Retired testnet 1952959480

Who this is for: developers or operators who find chain ID 1952959480 in an old tutorial, config file, or the current /build/identity/on-chain-kyc-integration page, and need to know it is not the live testnet.

Chain ID 1952959480 is a retired network. Its RPC (https://testnet-rpc.lumia.org) and its explorer (https://testnet-explorer.lumia.org) are both dead, connection-refused. It is not Beam. Beam (chain ID 2030232745) is the live Lumia testnet. Do not use 1952959480 for anything, and do not treat it as an alternate name for Beam.

The plain statement

1952959480 is not Lumia Beam. It is a separate, older network that docs.lumia.org's own /build/identity/on-chain-kyc-integration page still labels, verbatim, "Lumia Testnet." That name collides with today's Beam testnet, and that collision is the source of most of the confusion around it. Older docs and tutorials that call 1952959480 "the testnet" or imply it is Beam are wrong; never relabel it as Beam.

Field	Value
Chain ID	1952959480
Labeled as	"Lumia Testnet" verbatim on docs.lumia.org/build/on-chain-kyc
RPC (HTTPS)	https://testnet-rpc.lumia.org is dead: no HTTP response, connection failure.
Explorer	https://testnet-explorer.lumia.org is dead: no HTTP response, connection failure.

What to use instead

Use Beam, the live Lumia testnet:

Field	Value
Chain ID	2030232745 (hex 0x7902e4a9)
RPC	https://beam-rpc.lumia.org
Explorer	https://beam-explorer.lumia.org/
Faucet	https://beam-faucet.lumia.org/

Full table with citations: /reference/networks. Faucet detail: /reference/faucet.

Where this ID still shows up

• docs.lumia.org/build/identity/on-chain-kyc-integration uses 1952959480 in its KYC verifier request example. The corrected version of that guide lives at /build/identity/on-chain-kyc-integration in this tree and should use 994873017 (mainnet) or 2030232745 (Beam) instead. See /reference/rest-apis/kyc-verifier-api.