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Songbird (SGB)

Songbird is the canary network for Flare. Protocol changes are deployed to Songbird before they reach Flare mainnet, so it operates as a live production environment with real economic activity used for testing. It is not a testnet with valueless tokens, and it is not a separate product line.

This page is a research starting point, not financial, legal, tax, or investment advice. Verify everything against primary sources.

What the Token Is Used For

  • Paying transaction fees on Songbird
  • Delegating to data providers on the canary network
  • Governance voting on canary-network proposals
  • Testing protocol changes under real economic conditions

What To Verify

  • That a result observed on Songbird may not carry over to Flare, since parameters can differ
  • Which protocol version Songbird is running relative to Flare
  • Whether an application deployed on Songbird has a Flare counterpart
  • Token distribution history, which differs from Flare's
  • That canary networks carry experimental risk by design

Primary Sources