A proudly Bittensor-gnostic framework for building production-ready subnets
Nexus turns a subnet concept into a production-grade system — even from a single LLM prompt.
| Capability |
Chi
Original
Existing design guidance and baseline implementation.
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Nexus v0
Current
Today’s extension with implemented and in-progress production
features.
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Nexus
Next steps
Core, supporting, and experimental capabilities to prioritize
together.
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|---|---|---|---|
| ✨ Bittensor framing guidance | |||
| Mechanism design | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Incentive patterns | ✅ (basic) | ✅ (basic) | ✅ (production ready) |
| Anti-gaming mechanisms | ✅ (basic) | ✅ (basic) | ✅ (production ready) |
| Miner-validator contract | ✅ (basic) | ✅ (basic) | ✅ (production ready) |
| External integration examples | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Successful subnet case studies | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| 🛡 Security & Trust | |||
| Anti–Weight-Copier Hyperparameters (Liquid Alpha) | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |
| Commit–Reveal | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Validator Hotkey Isolation (Pylon) | ⛔ | ✅ | ✅ |
| mTLS Miner–Validator Authentication and communication encryption | ⛔
epistula signing present though
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⛔ | 🟡 |
| DDoS Shield for Miners | ⛔ | 🚧 | 🟡 |
| Miner Collateral & Slashing | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟡 |
| Validator Runtime Image Attestation | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🔹 |
| Miner “Dancing” | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🔹 |
| Relay Mining Protection | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🔹 |
| Proof-of-Weights | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🔹 |
| ⚙️ Reliability & Infrastructure Performance | |||
| Reliable Weight Setting (Chain Instability) | ⛔ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Resiliency to Restarts | ⛔ | ⛔
the validator is functional after restart, but the state is not persisted and
interrupted operations are not resumed
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✅ |
| Retries & Timeouts Framework | ⛔ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Connection Pooling | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |
| Metagraph Caching | ⛔ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Compute Scalability | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🔹 |
| Failure isolation / locality | ⛔ | ✅ | ✅ |
| 🧠 Subnet Operating Patterns | |||
| Synthetic Challenge Pattern | ⛔ | 🚧 | 🟢 |
| Organic Task Flow Pattern | ⛔ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Knowledge Commitment Pattern | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |
| Double Payment Monetization | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🔹 |
| 🔄 Validator Oversight & Coordination | |||
| Validator Autoupdater | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |
| Dynamic On-Chain Configuration | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |
| Validator Metrics System | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |
| Logs & Error Tracking (Sentry) | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |
| Grafana Dashboards | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟡 |
| Audit Log Inspection | ⛔ | ⛔
all activity is put into audit log, but there is no inspection facility yet
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🟡 |
| Stake-Based Voting | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🔹 |
| 📦 DevEx & Supply Chain | |||
| End-to-End Localnet Integration |
⛔
only some local setup instructions
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🚧 | 🟢 |
| Agentic Coding Readiness |
⛔
sparse guidelines
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🚧
localnet setup closing agentic self-verification loops
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🟢 |
| Supply Chain Setup (CI/CD, Docker, PyPI) | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |
| Validator Image Build Pipeline | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |
| Local & Automated Testing | ⛔ | ⛔ | 🟢 |