Mining

Subnet 1 mining guide

Miner Documentation

Overview

Apex drives algorithmic innovation across diverse problem domains. Each pursuit of the best solution takes place within a Competition, which consists of multiple Rounds of evaluation. Participants, known as miners, join Competitions by submitting their Python-based algorithms through the Apex CLI and earn rewards based on their performance.

Setting Up a Miner

Before contributing to subnet 1 Apex, you should familiarize yourself with the Bittensor documentation to better understand the ecosystem and the relationships between network participants.

If you have any questions not covered here, reach out for support in:

• ​Macrocosmos Discord

• Bittensor Discord

Prerequisites

To setup a miner on IOTA you will need the following:

• A Bittensor wallet.

• The Bittensor command line interface (CLI) - btcli .

Getting Started

To get started, clone the repo and run ./setup.sh

Add the following to your .env file created by setup.sh

ENV="test" #TODO: Update to mainnet
ORCHESTRATOR_SCHEMA="https"
ORCHESTRATOR_HOST="apex-stage.api.macrocosmos.ai"
ORCHESTRATOR_PORT=443

To Submit Solutions:

To understand the current competitions including what miners should aim for: Current Competitions

To use the CLI to submit miner solutions or view active competitions: Cli Usage