Subnet 1 Validating

Prerequisites

To setup a validator on subnet 1 Apex, you will need the following:

• A Registered Bittensor wallet with at least 35k Alpha staked.

Getting Started

To get started, clone the repo, setup your .env file, and run ./start_validator.sh , activating it with source .venv/bin/activate

Clone your validator keys, and add the following to your .env file.

WALLET_NAME=""
WALLET_HOTKEY=""
BITTENSOR=True

The default subtensor network is Finney. If you would like to use a local subtensor, add the following to your .env:

NETWORK=""

Auto-updates with PM2

A validator auto-update script is located in the scripts folder. The script spawns a PM2 process which runs the validator, restarting when the repo has a new release.

To run this script:

./scripts/start_autoupdater_pm2.sh