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 # TESTNET STATUS
 
+## *June 10, 2018, 8:30 EST* - Gaia-6001 consensus failure
+
+- Validator unbonding and revocation activity caused a consensus failure
+- There is a bug in the staking module that must be fixed
+- The team is taking its time to look into this and release a fix following a
+  proper protocol for hotfix upgrades to the testnet
+- Please stay tuned!
+
+## *June 9, 2018, 14:00 EST* - New Release
+
+- Released gaia
+  [v0.18.0](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/releases/tag/v0.18.0) with
+  update for Tendermint
+  [v0.20.0](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/releases/tag/v0.20.0)
+- Includes bug fix for declaring candidacy from the command line
+
+## *June 8, 2018, 23:30 EST* - Gaia-6001 is making blocks
+
+- +2/3 of the voting power is finally online for Gaia-6001 and it is making
+  blocks!
+- This is a momentous achievement - a successful asynchronous decentralized
+  testnet launch
+- Congrats everyone!
+
+## *June 8, 2018, 12:00 EST* - New Testnet Gaia-6001
+
+- After some confusion around testnet deployment and a contention testnet
+  hardfork, a new genesis file and network was released for `gaia-6001`
+
+## *June 7, 2018, 9:00 EST* - New Testnet Gaia-6000
+
+- Released a new `genesis.json` file for `gaia-6000`
+- Initial validators include those that were most active in
+  the gaia-5001 testnet
+- Join the network via gaia `v0.18.0-rc0`
+
 ## *June 5, 2018, 21:00 EST* - New Release
 
 - Released gaia