Introduction

The Overwatch Node documentation is under construction. Stay tuned for more information!

Overwatch Nodes are trusted and staked participants in the Hypertensor blockchain that evaluate subnets to influence their emissions weights.

Overwatch Nodes currently perform 3 main tasks:

Verify Decentralization

• Ensures subnets have public and live bootnodes

  • Each subnet must have publicly available bootnodes online for both registered or activated subnet nodes, and for Overwatch Nodes

• Ensures subnets are utilizing proof-of-stake

  • Overwatch Nodes will ensure subnets are PoS by verifying that randomly generated keys cannot get into the subnet.

Consensus Accuracy

Overwatch Nodes will verify that nodes in consensus on-chain are authenticated in the subnet.

For example, if a subnet claims 1,000 nodes are in consensus on-chain and receiving weights and rewards, Overwatch Nodes will verify those nodes are present in the subnet by requesting communication with them.

Benchmark Subnets

Coming soon!

What else can Overwatch Nodes do?

• Check and verify a subnet's GitHub and activity

• Verify a subnet template version