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Running Subnet Locally

This tutorial will guide you through:

  • Setting up a local blockchain that is not connected to either Bittensor testchain or mainchain
  • Creating a subnet
  • Run your incentive mechanism on the subnet.

Local blockchain vs local subtensor node

Running a local blockchain is sometimes synonymously referred as running on staging. This is different from running a local subtensor node that connects to the Bittensor mainchain.

A local subtensor node will connect to the mainchain and sync with the mainchain, giving you your own access point to the mainchain.

Running a local blockchain spins up two authority nodes locally, not connected to any other nodes or testchain or mainchain. This tutorial is for running a local blockchain.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding further, make sure that you have installed Bittensor. See the below instructions:

After installing bittensor, proceed as below:

1. Install Substrate dependencies

Begin by installing the required dependencies for running a Substrate node.

Update your system packages:

sudo apt update

Install additional required libraries and tools

sudo apt install --assume-yes make build-essential git clang curl libssl-dev llvm libudev-dev protobuf-compiler

2. Install Rust and Cargo

Rust is the programming language used in Substrate development. Cargo is Rust package manager.

Install rust and cargo:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Update your shell's source to include Cargo's path:

source "$HOME/.cargo/env"

3. Clone the subtensor repository

This step fetches the subtensor codebase to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/opentensor/subtensor.git

4. Setup Rust

This step ensures that you have the nightly toolchain and the WebAssembly (wasm) compilation target. Note that this step will run the subtensor chain on your terminal directly, hence we advise that you run this as a background process using PM2 or other software.

Update to the nightly version of Rust:

./subtensor/scripts/init.sh

5. Initialize

These steps initialize your local subtensor chain in development mode. These commands will set up and run a local subtensor.

Build the binary with the faucet feature enabled:

cargo build --release --features pow-faucet

NOTE: The --features pow-faucet option in the above is required if we want to use the command btcli wallet faucet See the below Mint tokens step.

Next, run the localnet script and turn off the attempt to build the binary (as we have already done this above):

BUILD_BINARY=0 ./scripts/localnet.sh

NOTE: Watch for any build or initialization outputs in this step. If you are building the project for the first time, this step will take a while to finish building, depending on your hardware.

6. Install subnet template

cd to your project directory and clone the bittensor subnet template repository:

git clone https://github.com/opentensor/bittensor-subnet-template.git

Navigate to the cloned repository:

cd bittensor-subnet-template

Install the bittensor-subnet-template Python package:

python -m pip install -e .

7. Set up wallets

You will need wallets for the different roles, i.e., subnet owner, subnet validator and subnet miner, in the subnet.

  • The owner wallet creates and controls the subnet.
  • The validator and miner will be registered to the subnet created by the owner. This ensures that the validator and miner can run the respective validator and miner scripts.

Create a coldkey for the owner role:

btcli wallet new_coldkey --wallet.name owner

Set up the miner's wallets:

btcli wallet new_coldkey --wallet.name miner
btcli wallet new_hotkey --wallet.name miner --wallet.hotkey default

Set up the validator's wallets:

btcli wallet new_coldkey --wallet.name validator
btcli wallet new_hotkey --wallet.name validator --wallet.hotkey default

8. Mint tokens from faucet

You will need tokens to initialize the intentive mechanism on the chain as well as for registering the subnet.

Run the following commands to mint faucet tokens for the owner and for the validator.

Mint faucet tokens for the owner:

btcli wallet faucet --wallet.name owner --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

You will see:

>> Balance: τ0.000000000 ➡ τ100.000000000

Mint tokens for the validator:

btcli wallet faucet --wallet.name validator --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

You will see:

>> Balance: τ0.000000000 ➡ τ100.000000000

9. Create a subnet

The below commands establish a new subnet on the local chain. The cost will be exactly τ100.000000000 for the first subnet you create.

btcli subnet create --wallet.name owner --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

You will see:

>> Your balance is: τ200.000000000
>> Do you want to register a subnet for τ100.000000000? [y/n]: 
>> Enter password to unlock key: [YOUR_PASSWORD]
>> ✅ Registered subnetwork with netuid: 1

NOTE: The local chain will now have a default netuid of 1. The second registration will create a netuid 2 and so on, until you reach the subnet limit of 8. If you register more than 8 subnets, then a subnet with the least staked TAO will be replaced by the 9th subnet you register.

