labs
Testnet Faucet & Discord Bot
The faucet every Movement developer uses to get testnet funds, plus the Discord bot version. Mine from the first one onward.
- Period
- 2023 - 2026
- Role
- Owner
- PRs authored
- 37
- Source
- Public
The problem
A public faucet hands out free tokens, so it gets drained and abused constantly, and it still has to work for legitimate developers across several live networks.
What I did
- Shipped the original faucets and added each network as it came online: devnet, testnet, Imola, Baku, Holesky, Porto.
- Layered on abuse resistance: rate limits, then reCAPTCHA, then a migration to hCaptcha.
- Hardened it operationally with error handling, request timeouts, and health checks.
- Built the Discord bot: network selection, per-user limits, health checks, and a container CI pipeline.
Stack
TypeScriptNext.jsPythonDockerAptos SDK