So you can develop your dapp with existing Mainnet protocols out of the box. MoonNet gives you a Ganache-based test-chain in the cloud that is insta-mined and has Mainnet state.
Yes! In fact we encourage you to. The money-legos package actually run tests in CI by creating Ganache instances forked off of a MoonNet node.
The state is usually pruned every 128 blocks by Ganache, this means you'll normally need to re-deploy your contracts every 128 blocks. This is not a problem with MoonNet.
These are the accounts, each loaded with 1000 ETH.
This node has archival access on by default, and costs you much less than $250/month. Our community also provides expertise and other libraries for DeFi development.
Our focus is to help you work with existing DeFi protocols.
You can replace your local test-chain URL with the supplied node URL (after all, it's just a Ganache instance). You also get free access to Mainnet state and you don't need to run your own test-chain locally anymore. Of course you can also fork off MoonNet locally if you don't want to pollute the state of your MoonNet node.