Discover how the 3A DAO team beta-tested their Lending Protocol with the community using BuildBear

3A DAO faced several challenges during the development and testing of their real-world asset (RWA) protocol:

• Tokens: Damn! The faucets are always down!!
  Acquiring a sufficient number of testnet tokens was a time-consuming and frustrating process due to frequent faucet downtimes. This discouraged testers and developers from fully engaging with the DApp.

• Transaction Confirmation Delays
  Public testnets like Sepolia often suffer from significant latency. Transactions could take over 13 seconds to confirm, slowing down the contract testing phase and creating friction in the overall development cycle.

• Mainnet Testing Hassles & Complex Protocol Setup
  Because 3A DAO relies heavily on mainnet protocols, replicating the production environment for testing purposes became a slow and complex undertaking. Setting up and tearing down mainnet-mirroring environments proved inefficient and error-prone.

To overcome these limitations, 3A DAO turned to BuildBear and integrated private sandbox testnets into their development workflow. This allowed them to move away from unreliable public infrastructure and adopt a consistent, deterministic testing environment tailored to their protocol.

BuildBear Labs provided 3A DAO with critical tools that streamlined their testing pipeline and improved developer productivity:

• BuildBear Faucet
  BuildBear’s native faucet gave the team immediate access to native and ERC20 tokens, eliminating the need to manually hunt for working public faucets and enabling rapid test execution.

• Instant Confirmation
  Using BuildBear, 3A DAO could run standard test scripts involving 10 transactions in under 26 seconds, a process that would have taken over two minutes on public testnets. This speed drastically reduced iteration time and increased development velocity.

• Mainnet State Forking
  BuildBear’s sandbox could fork Ethereum mainnet in seconds, allowing 3A DAO to test their contracts in realistic, high-fidelity environments without needing to mock or replicate complex state data. This made QA cycles faster, more accurate, and more productive.

By integrating BuildBear into their testing workflows, 3A DAO accelerated their smart contract QA process and reduced friction across their development team. Developers could focus on building and shipping instead of waiting on slow testnets or wrangling broken faucets.

With BuildBear, 3A DAO unlocked faster iteration cycles, improved testing reliability, and a smoother path from code to deployment,paving the way for better infrastructure in the RWA ecosystem.