Witness

Clone the ChronoSeek subnet repository

git clone https://github.com/chronoseek/bittensor-subnet.git && cd bittensor-subnet

Install Python dependencies using Poetry

poetry install

Activate the Poetry virtual environment

poetry env activate

Set Hugging Face token for model downloads (obtain from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens)

export HF_TOKEN=your_token_here

Install Node.js 22+ via nvm (or alternatively install Deno 2+)

nvm install 22 && nvm use 22

Set Node.js path for yt-dlp JavaScript runtime in .env file(optional)

export CHRONOSEEK_YTDLP_NODE_PATH=/home/<user>/.nvm/versions/node/v22.x.x/bin/node

Optionally set path to Netscape-format cookies.txt for YouTube authentication(optional)

export CHRONOSEEK_YTDLP_COOKIES=/home/<user>/secrets/cookies.txt

Start the miner (listens on port 8000 by default for validator requests)

poetry run python miner.py --wallet.name default --wallet.hotkey default

Clone the ChronoSeek subnet repository

git clone https://github.com/chronoseek/bittensor-subnet.git && cd bittensor-subnet

Install Python dependencies using Poetry

poetry install

Activate the Poetry virtual environment

poetry env activate

Set Hugging Face token for ActivityNet dataset access

export HF_TOKEN=your_token_here

Start the validator with synthetic evaluation enabled (generates ActivityNet tasks and scores miners)

poetry run python validator.py --wallet.name default --wallet.hotkey default

Alternative: start validator without synthetic evaluation (API/gateway only, no weight updates)(optional)

poetry run python validator.py --wallet.name default --wallet.hotkey default --no-enable-synthetic-evaluation

Enable optional public validator API gateway (exposes /search, /search/stream, /health, /capabilities endpoints)(optional)

poetry run python validator.py --enable-validator-api --validator-api-host 0.0.0.0 --validator-api-port 8010 --wallet.name default --wallet.hotkey default