# Welcome (tl;dr)

As of September 1, 2021, the [Baseledger testnet](https://baseledger.net/testnet) was live and available to the public. 

On March 29th, 2022, [The Baseledger Mainnet was launched.](https://medium.com/@unibrightio/baseledger-mainnet-is-live-66e3af312171)

[ConsenSys Mesh](https://mesh.xyz/) announced that it will join [Unibright](https://unibright.io/) and other companies to support and utilize Baseledger in its projects that aim to be compliant with the [Baseline Protocol](https://baseline-protocol.org/), a new enterprise systems integration standard. 

Baseledger is a public-permissioned, council-governed blockchain network that fulfills the major requirements of enterprise organizations for participating in Baseline-enabled processes: A unified architecture ensuring service quality, data privacy and integration.

* Baseledger is designed to support the Baseline approach, enabling a production ready architecture at enterprise scale, compliant with the the **Baseline Protocol**
* Baseledger is designed to support a **variety of uses cases**, without technical or architectural limitations to specific verticals
* Baseledger understands **integration** as a key issue to all use cases and includes this in the core of the Baseledger Architecture of Architectures
* Baseledger is built around the main enterprise requirements for **service quality**
* Baseledger is built with focus on regulatory compliance and **data privacy**
* Baseledger equips enterprise ecosystems with best-of-breed infrastructure for adopting the Baseline protocol using **plugable Layer 1 and Layer 2 consensus mechanisms**