10. Register keys

Register your subnet validator and subnet miner on the subnet. This gives your two keys unique slots on the subnet. The subnet has a current limit of 128 slots.

Register the subnet miner:

btcli subnet recycle_register --wallet.name miner --wallet.hotkey default --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

Follow the below prompts:

>> Enter netuid [1] (1): 1
>> Continue Registration? [y/n]: y
>> ✅ Registered

Register the subnet validator:

btcli subnet recycle_register --wallet.name validator --wallet.hotkey default --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

Follow the below prompts:

>> Enter netuid [1] (1): 1
>> Continue Registration? [y/n]: y
>> ✅ Registered

11. Add stake

This step bootstraps the incentives on your new subnet by adding stake into its incentive mechanism.

btcli stake add --wallet.name validator --wallet.hotkey default --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

Follow the below prompts:

>> Stake all Tao from account: 'validator'? [y/n]: y
>> Stake:
    τ0.000000000 ➡ τ100.000000000

12. Validate key registrations

Verify that both the miner and validator keys are successfully registered:

btcli subnet list --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

You will see the 2 entry under NEURONS column for the NETUID of 1, indicating that you have registered a validator and a miner in this subnet:

NETUID  NEURONS  MAX_N   DIFFICULTY  TEMPO  CON_REQ  EMISSION  BURN(τ)  
   1        2     256.00   10.00 M    1000    None     0.00%    τ1.00000 
   2      128

See the subnet validator's registered details:

btcli wallet overview --wallet.name validator --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

You will see:

Subnet: 1                                                                                                                                                                
COLDKEY  HOTKEY   UID  ACTIVE  STAKE(τ)     RANK    TRUST  CONSENSUS  INCENTIVE  DIVIDENDS  EMISSION(ρ)   VTRUST  VPERMIT  UPDATED  AXON  HOTKEY_SS58                    
miner    default  0      True   100.00000  0.00000  0.00000    0.00000    0.00000    0.00000            0  0.00000                14  none  5GTFrsEQfvTsh3WjiEVFeKzFTc2xcf…
1        1        2            τ100.00000  0.00000  0.00000    0.00000    0.00000    0.00000           ρ0  0.00000                                                         
                                                                          Wallet balance: τ0.0

See the subnet miner's registered details:

btcli wallet overview --wallet.name miner --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

You will see:

Subnet: 1                                                                                                                                                                
COLDKEY  HOTKEY   UID  ACTIVE  STAKE(τ)     RANK    TRUST  CONSENSUS  INCENTIVE  DIVIDENDS  EMISSION(ρ)   VTRUST  VPERMIT  UPDATED  AXON  HOTKEY_SS58                    
miner    default  1      True   0.00000  0.00000  0.00000    0.00000    0.00000    0.00000            0  0.00000                14  none  5GTFrsEQfvTsh3WjiEVFeKzFTc2xcf…
1        1        2            τ0.00000  0.00000  0.00000    0.00000    0.00000    0.00000           ρ0  0.00000                                                         
                                                                          Wallet balance: τ0.0

13. Run subnet miner and subnet validator

Run the subnet miner and subnet validator. Make sure to specify your subnet parameters.

Run the subnet miner:

python neurons/miner.py --netuid 1 --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946 --wallet.name miner --wallet.hotkey default --logging.debug

Run the subnet validator:

python neurons/validator.py --netuid 1 --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946 --wallet.name validator --wallet.hotkey default --logging.debug

14. Verify your incentive mechanism

After a few blocks the subnet validator will set weights. This indicates that the incentive mechanism is active. Then after a subnet tempo elapses (360 blocks or 72 minutes) you will see your incentive mechanism beginning to distribute TAO to the subnet miner.

btcli wallet overview --wallet.name miner --subtensor.chain_endpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9946

Ending your session

To halt your nodes:

# Press CTRL + C keys in the terminal.