Running a Subtensor

This document describes how to run a subtensor locally.

Running subtensor locally

• Running docker
• Compiling your own binary

Running docker

Install git

sudo apt install git

Install Docker Engine

You can follow Docker's oficial installation guides

Run node-subtensor container

git clone https://github.com/opentensor/subtensor.git
cd subtensor
docker compose up -d node-subtensor

Compiling your own binary

Requirements

sudo apt install build-essential git make clang libssl-dev llvm libudev-dev protobuf-compiler -y

Install Rust

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs > rustup-init.sh
chmod +x rustup-init.sh
./rustup-init.sh # you can select default options in the prompts you will be given
source "$HOME/.cargo/env"

Rustup update

rustup default stable && \
 rustup update && \
 rustup update nightly && \
 rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown --toolchain nightly

Compiling

git clone https://github.com/opentensor/subtensor.git
cd subtensor
cargo build --release --features runtime-benchmarks

Running the node

Lite node

./target/release/node-subtensor \
  --base-path /tmp/blockchain \
  --chain ./raw_spec.json \
  --rpc-external --rpc-cors all \
  --ws-external --no-mdns \
  --ws-max-connections 10000 --in-peers 500 --out-peers 500 \
  --bootnodes /dns/bootnode.finney.opentensor.ai/tcp/30333/ws/p2p/12D3KooWRwbMb85RWnT8DSXSYMWQtuDwh4LJzndoRrTDotTR5gDC \
  --sync warp

Archive node

./target/release/node-subtensor \
  --base-path /tmp/blockchain \
  --chain ./raw_spec.json \
  --rpc-external --rpc-cors all \
  --ws-external --no-mdns \
  --ws-max-connections 10000 --in-peers 500 --out-peers 500 \
  --bootnodes /dns/bootnode.finney.opentensor.ai/tcp/30333/ws/p2p/12D3KooWRwbMb85RWnT8DSXSYMWQtuDwh4LJzndoRrTDotTR5gDC \
  --pruning=archive