A light in the V2 workshop — dev testnets 'Uruk + Babylon', and caw_dev's voice of conviction

The month after V1 went public, V2's development testnets 'Uruk' and 'Babylon' entered development operation on Sepolia. This is not a public launch — what anyone can touch today is still the V1 testnet (test.caw.social); Uruk + Babylon are a light switched on in the developer's workshop. The names are ancient Mesopotamian cities, and Uruk is the city Gilgamesh rules in the epic. No one behind those names has ever explained the choice, so the Observatory does not join the two here. June brought successive redeploys reflecting audit fixes ('12 audited contracts live' — the audit firm remains unnamed, so this stays self-reported) and pre-mainnet compliance work. The v2 branch kept moving through June and July; its live cadence is on the Observatory's GitHub board, not frozen here. V2 is still deep in development — its public testnet and mainnet are both still ahead. And one line belongs here in the developer's own voice — his answer, in 2025, to those weighing whether to chase CAW onto other chains: "CAW on QL1 will be a moment. CAW on ETH will be forever." (@caw_dev, May 2, 2025). The Observatory records it as a stated conviction, not a promise about price: to the person doing the building, CAW's home is Ethereum, and permanence — not a quick jump elsewhere — is the whole point. The timeline catches up with the present here. The next line is being written in real time by the community. 🐦‍⬛